Coriolis: The Great Dark Roleplaying Game on Kickstarter - 2 Days Left!

Free League’s Original Science Fiction RPG Returns.

Join expeditions to faraway stars and delve deep into ancient ruins in the QuickStart available at the campaign page and on DriveThruRPG.

 

You are an explorer in a dangerous universe. Don your delver suit, step aboard a mighty Greatship and venture down the Slipstream towards the unknown.


Your creed: explore or perish.
 

Three days remain for the Coriolis: The Great Dark Roleplaying Game crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. The highly anticipated RPG is the second edition of Coriolis – The Third Horizon, Free League’s first science fiction roleplaying game. The RPG was funded in just 7 minutes and has raised $600 000 USD when three days remain of the campaign.


Explore the game in the Coriolis: The Great Dark RPG Quickstart that has been added to the campaign page and to DriveThruRPG to give all brave space adventurers a chance to try out the game for free.


Inspired by 19th century expeditions, deep sea diving and pulp archeology, Coriolis: The Great Dark offers you to join dangerous expeditions, navigate the Byzantine schemes of Ship City, and hunt for the keys that unlock the mystery of the Lost Horizon.

 

Explore Coriolis: The Great Dark Roleplaying Game on Kickstarter


All backers will get the PDF versions of the game months ahead of the official release. 

 

The Kickstarter campaign has unlocked 12 stretch goals so far, including Solo Mode, a full-color map of the Lost Horizon and a Greatship Map, custom dice, Alchemy Virtual Tabletop Module, Initiative Cards, Blueprint for the Grasshopper Shuttle and Terrain Rover, an extra Archetype: Esotheric, a digital art book and a soundtrack with ambient music. The stretch goals Map of the Charted Sphere, Armor and Weapon Cards and the Explorer's Cookbook still remains to be unlocked.

A boxed campaign set entitled The Flowers of Algorab is also part of the Kickstarter and will be delivered alongside the core game.

The League Lounge: Video Q&A for Coriolis: The Great Dark Kickstarter

 

THE GAME WORLD

 

Coriolis: The Great Dark launches you into a desolate part of space – The Lost Horizon. Here, a fledgling human civilization who fled war tries to stake out a new life in a harsh environment. 

You live in the meandering asteroid-metropolis of Ship City and you are employed by the Explorers Guild to undertake dangerous expeditions. In Ship City, you will take on missions and investigations to help your guild and build your crew’s reputation with the other major players of the city – the Navigators, the Machinists, and the Gardeners.

Delving into the ruins on desolated moons or other star systems in search of resources and artifacts will bring out the best of you and your crew. Together, you will need to overcome physical obstacles, face creatures from the Dark and endure the ubiquitous Blight. 

YEAR ZERO ENGINE
 

The rules of Coriolis: The Great Dark are based on the latest iteration of acclaimed Year Zero Engine, used in award-winning games such as ALIEN The Roleplaying Game, Blade Runner The Roleplaying Game, Tales From the Loop RPG, and The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game, but specifically tailored for this new game.

Coriolis: The Great Dark is the second edition of Coriolis – The Third Horizon. The rules have been updated and further developed, the setting is new and advances the timeline of the universe.

 

THIRD PARTY LICENCE
 

As part of the release, Free League will create a new free and open license for third party content for Coriolis: The Great Dark, as well as a new open licence for Coriolis - The Third Horizon so that fans of the previous game will be able to create and publish new modules. Using these licenses, all creators will have an irrevocable, worldwide, and royalty-free right to freely create, produce and sell content and expansions for both games and their settings.

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 and 2023, Free League has published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.

 

Our upcoming games include Mutant: Year Zero – Zone Wars and The Electric State Roleplaying Game.


Our game portfolio includes the acclaimed fantasy RPG Dragonbane, 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 post-apocalyptic 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), and the official The Walking Dead Universe 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.

 

Article by: Susan N.