FIRST LOOK: ALIEN: Romulus Coming to Free League’s ALIEN RPG Evolved Edition

 Free League Publishing today previewed some of the new content included in their upcoming “Evolved Edition” of ALIEN: The Roleplaying Game, revealing that the new Core Rulebook will feature settings, spacecraft, and gear from the iconic film ALIEN: Romulus.

Working in collaboration with 20th Century Studios, Free League can now welcome players back to Jackson’s Star all on their own with a host of new gaming resources, including an in-depth exploration of the mining colony, the new F44AA Pulse Rifle, and the USCSS Corbelan IV mining hauler spacecraft. Today’s preview included a new pulse rifle illustration from John Mullaney and official artwork of Jackson’s Star from Col Price, one of the concept artists who designed the unforgettable colony seen on screen.

Follow ALIEN: The Roleplaying Game EVOLVED EDITION on Kickstarter

For more news and previews, fans should follow the Kickstarter campaign page, which has been renamed ALIEN: The Roleplaying Game Evolved Edition – hitting home that this is not a new game, but rather a faithful evolution of the original ALIEN RPG fans know and love. In fact, the updated rules are largely based upon feedback from thousands of players over the past five years and counting. Alongside the updated rules, the Evolved Edition (E2) will also feature more new content, new artwork, and a sundry of new tools for players and Game Mothers alike, all fully compatible with all released materials thus far.

The launch date for the Kickstarter campaign has also moved to Spring 2025, so that Free League can bring more ideas from their community to the game table. Since the news broke at Gen Con, more fans continue to share suggestions and support for the updated rules, which has further inspired the design team to deliver what players want and ensure that the Evolved Edition is bursting with all fans want to see.

The official retail release of ALIEN: The Roleplaying Game Evolved Edition remains slated for Fall 2025, with the new Core Rulebook debuting alongside the following releases – all made available via the upcoming Kickstarter next Spring:

• The new Starter Set has been redesigned as the perfect starting point for newcomers to roleplaying in the ALIEN universe, containing everything players need for game night including the abridged E2 rules, character sheets, custom dice, reference cards, various handouts, and an expanded edition of the Hope’s Last Day scenario set on Hadley’s Hope just prior to the events of ALIENS.
• The new cinematic scenario boxed set, Rapture Protocol returns to the roots of the ALIEN franchise, following the crew of a small star freighter on a resupply run to the remote industrial colony, soon embroiled in a deadly conflict.
• The heroic scale miniatures set designed to bring the events of Rapture Protocol to life, with all miniatures fully compatible with other adventures throughout the ALIEN RPG series.

Free League is one of the most funded RPG publishers on Kickstarter, raising over $12M across 36 successful campaigns including The One Ring™, Blade Runner RPG, The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game, Dragonbane, Coriolis, Vaesen, Forbidden Lands, and Tales From the Loop.

Since its Fall 2019 debut, the ALIEN RPG has been topping charts and capturing hearts across the globe, inspiring new standards for horror and sci-fi RPGs while snagging 10+ top awards in the past five years, including Best Game, Best RPG, Best RPG Expansion, Best RPG Adventure, Best Cartography, Best Production Values, and (among our favorites) Best Way to Die in an RPG for the esteemed eye burster.

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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. We have published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.

Our upcoming games include Coriolis: The Great Dark and ALIEN The Roleplaying Game Evolved Edition.

Our current game portfolio includes the Electric State RPG, Zone Wars – A Mutant: Year Zero Wargame, the official The Walking Dead Universe RPG, the fantasy RPG Dragonbane (ENNIE Award winner 2024), the official Blade Runner RPG (ENNIE Award winner 2023), The One Ring™ roleplaying game and The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying for 5E, Tales From the Loop – The Board Game, the official ALIEN RPG (Gold ENNIE 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 spin-offs CY_BORG and PIRATE BORG, the alternate ’80s Tales From the Loop RPG (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 science fiction games Coriolis – The Third Horizon (Judge’s Spotlight Award 2017) and Death in Space, the dark fantasy game Symbaroum, the weird-fantasy Into the Odd Remastered, and the new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000 (Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022).