Coriolis: The Great Dark Roleplaying Game Kickstarter Funded in 7 Minutes

Free League Publishing :

You are an explorer in a dangerous universe. The enigmatic ruins of the Great Dark are shunned by most, but not by you. You seek them out, delve into their shadowy depths and uncover their secrets. The Blight – the cataclysmic scourge that spreads from the ruins – is your beacon. Where there is Blight, there are artifacts to be found. Ship City is dying, but you and your fellow explorers will do whatever it takes to create a better future. Don your delver suit, step aboard a mighty Greatship and venture down the Slipstream towards the unknown. Your creed: explore or perish.
  Free League Publishing today announced that Coriolis: The Great Dark Roleplaying Game is live on Kickstarter – a science fiction RPG about exploration, mysteries, and intrigue in a Lost Horizon. A game about Hope and enduring against all odds. The highly anticipated RPG was funded in just 7 minutes and has already raised more than $80,000 USD in under 30 minutes during the first 30 minutes, with 23 days to go.


The campaign is now running through a list of stretch goals, including a full-color map of the Lost Horizon, custom dice, Alchemy Virtual Tabletop Content Module and a soundtrack with ambient music, with more stretch goals on the way.


  Explore Coriolis: The Great Dark Roleplaying Game on Kickstarter


  All backers who pledge levels with physical rewards within the first 24 hours of the launch – i.e. no later than 3 pm CET March 20 – will get a bonus art print of the cover art.


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.


A boxed campaign set entitled The Flowers of Algorab is also part of the Kickstarter and delivered alongside the core game. If successfully funded, all backers will get the PDF versions of the game months ahead of the official release. 


Coriolis: The Great Dark is the second edition of Coriolis – The Third Horizon, Free League’s very first science fiction RPG. The rules have been updated and further developed, the setting is new and advances the timeline of the universe.

Interviews
If you are interested in an interview with the game designers Kosta Kostulas and Nils Karlén, please contact:
EU, UK, Sweden & the rest of the world - Boel – [email protected]
US & Canada - Ian & James at Uberstrategist - [email protected]

  Coriolis - The Great Dark Roleplaying Game Kickstarter Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56gmHVJvL40    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.


As a core mechanic, you roll a number of six-sided dice decided by the value of your base attribute and your talents. The more competent you are, the more dice you get to roll. Any roll of six indicates a success, and multiple successes trigger bonus effects. Rolls can be pushed, i.e., re-rolled, at the risk of losing Hope that you will ever survive the horrors of The Great Dark.   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. The previous game Coriolis - The Third Horizon will not be developed further, and the old books will not be reprinted, however an Open License will be created 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.   ABOUT THE GAME CREATORS
  Free League is one of the most funded RPG publishers on Kickstarter, raising over $10M across 34 successful campaigns including Dragonbane, Alien The Roleplaying Game, Blade Runner The Roleplaying Game, The One Ring™ RPG, Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying, Forbidden Lands, and Tales from the Loop RPG. 

Kosta Kostulas, Nils Karlén and Martin Grip, Free League co-founders, take lead in designing the game with a new version of the award-winning Year Zero Engine created by Tomas Härenstam. Original artwork comes from lead Blade Runner RPG, Alien RPG and Coriolis – The Third Horizon artist Martin Grip and graphic design by Christian Granath. 

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.