
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is an exceptional Action/RPG that raises the bar for the genre.
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Verdict
91%
Steam
94
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Very Positive on Steam (91% positive from 33K reviews)
Critically acclaimed (94/100 critic average)
Compelling narrative and story
Rich open world to explore
No significant drawbacks reported
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by LucasArts. The first installment of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series, it was released for the Xbox on July 16, 2003 and Windows on November 19, 2003, and it was ported to Mac OS X, iOS, and Android by Aspyr. The game is also playable on the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X and Series S via backward compatibility. A Nintendo Switch version was released on November 11, 2021.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 1d ago
for steam deck, use proton experimental. masterpiece of a game.
First, I just want to say that this game requires A LOT of modding. If that is not something you are willing to do, I would personally buy a copy or emulate this game for Xbox and avoid this version. If you are willing to put in a decent amount of time, you can mod out many of the terrible bugs that are present in the Steam release (and you need to because there are hundreds) with the Community Patch (I recommend downloading most mods from Deadlystream), and you can improve it to make it the best looking version and restore content originally cut from the game. There are still tons of bugs (the movement bug after most instances of combat is my personal bane, even after applying the fixes to refresh rate, vsync and AMD Chill which reduce it somewhat), the map is so miniscule it is barely usable on a widescreen 4k TV (on that point, I recommend an enlarged text mod which increases text size from microscopic to barely legible), and the game will also crash often on save so make sure you have multiple saves and rely on autosave. It really is a chore to run this version of the game, but I still would recommend it if there is a steep Steam sale, and I feel like my $2 purchase was worth it for how great of a game this is.
It's a fun game and it's worth checking out if Steam is your only option, but don't play it on Steam. Even with a controller the experience feels extremely fragile like the mouse is just doing whatever it wants and the game is only half paying attention to your inputs. The console experience has always been much tighter.
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