Wandering Galaxy: A Crossroads Game

Wandering Galaxy: A Crossroads Game is a cooperative narrative science-fiction campaign for 1–6 players about a crew with an old ship, questionable employment prospects, and a very real loan to pay off. Create a spacer from different species and background options, take responsibility for one of the ship's stations, customize your personal deck as your character develops, and choose which jobs your crew is desperate enough to accept. There are three campaigns, more than 70 jobs, and hundreds of random events, so the story is designed to wander right along with the ship.

A Space Campaign About Making Rent

You are not saving the galaxy because destiny selected you. Mostly, you need money.

That gives Wandering Galaxy a different starting point from a lot of space adventures. The crew can chase dangerous contracts, make friends, acquire gear, get involved with people they probably should have avoided, and occasionally create a problem that follows them halfway across the map.

If you've played Forgotten Waters, the family resemblance is easy to see. This is another Crossroads game interested in the stories that emerge when a group makes decisions together and then has to live with them.

How the Game Works

Each player creates a spacer and chooses a station aboard the ship. Characters have personal decks that change as they find gear, learn skills, and develop relationships during the campaign.

The crew moves through the galaxy and chooses jobs from a large pool rather than following one rigid mission order. Ship stations function as shared action spaces, while cards and character abilities determine how effectively the crew handles whatever trouble the job produces.

A browser-based companion app delivers the fully voiced narrative and branching Crossroads events. It runs on a phone, tablet, or computer, leaving the table free for the map, character decks, and ship systems.

The box contains three campaigns and more than 70 jobs, with hundreds of random events layered through them. Paying off the ship is the long-term goal. How respectable the crew remains while doing that is another question.

Why You’ll Love It

• Three campaigns and 70+ jobs give the group substantial freedom over where the story goes.
• Characters change mechanically as they gain skills, equipment, and relationships.
• Different ship stations give players individual responsibilities inside the cooperative game.
• The voiced app keeps long narrative sections from turning into one player reading aloud all night.
• Hundreds of random events help repeat campaigns develop differently.
• Excellent for groups that enjoy memorable stories as much as optimizing the board state.

Game Details

🧩 Players: 1–6
⏱️ Playtime: 60–120 minutes per session
🎂 Age: 14+
🗂️ Genre: Cooperative science-fiction adventure, narrative campaign, exploration, Crossroads game
🎯 Complexity: Medium-light mechanically; much of the game's richness comes from narrative choices, character development, and managing the crew together
🔁 Replayability: Extremely high for a narrative game because of the three campaigns, 70+ jobs, random events, and character customization
🎮 Great for fans of: Forgotten Waters, Freelancers, Firefly-style space adventures, branching campaigns, and cooperative games that generate stories worth retelling

What's in the Box

• 1 Location Book
• 1 Cloth Bag
• 1 Custom Die
• 1 Galactic Star Map
• 6 Ship Station Boards
• 1 Pad of Ship Log Sheets
• 1 Pad of Character Sheets
• 11 Standees
• 315 Standard Cards
• 133 Tokens and Counters
• 1 Card Catalog with Dividers