Critical: Foundation (Season 1)

Critical: Foundation (Season 1) is a game where you jump into a near-future 2035, working for Icarus—an elite unit built to tackle sensitive investigations and delicate operations in a world run by massive corporations and everyday nanotech. Structured like a television season, each of the nine episodes plays in about 30 minutes and strings together into a slick, bingeable campaign. You can take the chair as Gamemaster to frame scenes and drive the action, or play as one of the operatives on the ground, piecing together clues, making hard calls, and rolling the dice when negotiations fail and combat breaks out. With character cards, backgrounds, equipment, and clue-driven objectives, the system delivers an RPG-style narrative with board game scaffolding that’s fast to teach and satisfying to replay. Critical: Foundation (Season 1) is available now at Boarding School Games.

Key features:

* TV-style sci-fi campaign with 9 linked episodes (about 30 minutes each) that build to a season finale
* GM-led or player-side experience using character, background, and equipment cards plus dice-based conflict
* Near-future setting of megacorps and nanotech that blends investigation, stealth, and tactical ops
* Table-ready kit: episode and clue cards, tokens, dice, building plan, dry-erase support, and a GM screen
* 2–5 players, ages 14+, roughly 30–300 minutes depending on how many episodes you play in a session