Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic
A lone Force user and a story that reacts to every decision: Fate of the Old Republic is designed as a single-player, narrative-driven action RPG. Arcanaut Studios is developing it with Lucasfilm Games, and no release date has been set.
Top 3 Reasons to Play
Developers with KOTOR and Mass Effect on their résumés. Arcanaut's staff includes senior technical designer Dan Fessenden, whose credits run from Knights of the Old Republic through Mass Effect to Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and Caroline Livingstone, who voice-directed all four Mass Effect games.
Decisions that carry weight. Lucasfilm Games general manager Douglas Reilly presents the project as carrying on KOTOR's tradition of deep, choice-driven role-playing, while game director Casey Hudson frames the new story around player agency and immersion.
A distinct look. Art director Pascal Blanché, whose earlier work includes Splinter Cell: Conviction and Far Cry: New Dawn, wants to push the setting further and add the studio's own flavour to it.
Story and Lore
The setting is the end of the Old Republic era, a stretch of Star Wars history that Knights of the Old Republic also occupies. Official descriptions introduce the protagonist only as a mysterious Force user.
The reveal teaser offers a few visual clues:
- Snow-covered terrain
- A crashed Sith capital ship
- A lightsaber
Unconfirmed: PC Gamer guesses that the plot may involve a precursor civilization. Nothing from the developers backs that up yet.
Gameplay and Mechanics
No gameplay footage has been released, and Hudson described the project at its reveal as early in development with many challenges ahead. No co-op or multiplayer mode has been mentioned either.
Unconfirmed: PC Gamer's read is that combat may feel closer to Mass Effect than to the original KOTOR. Arcanaut has not described its combat system.
Characters and Factions
- Protagonist: an unnamed Force user.
- Companions: two appear in the teaser, a Quarren and a droid that Digit's trailer breakdown likens to the HK series.
- Returning characters: none announced. The game is not tied to Revan or the Exile.
No factions have been named. The Sith ship and the lightsaber in the teaser hint at Jedi and Sith involvement, a reading drawn from the footage rather than from any developer statement (unconfirmed).
Editions
Nothing to compare yet: no editions or bonus content have been announced for the game.