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Star Wars 1313

It appeared in a live gameplay demonstration, but never reached an ordinary player.

HOW CLOSE TO REALITY85/100
CATEGORYGames
LIFECYCLE2012—2013
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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

A dark, story-driven action game set beneath the surface of Coruscant, developed by LucasArts.

Star Wars 1313 arrived with unusually polished real-time footage and the promise of a more adult journey through the criminal underworld. Its public demonstration made it feel less like a proposal and more like a game waiting for a release date.

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Existence timeline

The title surfaces

Lucasfilm files trademarks that point towards a project called Star Wars 1313.

Public reveal

LucasArts announces the game and shows a real-time E3 demonstration.

A deeper direction

Development shifts towards a bounty-hunter story linked to Boba Fett.

Disney acquires Lucasfilm

The ownership change places LucasArts’ internal projects under review.

LucasArts closes

Internal development ends and the project is effectively cancelled.

Trademark abandoned

The remaining legal marker of the title is allowed to lapse.

New footage emerges

Previously unseen development material offers another glimpse of the cancelled game.

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Why it ended

Development stopped after Disney acquired Lucasfilm and closed LucasArts’ internal game-development operation in 2013.

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Last confirmed trace

The E3 demonstration, concept art, production accounts and later footage are the closest the public came to Level 1313.
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What it left behind

Ideas associated with its underworld setting and bounty-hunter direction continued to echo through later Star Wars stories.

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Questions this archive answers

Why was Star Wars 1313 cancelled?

Development stopped after Disney acquired Lucasfilm and closed LucasArts’ internal game-development operation in 2013.

How far into development did Star Wars 1313 get?

A public gameplay demonstration without public access maps to 85.

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How we classified it

The game was demonstrated to media and at E3, but ordinary players never received a public build.

A public gameplay demonstration without public access maps to 85.

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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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