Years after its cancellation, gameplay footage for Star Wars: Magellan, the motion RPG developed by the now-shuttered Echtra Video games, has appeared on-line.
Uploaded by a former developer on the venture, per MP1st, the footage exhibits varied characters together with a Jedi and Mandalorian preventing their approach by means of hordes of enemies. The sport a loot-centric expertise, with these enemies dropping gear and gear of varied rarities.
Every character seems to have a devoted set of abilities, in addition to a small number of out there weapons to mess around with. MP1st additionally claims the sport would additionally function an “NPC Bond” system, permitting gamers to type deeper relationships with sure characters concerned within the story.
Star Wars: Magellan was meant to launch for PC and fashionable consoles together with PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S. Its developer – Echtra Video games – was acquired by Zynga in 2021 and growth of a then unnamed motion RPG started that very same 12 months. Nonetheless, little-to-no details about the sport got here out in years following.
Then, in June 2025, Zynga closed down Echtra Video games. In a press release provided to press, a Zynga spokesperson stated: “Zynga has made the tough choice to stop operations at its Echtra studio, ending growth on future titles and decreasing roles. This choice is a part of a strategic realignment of the corporate’s assets and priorities. We are going to work carefully with impacted workers so they’re handled with the utmost respect and consideration as we navigate this tough course of.”
It is a bittersweet second, seeing what the builders at Echtra have been engaged on on this unfinished capability. The group at Echtra had beforehand launched Torchlight 3, under no circumstances an ideal recreation on launch however one which had some actual coronary heart behind it nonetheless.