Star Wars fans are hardly bereft of choices when it comes to great video games featuring lightsabers, but the world imagined by George Lucas is more than a playground for combat. Few series have understood this better than Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which was crafted in the old-school computer role-playing game tradition that made companies like Obsidian and BioWare famous. Now, after a number of starts and stops, The Game Awards has revealed that fans will soon be able to play a spiritual successor to the series. It’s called Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic. Here’s the first trailer.
The announcement is somewhat of a surprise, given that 2022 saw a modern attempt at an Old Republic get delayed indefinitely. But as originally reported by the newsletter Game File, a remake of KotOR, as well as one of its sequel, have been in the works as recently as March 2025. Here’s the official description:
Developed by Arcanaut Studios in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is a new single-player narrative-driven action RPG and spiritual successor to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.Led by Casey Hudson, Game director of the original Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic and the Mass Effect trilogy, the team of veteran game developers and storytellers at Arcanaut Studios is crafting an epic interactive adventure across a galaxy on the brink of rebirth where every decision shapes your path towards light or darkness.Fate is in your hands.
The classic role-playing games, which have recently been ported to platforms like Switch, are known for their dialogue-heavy, choice-driven, and stat-imbued approach to Star Wars. The games were influential enough that they inadvertently codified how people visualize the Old Republic time period as a whole, even now. The games dared to question many aspects of Jedi lore that are often treated as inarguable, like whether the faction and its understanding of the Force are correct. The second game, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, took things in a much darker direction than KotOR by asking players to consider if the world might not be better off without the Jedi at all. Both games are venerated by fans decades after their release, but the sequel in particular is considered by some as one of the best pieces of Star Wars media ever made.
And now, four years after getting a vibe-heavy cinematic trailer for Knights of the Old Republic, we’re finally getting another game in the same vein. Given the appetite for rich games like Baldur’s Gate 3 or Divinity: Original Sin, a new take on Knights of the Old Republic that’s done well has the potential to be wildly successful.
