Wandering Galaxy: A Crossroads Game

About this product

A wild sci-fi campaign game about a ragtag crew, a questionable spaceship, and jobs that are never as simple as they sound.

A narrative space adventure board game for 1 to 6 players, ages 14 and up.

Build your oddball spacer crew, take on dangerous jobs, upgrade your ship, and chase fame, fortune, and freedom across the galaxy.

Product Description

Space is huge, beautiful, dangerous… and very expensive when your crew still needs to pay off its ship.

In Wandering Galaxy: A Crossroads Game, players become a ragtag crew of spacers trying to survive life on the edge of charted space. You will choose characters, manage ship stations, take on risky jobs, upgrade your skills, and make choices that shape your campaign.

Each player uses a personal deck of skill cards to face challenges involving body, mind, focus, and spirit. As the campaign continues, characters gain new cards, improve their abilities, earn reputation, and build their own story. The rulebook describes the game as a campaign adventure where the crew works toward earning enough profit to pay off their ship and become Freespacers.

This is not a simple “move around a board and score points” game. The crew travels across a galactic star map, uses a location book, controls different ship stations, resolves skill checks, handles cargo, repairs damage, manages threat, and follows story entries through the required app or entry book. The result is a big, cinematic sci-fi adventure where every session can feel different.

Why you’ll love it

• A huge sci-fi story adventure – this is a proper narrative campaign game filled with strange jobs, space travel, risky choices, and crew drama.
• Strong cooperative play – players work together as one ship crew, each controlling important roles and helping the team survive.
• Character growth over time – your spacer gains skills, gear, reputation, scars, sidekicks, and new story moments as the campaign develops.
• Ship management adds real tension – your crew must manage power, hull, supplies, cargo, life support, threat, and profit.
• Lots of replay value – the game is designed with multiple campaign starts, many jobs, and more content than one campaign can uncover.
• Great for groups who love stories – perfect for players who enjoy big moments, funny chaos, teamwork, and campaign-style decisions.

Quick Details

• Number of players: 1 to 6
• Recommended age group: 14 years and up
• Duration: 60 to 120 minutes
• Game type: Narrative campaign board game
• Play style: Cooperative adventure, role selection, skill checks, ship management, story choices
• Theme: Science fiction, space travel, ragtag crew, campaign adventure
• Skill level: Intermediate to advanced
• Game designer: Jerry Hawthorne
• Artists: Bea Castilla Rojas, Elias Stern
• Publisher: Plaid Hat Games
• Batteries required: No
• App required: Yes, free web-based app required, or physical entry book sold separately

In the Box

• 1 rulebook
• 1 location book
• 1 cloth draw bag
• 1 custom chance 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

Good to Know

• Wandering Galaxy is played as a campaign across 4 game sessions.
• The game uses a free web-based app to guide the story, teach play, and handle entry codes.
• A physical entry book can be used instead of the app, but it is sold separately.
• Players control different ship stations such as Operations, Navigation, Logistics, Engineering, Science, and Security.
• Solo and 2-player rules are included, using apprentice characters to help manage the full crew experience.
• This is best for players who enjoy longer, story-heavy games with lots of decisions and moving parts.

Care & Maintenance

Keep all cards, tokens, boards, sheets, and standees stored neatly in the box after play. Because Wandering Galaxy is a campaign game, keep your ship log sheets, character sheets, card catalog, and current campaign materials organized between sessions. Store in a cool, dry place away from moisture and direct sunlight. Use pencils on campaign sheets where possible, especially if you may want to reset or replay later.