Free League Publishing proudly announced the next RPG based on Simon Stålenhag’s art and writing.

Learn more about The Electric State Roleplaying Game here. This link is also useful if you wish to preorder the game, pick up the GM Screen and some customized dice to go with it.

As of September 10, Free League Publishing is excited to announce that its highly anticipated adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s narrative artbook, The Electric State, will be released on October 1, 2024, in the Free League webshop, hobby stores and digitally on DriveThruRPG.

Those familiar with Tales From the Loop,  and Things From the Flood will undoubtedly recognize the eerie near apocalyptic vibe of The Electric State. The game asks players to explore themselves, their friends, and what they are willing to do when the world collapses around them. Meanwhile, strange robotic creatures are popping up all over, people are becoming zombie-like with neural headsets on, and nothing real works the way it used to.

The art for this game is mind blowing.

The Electric State Roleplaying Game is a standalone book that contains all the tools you need to play and create short to mid-length campaigns in a society on the brink of apocalypse. It features art by Simon Stålenhag made for the original project which has never been published until now.

Following the discovery of neuronics in the late 1960s, technology diverged from our world. It is now the year 1997, and the world is on the verge of apocalypse. The ever-present Sentre corporation pushes neuronic technology to the population via cheap headsets. Civilization crumbles as something strange spreads through the neuronic net. People fail to turn up for work, basic services cease to function, and the government is rapidly losing control.

© 2024 Simon Stålenhag and Fria Ligan AB. This game is published in partnership with Skybound Entertainment. All Rights Reserved.

The very cool looking trailer can be found here on YouTube.

The book is set to contain a full setting and campaign. The system is, of course, the Mutant: Year Zero Engine. Mechanically, it will play much the same way Tales From the Loop, Vaesen, and Walking Dead Universe do. It uses six-sided dice. You can get special dice from Free League Publishing that have special characters on the 1 and the 6 in the same fashion as other M:YZ games.

I’m looking forward to this release because I’m a big fan of Tales From the Loop. This game and this art reveal a dystopia that teaches as much about us as this strange world we’re exploring. Everything is familiar yet not in some way. I hope I get a chance to review it.