Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars Releasing on June 4

 

Stockholm, Sweden (April 23, 2024) — Lead a band of mutant Stalkers into the Zone and fight others to scavenge artifacts from the Ancients. Stake out your claim in the postapocalyptic wasteland or die trying. Free League Publishing today revealed that Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars — a fast and furious game of tabletop miniature skirmishes set in the acclaimed Mutant: Year Zero universe — will be released on June 4, 2024.
   
Follow the mutants, animals, and robots of the Zone as they struggle to turn the Rot-infested wasteland into a new dawnland, threatened by a new shadowy enemy who could be the end of them all... 
Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars is all about embracing mayhem and emergent narrative to create a fun and fast-flowing experience. Designed by Andy Chambers (Necromunda, Battlefleet Gothic, Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Dropzone Commander) with Tomas Härenstam (Mutant: Year Zero, ALIEN RPG, Twilight: 2000, Blade Runner RPG, Dragonbane) and Nils Karlén (Coriolis: The Third Horizon, Forbidden Lands).

Sculpted by veteran sculptors Alejandro Muñoz Martín and Daniel BlueIce, the miniatures are made in 32 mm format and require no assembly. As a standard, they are sundropped at the factory, meaning that they will be table-ready right out of the box.

The Robots & Psionics expansion will release alongside the core game and expand the game with two more factions, allowing up to four players to engage in multi-faction mayhem!

The Mutant: Year Zero - Zone Wars pre-order has been launched today in the Free League webshop.

Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars is compatible with the award-winning Mutant: Year Zero tabletop roleplaying game; bring your favorite roleplaying character onto the battlefield or continue the Zone Wars scenarios in the RPG.
The Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars core set everything needed for two players: ten detailed 32 mm miniatures (five each for the Ark Mutants and the Genlab Tribe), cards, tokens, dice, a game mat, cardboard terrain, a ruler, and a rulebook including five full scenarios, campaign rules, character ­generation, and solo rules.

Ark Mutants: A closely knit group of human mutants, searching for their origin in the mythical Eden somewhere in the Zone.

Genlab Tribe: A tribe of intelligent animal mutants, recently having won their freedom from the horrors of Genlab Alpha.

Included in the core set:

• 10 high-quality miniatures
• 83 playing cards
• 105 tokens
• 10 custom dice
• 36" × 36" game mat
• 3 full sheets of cardboard terrain
• Measuring ruler
• Rulebook

This boxed set includes ten detailed 32 mm miniatures (five each for the Mechatron Hive and the Nova Cult), cards, tokens, dice, a game mat, cardboard terrain, a ruler, and a scenario booklet including five full scenarios.

Mechatron Hive: A collective of robots having recently awoken to become self-aware, seeking their place in the post-apocalyptic world.


Nova Cult: A secretive cult of human mutants with powerful psionic mutations and unknown ambitions.

Included in the expansion:

• 10 high-quality miniatures
• 79 playing cards
• 100 tokens
• 10 custom dice
• 3 full sheets of cardboard terrain
• Measuring ruler
• Scenario booklet

The game rules are easy to grasp and makes for a fast-playing experience. Just like in the Mutant: Year Zero RPG, the core mechanic is based on pools of six-sided dice, and you need at least a six to hit your target. You can push yourself for a re-roll, increasing your chances but risking damage to your weapon in the process.

The initiative systems keeps all players constantly on their toes, and powerful mutations and robot modules can turn the balance quickly even for a losing faction. Zone cards are drawn to represent the many dangers of the Zone, which can mean the ruin of even the most hardened Stalker!  
Mutant: Year Zero RPG takes you to the world after the great Apocalypse. Humanity's proud civilization has fallen. The cities are dead wastelands, winds sweeping along empty streets turned into graveyards. But life ­remains. Among the ruins, the People live. You are the heirs of humanity – but not quite human anymore. Your bodies and minds are capable of superhuman feats. You are mutants.

Mutant: Year Zero is the latest version of the classic Swedish tabletop roleplaying game Mutant, first published in 1984. It was the very first game created by Free League that released to an international audience in 2014 and was an instant hit – named Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2015 and awarded a Silver ENNIE for Best Rules at Gen Con 2015.

In 2018, Funcom released the video game adaptation Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden on multiple platforms to great reviews.
 

About Free League Publishing

Free League Publishing is a game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction based in Stockholm, Sweden. We have 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 Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying, acclaimed fantasy RPG Dragonbane, the MÖRK BORG spin-off RPG PIRATE BORG, the official Blade Runner RPG, The One Ring™ roleplaying game and The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying for 5E, Tales From the Loop - The Board Game, 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), the alternate '80s Tales From the Loop RPG (winner of five ENNIE Awards 2017, including Best Game), the retro-fantasy Forbidden Lands (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2019), the postapocalyptic 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 Into the Odd Remastered, the cyberpunk RPG CY_BORG, and the new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000 (Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022).