Cancelled Star Wars: Magellan gameplay surfaces online

Footage from Star Wars: Magellan — the cancelled action RPG from now-defunct Echtra Games — has appeared online, uploaded by a former developer on the project. The clip shows a Jedi and a Mandalorian cutting through waves of enemies in what looked like a loot-driven experience, with gear and equipment dropping at various rarities.

Each playable character had a dedicated skill set and a small pool of weapons to choose from. According to MP1st, the game also featured an NPC Bond system that would have let players build deeper relationships with story characters. Magellan was targeting PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.

Echtra Games — the studio behind Torchlight 3 — was acquired by Zynga in 2021, and development on the then-unnamed Star Wars project began that same year. Almost nothing leaked publicly in the years that followed. Then in June 2025, Zynga shut the studio down entirely, with a spokesperson citing "a strategic realignment of the company's resources and priorities." Torchlight 3 had a rough launch but showed genuine craft from the team, which makes seeing Magellan in this unfinished state all the more bittersweet.

The footage is a rare window into a project that never got a public announcement, let alone a release. For fans of loot-based action RPGs and the Star Wars universe, it's a glimpse at something that clearly had potential — and now never will be.