This article scrutinizes the relationship between art and the videogame through philosophical arguments on the artistic potential of sports. Accordingly, the focus will be on the expressive potentials of the gaming (videogame play) performance. The framework entails the cultural form to be examined from the perspective of art reception, which reveals single player gaming as a relatively unique hybrid: it bases on the player’s expressive performance, but unlike most art forms which are targeted for public audiences, solo gamers perform for themselves. In accordance with the previous notion, single player gaming is suggested as the art of secluded expression, which is defined by its exceptional reception: single player videogames amount to the first significant medium that designs means for individual expression for the individuals themselves.