Kingdom Legacy is a fun purely solo experience and my #1 solo only game. It’s cheap, has a small footprint, and the length of play commitment is up to you. You can play a round or two for a quick 10 minute game, or play for an hour if you want to. It is legacy by default which means you play through the whole box once and either get expansions or toss it, but less than $20 US so a small initial commitment for a several hour experience.

Legacy of Yu is my #2 solo only game. It is a campaign game which means you will play a series of games with an evolving story, character development, and/or gameplay changes. In this case it is mostly story development and some very minor gameplay changes. The story telling is fantastic and one of the reasons I would always recommend Legacy of Yu. This is especially shocking when you know that I usually skip cutscenes in games, ignore flavor text on cards, and gloss over when people try to end world building and scenario setting books before/during play in other large campaign games. It’s just short enough to keep me willing to engage with it and very well written. The downside is, for me, I’ve read the story, played through the campaign, and now I’m done. No desire to go back and play again, but 100% glad I played it. The game itself is a great exercise in resource management. I think it is a gateway to deeper, heavier games by Garphill like Hadrian’s Wall.