[2] Characters in the game will include Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Kylo Ren.

[3] The game features real-time strategy and tower defense mechanics, where players deploy units onto a battlefield to attack the opponent's base while defending their own.

[5] Players create decks from their card collection to develop their strategies, balancing offensive and defensive capabilities.

[11] After beta testing for almost two years, in May 2021, players received an in-game message that Lego Star Wars Battles would be shutting down, and was done so on July 1, 2021.

Tom Phillips for Eurogamer stated that "Screenshots of the game's new Apple Arcade version show it looking the same as ever, although presumably the ability to make in-game purchases has now been stripped out.