‘It Is Still in Development. That's All I Can Say’ — Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake Dev Issues Update 5 Years After It Was Announced

Saber Interactive’s long-running improvement of its Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake is confirmed to inactive beryllium underway.

In a caller interrogation with IGN, the main originative serviceman of Saber, Tim Willits, answered our question regarding the project’s aboriginal with a abbreviated but simple: “Yes, it is inactive successful development. That's each I tin say.”

The quality volition beryllium of alleviation to the hordes of loyal fans of the now-classic RPG primitively developed by Mass Effect and Dragon Age studio, BioWare. The modern reimagining was archetypal revealed mode backmost successful 2021, but thing has been officially seen oregon heard of it successful the 5 years since.

A study successful December 2025 from Game File revealed that Aspyr was nary longer starring improvement connected the remake, but that the reins had reportedly been handed implicit to Mad Head Games, the squad down the upcoming Hellraiser: Revival.

That aforesaid nonfiction besides claimed that plans are not lone successful question for the KOTOR reimagining, but a remake of its sequel, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2, had besides been discussed.

“Juliet was the codename for a task wherever we were going to bash a afloat remake of KOTOR II with modern art, modern gameplay, you know, support the communicative and the characters and the wide — the wide contented of KOTOR II, but remake it for modern hardware and modern machines with updated graphics and each those benignant of things,” said Douglas Reilly, Lucasfilm Games vice president. “It was thing we were discussing with Aspyr.”

Whether those afloat plans for remakes of the Knights of the Old Republic bid ever travel to fruition is yet to beryllium seen; however, it looks similar improvement is inactive pressing connected erstwhile it comes to Saber’s enactment connected the original.

This each comes aft the uncover of Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic astatine the 2025 Game Awards, a marque caller single-player RPG acceptable successful a postulation far, acold away, led by erstwhile KOTOR director, Casey Hudson. Do you deliberation we’ll beryllium playing this caller crippled earlier the Knights of the Old Republic arrives? Let america cognize successful the comments below!

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Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.