There’s trouble brewing at Quantic Dream, the French studio behind Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human. Developers have walked out on strike, and the timing couldn’t be worse for one of the most anticipated games in the studio’s history: Star Wars: Eclipse.
The flashpoint is a plan to lay off 115 developers. According to the striking staff, those are precisely the people needed to push Eclipse over the line — and cutting them, they argue, makes finishing the licensed blockbuster all but impossible. So instead of crunching at their desks, they downed tools and made their voices heard at the worst possible moment for management.
That moment? A site visit from Lucasfilm. As of June 27, 2026, a Lucasfilm representative dropped by the studio to check on how development of the Star Wars title was progressing. The team’s response was to stage their strike during the visit, ensuring the licensor saw the discontent first-hand rather than a polished status update. It’s a high-stakes negotiating tactic, and one that drags the future of Eclipse into the spotlight.
Star Wars: Eclipse was first revealed at The Game Awards back in 2021, set in the High Republic era — a period of the Star Wars timeline that predates the Skywalker saga and gives writers plenty of room to play. Since that cinematic announcement, concrete details have been thin on the ground, and the project has long carried whispers of a troubled development.
Here’s what the current situation tells us:
- The project is vulnerable. Employees say Eclipse is already a struggling production, and the proposed layoffs would strip away staff working directly on it.
- The licensor is watching. Lucasfilm’s hands-on visit suggests the relationship between studio and rights-holder is under real scrutiny.
- Labour tensions are now public. A strike timed to a partner visit isn’t a quiet internal dispute — it’s a deliberate, visible statement.
For players hoping to wield a lightsaber in the High Republic, none of this is encouraging. There’s still no confirmed release date, no platform list and no price, and the latest developments raise more questions than they answer about whether the game will ship in anything close to its envisioned form.
Game development is rarely as glamorous as the trailers suggest, and Eclipse is shaping up to be a cautionary tale about the gap between a slick cinematic reveal and the human cost of actually building the thing. Whether Quantic Dream and Lucasfilm can resolve the standoff — and keep enough of the team intact to finish the job — is the real cliffhanger here.
