Bit Reactor’s take on Star Wars XCOM is called Zero Company

Bit Reactor and Respawn Entertainment have finally revealed the name of their joint Star Wars project: Zero Company.

Star Wars Zero Company is a single-player turn-based tactics game in which players will “recruit an unconventional team of operatives and deploy them on missions unlike any other” during the Clone Wars.

Aside from the title, this general information wasn’t really a secret: Bit Reactor is composed of many former Firaxis developers who’ve worked on the popular XCOM franchise and states on its website that its mission is to develop turn-based tactics games. Interviews with some of the developers also yielded hints to that effect, implying – among other things – that the game will come to PC as well as consoles.

An artwork released alongside the title announcement shows several of the characters players can recruit. They include a sharpshooter-looking person, a Jedi Knight, a Clone Trooper, an Astromech Droid, a Mandalorian warrior, and a man clad in a smuggler-type outfit. He’s holding a hologram showing a B1 Battle Droid — if it hadn’t been announced that the game would take place during the Clone Wars, several elements of this artwork would certainly have given it away.

Zero Company is one of the few Star Wars games starting production over the last couple of years that did not suffer from development setbacks or were outright canceled, such as the first-person shooter Respawn had been working on.

More information about the game will be revealed at Star Wars Celebration in Japan on April 19, 2025, during a panel. Though this won’t be broadcast anywhere, you can expect details to make their way online shortly afterwards.