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Hostile Solo
Hostile Solo is a stand-alone solo roleplaying game set in a grim and gritty future, inspired by movies like Outland, Alien, Dark Star, Pitch Black, Event Horizon and The Thing. It allows a single player to create and play the roles of a group of blue-collar workers out in deep space, overcoming difficult challenges and facing unknown terrors. Although the name and the cover art suggest that the player will create only a single character, in fact the game is best played with a ‘crew’ of characters. Your crew will interact, fall-out, develop their own schemes and build bonds of friendship. Steer them through their chosen career; either asteroid mining, exploring, freight shipping and salvage, corporate troubleshooting, colony operations or US Marine interventions.
Since it is stand-alone, everything needed to play is found within the book, including a brief description of the Hostile setting, a set of concise character creation rules and a quick-play task and combat system. For players wanting additional depth in rules and setting, they can use all of the resources from the Zozer Games’ Hostile table-top roleplaying game. This is made up of a 319-page Setting book, a 236-page Rules book and more than a dozen supplements that flesh out the universe of Hostile. None of these are required to play Hostile Solo, of course, but players might find the additional detail useful.
Solo roleplaying allows a single player to enter a fictional universe, to become embroiled in plots and decision-making and to gain the satisfaction of success and achievement normally associated with traditional table-top play with a group of friends. Using a combination of random encounters, character-driven motivations and on-going storylines, the plot will develop in exciting and interesting ways, surprising even you! Tasks and situations are resolved using various methods, the most powerful of which is the scene resolution mechanic. This innovative tool allows you to resolve an entire, complex scene involving multiple characters, with just a single dice roll.
Since it is stand-alone, everything needed to play is found within the book, including a brief description of the Hostile setting, a set of concise character creation rules and a quick-play task and combat system. For players wanting additional depth in rules and setting, they can use all of the resources from the Zozer Games’ Hostile table-top roleplaying game. This is made up of a 319-page Setting book, a 236-page Rules book and more than a dozen supplements that flesh out the universe of Hostile. None of these are required to play Hostile Solo, of course, but players might find the additional detail useful.
Solo roleplaying allows a single player to enter a fictional universe, to become embroiled in plots and decision-making and to gain the satisfaction of success and achievement normally associated with traditional table-top play with a group of friends. Using a combination of random encounters, character-driven motivations and on-going storylines, the plot will develop in exciting and interesting ways, surprising even you! Tasks and situations are resolved using various methods, the most powerful of which is the scene resolution mechanic. This innovative tool allows you to resolve an entire, complex scene involving multiple characters, with just a single dice roll.
230 pages, ebook
Published August 17, 2022
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June 10, 2025
Score refers to Solo (2nd ed) by Paul Elliott (2025)
October 7, 2025
Really well done overall, a fair few editing errors slipping through but this could serve almost as a standalone ruleset for group play as well.
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