Mirrors, number stations and the undead, settled by dice.
Crossroads Games plays tabletop horror out loud: a narrator frames scenes like camera shots, and players answer in character with dice in hand. Its episodes include Delta Green case files full of mirrors and coded numbers, plus a survival campaign called Outbreak: Undead - Death Toll.
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Crossroads Games is actual play: tabletop roleplaying told out loud, with a game master describing the world and a group of players deciding what their characters do next. The episodes here are horror, and they come in two distinct flavors. The first is Delta Green, where agents including Warp, Hyde, Pike, Cross and Wendigo work a mystery in which different places and times seem to be connected. The second is Outbreak: Undead - Death Toll, a survival story of frenzied creatures and spreading infection. The narration holds the two together. Scenes are set like film shots: a car pulls into the empty lot of an abandoned MarsCorp facility, and the camera moves in to look through the windshield. Another scene finds the characters in the folding metal chairs of the Dorchester Psychiatric Hospital, dressed in white t-shirts and gray sweatpants, with each person's hair described in turn. Then the question comes back to the table: what would you like to do? The Delta Green episodes get their dread from ordinary objects. Mirrors are a hazard. Agents remove a car's rear view mirror before a case handler briefs them by speakerphone, and a player later checks that another car has no mirrors at all. There is a glass mansion, described at the table as a prison rather than an evil in itself. And there are numbers: seven, three, four and nine, heard on a number station, found written on Dr. Sanford Clark's arm, and written over apartment doors in a hallway with no way out. One episode title carries those same digits as its case number, while others list theirs as REDACTED. Outbreak: Undead - Death Toll is more physical. Frenzied creatures snarl on a staircase and get in each other's way as each one pushes to be first. One survivor recalls fleeing a hardware store with bags of paint supplies to use as weapons, and a bandage comes off a forearm to show teeth marks ringed by blackened veins. Something much larger, with eyes that glow like a cat's caught in a light, shrieks at a character named Elle. The dice are never far away: luck rolls, sanity checks and percentile results are read out as they land, and one result is judged a perfect fit for the character who rolled it. The table stays loose between beats. Players joke that there is no toilet paper, and when one episode is called to a close, someone protests that they want to keep playing. There are quieter moments too, like two kids home from school who push pizza boxes aside on a kitchen table, and one of them asks to read another chapter of Alice. The language is frequently strong, and the horror includes blood, gunfire and infection. For a puzzle-box investigation, start with the Delta Green case files. For survival horror, start with Outbreak: Undead - Death Toll.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes horror fiction told through dice rolls and player choices, and who enjoys hearing a table break the tension with jokes before diving back into it.
What sets it apart: The narration uses the language of film, framing scenes as camera shots and pans. The Delta Green files build a puzzle out of mirrors and a string of numbers that turns up in the story and even in a case number.
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A hardware-store paint haul is your apocalypse plan; good luck with the stairs.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A psychiatric case file opens into mirror crossings, fractured time, and a threat that follows the glass home.
Case 7349 begins in the cold metal chairs of Dorchester Psychiatric Hospital, where a clinical interview slips into a broken account of mirrors, a house that may be a prison, and faceless beings that need to be returned.
A number-station puzzle opens onto a sea that has become the sky.
Agent Pike is pulled into a dark room in the glass mansion, where a leathery winged creature is waiting and a lucky roll leaves his shotgun already in hand.
A routine Mars Corp search turns into basement dread, wary teamwork, and one figure beyond the glowstick.
The abandoned Mars Corp facility gives this single-episode case a lean, uneasy shape. Agent Hyde, Agent Warp, Cross, and Wendigo arrive a couple of days after the supposed safe house incident, and suspicion is already in the car with them.
A vanished MarsCorp facility pulls Warp and Hyde into a gunfight waiting at the door.
MarsCorp's vanished facility gives "Warp & Hyde" a sturdy hook: three agents are missing, a working building now seems centuries abandoned, and Agent Foster can offer little more than an address over a speakerphone.
A broken window, a paperweight, and blackened veins turn a creature attack into lasting emotional fallout.
Danger comes through the window during an attempted night's sleep, in the form of a huge creature with dilated eyes that seems to study the room before it attacks.
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
["Paul Voss runs case 7349 inside Dorchester Psychiatric Hospital, where Peggy, Sean, Gabe, Rose Claythorne, Emily O'Hara, and Morgan Pearson keep circling the glass mansion and the violence from the last session.", "Morgan says 'nothing you say in this room matters,' while Peggy calls the mansion hell and a loop of regrets and mistakes.", "Sean spots the red camera light, the two-way glass, and the room's deliberate lack of weapons, then throws a chair at the window and brings orderlies in.", "After the session, Paul reaches a bathroom mirror, remembers Pike, the house, and the massacre, then the story pivots toward Mars Corp, the faceless entity, and a mirror-based escape plan."]
Agent Pike is dragged into the glass mansion, shoots a winged creature in the dark, and checks his skin for the scratch that could turn him.
["Crossroads Games' E06, \"The Faceless,\" follows Agent Hyde, Agent Warp, Agent Cross, and Agent Windigo back into the abandoned Mars Corp facility after the safe-house incident.", "Windigo says the friendlies were moved, then vanished, and that Jeremiah Fletcher and Annabella Romstead arrived with a whiteboard address and a spirit clue.", "Inside Mars Corp, the team finds dust-covered desks, broken cameras, hard drives, and the same Marscorp paper showing up from different eras.", "The episode then splits the agents into nightmare spaces: Hyde in an endless hallway of faceless figures, Cross in a dark basement with winged movement, Warp beside a mucus-covered body and open sea outside the window, and Windigo back in the glass mansion with bricked-off rooms."]
Crossroads Games' E05: Warp & Hyde | Delta Green: Case #:REDACTED starts with Agent Foster sending Cross and Hyde to a MarsCorp building where three agents and their friendlies have vanished.
Crossroads Games' E12: CHANGE THE WORLD | Outbreak: Undead - Death Toll opens with a creature smashing through a window, tracking the survivors with dilated pupils and a predator-like stare.
Crossroads Games: E11 follows Parker, Elle, and Erin through an outbreak scenario in which paint cans, a stone bench, scissors, and a hockey stick become survival equipment.
Crossroads Games’ “E10: A SHEPHERD'S FLOCK (part two)” continues a church confrontation in which the Reverend holds Yasmeen at gunpoint with an AK-47.
Crossroads Games presents “E09: A SHEPHERD'S FLOCK (part one)” as a tabletop survival-horror session following Lou, Darren, Yasmin, and three teenagers through zombie-filled Chicago.
Crossroads Games E11, "A Train to Catch," follows Jonah, Willie, Jesse, Archie, and Gabriel as they pursue a runaway train headed toward St.
Crossroads Games’ “E09: Out With a Bang” follows Archie and Raul as they ride south under temporary authority to investigate a dying station employee’s message about a crossroads and a train.
Crossroads Games: E03: The Highwomen | Deadlands: The Crossroads follows Roslyn Blythe, Lavinia, and Maisie Taylor as they wait in Boonville for Katrina to return.
Crossroads Games' TableTop Talks features D&D players recounting campaign betrayals, improvised NPCs, combat set pieces, and a zombie-apocalypse game called Dying Sunset.