
About this product
Codenames enters the world of Exandria.
A fully cooperative word adventure built around clues, heroes and teamwork.
Choose your party, tackle branching missions and grow stronger across three campaigns inspired by Critical Role.
Product Description
Enter the world of Exandria in Codenames: Critical Role Adventures, a standalone cooperative reimagining of the classic Codenames experience.
One player takes on the role of Game Master, giving carefully chosen clues while the rest of the group controls a party of heroes. Work together to identify the right words, complete mission objectives and avoid mistakes that can cost precious health, time, or even the entire mission.
Your adventure unfolds across three campaigns, with multiple missions and branching paths. Choose three iconic Critical Role heroes for your party and develop them throughout the campaign as they earn XP, unlock abilities and equip useful items. A D20 adds character-specific skill checks that can influence how successfully abilities are carried out.
With evolving missions, different hero combinations and rules that change from one challenge to the next, Critical Role Adventures takes familiar Codenames wordplay in a very different direction.
View the Codenames: Critical Role Adventures Rulebook (PDF)
Why You’ll Love It
- Fully cooperative Codenames: Work together as one adventuring party rather than competing against another team.
- Campaign-based adventure: Play through three campaigns made up of branching missions and changing objectives.
- Iconic Critical Role heroes: Build a party of three heroes and discover different combinations and abilities.
- Heroes grow with you: Earn XP, unlock abilities and equip items as your campaign progresses.
- Fresh mission challenges: Individual missions introduce goals and rule changes that keep the familiar Codenames formula evolving.
- D20 skill checks: Character abilities can call for dice rolls, bringing another layer of uncertainty to your adventure.
- Flexible campaign play: Continue through multiple missions in one sitting or save your progress for another session.
Quick Details
- Game: Codenames: Critical Role Adventures
- Publisher: Czech Games Edition (CGE)
- Designers: Vlaada Chvátil & Felix Podlesny
- Players: 2–4+
- Age: 10+
- Playing time: Approximately 25 minutes per mission
- Game style: Cooperative party word game
- Campaigns: 3
- Release: Q3 2026
- Contents: 200 double-sided word cards, 40 key cards, 1 GM screen, 21 covering tiles, 9 cardboard figures, 9 plastic stands, 25 item cards, 1 D20, 1 campaign book, 1 paper pad for hero sheets and maps, plus Heart, XP, coin, Prank, Song, Stress and deduction tokens
Good to Know
- Standalone game: No other Codenames game is required to play.
- One player acts as the Game Master during each mission while the other players control the heroes.
- A party always consists of three heroes, regardless of the number of players.
- The Game Master role can be passed to another player between missions.
- Campaign progress can be saved and continued in a later session.
- Even experienced Codenames players should read the included rules, as Critical Role Adventures changes the familiar Codenames format considerably.