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Project Ragtag

Visceral's Star Wars game

A cinematic Star Wars heist reached a public glimpse just before its studio was closed around it.

HOW CLOSE TO REALITY85/100
CATEGORYGames
LIFECYCLE2013—2017
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Quick facts

Existence state
Never Born
Peak stage
public demo or preview
Research confidence
high
Last verified
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What it was

An untitled narrative action-adventure game set in the Star Wars universe, led at Visceral Games by Amy Hennig.

Ragtag was conceived as a linear, character-led ensemble story about criminals in the Star Wars underworld. EA showed a short in-engine glimpse at E3 2016, while the studio built internal demonstrations; ordinary players never received a build.

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Existence timeline

Project forms

Visceral begins developing a narrative Star Wars game.

Amy Hennig joins

The Uncharted creative director takes a leading role.

Public glimpse

EA shows a short in-engine sequence at E3.

Visceral closes

EA shuts the studio and moves the project into a different design.

Original design ends

EA's redirected successor no longer carries forward Visceral's linear heist-game plan.

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Why it ended

EA closed Visceral in October 2017 and announced that the project would be reworked by another team into a broader experience. The original Ragtag design did not continue, and the successor effort was later cancelled.

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Last confirmed trace

EA's studio update, the E3 footage, concept art and detailed accounts from former developers preserve the project.
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What it left behind

Its cancellation became a flashpoint in arguments over single-player economics and left visible design echoes in later Star Wars games about the criminal underworld.

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How we classified it

No generally obtainable public release existed; demonstrations, internal prototypes or archival fragments do not constitute public access to the proposed work.

The strongest verified milestone maps to public_demo_or_preview in Arrival Score V1.

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Sources & verification

Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.

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