Marvel's Midnight Suns and Respawn's Star Wars Game Could Introduce Tactics RPGs To a Larger Audience

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Respawn Entertainment seems determined to establish itself as a major face of Star Wars games. Respawn and EA just announced that Respawn isn't just working on a sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, but it has two other Star Wars games in development too. Respawn is developing a new Star Wars FPS of some kind, and it's also producing a Star Wars strategy game developed by Bit Reactor. The strategy game is particularly interesting since it's only the latest strategy-minded take on a major IP. In 2021, Firaxis Games announced Marvel's Midnight Suns, a superhero strategy game inspired by the darker side of the Marvel comic universe.

While EA and Respawn didn't share many details about the Star Wars strategy game, it wouldn't be surprising if it has a lot in common with Marvel's Midnight Suns and other Firaxis projects like XCOM. After all, Bit Reactor was formed by Firaxis veterans. Should the Star Wars strategy game share Marvel's Midnight Suns' RPG elements, then the genre as a whole could see a boost in support. Tactical RPGs tend to be a little more niche than many other games, but with the help of Marvel and Star Wars, the genre is well poised to attract some new fans.

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Modern pop culture wouldn't be the same without the major influence of Marvel and Star Wars. Marvel Comics has told memorable superhero stories for decades, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe has expanded superhero media by bringing those stories to broader audiences. Star Wars has similarly stood the test of time; it's had tons of fans since its 1977 debut, and the Star Wars franchise has grown aggressively in recent years thanks to TV shows like The Book of Boba Fett. It would be hard