Solo Experience Games

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Anyone can recommend any? I'm currently looking at the Steam sale for Tabletop Simulator DLC. From what I can gather, the following games are all labelled as 1 or more players.

Scuttle
Battle for Souls
Cavern Tavern
Mistfall
Viculture
The Epic Kingdoms
Tiny Epic Western
Tiny Epic Galaxies
Tiny Epic Quest
Wizard's Academy
Darkest Night
Scythe
Zombiecide
Pillars of Eternity: Lords of the Eastern Reach

Anyone have any experience with any of these and any you would recommend? I already own Warfighter which I think is a great game. I've had my eye on Zombiecide and Pillars of Eternity but I'm open to your thoughts and suggestions.

Also feel free to recommend any solo games I can download from the Workshop.
 
Zombicide can be single player and I've ran it as such. Only issue with zombicide I had is the box rules are pretty dumb (you have 1 character in the square, 10 zombies, you shoot into that square you auto hit the character. Herp derp) so it takes a bit of home ruling but otherwise can be fun. You can link campaigns as well through some online rules to make it interesting.
 
Mage Knight is only for solo play, if you're sane. It also requires a PhD in Gibberish to understand the rules, which massively overburden the game to the point where it isn't fun.

Viticulture and Scythe you play against what are called Automa, a card-driven bot system devised by Morten Monrad Petersen for Stonemeier Games. I've never tried it, but people say it works.

Games not listed that have good solo modes: A Feast for Odin (especially if you use BoardGameGeek's solo scenarios), Sub Terra, Eldritch Horror, The Gallerist.
 
@JeditOjanen are the last few games on Tabletop Simulator? If they are and aren't on my list it's due to them saying 2 or more players in the description. I'll check the workshop to see if anyone has created any if not.

After watching a YT video, I'm going to skip Pillars. I have purchased Zombicide and I think it's great.

I'll look at Viticulture but today I did have my eye on Scythe. From a video I watched, sort of reminded me of Civilization games on PC.
 
I made my list from games available on TTS.

Scythe isn't really much like a Civ game. Upgrading technology just means making one action slightly better above the line while making another cheaper below it, and building is more about area control than anything else. Still a good game, but possibly not what you think.
 
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