What Is PickMyBG?

PickMyBG is a free web app that gives you personalized solo board game recommendations based on your submitted preferences.

The goal? Help solo gamers discover titles they’re likely to enjoy, based on affinities with thousands of other users—all while keeping things private and user-controlled.

How It Works

Each recommendation links to its BoardGameGeek page and includes its rank in the 2024 People’s Choice Top 200 Solo Games (if applicable).

Why Another Tool?

Existing lists are great, but I wanted something dynamic that adapts to individual tastes and user affinities—while respecting privacy.

The app is free to use.

I’d love your feedback and ideas for improving it. You can also learn from other users’ experiences.

👉 Join the discussion on the PickMyBG thread on BGG .

How It Looks in Action

Once you log in, just add your top 20 favorite solo games—like in the example below:

Screenshot showing how to enter your Top 20 solo board games

After that, click “PickMyBG Top Picks” in the menu to instantly receive personalized recommendations, as shown here:

Screenshot of a personalized solo board game recommendation list

As you can see, the recommended game #14 is actually ranked #1126 by BGG for solo play. It was recommended to you by a single user who shares strong affinity with your picks—meaning they have many top games in common with you.

If you reconnect next month—or even in the next hour—you might receive a different recommendation list. That’s because everything is computed in real time, based on the latest inputs from other users.

You can explore even more suggestions by classifying your current recommendations using the available tags (like 🎯, 🏅, 🚫, ❓). Each new input helps refine your taste profile.

🎯 Start Here

Ready to discover solo board games that match your exact taste?

Log In and Get Your Picks

It only takes 2–3 minutes to set up your top 20 games. Just log in with your email—no spam, no tracking. Only solo game picks tailored to your taste.

What Solo Board Game Players Say

What black magic is this? It immediately recommended Enemy Action: Ardennes which I've been interested in, based solely on my top 20 along with some other excellent recommendations. It works beautifully already, you did a great job! [...]
3 Jun 2025
Excellent app! Thank you […]
6 Jun 2025
I like it. You can still go see the games you moved to each category (on my radar, fun for me, not for me), and so the left overs are the games that you might enjoy but never looked much into, which I would say is the whole point of this.
1 Jun 2025
Fun concept. Added my list. The more lists the better, I imagine
3 Jun 2025
Great piece of work, thanks for developing it! [...]
2 Jun 2025
This is rather splendid. Lot's of recommendations that were either already on my radar or I had overlooked but look rather interesting!
4 Jun 2025
Good work! And great tool. I clicked through my recommendations and, while I already owned or knew about most of them, I found one new game that I ordered from the geekmarket cheaply enough, looks like I might really enjoy that one.
4 Jun 2025
[…] thank you for adding the link to BGG and the rank number from the 1PG top solo games. Extra claps for it running in the browser. PickMyBG adds to the solo search fun and it's excellent!
6 Jun 2025
Very cool, I just tried it! […]
7 Jun 2025
Just tried it too - lovely stuff. Great resource thanks 🙂 Hoping if I keep contributing info I'll discover some gems I've not heard of before!
7 Jun 2025
Tried it today and entered my current favorite 20 titles for solo play. Good recommendations showing up with most of them known to me (either like, already on radar or dislike), with a few titles moving closer to my radar screen thanks to the tool|
25 Jun 2025
Great tool, and really appreciate your willingness to investigate. Hopefully it helps improve the experience for other users too!
25 Jun 2025