Good solo games?

But you can just get the books from archive.org.

I guess so, but it's not as slick, or something?

what about those cyoa books?

Yeah, gamebooks especially.

Got any recommendations?

Lone Wolf are pretty good, and free over on projectaon.org. The Fighting Fantasy series has some good ones -- I loved Steve Jackson's Sorcery! and City of Thieves was really cool.

Be ready for lots of "you died, start over" though, as that was the thing back in the day. I wish they had the modern storygame concept of "failing forward" back then, even if it would bloat the page count.

This one's so popular it's got a thread up.
Attached is the mechanics.
You can roll for your success, I use a d100.

Actual content is the OP here: Posters can be horrid, but it's not all bad. Good for discussion or questions, if not you can just ignore it completely.

There is a game called Reigns you might like.

Am I missing something? How do you... do it? Like I understand you choose all this stuff to start but then what? Just daydream about it or what? Where do the success rolls you mentioned come in?

I've actually been using GURPS in conjunction with mystic to masturbate for years. It's gotten to the point where I can't open a GURPS book without getting aroused.