Cancelled Star Wars RPG Magellan would have been a loot-based co-op game with Jedi and Mandalorians

Gameplay footage of a cancelled AAA Star Wars action-RPG codenamed Magellan has surfaced online, revealing a third-person loot-shooter developed at Echtra Games under Zynga. The footage was shared with MP1st by a former Echtra developer and shows an early build of the game before it was killed around the studio's closure in 2025.

The leaked gameplay shows two playable characters — a Twi'lek Jedi and a Mandalorian-style soldier — fighting stormtroopers, picking up loot from enemies, and exploring environments in third-person. The game was explicitly described as "shoot and loot," and one clip shows a character grabbing "Booster Gear" from a fallen enemy and looting a chest. Notably, the Jedi character appears to use a blaster alongside a lightsaber, suggesting gear pickups would apply across all classes. Magellan also supported online multiplayer and included a class system, and MP1st reports it had an NPC bonding mechanic where players would build relationships with companions through missions. Development started in early 2021, and the game was being built in Unreal Engine 5 targeting PS5, Xbox, and PC.

Echtra Games was best known for Torchlight III, so a loot-driven action-RPG was squarely in the studio's wheelhouse. The project was cancelled following a shake-up at Zynga and parent company Take-Two, which shuttered Echtra in 2025. Magellan joins a long and painful list of cancelled Star Wars games — Visceral's Ragtag, Respawn's Mandalorian FPS, the legendary Star Wars 1313, the Darth Maul project, and Star Wars Battlefront III all met similar fates before reaching players.

With the footage now public, fans are getting a rare look at what could have been a genuinely distinct Star Wars game — one that leaned into Diablo-style looting rather than the cinematic single-player format most Star Wars titles aim for. Whether any similar project is currently in development elsewhere remains unknown.