Titles, Tables, Tools - Fantasy Solo RPGs

Here we are looking at pdf and book titles for Solo RPGs for Fantasy on DriveThruRPG.

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Starting Points

Fantasy is the most popular genre of roleplaying games. Dungeons, dragons, magic, faerie, chaos and law, Tolkien, myth-inspired or a mix of everything.

There are many options for playing solo fantasy games! Whether it is gamebooks, ironsworn, open adventure, hexcrawl, miniatures or another option.

This complements the main Solo Titles Guide. Which is where you can find Emulators and other general solo pdfs.

Solo RPGs is the art of playing a tabletop roleplaying game on your own. You are player, gamesmaster, worldbuilder, narrator and audience.

Other guides with Solo sections include Fantasy Dungeon Solo Titles, Fantasy Wilderness and Hexcrawls and Fantasy Sea Solo PDFs.

Feb 2026: Added worldbuilding and updated titles; April 2025: Added a few sections and updated many titles. Jun 2024: Guide Created.

Major Fantasy Solo Titles

Starting points for Fantasy Solo Gaming.

Ironsworn from Shawn Tomkin is one of the best known solo games (and free! in pdf form), where the narrative is pushed forward by powerful vows made by the protagonist(s). Also Ironsworn related is Sundered Isles, playing at sea but paid and requiring Starforged.
For help with soloing D&D, Tim Scutt has DM Yourself - solo roleplay for 5e, D&D and OSR adventures with advice on prepping, reading and playing adventures.
From Larcenous Designs is the GM's Apprentice Decks: Fantasy (base deck linked). More specialised ones include GamesMaster's Apprentice: Age of Sail. Then there are other genres in the full GM's Apprentice Deck List, .
Kal-Arath from Castle Grief is a solo rpg supported by many tables, with rules and game loops for hexcrawls, dungeons, encounters and settlements in a classless harsh fantasy land.
From Wilona's Cave Games is Solo RPG GME - Fantasy, a straightforward emulator with lots of tables and guidance and a fantasy focus.

Free and PWyW Solo Tools & RPGs

If you like free (or pay-what-you-want) pdfs and random tables then there are some options. And where you find one you might find more...

From Green Little Thing is NoteQuest, a pay-what-you-want fast, simple dungeon crawler
Iron Valley from M.Kirin is a pay-what-you-want cosy conversion of Ironsworn, where you play someone moving into a small community and starting life anew.
From Solo Tabletop is GEMulator, a game master emulator for solo roleplaying games. The emulation is split into three phases, the campaign, the adventure and the campaign turn, simulating more of a campaign than other emulators.
Rocket Dungeons from LunchBox RPG is an ultra light dungeon crawler built for solo play.
The Encounter Building Oracle Deck is a pay-what-you-want option from Eric Bright, with each card (of a 100-card deck) containing dice-rolls, oracle answers, events, objects and other information. There is also Encounter Building Cards: Locations

Cards

Decks of cards are useful for random choices and playing screenless or offline .

For maps of fantasy kingdoms there is Pocket Lands: Kingdom from Alexey Aparin, a 70-card deck of terrain maps (sea, mountain, forest, hills etc), each containing a 5x5 grid. There are also versions for High Seas and other terrains.
The Sidequest Decks from Inkwell Ideas provide quest ideas and a map. They cover a number of fantasy niches, including Fantasy Wilderness and Dungeons among many.
From Axebane Games is Axebane's Deck of Many Dungeons, a deck of 54 cards, each with a part of a dungeon map and a random table containing treasure, quest ideas or something else.
For a deck of detailed hooks and adventure ideas, Philip Reed Games has Deck of Rumors: D100 City Hooks. And they are also available in table form as 1d100 City Hooks, Fantasy RPG Encounter Ideas.
The Portal Tarot: The Apprentice from Larcenous Designs is a set of tarot cards with advice on how to read them for your solo games.

Hexcrawling

For solo games, wilderness can give you hexcrawls and sprawling adventures.

Hex Dek from Philip Reed Games has Hex Dek, Systemless Fantasy RPG Hexcrawl Cards with a deck of 50 double-sided cards, containing hexes, short description, extra info and random encounter table.
Atelier Clandestin has a Sandbox Generator with hex maps and tables for filling them with settlements, npcs, dungeons and other pieces of interest.
The Old Commander goes to Hexcrawl from Doppelganger Publishing is a fantasy mini-setting with tables for hexes in a hexcrawl wilderness setting.
Inifininm Game Studios has FlexTale Hexcrawl Atlas: Western Realm of Aquilae, with many hexmaps for wilderness terrains.
From Shielddice Studio is Hex-Worlds & The Domain Cartographer, a grid and system for creating hex-icon worlds.

Dungeons

Dungeons and exploring them!

From Blackoath Entertainment is Ker Nethalas: Into the Midnight Throne, a solo dungeon crawler in an endless necropolis. Opposed combat rolls, detailed random dungeon generation, many builds and a dark fantasy setting are some of what's on offer.
Ironsworn: Delve from Shawn Tomkin is an expansion for Ironsworn (popular RPG for solo, built for solo). Dungeons and other dangerous adventure locations.
For an in-depth solo dungeon RPG try D100 Dungeon by Martin Knight, with rules for chargen, combat, quests, downtime and dungeon tables to populate everything.
2d6 Dungeon from DR Games is a solo dungeon crawler with a straigsht-forward 2d6 system inspired by Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Nethack and other delving games.
Delve: A Solo Map Drawing Game from Blackwell Games takes you on a journey below ground, drawing the horrors that a dwarven hold unearths in the depths.

Fantasy Gamebooks

Gamebooks are a way to play solo. These are in addition to classics such as Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf.

Fabled Lands by Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson started off the first open-world gamebook series with the War-Torn Kingdom, an adventurer wandering a sprawling fantasy land. The other books in the series are Cities of Gold and Glory, Over the Blood-Dark Sea, the Plains of Howling Darkness, the Court of Hidden Faces and Lords of the Rising Sun. I couldn't see book 7 up there yet, but the Keep of the Lich Lord (a quest for Fabled Lands) is there.
The Valley of Bones from Spidermind Games is the first in Legendary Kingdoms, an open-world gamebook series where you play a group of up to 4 adventurers.
The Sword of the Bastard Elf from Two-Fisted Fantasy is a huge book, which respects the choices you make and can take you in many different directions. Adult-themes and you're certainly not playing a hero.
Way of the Tiger by Jamie Thomson and Mark Smith starts with Avenger and goes on for several more books. You play a ninja with many special tricks, progressing to rule over a city and command armies. I could only find the first 2 titles on DriveThruRPG so far.
ACE Gamebooks by gamebook veteran Jonathan Green are a series using simple mechanics to retell classic tales, such as The Wicked Wizard of Oz and Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland.

Journaling

Journaling games are more like writing your story, often in response to prompts in the game.

For a pay-what-you-want option, Quill from Trollish Delver Games is "A Letter-Writing Roleplaying Game for a Single Player", exploring an rpg world through writing.
In Fox Curio's Floating Bookshop from LostWaysClub you are journalling as a bookseller traveling up and down the river, dealing with customers, leaks and insects, going fishing, exploring and having fun.
From Bannerless Games is Lighthouse at the End of the World, where you journal through the threats, drudgery and ghostly mysteries of a lighthouse at the edge of civilisation.
Koriko - A Magical Year from Jack Harrison on Itch.io gets you playing as a teenage witch, inspired by the novel/film Kiki's Delivery Service
The Broken Cask from Shoreless Skies Publishing lets you run a tavern or fantasy pub, with staff and rules for dealing with all kind of events and mishaps for your establishment.

World-building

Games that are about world-building, or using solo to build worlds for other things.

By Graycastle Press, Journey is a solo worldbuilding game where you explore the elements of your game setting.
Pendulum: A World-building Assistant from Tale of the Manticore is a world-building tool for a city or other entity. You follow the story from the beginning, with each event prompt defined by a "Chaos" or "Law" outcome and the context of what has come before.
From Lame Mage Productions, Microscope by Ben Robbins lets you explore the history of a collapsed empire, a galactic civilisation or an ancient line of sorcerers. Or a backwater town!
Foundations from Leyline Press is a world-building and map making game, making a fantasy setting using card-based storytelling prompts.
Lineage from wyhgames (on itch.io) is a worldbuilding tool and rpg, playing a historian with a family tree and stories about monarchs and the decisions they make.

Solo Dungeons and Dragons Titles

There are a couple of D&D solo titles in the major titles section, as well as these

A place to start for solo with D&D 5E is Solo Adventurer's Toolbox from 5E Solo Gamebooks. Encounters for wilderness, urban and dungeon, random generation of dungeons, wilderness terrain, merchants and other scenarios for solo D&D. There is also The Solo Adventurer’s Toolbox Part Two: The Toolbox Expanded
From Sine Nomine Publishing is Scarlet Heroes, an old-school rpg for solo, either as a standalone rpg or as an overlay for another game. From the same publisher is Black Streams: Solo Heroes, a lightweight solo rpg written for running classic D&D adventures for a single character.
From Guilherme Bento is the Solo Adventurer's Guide - D&D Solo Engine, a guide on how to play solo but in less than 25 pages.
D&D Solo Adventure: Tables Of Doom also from 5E Solo Gamebooks has random tables to generate monsters, traps, clues, loot and other elements for solo adventures.
For something different, First Blush from Jonathan Ball and Beth Ball offers a pay-what-you-want one-on-one adventure, also suitable for solo play

Other Solo Titles

Then there are a few other titles for solo that don't fit in other categories

Worlds Without Number from Sine Nomine Publishing is a full rpg, but also has a free edition and many random tables to detail your world.
Four Against Darkness from Ganesha Games is a solitaire dungeon-delving game where you control a party of four adventurers. Related titles include Four Against the Abyss (higher level) and Alone Against Fear (horror)
Five Leagues from the Borderlands from Mophidius is a solo miniatures game where your warband explores a fantasy world.
Rangers of Shadow Deep from Mophidius is a solo (or co-op) game playing a group of rangers holding back the darkness of Shadow Deep.
Micro Chapbook RPG by Micro RPG is simple complete rpg for exploring grimdark worlds.