Tabletop roleplayers and sci-fi horror fans, grab your motion trackers and check your stress levels. Free League Publishing, in a dark and beautiful partnership with 20th Century Studios, has just blown the airlock wide open on a massive slate of upcoming releases for ALIEN The Roleplaying Game Evolved Edition.

Leading the charge into the terrifying void is a brand-new cinematic adventure, Operation Leading Edge, complete with a stunning physical miniatures set and a wave of upgraded legacy expansions.

If you thought space was safe… You clearly haven’t been paying attention.

The Main Event: Operation Leading Edge

The flagship of this new drop is Operation Leading Edge, a complete, standalone cinematic adventure that also serves as the second gripping instalment of the Jeremiah Saga trilogy.

Designed for 3–5 players plus the Game Mother, the adventure drops players directly into the boots of a team of Colonial Marines. Your mission? Secure a rich mineral deposit on the remote, frozen moon of Jeremiah VI. It’s billed as a routine “drop n’ stop” mission. But as any ALIEN fan knows: what could possibly go wrong?

Inside the Box:

• The Main Adventure Book: Packed with dread, tension, and corporate agendas.
• Two Huge Double-Sided Maps: Massively detailed (34 × 22 inches) layouts of the key terrifying locations.
• Pre-Generated Characters: Five detailed marines ready to face the dark.
• Custom Cards & Tokens: Agendas, NPCs, and cardboard markers to track the chaos.

Bring the Horror to Life: The Miniatures Set

To perfectly complement the new adventure, Free League is dropping Miniatures Set: Operation Leading Edge. This box features 20 high-quality, 28mm-scale miniatures requiring zero assembly.

You’ll get highly detailed figures representing:

• Colonial Marines
• Enemy troops from the Union of Progressive Peoples (UPP)
• A host of genuinely horrifying Xenomorphs

Bonus Skirmish Rules: The miniatures set also includes a booklet with simplified combat rules and a scenario generator, allowing you to pivot from roleplaying to playing quick, brutal skirmish battles in the ALIEN universe.

Upgraded to the ‘Evolved Edition’

For the uninitiated, the Evolved Edition is the streamlined, updated, and revised evolution of Free League’s award-winning system. Alongside Operation Leading Edge, veteran players will be thrilled to see fan-favourite expansions get the Evolved treatment.

Whether you want to respond to an 80-year-old derelict ship’s distress call in Chariot of the Angels, run an open-world sandbox military campaign via the Colonial Marines Operations Manual, or chart 36 uncharted horror-filled planets in Building Better Worlds, Free League has fully retrofitted these books to align with the new edition’s rules.

Pre-Orders Are Live Now!

You don’t have to wait until the Weyland-Yutani corporation approves your clearance. All of these products are available for pre-order right now on the Free League webshop.

Even better? Pre-ordering grants you immediate access to the early-access PDFs, allowing you to start building your stress dice pool right away, ahead of the physical boxed sets shipping in Q4 2026.

Are you ready to face the frontier, or are you just checking your tracking screen with shaking hands? Let us know in the comments if your crew is brave enough to handle Jeremiah VI!

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