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Star Wars Zero Company Is Selling — So Why Is Most of Bit Reactor Still Furloughed?

Bit Reactor furloughed much of the Star Wars Zero Company team before launch. Strong Steam sales now raise questions about what happens next.

Player One · Sep 4

Star Wars Zero Company studio furloughed staff right before the strategy game launched due to reportedly running low on money

This is amid an ongoing lawsuit between Bit Reactor's co-founders

GamesRadar · Sep 1

Star Wars Zero Company wants to be more than XCOM with lightsabers: "Gamers are more sophisticated now"

Developer Bit Reactor is "trying to honor this great legacy of the genre of strategy games while picking our battles about where we must step up"

GamesRadar · Aug 11

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Star Wars Zero Company is a very safe XCOM descendant, but its most interesting parts are found in its Midnight Suns DNA

Welcome to the comfort zone.

PC Gamer · Aug 11

Star Wars Zero Company studio founder praises Lucasfilm and Respawn for taking a chance on a tactics game

"Looking at some of the things going on in the industry, it's very derivative. Art is always that way."

PC Gamer · Apr 5

Star Wars Zero Company director has 'an axe to grind' with turn-based tactics, says fans don't have to settle for no story, crummy graphics, and clunky controls: 'Depth doesn't cost you elegance'

"How do we do something that makes you feel something as a player, and not just think through a problem?"

PC Gamer · Mar 29

'Early on in the 2000s, we got enamored with consoles and I think certain games didn't make the leap right:⁠' Star Wars Zero Company's director has a theory about why old school PC gaming genres are back with a vengeance

"Hopefully people are just [going to say] 'a great game is a great game,' and look at it from that perspective."

PC Gamer · Mar 28

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Star Wars Zero Company devs said 'there were some fights' about its story-centric squadmates suffering permadeath, but accepting that 'Star Wars is about loss' made the game stronger

Hopefully nobody's processing that loss while the Tuskens are around. We know how that goes.

PC Gamer · Mar 26

Star Wars Zero Company is more than just 'Star Wars XCOM'—it feels like Mass Effect but with turn-based tactics and permadeath

This Clone Wars tactics game from former XCOM devs may end up 2026's biggest surprise.

PC Gamer · Mar 26

Yes, Zero Company really is Star Wars XCOM, and it's got the permadeath to prove it

It's ticking all the right boxes.

PC Gamer · Apr 19, 2025

Star Wars Zero Company, the XCOM-like tactics game being made by ex-Firaxis devs, will be revealed this weekend

Until then, here's a look at the crew.

PC Gamer · Apr 14, 2025

That mystery Star Wars strategy game is actually a tactics game from a bunch of XCOM veterans, and suddenly I'm a lot more excited for it

"It bums me out that more people don't play these types of games"

GamesRadar · Jun 21, 2024

Bit Reactor has a Star Wars tactical strategy game in the works, 15 XCOM veterans on its team, and an ambitious vision for the future of the genre

PC Gamer · Jun 20, 2024

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