Solo BG Podcast

Solo BG Podcast

Solo, Cooperative, and Competitive Board Games Reviews, News, Gameplays, Rules, and Interviews.

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August 13, 2025 114 mins

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#139 Finally!!! One of the most listened to episodes of the year is here!!! It is time for us to share with you our chronicles of GEN-CON 2025!! Erika and Dereck tell you all about the best 4 days of gaming in America! And of course, we take you on an adventure through the games that we obtained from publishers and tease you about their future upcoming episodes!!


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#138 It's almost time for GEN CON 2025!! And of course, we need to bring you a list of our most anticipated games for this year, so enjoy!!!!!

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June 30, 2025 81 mins

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#137 In this episode, Erika and Dereck talk about 4 games, some of them made it to the Solo BG Podcast medal podium, while the others..... well..... You better listen!

Games reviewed:

Islebound Emerald Edition

Dandelions

Creature Caravan

Castles by the sea.

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#136 In this episode, we share some important board game news. Additionally, Derek shares his thoughts and experiences of losing money on crowdfunding campaigns.

The games we talked about during this episode:

Hellapagos

Dceased a zombicide game

Marvel dice throne missions with X-Men.


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#135 Erika is back in this episode! and we talked about 4 games that we have been playing lately:

1. Critters Kitchen deluxe

2. MLEM

3. Middle Ages

4. SETI

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#134 After a few months off the air, we are back and we are here to stay! 

for this episode, Dereck brings his most special and favorite guest ever! 

We talk about various gaming experiences, stores, conventions, etc.

The 3 games we review in this episode are:

-Castles of Burgundy special edition

-Rock Hard 1977

-HeroQuest First Light.

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October 30, 2024 77 mins

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#133 This is our yearly Halloween Special, and we discuss Halloween the board game in depth, including many details about the film and its director, John Carpenter.
We also talk about Death by Daylight the board game and Horrified Monsters, The Cthulhu one!! 

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September 3, 2024 89 mins

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#131 In this episode we talk about a few games:
*Metro Runner
*Stonespine Architechts
*Sonic Roll
*Spy X Family
*Patzcuaro.

We hope you enjoy the episode and do not forget to leave your comments!!

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August 12, 2024 120 mins

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#131 In this episode we take you on a wild ride with our chronicles of Gen Con 2024! 

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#130 Gen Con 2024 is around the corner!!! We sort of kind of bring you a Pre Gen Con list of our most anticipated games, and then, during the episode we talk about four different games: LOTR Adventure book game, Batman Gotham City Chronicles, Harvest, and Moonrakers with the Nomad expansion.
We also did something unique, Dereck talks about his amateur painting skills with the speedpaints from the army of painter.<...

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May 25, 2024 96 mins

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 #129 We are back and fully recharged after a few months away from the podcast. We have changed the format to bring you more games and reviews!! 

In this episode, we will tell you everything about 20 STRONG, THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE, SKY TEAM, and WORLD WONDERS with the MUNDO expansion.

We hope you enjoy this episode and don't forget to share it!!

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#128 In this episode we have our special guest and friend, Adam Smith from the Rolling Solo YouTube channel.
We talked of course about solo board games, we went over different categories that are not commonly used when it comes to the top 5 lists. We also evaluated some games and games that are our all-time favorites.

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December 18, 2023 125 mins

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#127 The most anticipated episode of the year is here!! our top 5 games of 2023 with our friend and guest Michael Kelley from the very popular and famous YouTube channel, One Stop Co-Op Shop.

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October 31, 2023 69 mins

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#126 In this episode Dereck takes us through certain games that are great for this spooky season and to enjoy on Halloween!

He talks about Resident Evil 2, Five Nights at Freddy's, Scream, Unmatched Tales to amaze, and Spoilers about the new Halloween game!!

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October 18, 2023 77 mins

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#125 In this episode we dive in and talk about 4 different games:

Pyramido by SYAPSES GAMES
Lord of The rings Adventure to Mount Doom by KOSMOS
Four Gardens by ARCANE WONDERS
The Perfect Wave by THE OP.

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August 25, 2023 100 mins

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#124 In this episode we go through our Gen Con 2023 adventure, Dereck tells us all about it, the games, the highlites, the events, and of course the elephant in the room: Lorcana.

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#123 In this episode Dereck talks about his most anticipated 37 games to play and buy at Gen-Con 2023. He also shares the reasons why the podcast took a 2 months break.

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May 22, 2023 79 mins

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#122 In this episode we bring to life the idea of a new format for the podcast, besides adding new sections, Dereck talks about 3 games instead of 1. He reviews Lost Ruins of Arnak, Rolling Realms, and Eleven.
He also takes the time machine and goes back to episode 22 to review what was talked about.

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#121 We continue with the 3 games review to determine a champion between ENDLESS WINTER, DUNE IMPERIUM, and ARNAK.

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#120 In this episode we welcome 2023 with an acclaimed game: Endless Winter PaleoAmericans by Fantasia games with the painting caverns expansion!
Dereck starts the 3 episode marathon where we will witness at the end of the third episode which game is the best: Endless Winter w/expansion vs Arnak w/expansion vs Dune Imperium w/expansion.

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