As the name suggests, Archipelago: Solo Expansion allows a single player to play the Archipelago base game by competing against the game system.

Archipelago: Solo Expansion includes 27 scenarios with different conditions and objectives and with you, the solo player, taking the part of characters such as Christopher Columbus, Robinson Crusoe, and the pirate Bluebeard. The playing time varies from 20 to 90 minutes depending on the scenario, and your score in the scenario – gold, silver, bronze, revolt – will often depend on the number of rounds it took you to achieve the objective, if you managed it at all.