Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Today I discuss my top 10 favorite one-shot, non-campaign adventure games. These are games where I feel like I'm going on an adventure.

Ambassadors: Tales of the Arabian Nights, Arkham Horror, Call to Adventure, Clank, Cthulhu Death May Die, Fate of the Fellowship, Lands of Galzyr, Mage Knight, Mythwind, Merchants and Marauders, Return to Dark Tower, Slay the Spire, Star Wars Outer Rim, Talisman, The Witcher: Old World, Too Many Bones, Unsettled, Vantage (35), Firefly, Kinfire Delve, Above and Below, Vindication, Western Legends, Zombicide

10. Chronicles of Avel (Skiler, family gamer)
9. Massive Darkness 2 (Dillon, heavy gamer)
8. Mage Knight (Aryn, solo gamer)

7. Call to Adventure
6. Star Wars Outer Rim
5. Western Legends
4. The Witcher: Old World
3. TIME Stories
2. Clank
1. Vantage

Thanks to this thread for inspiring this post: boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/315572/one-shot-overland-adventures-for-a-single-session

00:00 - Introduction
01:45 - Top 4-10
12:35 - Top 3

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Intro animation by Jeff Payne vimeo.com/jaaronpayne