Star Wars Eclipse is a new action-adventure coming to us from Detroid: Become Human developer, Quantic Dream. First revealed during the Game Awards back in 2021, and since then, we've not really heard or seen all that much of the upcoming Star Wars game.
But what's been revealed so far about the project makes us eager to learn more. Set in the High Republic era in the Star Wars timeline, the new game promises to let us explore a branching narrative through the perspective of multiple characters. While it sounds like it'll play to the studios history of story-driven experiences, Quantic Dream CEO Guillaume de Fondaumière has said "it's a different game than anything we've done before".
Star Wars Eclipse release date speculation
While described as in "early development" at the time of its announcement, late-2021 reports suggested Star Wars Eclipse was apparently at least three to four years away from launch. Now in the fourth year of that bracket, newer estimates place a prospective Star Wars Eclipse release closer to 2026. But given we've not seen the game or had an update in quite some time, it could be further out.
Back in 2022, Quantic Dream went on to respond to reports and reaffirm that there have been no delays since no launch date had been confirmed. There's been little to go on beyond that ever since, but, given Quantic Dream's past projects, we expect Star Wars Eclipse to feature on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X at a minimum, with the developer promising a game that "can be experienced in many ways, and puts the destinies of multiple playable characters in your hands".
Star Wars Eclipse trailer
The Star Wars Eclipse trailer to come out of the Game Awards 2021 featured no in-game footage, but is pretty cinematic in its delivery - featuring familiar elements of the Star Wars universe such as speeder bikes, ice planets, droids, Jedi, and a raft of alien species like mon calamari, anomids, and neimoidians. According to the game’s official website, its Outer Rim setting will also include "never-before-seen species and planets to discover."
Star Wars Eclipse gameplay
Star Wars: Eclipse is promising to be a new type of Quantic Dream game. The studio is known for games like Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain, adventures which route their gameplay through branching narrative paths and limited input. However, Star Wars: Eclipse is said to be a more traditional action experience, without skimping on all the choice and consequence Quantic Dream is so good at delivering.
The studio says we will "have the power to make choices with consequences thanks to many outcomes in this deeply branching narrative", but we're still yet to see what the gameplay itself may look like.
Interestingly, Quantic Dream actually opened a brand new studio to help support Star Wars: Eclipse. The Paris HQ will be handling the bulk of the writing and story, while the new team in North America – staffed by former Square Enix Montreal, Eidos Montreal, and Ubisoft Montreal developers – will be handling the action and world design.
Star Wars Eclipse story
Star Wars: Eclipse is an "original Star Wars story". It's set to take us to an "uncharted region of the Outer Rim during The High Republic era known as the golden age of the Jedi." That means we'll be heading back hundreds of years before the Skywalker Saga, to a time where Jedi and the Galactic Republic was at its most powerful.
Quantic Dreams says we should expect to find "all-new characters and environments" to the Star Wars franchise, including "never-before-seen species and planets to discover." The studio adds: "This part of the Outer Rim is rife with opportunity – and political tensions that could alter the fabric of peace. What will you do?"
That level of choice will be key to the Star Wars: Eclipse story, particularly as it will allow us to "see the galaxy through the eyes of an ensemble cast of multiple, charismatic playable characters, each with their own morality, personality, motivations, and impact upon each other and the story at large." Encouraged to "weave a tapestry of interlaced destinies", it's sounding like classic Quantic already. "Every decision you make can have dramatic repercussions on your journey," the studio says. "The way of life in the Outer Rim is being threatened and you must define your path."
For a refresher on how Quantic Dream's previous story-driven experience plays, check out our Detroit: Become Human review.
Star Wars: Eclipse screenshots
While we are yet to see Star Wars: Eclipse gameplay, Quantic Dream did release a rather gorgeous in-engine teaser. And from that, the studio has given us a bunch of extremely beautiful Star Wars: Eclipse screenshots, showing off everything from Jedi battles to space exploration and so much more. Check them out in the gallery above.
Star Wars Eclipse development
Star Wars Eclipse was said to be "in early development" back in 2021 when the official website for the game first launched. That initial messaging is still on the site to this day, but by way of a LinkedIn post from CEO Guillaume de Fondaumière - who addressed layoffs at NetEase in early 2025 and offered assurances that Quantic was unaffected - we know that the studio currently has positions open to work on the game, and that the team is still continuing to develop its projects (that includes Eclipse) "at full pace".
Back in 2024, news also surfaced that the lead writer on Star Wars Eclipse left Quantic to found a new studio and work on something "very innovative, very special, and, for now, very secret".
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