Wandering Galaxy: A Crossroads Game Game Review

Let’s just get right into it.

Wandering Galaxy: A Crossroads Game (2025, Plaid Hat) is a disappointment. It’s a minor disappointment, but still, it’s a disappointment. The latest in the line of games in Plaid Hat’s Crossroads series, Wandering Galaxy comes on the heels of Forgotten Waters, Freelancers, and Dead of Winter. Like Forgotten Waters and Freelancers, Wandering Galaxy is an app-driven adventure game that is approximately 75% storytelling experience and 25% game. In this way, you will absolutely spend more time enjoying the great script, setting up scenarios, organizing cards, and organizing the stations of the collective party’s Starship Enterprise-style bridge operations than you will making any game decisions.

For my family, that was totally fine, and that’s what drove us to enjoy the experience offered in Freelancers—which has one of the funniest scripts I’ve ever heard in a narrative tabletop game. Many of the scenes are very, very funny. I tried three of the campaigns in Freelancers and I can’t really complain about any of them, at least as stories go. Was downtime hefty? Absolutely. Did chucking dice always work? Of course not. But as an “on-rails” gaming experience, Freelancers was fantastic.

Wandering Galaxy tries its best to land somewhere between a lighter episode of Star Trek (or the film Galaxy Quest, a riff on…

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