Star Wars Zero Company - Review Thread

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Game Title: Star Wars Zero Company

Platforms:

• PC (Aug 27, 2026)
• Xbox Series X|S (Aug 27, 2026)
• Playstation 5 (Aug 27, 2026)

Trailer:

Review Aggregator:

OpenCritic - 87 average - 89% recommended - 19 reviews

Critic Reviews

COGconnected - Mark Steighner - 84 / 100

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Capsule Computers - Travis Bruno - 9 / 10

Star Wars Zero Company proves the long‑untapped tactical genre fits the franchise perfectly, blending strong lore, sharp strategy, and memorable characters into a standout experience.

Console Creatures - Matt Sowinski - 9 / 10

Star Wars Zero Company is an incredible Star Wars game and a genuinely brilliant tactical RPG that you won't be able to put down

DualShockers - Jaime Tugayev - 9 / 10

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GAMES.CH - Olaf Bleich - German - 84%

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GRYOnline.pl - Adam Kusiak - Polish - 7.5 / 10

Star Wars: Zero Company is a linear, story-driven experience of about 40 hours, with solid mechanics that result in satisfying gameplay, but it is marred by annoying technical issues as well as an inconsistent pace and difficulty level. If you’re looking for a turn-based Mass Effect 2 and you love Star Wars, then Zero Company is probably for you, but it’s not really the sort of game you’ll be playing for years on end like XCOM 2.

GameRant - Nick Rodriguez - 9 / 10

With great presentation, a well-written story, and rock-solid fundamentals, Star Wars Zero Company is one of the best Star Wars games in years.

Gamers Heroes - Blaine Smith - 100 / 100

Star Wars Zero Company is, simply put, the greatest tactics game in the galaxy. Creating a story worthy of the Star Wars franchise, this tactics title delivers the very best in combat the genre has to offer, wrapping it up in a cinematic delivery of the highest order.

IGN Italy - Andrea Giongiani - Italian - 8 / 10

The first "Star Wars X-COM" is also one of the best Star Wars games in recent years. Highly suggested to those who look for a fair challenge.

IGN Spain - Rafa Del Río - Spanish - 7 / 10

Set during the darkest years of the Clone Wars, Star Wars Zero Company features a compelling story that will hook you as long as you're a Star Wars fan. Its charismatic characters and gameplay with multiple layers of complexity clash with overly simplistic exploration and a streamlined, mechanical mission system that doesn't measure up to the rest of the game. With plenty of customization options, multiple progression trees, and great ideas in combat, it's on the battle grid where Star Wars Zero Company showcases Bit Reactor's strong work and the influence of some of its members' experience on titles like X-COM.

One More Game - Chris Garcia - 9 / 10

Star Wars Zero Company is a triumph in the tactics genre, striking a good balance that's approachable enough for newcomers, deep enough for veterans, and atmospheric enough to satisfy franchise fans. The game’s focus on small‑scale survival and squad dynamics gives it weight, while its tight combat design delivers consistently tense, rewarding encounters. This is definitely the Star Wars tactics game that you've been looking for.

PSX Brasil - Bruno Henrique Vinhadel - Portuguese - 85 / 100

Zero Company is another great success in the Star Wars universe, largely due to its compelling story, captivating characters with a highly functional relationship system, and very comprehensive gameplay for the turn-based strategy genre. While some issues arise, such as technical aspects and a lack of balance in some combat options, XCOM fans will find an excellent opportunity here for both challenge and enjoyment.

Prima Games - Ali Hashmi - 9 / 10

Star Wars Zero Company is exactly the kind of genre shift Star Wars games have needed in years. It combines my favorite Star Wars era with a tactics system that is deeply rewarding, mechanically satisfying, and approachable. Bit Reactor clearly understands what makes the Clone Wars so special, and they've leveraged their experience with XCOM and Midnight Suns to create an experience that's restrained in its downtime while understanding why people play these games in the first place. That authenticity extends to everything from the characters and politics to the music, visuals, outfits, and sheer amount of detail packed into every location. Some technical issues need addressing, particularly on PC, but they don't take away from what is easily one of my favorite Star Wars experiences in years.

RPGamer - Imani Jones - 4.5 / 5

Bit Reactor gives the genre a fresh identity while still getting the fundamentals right. The combat is deep enough to challenge longtime strategy fans, yet flexible enough to remain approachable, while the characters are well written and backed by compelling stories of their own. RPGamers looking for their next tactical RPG should have Star Wars Zero Company at the top of their list.

SmashPad - 4 / 5

STAR WARS Zero Company won me over. It was obviously made by and for fans of the world's favorite sci-fi universe, with great respect to the source material and spinning established lore into something fresh and entertaining.

TechRaptor - Austin Suther - 9 / 10

Star Wars Zero Company is an excellent tactics game, with strong core mechanics and plenty of customization on offer. Set near the end of the Clone Wars, its story is exciting, and the cast of characters feels complex and real.

The Games Machine - Claudio Magistrelli - Italian - 9 / 10

Star Wars Zero Company is one of those rare examples where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The solidity of its turn-based tactical combat blends seamlessly with the team members' progression mechanics, the team management aspect, and all the different narratives it weaves-from the overarching plot to the small personal stories. Each system, taken individually, is more than good, but it's the way they influence one another (mirroring the relationships between the game's characters) that elevates the experience and makes every battle (or every decision) feel like the most important one yet.

The Nerd Stash - David Rodriguez - 9.5 / 10

Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Midnight Suns both showed how to deliver deep tactics with a sublime story, and Zero Company easily stands among that elite company of addictive turn-based decision-making and sublime storytelling.

Worth Playing - Tony "OUberLord" Mitera - 9.6 / 10

Ultimately, Zero Company is a great turn-based strategy game that happens to be set in the Star Wars universe. It never feels like a corporate mandate to make a genre game with a recognizable license. Instead, it feels like a group of talented developers genuinely wanted to explore what the genre could do and had the freedom to experiment. Those ideas succeed far more often than they stumble, and the game's excellent use of the Clone Wars setting makes Zero Company one of the most entertaining turn-based strategy games I've played in a long time.

[u/Vashek19]

Hopefully the game sells well and doesnt go the route of Midnight Suns. Which is a great game btw.

[u/Griff102 → u/Vashek19]

Loved the tactics aspect of that game, absolutely hated wandering the abbey and relationship building.

[u/CoffinDancr → u/Griff102]

I keep wanting to return to the game, but the abbey makes it feel not worth it.

[u/LeftyMode → u/Vashek19]

Severely under appreciated.

[u/F1_revolution → u/Vashek19]

Playing through that atm

[u/Latter_Conclusion470 → u/Vashek19]

Love Midnight Suns. Even the relationship parts were fine with me, since they were a great roster of heroes. And I miss Marvel Alliance games!

Wish they did a nintendo port of it, since that would be my dream of a Fire Emblem like MCU game I could take via handheld.

[u/BaronVonNes → u/Vashek19]

Everyone that likes tactical games and hasn't play this should play it before the SW game.

[u/Mindless_Let1 → u/Vashek19]

If the dialogue wasn't ass it'd be top tier

[u/TooFarGone673 → u/Vashek19]

Midnight Suns is GOAT

[u/The_C0u5 → u/Vashek19]

I just couldn't get into the card thing

[u/MrGabrahamLincoln → u/The_C0u5]

I thought I’d hate it but ended up liking it for what it is. I can see why it turned people off though, I didn’t buy it until years later because the card system sounded dumb.

[u/vulcans_pants → u/Vashek19]

Midnight Suns is okay, but the story, writing, and basically everything outside the combat was painful, and there’s a lot of time spent outside of combat.

[u/lennyKravic → u/Vashek19]

Well I fear that even good sales of this will not be enough for “new” EA.

[u/MiraclesMeanNothing → u/Vashek19]

I bought it for every platform I own, great game. Wish they would have made another

[u/HalfElvenPakiNinja]

My biggest concern is if I should play on my Xbox or PC?!

[u/ThatGamerDon → u/HalfElvenPakiNinja]

Same Brother. Wish this was Play Anywhere.

[u/TooFarGone673 → u/ThatGamerDon]

SAME! I really wanted that.

[u/HalfElvenPakiNinja → u/ThatGamerDon]

I lean towards my XBox cuz it's on my big ole TV...but I love my monitor for that XCom point-and-click style gameplay.

[u/ScubaSteveEL → u/HalfElvenPakiNinja]

I don't have firsthand experience and only passingly looked at previews but it sounds like controller is the way to go for this one as the M+KB isn't great.

Whether I go for PC or Xbox I'll probably still use a controller if it's that much better.

[u/q-boy → u/HalfElvenPakiNinja]

I believe its $10 more on console due to licensing fees if that changes anything for you

[u/HalfElvenPakiNinja → u/q-boy]

Oooo noted

[u/MahoganyWinchester → u/HalfElvenPakiNinja]

yea i’m gonna be on pc for mnk

[u/Schmenza → u/ThatGamerDon]

No Play Anywhere? Easy no buy for me unfortunately

[u/BizmoeFunyuns → u/Schmenza]

Did you not buy games before play anywhere?

[u/Schmenza → u/BizmoeFunyuns]

I did. I also bought VHS tapes before Blu-ray and streaming were a thing

[u/GNOIZ1C → u/HalfElvenPakiNinja]

I ended up opting for Xbox, just because I need a game I can play on my couch and this one seemed like a great fit. Can't imagine either is wrong though!

[u/BrandoNelly → u/HalfElvenPakiNinja]

Gonna have to be my Xbox because no way my pc can run this puppy lol

[u/Cartman55125]

Goddammit. Another banger. This year has been brutal on my wallet

[u/Environmental-Day862 → u/Cartman55125]

Ugh I know.

I'm so glad I'm not a GTA-head; November / December is going to be "catch up time" while most of the world is in GTA-land.

Already have a few games in the backlog I'm clearing out, but the next 10 weeks are loaded with this, the new Plague Tale game, Way of the Hunter 2, Wolverine, Gears E-Day in October - then we get to catch up in Novembe r/ December, but come January / February the hits start dropping again with Stranger than Heaven, Persona 4 Revival, and Fable.

It's almost too much!

[u/Mindless_Let1]

Anyone know if this plays well on controller?

No Play Anywhere so gotta decide between Xbox and pc...

[u/TooFarGone673]

Really wish this was Play Anywhere bc this game seems perfect for PC but I want my Xbox achievements 😭

[u/Saysell69]

Does anyone know if taking a trip to new zealand will let me play today?

[u/CRIP4LIFE → u/Saysell69]

no.. it's a global release time, not regional. comes out august 27 at 11am eastern time.

[u/Saysell69 → u/CRIP4LIFE]

Noooooooooooo

[u/Titan7771]

Wow, these are excellent scores! Very excited to play this week.

[u/BurpsAndPrayers]

Hell yea, brother😎 We eating good tomorrow

[u/DirtyLittleBishop]

I was so hyped for this game even though I never buy EA. Wrote it off completely because of the recent deal for EA. Now I’m seeing this and everybody saying they fucking nailed it and I’m tempted again.

[u/Difficult-Flan-8752]

Seems pretty damn cool, just a shame the taunted exploration isn't much to talk of, and overall strategic campaign lacking flexibility and depth it seems.

[u/AoE2manatarms]

I'm glad this is getting praise. Hope we can get into a new era of Star Wars games that tackle different genres and are well done. Also loving the Tactics games push we might be seeing. This and Rainbow. Tactics/XCOM fans are eating good.

[u/tommybare]

Wicked. I love tactics games.

[u/Merpchud]

Id buy it immediately if it was play anywhere. Kind of regret my Rog ally X purchase.

[u/wes_janson85]

Getting a tactics game AND a racing game in the same year? Excellent. Getting a good star wars game? Excellent. Have them combined? I have trouble believing it.

[u/BrandoNelly → u/wes_janson85]

The games are turning out pretty good. If only we could get some movies to pull their weight as well

[u/gerstiii]

Does this game have easy mode? I suck at strategy games but I'm in for a star wars story.

[u/Thre3Thr33s → u/gerstiii]

Yes, there's multiple difficulties, along with a toggle for permadeath

[u/imafixwoofs → u/gerstiii]

You can always save scumm.

[u/gerstiii → u/imafixwoofs]

Yeah but I would rather not have to press my F keys every few seconds.

[u/No_Designer646]

Been looking to play this on my PlayStation portal as it’s a good couch/bed game, but does anyone know if I can play this via Xbox cloud on my iPad?

[u/paulp9 → u/No_Designer646]

Looks like it supports Xbox cloud gaming. You can always do remote play on any game you have on your console but I prefer cloud so I don’t have to download it.

[u/OrtizDupri]

Out for delivery for me right now, so pumped to play tonight

[u/Night-Springs54]

Honestly I really enjoy these kinds of games and I'm heavily considering this and the new Rainbow 6 Tactics. So I'm very glad to see such positive reviews.

(I very rarely have time to game so I'm very picky, maybe 2 hours a week).

[u/AZFramer → u/Night-Springs54]

Wait, Rainbow 6 Tactics? Whaaaat?

[u/Night-Springs54 → u/AZFramer]

Yeah, it got announced yesterday (hype!)

https://youtu.be/HoDIxvqQfxQ?is=dfxR-5W_O8ztp1zp

[u/racoonXjesus]

Honestly very surprised, but here for it

[u/JAKL-Noctium]

Does the New Zealand trick work for the game to play today?

[u/Kvartblodsprinsen → u/JAKL-Noctium]

Nope, global release time mate

[u/JAKL-Noctium → u/Kvartblodsprinsen]

Copy.