One of the cooler solo games that have come out recently is The Mog: Mogadishu 1993 from White Dog Games. On October 3, 1993, US Special Forces under the auspices of the UN were tasked with capturing top lieutenants of the hostile warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid in Mogadishu, Somalia. The game begins with US forces preparing to raid a building (the Meeting House) near the Olympic Hotel to capture these high-level members of Aidid’s Somali National Alliance (SNA). The player’s goal is to get US forces out of Mogadishu with their captives and return safely to a UN base.

The game offers several scenarios of differing lengths and play times and is really very fun as it is chaotic and ever changing as the automated AI system dumps new Somali National Alliance forces in your path as you make your way to and from various objectives.

-Grant