Press release

Free League Publishing's New Game Releases and Live Events at Gen Con 2025

Coriolis: The Great Dark, The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Starter Set, and more!

Let the games begin!

Free League Publishing is returning to Indianapolis this year, bringing a varied collection of its award-winning tabletop RPGs to Gen Con 2025 from July 31 to August 3, 2025. Their headline titles this year are Coriolis: The Great Dark, the brand new edition of Free League’s original sci-fi RPG Coriolis, and new starter sets for The One Ring™ RPG and The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying 5E.

Attendees can meet Free League at Gen Con in booth #2449 in the main trade hall and in their very own game room in ICC #137!

PLAY
Free League has two rooms for games this year. You can find them in ICC #137 and at the JW Marriott in the White River Ballroom E. They will be running over 175 games with friends from Lurking Fears, including Dragonbane, Alien RPG, The One Ring™, Vaesen, Blade Runner RPG and more! 

To find Free League’s events, search for Free League Publishing in the Gen Con event system. See you there!

SHOWCASE
On Thursday, July 31 at 3:00 PM EDT in room ICC:244, Free League invites press and the public to a reveal of exciting news for the coming year and the chance to ask their game designers about the brand new game Coriolis: The Great Dark – being officially released at Gen Con – or anything else! Attendees will get to meet Free League’s designers, including:

 
  • Tomas Härenstam — lead designer of Dragonbane, ALIEN RPG, Blade Runner RPG, Twilight: 2000, Forbidden Lands, and Mutant: Year Zero
  • Nils Karlen & Kosta Kostulas — lead designers of Coriolis: The Great Dark
  • Martin Grip — lead artist of ALIEN RPG, Blade Runner RPG, Symbaroum, Coriolis, and more
  • Kiku Pukk Härenstam — co-writer for Seasons of Mystery, A Wicked Secret, and The City of My Nightmares for Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying
  • Surprise Guests — to be revealed at the event, along with some exciting news!

Note: The showcase is free, but attendees need to get a ticket in the Gen Con event system – you can find the showcase event here. If you cannot get a ticket, please contact pr@uberstrategist.com and we’ll help you out.


CREATORS
Attendees may be able to meet some of Free League’s game creators and get games signed throughout the show at the Free League booth, #2449.


If you’d like to find time to speak with any of the Free League team in attendance, please respond to this email, and we would be happy to accommodate.


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, and 2024, 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 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 winner 2022), 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 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 science fiction games Coriolis - The Third Horizon (Judge's Spotlight Award 2017) and 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 Roleplaying Game.

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.