Take-Two Interactive’s Zynga studio has finally released Star Wars: Hunters, a free-to-play combat game.

Available for Nintendo Switch and Mobile devices, the cross-platform Star Wars: Hunters sees teams of four players taking to a battle arena in Vespaara and facing-off in competitive matches set across various Star Wars-inspired battlefields including the ice planet of Hoth, the forest moon of Endor, the Death Star and the frustratingly-sandy world of Tatooine.

“With Star Wars: Hunters, we’re inviting fans to a new destination in the Outer Rim to experience a larger-than-life expression of the Star Wars galaxy unlike any we’ve seen before,” explained LucasFilm Games vice president Douglas Reilly.

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Star Wars: Hunters has been developed alongside LucasFilm Games and features a number of new hunter characters that include a Wookie with a “penchant for disarming droids and his opponents”, a righteous Mandalorian, a “dark side warrior”, a gun-wielding Stormtrooper and a droid that has been programmed to believe it is a Jedi.

It had been due for release in 2022 but was delayed “to ensure we meet the high expectations we are setting for fans globally and ourselves as developers”.

“Star Wars: Hunters represents a huge step forward for Zynga as our first cross-platform competitive shooter set in such a beloved universe,” said Yaron Leyvand, executive vice president of mobile studios at Zynga. “We can’t wait for our players to experience our fresh new take on Star Wars which is jam-packed with original engaging characters that we’re sure will become instant favourites.”

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“We are thrilled to finally welcome fans across the globe to Vespaara and introduce them to our incredible lineup of hunters,” Zynga vice president Sam Cooper added. “Matches in our game are easy to hop into, but hard to master. We can’t wait to see the action as players duke it out in the Arena. Good luck, the galaxy is watching!”

Star Wars: Hunters is available now as a free download and Nintendo Switch players don’t need an active online membership to play.

Last month it was reported that Total War developers Creative Assembly are working on a new Star Wars game, with Bit Reactor also confirming that their strategy Star Wars games was still in development. 

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