In a strange yet familiar world of an alternate 1980s, Tales from the Loop provides a unique nostalgic setting for stories about technological secrets, alien encounters, and algebra homework. Large robot laborers tow Oldsmobiles. The arcade neon glows in the shadow of the particle accelerator’s coolant towers. You and your friends are kids in this unremarkable town but will soon be wrapped up in the wild, exciting mysteries hidden below the surface. One glaring question remains; who are you?

So you signed up to play a game of Tales from the Loop from Free League with your StartPlaying GM and you need to make a character? Well, get out your walkman, put on your leg warmers, and let’s make you a character. In Tales from the Loop you play as kids in a 1980’s that never was, dealing with bullies, trying to figure out how to ask your crush to the dance, and investigating the robots that escaped from the Loop. This is a game about solving mysteries and trying to grow up. This is a game about being a kid.