Hikikomori is one of the earliest extant examples of a "solo" roleplaying game, and is inevitably mentioned on forums when people ask if such things exist. One of the ways in which it’s like a typical RPG is that there isn’t any particular way to “win.” If you want your character to get out of his rut and rejoin society, or stay the same, or kill himself, or whatever, you can try to steer him that way, but a lot of stuff will come down to how the dice fall. īy default, the game ends after your character goes through seven unusually eventful days. Out of necessity it’s not as open-ended as a normal RPG, but then it’s mostly a writing exercise. In this game you’ll be rolling dice (you’ll need plenty of ten-sided dice) and following instructions to generate events, making some choices about those and rolling a few more dice, and then writing a fictional diary entry based on the results. But I figured that if I’m going to make a game about antisocial shut-ins, it ought to be a game you could play by yourself. His game is a “solo RPG,” which admittedly is kind of an oxymoron.
The author's own words on how it walks the fine line between RPG and simply writing fiction: If you're OK with a solo RPG which is extremely depressing – moreso if you don't have a group – there's Hikikomori, which is about a social phenomenon in Japan where young men become shut-ins. Still, they fit the description of what you're looking for. More interesting adventures are "Gamesmen of Kasar", "Naked Doom", and "Sewers of Oblivion".īe warned: these are not well balanced, high-quality adventures of the modern ilk.
However, that adventure isn't the best of their lot, by a long shot. The basic rule book and original adventure, Buffalo Castle, can be found at: They're interesting, but tend towards the very difficult to survive.presumably to keep them interesting for a longer period of time. They're similar to Choose Your Own Adventure type books, but you have a character that has stats that you roll for, you equip them by purchasing equipment, and then, when adventuring, you roll dice and try to defeat monsters, avoid traps, etc., and go to different paragraphs in the adventure book depending on how you succeed (or fail).
Well, Tunnels and Trolls, produced by Flying Buffalo, has a series of adventures that are designed specifically for a single player.
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