There’s a Better Way to Play Board Games

There's actually a term for playing board games without the company of others: solo board gaming.

The practice’s dedicated subreddit, r/soloboardgaming, teeming with individualists who take player-count advisories as mere suggestions.

Solo gamers love the games Spirit Island , Wingspan , and Mage Knight .

Solo gaming is a growing trend in board games.

The early days of solo gaming were geared around puzzle-based games or beating your own score.

Now, the solo gaming market is seemingly exploding.

Some game designers are even contracted to “inject a solo aspect into an in-development game”.

The next time someone asks you to go to a game night, say you’re already busy with another.

Then go home, pull out your favorite board game and turn it into your own party, no plus-ones needed.

Some board games bring people together, whereas some games of Monopoly have caused such rifts in families that the game is the one boundary some cousins won’t cross.