Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars Coming June 4

We’ve covered Mutant: Year Zero and its various expansions many times over around here. It’s the longest-running TTRPG Free League publishes, having been introduced around the mid-80s. What they announced today is a spinoff of a different sort…Zone Wars, a game that takes the world of Year Zero into tabletop miniatures.

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 that could be the end of them all… 

The game was designed by Andy Chambers (Necromunda, Battlefleet Gothic, Warhammer Fantasy Battle) with Tomas Härenstam (Mutant: Year Zero, ALIEN RPG) and Nils Karlén (Coriolis: The Third Horizon, Forbidden Lands). The miniatures have been sculpted by Alejandro Muñoz Martín and Daniel BlueIce, in 32 mm format. They are table ready right out of the box and require no additional assembly.

The core set supports two players and includes 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.

The core box and an expansion, Robots & Psionics, will release on the same day. Robots & Psionics adds two more factions, expanding the game for up to four players. You can play Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars by itself, but it is compatible with the classic Mutant: Year Zero tabletop RPG. Characters can be transferred easily from the original to Zone Wars or vice-versa; they both run on the same engine.

Preorders for Mutant: Year Zero – Zone Wars are now open in the Free League webshop. The game will start shipping June 4.