Every so often a Star Wars game comes along that fills a hole nobody officially asked Lucasfilm to fill. Star Wars: Zero Company is that game: a proper, single-player, turn-based tactics title set in the Clone Wars. It lands August 27, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

Official gameplay trailer · EA Star Wars

What it actually is

If you've played XCOM, you already speak its language: a squad of distinct operatives, a grid, line-of-sight, cover, and tense turn-by-turn decisions where one bad move costs you a soldier. Zero Company drops that proven loop into the Clone Wars and lets you build and customize your own squad of operatives rather than handing you a fixed roster.

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The pedigree is the story

Zero Company comes from Bit Reactor, a studio stacked with veterans of Firaxis, the team behind modern XCOM, working alongside Respawn, and published by EA and Lucasfilm Games. That pedigree is the whole story here: the people who built modern XCOM's systems are the ones building this one.

What we learned at Summer Game Fest

The June 5 gameplay reveal showed off squad-based tactical combat, character customization, and (the headline surprise) Anakin Skywalker appearing in the story. That confirms canon characters will weave through your custom squad's campaign, rather than the game being set in some disconnected corner of the era.

Why it matters

  • It's single-player. No live-service hooks, no battle pass: a complete, story-driven campaign.
  • The genre is wide open. There's never been a flagship Star Wars tactics game. Empire at War scratched the RTS itch two decades ago; this is the squad-level version fans have wanted forever.
  • The Clone Wars is perfect for it. Squads, missions, expendable soldiers, moral weight. The era was practically designed for XCOM-style stakes.

What we're watching for

The make-or-break questions before launch: how punishing is permadeath, how deep does squad customization really go, and does the story give your custom operatives a reason to care beyond the canon cameos. We'll have impressions as more surfaces, and a full review at release.

As of now, this is the Star Wars game we'd circle on the 2026 calendar first.