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I’m going to start logging bundles with solo games when I come across them, because I cannot find them using itch.io’s site search (they have a lot of bundles so I only hear of them by chance or when someone mentions them on Bluesky.)
I have no idea what is in this bundle or how many of the 250+ items are actually solo games.
Some things will not be games (but assets, poems, zines), some may be resources I already have (there seems to be a certain overlap between bundles), many items will not be useful to me (pixel art, windows games) or things I just don’t like.
It’s highly unlikey that I won’t find $10 worth of fun in this bundle, and it’s for a good cause (I can't actually vouch for the charity, but it seems legit to me).
For me, exploring the Solo Roleplay space through Indie games has given me a lot of stuff to think about. It’s nice to have an abundance of things to play with and try out.
On the downside, these bundles can be exhausting, so I recommend planning how you’ll organise and process them beforehand. Make the decisions by category so each game becomes ‘where does this fit’ instead of 'what is it, how do I want to categorise this, does it make sense to split things like this or that'. If you're interested in horror, have a horror folder, simple as that.
I get anxious at the thought of missing out, so I will download everything that isn’t a Windows/Android/Linux game and then shuffle them to backup and forget about them.
My current categories are
– 3rd Party Games These need games I don’t own, or need at least an understanding of them, I may look at them later to see whether it’s worth getting the base game and I may never get around to that. (Eventually, I will look at Thirsty Sword Lesbians).,
– Assets (a very few photos, mostly pixel art, some sound tracks that may be useful, wallpapers… all in all, another category that I'll shuffle to backup.)
– Books and Zines. Worth a look. A couple of people publish LGBT+ novels on itch.io, much to my surprise, and there are a number of zines and poems and short stories in these bundles that may be worth reading once. Will take a closer look later.
– Character Creation Tools. I’m not looking for another, I’m over the moon with Colorful Characters, but it's worth keeping them where I can find them easily.
– DnD supplements. May be for other systems, too, but basically monsters and NPCs and locations; things that may need tweaking but that spark ideas.
– Multiplayer Games. If it's obvious that this game needs a group – and many indie games are about social interactions – it goes here.
– Safety Tools. Very small category, not every bundle has one, but they're things I want to be able to find easily.
– Solo Games. When a description is ambiguous, the game goes here. This is the category I'm most likely to process; and I'd much rather reject games and move them to multiplayer or other categories than have solo games hidden in multiplayer and never find them. I expect a good many of games in this folder to not be soloable (or not be games); that's fine.
– Video Games. I download the Mac version only, but most of them are pixel art, and I don't play pixel art. Some are browser games that are amusing for a few minutes. These get shuffled off my hard drive as soon as a bundle is processed; may never look at them again.
I’m going to start logging bundles with solo games when I come across them, because I cannot find them using itch.io’s site search (they have a lot of bundles so I only hear of them by chance or when someone mentions them on Bluesky.)
I have no idea what is in this bundle or how many of the 250+ items are actually solo games.
Some things will not be games (but assets, poems, zines), some may be resources I already have (there seems to be a certain overlap between bundles), many items will not be useful to me (pixel art, windows games) or things I just don’t like.
It’s highly unlikey that I won’t find $10 worth of fun in this bundle, and it’s for a good cause (I can't actually vouch for the charity, but it seems legit to me).
For me, exploring the Solo Roleplay space through Indie games has given me a lot of stuff to think about. It’s nice to have an abundance of things to play with and try out.
On the downside, these bundles can be exhausting, so I recommend planning how you’ll organise and process them beforehand. Make the decisions by category so each game becomes ‘where does this fit’ instead of 'what is it, how do I want to categorise this, does it make sense to split things like this or that'. If you're interested in horror, have a horror folder, simple as that.
I get anxious at the thought of missing out, so I will download everything that isn’t a Windows/Android/Linux game and then shuffle them to backup and forget about them.
My current categories are
– 3rd Party Games These need games I don’t own, or need at least an understanding of them, I may look at them later to see whether it’s worth getting the base game and I may never get around to that. (Eventually, I will look at Thirsty Sword Lesbians).,
– Assets (a very few photos, mostly pixel art, some sound tracks that may be useful, wallpapers… all in all, another category that I'll shuffle to backup.)
– Books and Zines. Worth a look. A couple of people publish LGBT+ novels on itch.io, much to my surprise, and there are a number of zines and poems and short stories in these bundles that may be worth reading once. Will take a closer look later.
– Character Creation Tools. I’m not looking for another, I’m over the moon with Colorful Characters, but it's worth keeping them where I can find them easily.
– DnD supplements. May be for other systems, too, but basically monsters and NPCs and locations; things that may need tweaking but that spark ideas.
– Multiplayer Games. If it's obvious that this game needs a group – and many indie games are about social interactions – it goes here.
– Safety Tools. Very small category, not every bundle has one, but they're things I want to be able to find easily.
– Solo Games. When a description is ambiguous, the game goes here. This is the category I'm most likely to process; and I'd much rather reject games and move them to multiplayer or other categories than have solo games hidden in multiplayer and never find them. I expect a good many of games in this folder to not be soloable (or not be games); that's fine.
– Video Games. I download the Mac version only, but most of them are pixel art, and I don't play pixel art. Some are browser games that are amusing for a few minutes. These get shuffled off my hard drive as soon as a bundle is processed; may never look at them again.
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Date: 2025-11-03 07:00 pm (UTC)There's a site that has what was in many of the big itch.io bundles in a nicely searchable format.
It doesn't look like they have this one (yet?) but to give you an idea, between the various ones I have, there are 124 "singleplayer" "physical" "role-playing" games. Given the number of ways people can tag them, I probably have more.
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Date: 2025-11-08 08:46 pm (UTC)I have around 120 items in the Solo-but-not-alone-5 bundle (Hadn't realised there was more than one) and since I try to put all games into folders, I feel confident in stating you have more solo games than that.
I'm sceptical as hell about the 'in order to learn, you need to write by hand' studies, but in this case, manually handling each item – opening the file, making a few notes – seems to help me retain much more information than simply having a spreadsheet or database; copy/paste or saving websites is not my friend.