Report Says Star Wars Eclipse Remains Years Away as Quantic Dream Faces Funding Pressure

An unconfirmed but significant update on a major Star Wars project

Insider Gaming reports that Star Wars Eclipse is still moving forward at Quantic Dream, but at a much slower pace than fans expected. In its April 6 article, the outlet says multiple internal conversations point to limited progress over recent months, even though a substantial portion of the game has already been completed. That does not amount to a cancellation notice, but it does suggest a project struggling to convert long development time into visible momentum.

The most important point in the report is timing. One source told Insider Gaming back in December that the project still looked years away from completion. The newer update says the problem is not simply a lack of ideas or creative direction. Instead, the bigger issue is whether the studio and parent company NetEase are willing to keep investing at the level needed to accelerate development and expand staffing.

According to Insider Gaming's sourcing, Quantic Dream and NetEase have discussed increasing the development team, but NetEase did not want to make that investment while it considered its longer-term plans. The report also claims that both companies are leaning on revenue from Spellcasters Chronicles, which entered Early Access in February, to help support Eclipse. If that revenue falls short, one source said NetEase could reevaluate how much more support it wants to provide to the studio.

Insider Gaming says development has been “very slow going.”

One source described very little progress over a period of months.

Neither Quantic Dream nor NetEase responded to the outlet's requests for comment.

That makes this a meaningful but still unconfirmed industry report. Star Wars Eclipse was announced at The Game Awards in 2021 and has remained largely quiet since then, so even a sourced update like this attracts outsized attention. At the same time, the lack of official confirmation means fans should read the article as a snapshot of internal concerns, not as a final statement on the game's fate.

The broader signal is that Star Wars Eclipse may now be constrained more by financing and studio priorities than by pure design ambition. If Insider Gaming's reporting is accurate, the next phase of the project depends not only on Quantic Dream's ability to build the game, but on whether NetEase still believes the commercial case justifies continued investment. For one of the most visible dormant AAA announcements in gaming, that is a serious change in tone.