The first half of 2022 is shaping up to be one of the strongest first-halves to any year for gaming ever, headlined by major titles such as Elden Ring and Horizon: Forbidden West. One of the most anticipated games of 2022, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, is releasing very soon and is looking to be one of the most ambitious LEGO games ever made. Better yet, as is series tradition, the game promises a fully cooperative story mode. With the game close to release, here is a breakdown of how multiplayer works in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga was first announced during Xbox's E3 2019 press conference, where longtime LEGO game developer TT Games revealed that it would be adapting all nine of the main Star Wars movies into a new rebooted gameplay style for the LEGO series. This gameplay style mixes more complex 3D melee combat with third-person shooting elements bringing the series in line with other 3D platforming franchises.
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Multiplayer
Now, almost fifteen years after its release, six of the nine titles represented in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga offer what can be considered full remakes of LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga and its recreations of the first six Star Wars movies.
Much like LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, TT Games has confirmed that The Skywalker Saga will include full couch co-op from launch, with all nine entries in the series being playable from beginning to end in co-op multiplayer.
Unfortunately, like almost every entry in the series with a few exceptions, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will not include online co-op or a competitive online multiplayer mode.
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga was one of the few LEGO games to offer online multiplayer when it was released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It and LEGO Indiana Jones 2 remain the only two entries in the entire TT Games LEGO series to offer online co-op.
Steam players looking to play together do have one option to play together online with the service's built-in Remote Play Together functionality. This allows players joining in co-op to stream the game remotely and interacts with the game the same as if the players were playing couch co-op together. Hopefully, TT Games will add a true online co-op mode post-launch.
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will release on Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on April 5th, 2022.