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Overview

Solo Mode is the single player facing playstyle of Lord of Mysteries. With one toggle the player hides every other human player from their client, and AI teammates fill the party slots that instanced content expects, which makes the complete main campaign playable without ever grouping with a stranger. The studio positions it as a first class way to play rather than as a stripped fallback, and lists it explicitly among the playstyles it designed the game to support.

It is the recommended starting frame for players arriving from single player roleplaying games who want the story, the Acting Method loop and the Sanity discipline at their own pace before joining the wider traffic of the world. The multiplayer side it sits against is covered under Multiplayer and Co-Op.

Hiding Other Players

The toggle hides all other players from the local render, leaving campaign NPCs, AI teammates and the player character. Street traffic in Tingen becomes NPC only and the rendered crowd shrinks to the cast the campaign actually needs. The switch is reversible: turning it off re renders other players again on the next zone transition.

The client backs this with a concurrent player display setting that runs on a slider from 0 to 100. The published guidance is to use 0 for solo immersion in cities and during quests, and to push it to 100 only for the hundred and thousand player battlefields covered under Faction Warfare and PvP. A separate performance mode unifies effects and other players' character models for those mass fights. In practice the slider is the granular version of the same control: a solo player can drop the visible crowd entirely, or keep a thin one.

AI Teammates

Inside Solo Mode the holy trinity composition is preserved through AI companions, which can fill tank, healer and damage slots for the instanced encounters the campaign surfaces. Players can summon them in any combination, from a single fill to a full complement. The mapping of Pathways to roles is covered under Pathway Roles.

AI companions do not improvise around unfamiliar mechanics. They are competent through normal tier content, and higher difficulties remain open in Solo Mode but reward a human party more strongly. Players who intend to focus on the hard and nightmare tiers described under Dungeons and Raids are still better served by a human group.

Reporting around launch describes an AI backed companion layer that lets solo players reach activities that would normally need real teammates. Player accounts from launch week disagree about how strong AI assisted clears actually are and whether their strength was adjusted after early feedback, and no tuning notes have been published, so the safe reading is that AI fill is competent rather than optimal.

What Solo Mode Covers

Where It Fits

Solo Mode is not an alternate game. Progression, the Sequence ladder, the Pathway the player picked at character creation, gear and the campaign are the same in both modes, and switching between them is free. The studio's framing of its playstyle menu is that there are no obligations: a player can mix modes between sessions, and changing focus does not lock out content already reached. The story the mode is built to carry is covered under Quests and Story, and the character the player controls under Player Character.