Footage from a cancelled Star Wars action RPG has surfaced more than a year after its developer was shut down. The project, internally known as Star Wars: Magellan or Project Magellan, was being made by Echtra Games in collaboration with fellow Zynga studio NaturalMotion before both the game and the studio were cancelled.
Echtra Games, founded by veterans of the Diablo and Torchlight series, was acquired by Zynga in 2021. The studio released Torchlight III in 2020 but never shipped another title under Zynga’s ownership. In June 2025, Zynga closed Echtra as part of a broader strategic realignment, ending development on its unannounced projects. Only recently did materials from a former developer’s portfolio reveal that one of those projects was a Star Wars game.
The leaked footage and animations show a third-person action RPG built in Unreal Engine 5. Players could choose between classes that included Jedi and Mandalorian archetypes. Combat featured Force abilities, jetpacks, dual blasters, flamethrowers, grenades, and destructible environments. Looting, optional objectives, and a system for building bonds with NPCs were also present. The game was set during the Imperial era and targeted PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Check out some of the gameplay below:
Visually and tonally, Magellan shared some DNA with Star Wars: Hunters, the arena shooter developed by NaturalMotion that soft-launched on mobile and later reached Nintendo Switch in limited regions before shutting down. Character designs and animation styles in the Magellan materials show clear overlap with that project, consistent with the reported collaboration between the two Zynga studios.
The emergence of the footage has added another name to the long list of cancelled Star Wars games. Previous high-profile casualties include Star Wars 1313, Visceral Games’ Project Ragtag, Respawn’s Mandalorian first-person shooter, multiple attempts at Battlefront III, and others. Each cancellation has reinforced a sense among fans that the franchise’s output remains far below the pace of the early 2000s, when multiple Star Wars titles sometimes released in a single year.
Echtra’s closure and the quiet death of Magellan fit a familiar industry pattern. Games can spend years in development only to disappear when corporate priorities shift, leaving behind only portfolio clips and concept art. In this case, the materials show a project that had progressed far enough to demonstrate core combat, traversal, and progression systems, even if it was still early overall.
Zynga and Take-Two have not issued new comments on the project since the studio closure. The footage itself appears to come from an individual developer’s work samples rather than an official leak of build files. Still, the consistency of the assets and the matching art style with known Zynga Star Wars work have led most observers to treat the material as genuine.
For Star Wars gaming fans, Magellan represents one more what-if. An action RPG that let players operate as Jedi or Mandalorians in a loot-driven Imperial-era setting is the kind of pitch that regularly generates excitement, yet it never reached an announcement, let alone a release. The same corporate decisions that ended Echtra also ended any chance of the game being finished or rehomed elsewhere.
The appearance of the Magellan footage serves as a reminder of how many Star Wars projects are worked on in silence and never see the light of day. While official releases such as the Jedi series and the upcoming Zero Company continue, the graveyard of cancelled titles keeps growing. Magellan is simply the latest entry with an actual gameplay video attached.
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