EA announces turn-based Star Wars Zero Company, more info coming on 19 April

In an announcement that’s been years in the making, Electronic Arts (EA) has finally unveiled the Star Wars strategy game that’s been in the works since at least three years ago: Star Wars Zero Company, developed by Bit Reactor in collaboration with Respawn Entertainment and Lucasfilm Games.

The game was first teased in January 2022, when EA announced three new games that fans could expect to see in the coming years; one of them would turn out to be Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, while the second game, a Star Wars FPS directed by Peter Hirschmann, would be cancelled in 2024.

That leaves the third game from that announcement, a turn-based strategy game, which we now know to be Zero Company. EA didn’t leave us with many details as it’s saving them for a panel at the Star Wars Celebration Japan convention on 19 April; we do know, though, that the game will be set during the Clone Wars, and that the characters featured in the visual above are just some of the members we can recruit once the game releases.

We also know, or at should at least expect, that the game is in good hands. Bit Reactor is a relatively new studio, but it’s also comprised of former employees from Firaxis, the studio behind Civilization and XCOM. Co-founded by Greg Foerstch, formerly senior art director at Firaxis and art lead behind XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2 and Sid Meier’s Railroads, Bit Reactor’s aim is to create strategy games that satisfy both hardcore fans of the genre and people who enjoy games with rich stories.

Star Wars Zero Company, when it does release, will come to PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.