Free League Publishing

6/19/23 Edit: Reread for campaign

Free League have outdone themselves with this title. The book itself is large, heavy, lavishly illustrated with original art and jam packed with the world of Alien. The printing itself, each page is the black expanse of space dotted with stars. The text is white or light green (Much like the movies computers) which lends itself to being very atmospheric. Interspersed throughout are little 1 paragrph - 1 page stories giving even more background.

The book is show more divided into a player section and a GM (Cleverly called the 'Game Mother') section like most RPG titles. The rules and text are logically presented and easy to read and grasp.

As I said the illustrations are top notch, the book not only covers Alien enemies from the original movies but also the Neomorphs introduced in the prequels. I appreciated this very much as I know I'm in a minority with the fan base here but I honestly really enjoyed both Prometheus and Covenant. Most each type of Alien has a few variants as well.

The universe is huge of course but this book does a great job of getting into some of the lesser known planets and their backgrounds along with the well known sites from the movies. There is plenty for the imaginative just in this volume alone to create an epic campaign of their very own design.

Also represented is vehicular combat both on land and in space which I appreciated.

I have purchased everything that has come out for this so far and have the next hard back volume preordered that is a resource volume on playing the Colonial Marines in more detail/depth. Simply put, very excited to get this to the table. show less

A brilliant introduction into the universe of Alien role playing. The system is clean, well hinges, and the coupling of stress dice with mechanics to stimulate deterioration of function in life threatening situations was well thought out, and sensible. In some ways, and interesting premise and better than the sanity system for Call Of Cthulhu. I look forward to many more supplements, and support material, on creatures other than the Xeno morphs, and would like some concentration on the show more various corporate factions and states other than the United States. show less

A darker, more brooding sequel to Tales From The Loop than you’d expect. Things aren’t great in this alternative Sweden but they are certainly intriguing. Wonderful art, different concepts & yet some of the tropes and motifs that made this such an unusual setting in the first place are still there. There’s a great four part campaign here too. A worthy successor

Coming out forty years after them original movie, this is the role-playing game. (Previous efforts were a board game and an adventure game, both based on the second movie.) It's a solid work, depicting the worlds and characters from the movies, and set up for cinematic style (one session adventures, with few if any survivors) or campaign play running over several sessions. A solid entry in the sci-fi/horror genre of games.