Star Wars Zero Company
About
Overview
Star Wars Zero Company is a 2026 turn-based tactics video game in the Star Wars franchise. Players control Tesh Hawks, the leader of Zero Company, a group of misfits and mercenaries operating during the Clone Wars era. The game combines squad-based tactical combat with base management, character progression, and role-playing elements. It received positive reviews from critics.
Gameplay
Players can customize Hawks' gender, appearance, and voice at the beginning of the game. Combat is turn-based and played from a top-down perspective, with players issuing commands to a squad that can include custom mercenaries and story-based characters. Squad members can be assigned to different classes, while story-based characters have unique skills and abilities. Players can also create astromech droids focused on support and explosives.
Each character has a limited number of action points per turn, affecting movement and available actions. Some abilities can replenish action points within a turn. Squad members can suffer lasting injuries or permanent death, but the narrative continues regardless of losses. Missions have different objectives, with developer-designed levels and procedurally generated enemy placement.
Between missions, players manage the Den, Zero Company's base of operations. From there, they can conduct research, upgrade gear, launch investigations, and carry out tactical strikes. Time advances in cycles as missions are completed, and some objectives expire if not finished in time. Non-combat operations allow players to gather intel and make narrative decisions with later consequences.
The game also includes permanent upgrades, sabotage choices, third-person exploration outside combat, squad conversations, approval systems, conflict resolution, and bond-based tactical synergy bonuses for characters who fight together often.
Setting
The game is set in 19 BBY, during the final year of the Clone Wars. Former Galactic Republic captain Tesh Hawks leads Zero Company, an independent mercenary outfit. Hawks was dismissed from military service several years earlier after taking blame for a disastrous defeat against the Separatists. Heavily indebted to the Hutts, Zero Company takes mercenary contracts to stay solvent.
Release
Star Wars Zero Company was developed by Bit Reactor and Respawn Entertainment, and published by Electronic Arts. It was released on 2026-08-27 for WIN, PS5, and XBX/S.