Scour the video game corner of the Internet enough (it’s right next to the cat videos corner) and you will find a handful of editorials about how single-player is dying thanks to Call of Duty, or World of Warcraft, or global warming. “The damn kids these days with their headsets and their DLC and their KDRs; they’re ruining the video games!” I think that this is a bit alarmist, yet I agree that adult gamers can sometimes get the cold shoulder. In this scholarly essay, I will argue on behalf of the value of the single-player aspect of video gaming from the perspective of a semi-responsible adult misanthrope.