Free League Publishing
Free League Publishing is a game studio and publisher based in Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2011. The company designs and publishes tabletop role-playing games, board games, and books based on licensed properties and independent works. Their games include Alien: The Roleplaying Game, Vaesen, ''Forbidden Lands, Invincible--Superhero Roleplaying, and Mörk Borg''.
History
After the Swedish publisher Järnringen closed in 2011, founder Järnringen got in touch with some role-playing game enthusiasts to ask if they wanted to take over development of the role-playing game Svavelvinter, which led to the formation of Free League Publishing.
The publisher has had a series of successful crowdfunding campaigns. Between 2015 and 2022, their Kickstarter campaigns managed to gather 100 million SEK in total funding.
Major releases
Games
Alien: The Roleplaying Game Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game based on the film and its spinoffs. Invincible - Superhero Roleplaying based on the TV series Invincible. Free League raised over $400,000 for the game in an October 2025 Kickstarter campaign.The One Ring Roleplaying Game second edition, set in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth setting. It was created by War of the Ring designer Francesco Nepitello and The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying, the game's 5th Edition OGL sister line.Twilight: 2000, a sandbox post-apocalyptic survival game set in an alternate history in which the Soviet Union never collapsed and the Cold War between the two superpowers went hot.Vaesen, a Nordic horror roleplaying game based on the works by Johan Egerkrans and its supplement Mythic Britain & Ireland.Mörk Borg, a stylized grimdark fantasy RPG Tales from the Loop, a TTRPG set in an alternative 1980s and based on the work of visual artist Simon Stålenhag. A sequel, Things from the Flood, takes place in the 1990s. The Electric State, a TTRPG set in an alternative California of the 1990s and also based on the work of visual artist Simon Stålenhag.Forbidden Lands, a sandbox fantasy survival RPG Mutant: Year Zero, a post-apocalyptic RPG. Coriolis – The Third Horizon, a space-set RPG. Symbaroum, a gritty fantasy RPG.Drakar och Demoner, an RPG released in updated form as Dragonbane in English.The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game, based on AMC's The [Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead] television series.Crusader Kings, a board game based on the Crusader Kings strategy computer game.
Other awards
In addition to winning ENNIE Awards for multiple games, Free League Publishing won the Publisher of the Year award in 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024.
Other publications
Free League has also published the art books Tales from the Loop, ''Things from the Flood, and The Electric State'' by Simon Stålenhag, as well as the illustrated edition of the Lovecraft story "The Call of Cthulhu" by French artist François Baranger.