Star Trek: Cryptic is a puzzle/escape room board game released by Funko Games in July 2023.
Description
- Climb the ranks of Starfleet and explore strange new worlds in this puzzle-filled, action-packed "escape room" game. Using your PADD as your guide, you'll decipher subspace transmissions, discover alien civilizations, and prevent planetary disaster with logic, deduction, and creative thinking. Plus, you'll pilot your ship and lock transporters by drawing your maneuvers. Prepare to boldly go where no one has gone before!
Game components
- Logbook
- Instructions
- Tricorder with 3 filters
- Pathway screen
- 15 Pathway cards
- dry-erase marker
- 6 isolinear chips
- 2 puzzle cards
- 27 tiles, 9 slides, 5 artifacts, 20 merits
- 3 star charts
Story
The player is represented by an unnamed Starfleet officer and the story follows him trough his career though three ships. In order:
- USS Euclid
- after the player graduated from Starfleet Academy.
- USS Dorcey
- set right before the Battle of Wolf 359.
- USS Radiant
- several years later when the Dominion was a rumour.
Summary
Log entries
- Personal log, USS Euclid.
- It's my third week as a cadet aboard the USS Euclid, and things move much faster here than at Starfleet Academy. The Euclid is a Galaxy-class ship led by Captain Coleman and filled with more cadets than I can count. It'll be hard to stand out and earn my first promotion. But there's no time like the present to make a good impression.
- Our first assignment is at a Federation research outpost on Arcanis IV, on the outskirts of the Federation-Klingon border. Despite the Khitomer Accords, a Klingon general named Botath has declared his intent to reclaim the Arcanis system. Botath refused to talk with the Vulcan commander of the outpost, so Captain Coleman has been dispatched to negotiate. On the way, I'll be brushing up on my Klingon.
- Officer's log, USS Dorcey.
- Since today is my first shift with the rank of lieutenant, I was thinking back to my first assignment as a cadet. I remember looking out the window of the starship and feeling like I was a meteor, soaring past planets and stars. I still feel that way, only moving through time rather than space. The years have flown by since that first day on the Euclid.
- My new assignment is on the USS Dorcey, a Nebula-class starship led by Captain Markham. We are heading toward an uncharted star system on the edge of the Alpha Quadrant. The USS Ephemeris was exploring the system when Starfleet lost all contact with them. It's now our duty to locate them, and find out why they went silent.
- Captain's log, USS Radiant.
- The years since my first run-in with the Borg have been a trial by fire. The cube we encountered went on to initiate the infamous Battle of Wolf 359. Although the Federation was finally able to destroy the cube, too many ships, and the thousands of souls on them, were lost.
- Since that fateful day, we haven't heard from the Borg, and Starfleet has been rebuilding its forces. Now it is my honor to serve as the captain of the USS Radiant, a newly-commissioned Defiant-class ship.
- She has a modest complement of forty officers, but an important purpose: to defend the Federation from hostility. Rather than a mission of exploration, ours is one of courage and hope. My the Radiant serve as a beacon for those who need her and a warning against those who would test her.
References
Characters
- Botath • Coleman • Darnak • Hansen • Homn • La'Rin • Juranna Ley • Markham • Miller • Alynna Nechayev • Nor • Q • Vitara Ret • Royce • Scott • Surmak Naprem • Wyn Taylor • T'lai • Lwaxana Troi • Volks • Romulan commander • Tellarite traders
- Referenced only
- Áaffl • Ægï • Đeffje
Starships and vehicles
- Cube 632 (Borg cube) • USS Dorcey (Nebula class) • USS Ephemeris (Miranda-class) • USS Euclid (Galaxy class) • USS Radiant (Defiant class) • Sh'Vas (Merchant-class) • Ferengi marauder (D'Kora class) • Tellarite freighter • Warbird (D'deridex class)
Locations
- Alrescha • Amargosa • Angel I • Archanis IV • Babel • Bolarus IX • Bre'el • Divad region • Errikang VII • Felvar • Ferenginar • Hymdara • Icarus IV • Kelsin III • Neubilia Prime • Omp region • Parada II • Persephone IV • Risa • Setlik II
- Star chart references
- Alpha Centauri (Proxima) • Alrescha • Andoria (Procyon, Alpha Canis Minoris) • Archanis • Betazed • Bolarus • Deep Space 3 • Denobula Triaxia (Iota Bootis) • Earth Outposts • Echo 1 • Echo 2 • Echo 3 • Ferenginar • Memory Alpha • Nausicaa • Regulus (Alpha Leonis) • Risa (Epsilon Ceti) • Romulus • Sol (Earth) • Starbase 10 • Starbase 12 (Gamma 400) • Starbase 211 • Starbase 310 • Starbase 621 • Starbase 80 • Subspace Relay AR-558 • Trill (Trillius Prime) • Vulcan (40 Eridani A)
Races and cultures
- Andorian • Bajoran • Betazoid • Bolian • Borg • Cardassian • Felvaran • Ferengi • Homn's species • Human • Hymdar • Klingon • Lurian • Q • Romulan • Tellarite • Trill • Vulcan
- Referenced only
- Nausicaan
States and organizations
- Bolian Council • Dominion • Federation • Ferengi Alliance • Starfleet • Starfleet Research and Development
Food and drinks
- Acamarian brandy • Andorian ale • Antarean brandy • Arcanis lager • Bolian water • coffee • evening grain • evening protein • evening vegetable • gagh • iced coffee • iced tea • mid-day grain • mid-day protein • mid-day vegetable • morning grain • morning protein • plomeek soup • plomeek tea • pok tar • port • poteen • Risian Coco-No-No • Risian mai-tai • tea • tonic water • Torothan blood soup • Torothan yalasat • Bajoran deka tea • Bajoran jumua tea • Betazoid jestral tea • Betazoid oskoid sap • Ferengi Slug-O-Cola • Klingon bloodwine • Klingon raktajino • water
Diseases
- Ankaran flu • Andorian shingles • Larosian virus • Levodian flu • morphogenic virus • polywater intoxication • Rop'Ngor • Tarellian plague
Other references
- bat'leth • Battle of Wolf 359 • dilithium • The Fall of Kang • Ferengi Rules of Acquisition • Heisenberg compensator • hypicate cream • ion storm • isolinear chip • le-matya • LCARS • PADD • polaric radiation • Prime Directive • replicator • tricorder • warp core
Appendices
Background
- Funko also released a "puzzle/escape room" game for the Indiana Jones franchise.
Connections
External link
- Cryptic article at the Board Game Geek website.