You are an astronaut outside the safety of your ship. While on a spacewalk, you free floated. The cable tasked with tethering you to the ship snapped. Your oxygen is depleting, and the cold of space is seeping into your suit. In any other circumstance you would be doomed to a slow, painful death, yet there is a chance you will survive. Every 20 minutes, the space station you were once attached to completes an orbit of your home planet, and passes by you once more. Your crewmates must take the small chance they have to save you and bring you back on board. To safety. To home.

This is a game of dire circumstances, of desperation and hope. Also one that is, in part, set in reality.
Game Mechanics

The Edge of Survival is played using a D100. Each round, as your vitals dwindle in the rigours of space, you take actions relying on your suit, your ability to calculate your position, and your sheer determination, trading off that which is essential for your survival for the slim chance of making it back aboard your mother vessel.


Released: 27 July 2024