After 21 years, Knights of the Old Republic’s original director is returning to the series for Fate of the Old Republic

I never would have guessed that we’d get Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3 before Half-Life 3, but here we are. At The Game Awards 2025, we got a brief teaser trailer for Fate of the Old Republic, a follow-up to the original games whose development will be headed up by Casey Hudson, project lead on KotOR 1 and the Mass Effect trilogy.

The trailer shows a star ship—not the original games’ Ebon Hawk—piloted to a remote, snowy world. Its pilot and passengers, which include a droid resembling the HK series from KotOR, emerge and approach a downed Sith capital ship from the Old Republic games.

There are any number of directions Hudson and co. could go with the story: KotOR 2 had a very vague, open-ending conclusion that has since been elaborated on in various bits and bobs of Star Wars lore crafting, most notably some of the expansions to the long-running Old Republic MMO, but that feels like the sort of stuff you can just treat as a suggestion.

Given the fact that The Old Republic takes place a good few thousand years after Knights, with another thousand and change at least before the movies after that, the developer has a fairly blank canvas to work on. At this point, more than resurrecting old characters and plotlines, there’s a vibe to KotOR, an approach to Star Wars that embraces the mystery and antiquity of the galaxy that I’d love to see again.

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