Excellent starter set, the rulebook on its own is fairly substantial considering its just the starter rulebook. The dice and maps are of excellent quality as well.

I got a review copy of this from Free League, thank y'all for mailing me it! Although I haven't gotten a chance to play this, this is a fairly comprehensive starter guide/masterbook to the Alien game with some great gear, mechanics of lore and mechanics of gameplay, such as having such emphasis on stress and panic altering character states/actions. I did wish there was more time devoted to worldbuilding, as I'm unsure if I can improv a ton with the few pages of setting exposition, and I was hoping to see more aliens dealt with in the rules (what if humans encounter Engineers, or ruin artifacts, etc.?) but overall found this to be deserving of the Gold it got at this years' ENnies and generally a really fun rulebook to flip through. Let's see how this translate to Role20 play soon, I hope!