Solo News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

Wayfinder draws equally on influences like World of Warcraft and Warframe to create a compelling MMO-style gameplay loop that is designed from the ground up as a cooperative experience. Whether you enjoy playing with friends for some good old-fashioned loot farming, or assisting strangers for a handful of useful Helper Coins , you'll have plenty of social content at your fingertips. But when you just want some time to yourself, you can turn off matchmaking and take things entirely into your own hands. Here's how.

Sea of Thieves is set to add one of its most significant updates yet: solo play.

In an interview with Icy-Veins, Assistant Game Director Morgan Day and Senior Game Designer Patrick Scarborough revealed that solo queue rated battlegrounds are coming in Dragonflight Patch 10.2, in the form of the Battleground Blitz Brawl! Rated solo shuffle was also first featured as a brawl before becoming a mainline feature, so if this does well, we may see rated battlegrounds evolve the same way.

A solo developer known for creature-collector RPGs is in the early stages of making a new 3D game inspired by some viral Pokemon fan art, itself based on Ken Sugimori's original trading card game designs.

Over the last week, Gamescom took place in Cologne, Germany. This annual gaming convention hosted several events, premiered dozens of new games, and opened the floor to allow journalists to have one-on-one conversations with game developers. During Gamescom, Blizzard announced the second season of Diablo 4 — Season of Blood and afterward, Diablo 4 developers discussed the future of the game. We've previously summarized several of these interviews, and even more have been released since — so we've compiled a third edition of some of the most interesting Diablo 4 questions and answers that were discussed in post-Gamescom interviews! Gamescom Interview Roundup Gamescom Interview Roundup pt. 2

Blizzard has released a new set of hotfix notes addressing untalented Haunted Soul, resetting cooldowns between rounds of Solo Shuffle, and the previously announced change to Mind Soothe.

Valheim has announced Trial of Tyr, a new solo, hard mode speedrunning competition for glory and rewards.

Blizzard has posted hotfixes for today which includes hotfixes for Time Rifts and Solo Shuffle!

If you’ve grown weary of having your party of Baldur's Gate 3 companions follow you around Faerûn - or just prefer to do things by your lonesome - modders have you covered with a series of mods that allow the D&D video game to be played as a true solo adventure.

Before Diablo 3 is officially sunset and begins repeating its past seasonal themes, season 29 will arrive with a solo-only mode and a rework of its endgame Paragon system—two common requests from fans over the years.

Baldur's Gate 3 has a whole bunch of options for you to create the perfect adventurer of your dreams. It also fills the world with interesting companions for you to fill out your team with, but there are some folk out there who will naturally prefer playing as the lone wanderer type. Not everyone is interested in romancing Shadowheart or getting into wacky japes with Astarion, but Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't give you the option to be unsociable and expects you to party up to take on its toughest tasks.

Blizzard has announced its plans for the final season for Diablo 3 to get new content. Describing Season 29 through a post on the official website, the studio has revealed that Diablo 3 will be getting many new features, including support for true single-player play through the new Solo Self Found mode.

Diablo 4 has been out for two months, but Diablo 3 is still going, with Season 29 the last new one planned--and it's a big one. The PTR for upcoming patch 2.7.6 is opening up tomorrow for two weeks, and the team details some of what to expect, including a new single player mode.

Thanos will grapple with Iron Man, Doctor Strange and more of Marvel's biggest names in a new solo book launching this November.

Blizzard has just announced the PTR for Diablo 3's Patch 2.7.6, including a Solo Self-Found mode, a highly requested Paragon Cap, Season 29: Visions of Enmity, class balance changes, and more. The PTR testing phase will start on August 15 and will last until August 29! The full patch notes can be found below. Global Community Development Director Adam Fletcher also revealed that the Altar of Rites mechanic from Season 28 will return permanently with the release of Season 30.

500,000 concurrent players on Steam is nothing to smirk at, but Nimble Neuron has managed all of that and more with Eternal Return, a multiplayer adventure that fuses League of Legends with Genshin Impact and Fortnite. Unfortunately, the MOBA‘s solo and duo modes were removed Eternal Return at launch, leading to backlash from some within the community. Speaking exclusively to PCGamesN, Nimble Neuron CEO Seunghoo Kim has explained why.

Riverdale’s resident secret girl genius created a time machine that needs demonic energy to power it — so naturally she turns to her best friend, a teen exorcist and half-demon. That’s all in a day’s work for Danni Malloy, the leading character in Strange Science, Archie Horror’s next spooky series. She’s a musician who used to be a teen genius and she would rather not talk about her past. And, oh yeah, she also happens to be Archie’s first trans character.

GamesRadar+ has your first look at Han Solo's unit card in Star Wars: Unlimited, fresh from Gen Con.

Baldur's Gate 3 is out now on PC via Steam and GOG. Even writing these words feels a bit surreal for someone who played the sacred original titles when they came out. They were a revelation at the time and opened the heart's way to a lifelong passion for the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game and the Faerûn setting.

A wild Star Wars theory that suggests Han Solo is invisible to the dark side has us second guessing everything we know about the Force. 

Fight back the biggest bosses of Remnant 2 with these solo tips designed to turn your meek post-apocalyptic survivor into an unstoppable warrior. Fans of Soulslike action-RPGs should be familiar with the sudden difficulty spikes normally associated with the bosses of those games — bosses are designed to stop your gameplay session in its tracks and force you to learn the intricacies of your next deadly opponent. Remnant 2 is essentially a game about taking down massive, difficult boss fights.

Improve your chances in the cruel multi-dimensional realms and pick best classes in Remnant 2 with our tips. Below, we’ll explain what Archetypes you want as a beginning solo player, how to unlock more Relic charges, and other tips to stay alive when you’re playing all by yourself. Remnant 2 can be an extremely cruel game if you’re not joining a full team. If you want to win, you might need these tips.

They're all viable, but there's one that stands above the rest.