Story of the game
How a fortnight of tabletop gaming, empty snack boxes and five flights of stairs created Crisis within Time.
Five friends, one flat, no food
In the summer of 1999, five close friends made a plan. We met at Hasan Tunçağ's fifth-floor apartment for a two-week gaming marathon. We had stacked the kitchen with snacks, brought our favorite tabletop games and agreed on a schedule. By day two, all the food was gone.
The nearest grocery store was 500 meters away, and nobody wanted to walk down five flights of stairs without an elevator. Drawing straws was too easy to cheat, and rolling a single die always favored the same lucky player. So we made an easy game to settle it.
Swordsman against axeman, hit points, attack rolls and simple rules: whoever lost the match had to put their shoes on and walk down to buy food for the flat.
From the flat to the table
That homemade apartment game survived long after the holiday ended. It became our tradition at every reunion for over twenty years, with the loser always paying for dinner.
In 2023, we decided it was time to share it with the world. We polished the rules, commissioned hand-drawn artwork and formed Cry4Games. Crisis within Time is that exact same apartment battle, now brought to life for gaming tables everywhere.
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Packs start at €23. Backer packs ship in February 2027, months before the game reaches stores.
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