Can you play Aniimo solo? Solo modes and AI teammates

Aniimo has a single-player mode, and most of the game's content can be completed entirely alone. The main story goes further than that: you can only progress it alone. So you will never have to wait for friends to come online before you can move the plot forward.

Multiplayer is optional. Online co-op is invite-only and takes up to four players. There is also cross-platform play and the Egg Heist PvPvE mode. None of these is required to see the story through.

Solo does not mean offline. Aniimo needs a constant, active internet connection and has no offline mode, so you need a connection even when you never group with anyone. If your connection is unreliable, that affects your single-player sessions as much as your co-op ones.

The hardware and connection side is covered in our system requirements guide.

Operation: Egg Heist is the end-game egg extraction mode. You search an island for resources and exclusive Aniimo eggs, fighting wild creatures and rival squads, and you can take items from those squads. It has a PvP version and a PvE version. Our Operation: Egg Heist guide covers the mode in full. For a solo player, here is what matters.

You can queue for Egg Heist matchmaking alone or as a group, and the mode can be completed solo on both normal and hard mode. The PvE mode also works without a partner, or as a two-player co-op team with a friend. A PvE-only cooperative extraction run is now offered separately as Team Mode.

Watch the team setting before you queue. Egg Heist has a fill team option in the bottom-right corner, and it defaults to matchmaking fill teammates. If you want to go in with friends instead, they can form a team and join your Egg Heist party.

The exact format of the PvP side is not settled. It is described as a mode mixing PvE and PvP, as a race between teams to collect eggs, as a PvP-only variant played in teams of three, as an objective-holding match between two teams, and as a dedicated PvE-only cooperative mode. In the closed beta it was a PvE version fought only against AI-controlled enemies.

Battle Interlink modes can be played with AI-controlled teammates. That includes Pathfinder challenge rematches and the four-player Holo-Battle Interlink, where you can play with a group or let AI fill any open slots. Hollow Battle Interlink likewise supports four-player cooperative teams or deploying with AI teammates.

The AI is there to let you play, not to carry you. Playing Holo-Battle Interlink solo with AI gives lower damage output and fewer rewards than playing in a team. So you can clear it alone, but a real group earns more.

The weekly prizes in Hollow Battle Interlink reset every week. Star rank rewards depend on your own battle rank, and support rewards for helping other players raise their star ranks scale with the highest rank gain achieved. Our Holo Battle Interlink guide covers routes and star ranks in detail.

Sanctums are instanced exploration shrines and puzzle mini-dungeons tied to world progression. Inside, you are restricted to twining with select Aniimo, you solve a series of environmental puzzles, and you claim a chest at the end.

Whether you can always clear them alone is not settled. Sanctums are described as cooperative dungeons that need teamwork, and also as coming in solo, partner-required and timed variants. So expect most of them to be fine solo, and expect that some may ask for a second player.

06Where to start

If you want to play alone, Aniimo lets you. The story is solo only, Egg Heist clears solo on hard, and Battle Interlink fills empty slots with AI. Keep a stable connection, check the Egg Heist fill team setting before you queue, and bring friends when you want full Battle Interlink rewards.