I am Nik Butler

Solo September returns and I in the parlance of all good techbros out there I am going to "Pivot" my offering. The theme is still Solo Tabletop, Role Play, Journaling games the goal is to play games together, alone. Calling back to the those awful months where we all sat through lockdown and for many the Solo experience was a bridge to gap that time when we couldnt get together to play games with our groups in a way we had known. This year I want to focus on giving 6 Games 5 hours of my time sharing more about the experiences in game play and giving me the nudge to go back to my library and play more games.

Here, in no particular order are my planned plays.

The Wretched

Chris Bissette brings a solo space survival experience in The Wretched where Wooden Tower Blocks, Playing Cards, and random nuts and bolts form the narrative methods on which your Survivors fate is created. Find out more about it on the following link. The Wretched

Blood in the Margins

Something new from Chris Bissette which I picked up during UKGE2025 This darkly modern gothic Solo journalling experience pull together dice, cards, stray buttons old keys and dark investigations . Follow Chris over on Itch.io and read more about this SoloRPG on the following link . Blood In the Margin

Ironsworn: StarForged

Certainly there are more recent releases from the Solo supremo that is Shawn Tompkin over on Tomkin Press but IronSworn:Starforged has always dialed into my own need for pulp noir Science fiction. read more this on the following link IronSworn: Starforged

Colostle

Imagine you are an adventurer living an experience of living in a Giant Castle where you are not more than the a few centimetres tall. Your world is vast, rich , populated with guilds, robots, and walking castles. For the art alone take time to explore the Castle . Read more about this on the following link colostle

Five Parsecs from Home Third Edition

Breaking away from the Solo Journalling narrative comes a Tabletop skirmish game focussed on solo play and skirmish experiences. This version delivers the Science Fiction narrative extending what was originally delivered in [Five Leagues from the Borderlands .Five Parsecs takes us into a far future with space bound adventures that deliver the other world dangers. as ever the link has the details Five Parses from Home

Oh No .. I started a Cult

Royal Stag Press introduced this to me at UKGE2025 and if you ever needed a story simulator to kick off a cult here is your chance world domination is yours providing you have the stickers to share with the masses and followers. a link ? okay here you go .. Oh No .. I started a Cult