In the late ’90s BioWare had proven their ability to create a deep and engaging RPG using a popular license with the seminal Dungeons & Dragons-based Baldur’s Gate, putting them on the map in a big way. In 2003 they landed one of the biggest properties in the universe (or rather, the galaxy") with Star Wars and worked their special brand of RPG magic to produce Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, or KOTOR for short. To this day KOTOR still stands as one of the best Star Wars games ever made, and in the summer of 2013 it made its way to the iPad courtesy of Aspyr Media and turned out to be an incredibly great fit for a mobile device. At the end of 2013 an update hit making the game Universal and bringing the KOTOR experience to iPhone players as well.
As fans of KOTOR know though, BioWare tapped Obsidian Entertainment to create a sequel called Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords (or KOTOR 2 for the sake of everyone’s sanity) that released in December of 2004 and matched, and some would say exceeded, the high bar set by the original. With the mobile release of the first KOTOR doing so well, many folks figured that a KOTOR 2 mobile release was a shoo-in, myself included. In May of 2015 an ESRB listing mentioned a KOTOR 2 release from Aspyr that included Linux, Mac, and mobile.
However, while the Linux and Mac versions showed up in July of that year, a mobile version was nowhere to be found. Instead Aspyr asked fans to...