Star Wars Zero Company

Bit Reactor leads development, in collaboration with Respawn Entertainment and Lucasfilm Games, published by Electronic Arts. The studio was founded by Greg Foertsch, art director on the modern XCOM reboot and Marvel's Midnight Suns, and staffed with a core of Firaxis and XCOM veterans — so the tactics pedigree is the headline, not the marketing. The project was greenlit after Respawn co-founder Vince Zampella invited Foertsch to pitch a Star Wars tactics game.

Turn-based, squad-based tactical Star Wars combat with a three-action-point system per operative: move, shoot, use tactical abilities or Overwatch in any order, with range and cover driving your hit chance. Players control an elite squad of four per mission. It diverges from XCOM in pointed ways — no fog of war, a cone-based Overwatch, and a shared "Advantage" resource built by landing hits and spent on class ultimates. Cover is central and some of it is destructible.

Downed operatives pick up injuries; on standard difficulty a third injury kills them for good — and that applies to authored story characters too, Fire Emblem-style, triggering story moments and consequences. The one exception is your commander, Hawks: if Hawks dies, it's game over.

Twelve classes: eight standard specialisations (Assault, Heavy, Sharpshooter, Soldier, Scoundrel, Gunslinger, Scout, Medic) plus four restricted "exotic" classes drawn from character archetypes ranging across the galaxy — among them a Jedi Padawan, a Mandalorian, and an Astromech droid. You build the squad from cunning operatives you command: bespoke authored characters alongside custom recruits, tailoring their appearances, loadouts, and abilities. Squad members who fight together forge deep bonds that unlock new combat synergies.

Star Wars Zero Company tells a gritty and authentic story set during the twilight of the Clone Wars, around 20 BBY. You play Hawks, a fully customisable former Republic officer who leads Zero Company — an elite squad of operatives from conflicting backgrounds — against the Infinite Coil, a Separatist-aligned Dark Side cult led by Kundri Fathom that threatens an emerging galaxy-wide catastrophe. It's a cinematic original story, and it fits within official Star Wars canon; the tone leans grounded, with the studio citing Rogue One, Andor and The Clone Wars.

Command the galaxy's finest in tactical operations, investigations, and other heart-pounding missions through a cinematic original story. Outside combat you run The Den, a base on the Ring of Kafrene explored in third person — recruitment, armory, medbay, black market. A campaign of time-sensitive missions and non-combat operations plays out on an ever-shifting battlefield across a galaxy map the studio says spans more than 150 planets, where player choices influence the story and mission outcomes. The score is by Grammy-winning Star Wars composer Gordy Haab.

The Standard Edition is $49.99 on PC and $59.99 on console; the digital-only Deluxe Edition adds $10. Every pre-order grants the Crystalline Astromech Cosmetic Pack — an R3 droid, translucent "crystalline" astromech heads for the R4 and R5 variants, and the exclusive BR-1 droid. The Deluxe Edition adds the Grand Army of the Republic Cosmetic Pack (Republic Officer uniform, 100th Clone Company and ARC Trooper armor sets), the Shadow Collective Cosmetic Pack (a Pyke helmet plus five tattoos: Pyke Syndicate, Hutt Cartel, Death Watch, Black Sun Syndicate, Crimson Dawn), and five weapon set themes including Black Sun Syndicate Enforcer, Bespin Security and Separatist Warrior. All of it is cosmetic — no gameplay is gated behind an edition. Pre-order content must be redeemed by 27 August 2027.