New Star Wars RPG Returns to the Old Republic Era

The Old Republic era is back on the main stage.

At The Game Awards 2025, Lucasfilm Games and Arcanaut Studios announced Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, a new single-player narrative-driven action RPG set in a galaxy “on the brink of rebirth”.

The big hook? It’s led by Casey Hudson, the director behind the original Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Mass Effect trilogy. For anyone in the UAE who still argues about light-side vs dark-side runs, this is the kind of Star Wars game people have been asking for: story-first, choice-heavy, and firmly back in the Old Republic timeline.

What is Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic?

This is not a remake and not an MMO. It’s a fresh Star Wars RPG that returns to the Old Republic in a new story.

• Single-player, narrative-driven action RPG
• Spiritual successor to Knights of the Old Republic
• Set during the end of the Old Republic era with the galaxy in flux
• Focus on choice and morality: light vs dark paths

According to the announcement and official game page, Fate of the Old Republic puts you in the role of a Force user travelling through a galaxy changing around you. Every decision pushes you further towards the light or the dark, echoing what made KOTOR so replayable, but framed as a modern action RPG rather than an early-2000s turn-based experience.

For players here in the UAE, think of it as the “single-player Star Wars story” side of the brand – more Jedi: Survivor energy, less live-service grind.

Casey Hudson is back in the Old Republic

For RPG fans, Casey Hudson’s name is doing a lot of the heavy lifting.

• Directed the original Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Led the Mass Effect trilogy at BioWare
• Now heads Arcanaut Studios and directs Fate of the Old Republic
• Calls this project a “dream come true” return to Star Wars

In the quoted statement, Hudson calls working on KOTOR one of the defining moments of his career and says Fate of the Old Republic is a “completely new and different story” built on what he and the team have learned since. That’s a polite way of saying: expect branching choices, strong characters and those painful “put the controller down and stare at the wall” decisions that Mass Effect fans know far too well.

If you’ve been following other ex–BioWare talent on narrative projects – like the team behind The House of Hikmah that we covered recently – this fits the trend of veteran RPG storytellers moving into more focused, auteur-style games.

Arcanaut Studios, Lucasfilm Games, and the single-player focus

The project is a collaboration between Arcanaut Studios and Lucasfilm Games, with Disney’s games leadership very publicly backing it.

• Developed by Arcanaut Studios in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games
• Disney Games leadership calls the vision “ambitious” and “high-quality”
• Team is described as veteran storytellers and world-builders
• Emphasis is squarely on a cinematic, story-first experience

Disney’s Jay Ong talks up Arcanaut as a team with a passion for storytelling and immersive worlds, and stresses that this is the kind of high-quality experience they want to deliver to players. That’s PR speak, sure, but paired with the single-player focus and Hudson’s track record, it signals a deliberate move: this is not chasing live-service trends, it’s aiming at the premium, story-led corner of Star Wars gaming.

For Lucasfilm, it also helps balance the brand. You’ve got your streaming shows on Disney+, your multiplayer legacy in Star Wars: The Old Republic, and now a big, modern single-player RPG carrying the Old Republic flag again.

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