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1 Player Podcast

Albert Hernandez and Julius Besser

A podcast dedicated to solitaire board gaming.

Episodes

20 of 414 episodes

1P 405 - Popular Mechanics: Tile Laying

This week Julius and I tackle tile placement as a game mechanic, each bringing three favorites from what turned out to be a surprisingly dee...

42:14Sep 12, 2026

1P 404 - Shred of Redemption

This week I tell Julius about Shred of Redemption, a 15-minute solo bag-builder from Best With 1 Games and part of their Solo Game of the Mo...

27:49Aug 8, 2026

1P 403 - Creature Comforts

This week Julius tells us about Creature Comforts, a dice worker placement game from Kids Table Board Gaming where anthropomorphic animals c...

36:58Jul 18, 2026

1P 401 - The Peak Team

This week Julius tells us about The Peak Team Rangers, a fully cooperative game from Scott Almes and Matagot where players are park rangers...

39:53Jun 13, 2026

1P 400 - Popular Mechanics - Food

This week Julius and I celebrate episode 400 and 15 years of the 1 Player Podcast with a Popular Mechanics episode on food-themed games. Fin...

35:51May 30, 2026

1P 399 - Cozy Stickerville

This week Julius introduces us to Cozy Stickerville, a cooperative sticker legacy game about building out a village over a 10-year campaign....

29:25May 9, 2026

1P 398 - Fields of Fire

This week I take a trip into the hedgerows of Normandy with Fields of Fire, the solitaire tactical wargame by Ben Hull, published by GMT Gam...

40:48Apr 25, 2026

1P 397 - Back to the Table: Nations

This week we talk about Nations, the board game. Really though, this is a tale of two nations. We are focusing on the board game but use tha...

25:11Apr 11, 2026

1P 396 - Power Vacuum

This week Julius introduces us to a trick taking game for one or more players. In Power Vacuum you take on the roll of an appliance trying t...

44:57Mar 28, 2026

1P 395 - Popular Mechanics: Family Games

This week Julius and I look at family games that are also fun solo. What's a family game? Well, for us, it's a game that's light enough to p...

26:25Mar 7, 2026

1P 394- Dawn of the Orcs

This week, I tell Julius all about the one-shot RPG, Dawn of the Orcs. In this game, you and up to seven friends will play as the council of...

24:17Feb 21, 2026

1P 393 - So You've Been Cursed

This week Julius previews So You've Been Cursed. It's a Scott Almes game that was on Kickstarter and has now been sent to backers so should...

35:52Jan 31, 2026

1P 392 - Tend

I tend not to like roll and writes. I'm not sure what exactly it is but I don't seem to like the write aspect of the games, except for Yahtz...

43:32Jan 17, 2026

1P 391 - S.E.T.I.

This week we look at a big game. S.E.T.I.: Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence is a game about trying to find alien life forms through...

48:02Dec 13, 2025

1P 390 - Popular Mechanics: Cards Only!

This week Julius and I look at games that use only cards and no other components. Julius snuck one game in that didn't quite fit and I tried...

28:05Nov 29, 2025

1P 389 - Habitats

Drive through African savannahs collecting exotic animals and plants for your nature park. This week we go wild with Habitats! * Habitats (...

26:43Nov 15, 2025

1P 387 - Oros

This week, Julius talks about the game Oros. In this game, you play a good raising lands so that your followers can build you powerful templ...

36:29Oct 18, 2025

1P 386 - Lost in Adventure: The Labyrinth

This time around we talk about Lost in Adventure: The Labyrinth. It's a light point-and-click style adventure that will feel familiar to fol...

21:38Oct 4, 2025