After the Star Wars videogame drought of the mid-2010s—the Battlefront games were the only big new ones for a few years there—Disney is finally starting to resaturate the PC with games set in a galaxy far, far away. There was Respawn's Jedi: Fallen Order in 2019, Star Wars: Squadrons in 2020, and then Jedi: Survivor last month.
We'll be showered with even more lightsabers and Babu Friks in the years to come if the current forecast holds: There are currently six big Star Wars games in development for PC that we know about. Most of them don't even have titles yet (get ready to see a bunch of teaser pictures that say «Star Wars»), so we may be waiting a while to play them, but I bet we'll see one or two of them during the «don't-call-it-E3-anymore» press conference season this June.
Here's what we know about all the Star Wars games in development now:
Developer: Massive Entertainment| Star Wars era: Unknown
This untitled project(opens in new tab) is «a new story-driven open-world videogame set in the Star Wars galaxy,» according to Ubisoft. It's being developed by Massive Entertainment, the Swedish studio that made The Division series, and is built on the Snowdrop Engine, which has been used for a number of dissimilar Ubisoft projects. Aside from The Division games, that's included South Park: The Fractured But Whole and Rocksmith+.
Massive's next game, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, will probably give us the best picture of what this Star Wars game might be like: It's a first-person action-adventure take on James Cameron's sci-fi epics, also built in Snowdrop.
Developer: Quantic Dream |Star Wars era: High Republic
A branching narrative game from Quantic Dream, the French studio responsible for Detroit: Become Human and
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