Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

Developer/publisher Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment (TT Games) Format PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series Origin UK Release Spring

If there’s a common criticism levelled at Lego’s world domination over the past decade or two – the eco-friendliness of its chosen medium aside – it’s that creativity has been squeezed out in favour of studiously following a template. And the same has increasingly been true of the videogame adaptations.

In 2005, Lego Star Wars: The Video Game managed a minor miracle, spinning family-game gold out of the prequel movie trilogy. The formula was refined by its followups, and has been adhered to ever since, with each year bringing at least one new Lego game. Until 2020, that is, when the annual churn finally paused to allow for a ground-up rebuild.

TT Games – formerly Traveller’s Tales – certainly hasn’t lost the original plans: all the series hallmarks, such as a huge roster of switchable characters and slapstick recreations of iconic scenes, are present in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. But as the studio returns to its roots, this time adapting the full trilogy of trilogies, there’s a sense of renewed playfulness too.

All nine films will be available from the off, with an orrery of planets ready to be dug out of the box and visited at any point. So if there’s a particular set-piece you’re eager to experience, you can hop straight to it (all freshly reimagined for this title), or you can see what awaits at the outer reaches of the films’ storytelling. It’s an intriguingly ambitious notion, and one that suggests The Skywalker Saga might just be – dare we say it? – a new hope for Lego games.