Are there any Alien Invasion RPGs/Settings

[Old Fezziwig]

Burning Empires, based on the Iron Empires graphic novels by Christopher Moeller, might fit the bill.

 

[Jd Smith1]

Torg might be stretching it. Like Rifts, Earth is invaded by multiple interdimensional forces, each one changing the laws of physics in the area of the planet they control. Not really a traditional alien invasion like War of the Worlds though.

But unlike Rifts, it might be enjoyable.

 

[dbm]

There is an official Savage Worlds implementation of Rifts, if that makes a difference for you.

Necessary Evil is a variation on this, in that it’s a supers world featuring an alien invasion. Other than that I’m struggling to find an example of alien invasion for Savage Worlds, but that would be super easy to do with the tools it provides.

 

[thullgrim]

Other than that I’m struggling to find an example of alien invasion for Savage Worlds, but that would be super easy to do with the tools it provides.

Invasion from Arion Games. I’ve never looked at it but it’s out there. It’s fully SWADE I believe.

 

[dbm]

Embarrassingly I have that in PDF…

 

[Vaslov]

GURPS "War Against the Chtorr" based on the books by David Gerrold. This is as close as I can think of in the inspiration show list you had. As you noted that "active war vs. modernish humans" genre of Alien Invasion is not that common in ttrpgs. I wonder if you might find inspiration with a wargame instead? Not an area I know a lot of. Most of the thoughts that come to mind are "I'd use this system and reskin something to be the alien menace".

As noted repeatedly above Savage Worlds has a number of alien apocalypse scenarios. An older one is Ravaged Earth and is a typical plup SW game. The After is post alien invasion and a bit more gritty. While less the active war you asked for, the twist here is a few competing aliens invaded around the same time and fought each other. Here is a list of Savage Worlds games that might have something else. I'll give Seven Worlds an honorable mention as the campaign is an alien invasion of the titular human settled seven worlds.

Fantasy Flight did an "end of the world" series with one of them being alien invasion. Never tried these myself.

 

[Joshua Randall]

If you want some game mechanics that might be useful for the modern military (well, near future military) part of the equation, there’s a cool hack of Apocalypse World designed to model the Aliens movie.

“The Regiment: Colonial Marines”; see The Mighty Atom

(Edit: wrong link at first)

 

[MGibster]

There is an official Savage Worlds implementation of Rifts, if that makes a difference for you.

It's plagued with some of the same problems the original Rifts is. Namely, balance. I participated in the Savage Rifts Kickstarter and ended up quite disappointed when I ran my first campaign.

 

[MGibster]

Necessary Evil is a variation on this, in that it’s a supers world featuring an alien invasion. Other than that I’m struggling to find an example of alien invasion for Savage Worlds, but that would be super easy to do with the tools it provides.

Their first plot point campaign, Evernight, is a bog standard fantasy world that is invaded by aliens.

 

[Jd Smith1]

There is an official Savage Worlds implementation of Rifts, if that makes a difference for you.

Necessary Evil is a variation on this, in that it’s a supers world featuring an alien invasion. Other than that I’m struggling to find an example of alien invasion for Savage Worlds, but that would be super easy to do with the tools it provides.

Not a fan of SW. I'm not actually looking for a campaign, just wondering if anyone had produced a game in the genre that wasn't supers or occult. I have zero interest in the supers genre in any form, and I'm familiar with the occult invasions. Although other than CoC, that aspect has not produced any lasting games. But I guess CoC doesn't leave a lot of room unused.