Today, Free League Publishing released the updated and expanded ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition, a modern take on the award-winning sci-fi horror TTRPG, in partnership with 20th Century Studios. Joining it at launch are Rapture Protocol, the first chapter of a new cinematic trilogy, a redesigned Starter Set, a deluxe Game Mother’s Screen, and a high-quality Rapture Protocol Miniatures Set that puts the ALIEN universe’s most iconic threats on the tabletop for fans old and new.
The ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition Core Rulebook ($57.99), Starter Set ($39.99), Rapture Protocol Cinematic Adventure Set expansion ($39.99), Rapture Protocol Miniatures Set ($59.99), Game Mother’s “MU/TH/UR” Screen ($24.99), and related accessories are now available through the Free League webshop, hobby stores worldwide, and in PDF format at DriveThroughRPG. Virtual Tabletop Modules are available on Roll20 and Demiplane today, with Foundry and Alchemy versions to follow later.
About ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition Core Rulebook
ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition builds on the beloved sci-fi horror TTRPG with a fully updated and refined ruleset that offers a modern, streamlined experience for both new and veteran players. The expanded core rulebook features refreshed artwork, added content, and a range of enhanced tools for players and Game Mothers, all fully compatible with previous releases and game material.
- A striking redesign of the Core Rulebook with updated layouts by Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG), fresh interior maps and artwork, and a new cover by Colm Geoghegan (Creepy Duck Design)
- Life path character generation for richer and more varied backstories
- Revised and expanded core rules for talents, stress and panic, and stealth
- Reworked combat rules covering armor, ammo, grenades, stuns, and spaceship engagements
- Iconic weapons, items, ships, and locations drawn from the hit film Alien: Romulus
- Additional rules and tools requested by players, including zero-gravity hazards, miniatures support, and expanded campaign play
- The Tartarus Sector, a fully realized campaign setting that expands the frontier of the ALIEN universe
- Last Survivor, an immersive solo mode crafted by veteran solo game designers Shawn Tomkin and Matt Click
About ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition Starter Set
Redesigned as the ideal entry point to the ALIEN universe, the Evolved Edition Starter Set includes everything needed for game night. Inside are abridged rules, character sheets, custom dice, large miniature-ready maps, initiative and reference cards, handouts, tokens, and an expanded Evolved Edition of the fan-favorite Hope’s Last Day scenario, set on the terraforming colony Hadley’s Hope before the events of the 1986 sci-fi horror classic ALIENS.
The set includes:
- Abridged Evolved Edition rules featured in the included rules booklet
- A huge double-sided map (864×558 mm) featuring chartered space in 2183 on one side and Hadley’s Hope on the other
- Five pre-generated characters ready for immediate play
- Playing cards that streamline gear management, combat initiative, personal agendas, and panic responses
- Durable cardboard tokens representing characters and creatures
- Rules reference sheets for quick lookup
- A supply dial that tracks essential resources such as air, ammunition, and power
- Ten engraved base dice and ten engraved stress dice crafted for the ALIEN The Roleplaying Game
- A high-quality plastic miniature of the iconic Xenomorph
About Rapture Protocol
Rapture Protocol is a complete cinematic adventure for ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition and the first chapter of the Jeremiah Saga trilogy. Built for three to five players and a Game Mother, the adventure brings the franchise back to its iconic blend of tension and isolation. Players follow the crew of a modest starfreighter on a routine resupply run to the remote Jeremiah VI industrial colony, unaware that something far more dangerous is waiting for them there.
This set contains:
- The main Rapture Protocol scenario book, full of story details, locations, and guidance for running the adventure
- A huge double-sided map (864×558 mm) showing the starfreighter USS Fidanza on one side and the industrial colony of Jeremiah VI on the other
- Five pre-generated characters with unique roles and motivations
- Playing cards that support personal agendas and NPC interactions
- High-quality cardboard tokens for characters and creatures
- Maps and handouts to assist players during the scenario
To accompany the adventure, a new Miniatures Set introduces 20 finely crafted 28mm figures of soldiers, space truckers, Xenomorphs, and other threats. These miniatures are perfectly scaled for the large battle maps featured in Rapture Protocol, Hope’s Last Day, and other cinematic scenarios across the ALIEN RPG line. The set also includes a booklet of simplified skirmish rules that enables fast, tactical encounters using the included miniatures.
Free League also offers a deluxe landscape Game Mother’s Screen, styled after a MU/TH/UR ship-intelligence interface. The inward-facing panels compile essential tables and quick references to streamline play, while keeping the Game Mother’s notes and secrets concealed from curious eyes.
More information and free downloadable resources can be found at the official website: alien-rpg.com.
A full press kit for ALIEN The Roleplaying Game Evolved Edition, including logos and artwork, can be found here: https://uberstrategist.link/ALIEN-RPG-2e-Press-Kit.
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About Free League Publishing
Free League Publishing is a game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction based in Stockholm, Sweden. Voted Fan Favorite Publisher at the ENNIES in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025, Free League has published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.
Our game portfolio includes Coriolis: The Great Dark, the acclaimed fantasy RPG Dragonbane (ENNIE Award winner 2024), the official Blade Runner RPG (winner of two Gold ENNIE Awards 2023), The One Ring™ RPG (Gold ENNIE Award winner 2022) as well as the expansion Moria™ – Through the Doors of Durin (winner of two Gold ENNIE Awards 2025 and one Silver ENNIE Award 2025), the official ALIEN RPG (Gold ENNIE Award for Best Game 2020), the Gothic horror game Vaesen (winner of three ENNIE Awards 2021), the pitch-black fantasy RPG MÖRK BORG (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2020) and its two spin-offs CY_BORG and PIRATE BORG, the alternate ’80s Tales from the Loop (winner of five ENNIE Awards 2017, including Best Game), the retro-fantasy Forbidden Lands (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2019), the postapocalyptic Mutant: Year Zero (Silver ENNIE for Best Rules 2015), the blue-collar science fiction game Death in Space, the dark fantasy game Symbaroum, the weird-fantasy game Into the Odd Remastered, the new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000 (Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022), the official The Walking Dead Universe RPG, and The Electric State RPG.
We have also published the art books Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood, The Electric State, and The Labyrinth by the acclaimed visual storyteller Simon Stålenhag, as well as the illustrated editions of the Lovecraft classics The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, and The Dunwich Horror by the praised artist François Baranger.