So about Solo Mode

[MvMArcher]

@Hammer_hold

People at FatShark themselves are conflicted on the topic of adding Private Matchmaking. They haven’t said that they will add it or that they won’t add it, because they don’t know themselves.

@PLAYING SOLO WITH BOTS

Now we are confident in our Dedicated Servers, we would like to take the time and answer those recurring couple of questions that remain; “Can I play Darktide solo?”, “Can I play a private game with one or two of my friends?”.

The answers will be Yes, and Yes.

We’ve been working on an option to play exclusively in Solo Mode, where you will be hosting locally your own instance with bots. Because you will be hosting the AI and other game systems locally, this will increase performance cost. However, we continue to monitor and improve the performance where we can. Solo play is in its final stages of testing as we fix the last issues that remain. We aim to release this at Launch. If not, a patch shortly after that in December.

Source of that statement: Community update 1 pre-order beta hotfix 1.0.6 (18 november 2022)