STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™

Over 20 years later and it's still a better game with better story than all the game releases in the last 20 years combined.

This game is absolutely fucking fantastic, but it absolutely cannot be recommended. throughout my playthrough I have probably had the game crash close to 100 times. all at very regular instances (go to a new zone? crash every single time you try) but with very easy fixes (just load the autosaves it makes during zone transfer). the worst I'd had to do was reload an earlier save a couple times. but oh my dear god, despite trying for about an hour, finishing the game was literally impossible. as soon as I finish the dialogue [spoiler] redeeming bastila [/spoiler] it crashed. I could list everything I tried but its not important. it's a fantastic game! it really really is. but if you can't even finish the thing based on some arcane whims of the fates themselves I just can't recommend it at all.

It's so brilliant, even if you are not particularly into Star Wars as long as you like Sci-Fi and Fantasy with epic stories within Action-RPG genre you cannot go wrong with this all-time gem! :) Instead of poorly written dialogues like in the latest BioWare game (Veilguard) this is where the writing is truly shining yet in BioWare games and YOUR every decision is truly having a meaning, impact in the game even in your dialogues and not just some silly, cringe fillers. You can actually ROLE-PLAY in this RPG and both in K1 and K2 you/we/the player can be truly evil, a real monster, badass Sith as much as we can be the coolest Jedi ever too! :)))

Hands down the greatest star wars game of all time and one of the best RPG games of all time. I loved everything about this game and I'm hoping the remake is still on the table I would love to see this game in a modernized version.

A timeless classic. Be sure to avoid mods and set compatibility mode for Windows XP Service Package 2. It's a little buggy but nothing that can't be fixed.

I love this game, so it's too bad Steam hasn't patched this to run on modern tech. I have an RTX 4070 GPU and i9 core CPU, yet when I boot this game it loads super zoomed in, and all the way on the bottom right of my screen. The weird thing is when I first played this game it worked fine and there were no issues with it. Don't know what happened. I paid full price for this game back in 2018, and it worked fine on my older laptops and PCs, don't know what the problem is with it and new tech.

I loved playing this game. It was such an amazing journey through the jank and file management. I loved the story so much and it delivered to everything I wanted form it and more. It's one of the best games I have ever played. Solid 10/10 even though it was difficult to play. The difficulty to play made it that much more meaningful.

Great story, engaging world, charming graphics, fun as hell. Unquestionably one of the greatest RPGs of all time. The gameplay and how you traverse the narrative still hold up! If you've never played KOTOR, it is a must play.

One of the best Star Wars games ever. Story is still great, RPG aspects are great, the only downside is gameplay but if you're OK with turn based combat you won't hate it. Just get a widescreen mod and KOTOR Community Patch and try it!

Star wars Kotor, is one of the best Star wars themed games you can find on the market, Even for its aged graphics and unfamiliar controls when you start playing, the longer you play the more it becomes second nature. and the inclusion of Darth Revan, Is something i personally believe some other star wars games should have tried to include within their own games, even as a cosmetic item or as an actual NPC you can interact with.

Great game,though it is stitched together by thoughts and prayer,if you wish to play it,know that you will have to learn to circumvent many bugs and glitches

The game that asserted Bioware as the master of modern RPGs. A gripping story, well written companions, interesting locations, and a perfect amount of depth within the gameplay. KOTOR is loved for a reason.

This game is FANTASTIC, the start isnt very appealing I will admit the combat seems weird but genuinely you start to enjoy it, the start of the game Taris feels boring and you are going to itch for a light saber, but going through the mission the game is enjoyable and the game is extremely engaging the story alone is worth it I highly recommend I went a few years after buying not playing the game because I got turned away by the dated combat system but recently after giving it a chance i have zero regrets

one of the greatest RPGS of all time. the star wars lore is just the topping on the cake. if you enjoy RPGs of any kind, this is a must play classic.

A classic in nearly every sense of the word. Has some janky parts as would be expected from a game from Bioware in this era but overall a great experience.

This is an Xbox game with no controller support, one. How is it that the original version released three years earlier had better resolution, graphics and controller support on xbox? While moving on a random part of the map, WASD will just completely die, leaving your character immobile. The only way to fix this is to save the game and reload the save. Easy fix, right? Try doing this every five minutes. You read that right, your player character becomes immobilized on average every 5-10 minutes. Playing on an RTX4060, and this game thats nearly 20 years old will CRASH MY COMPUTER. Why? Because GRASS is enabled under graphics settings. GRASS! At random points, the grass that supposedly exists beneath totally colonized cities with paved metal streets will glitch through textures and these long, streaking bleeding textures will borealis their way across the skyline, crashing your performance. This is a god awful monstrosity of a masterpiece I wish I could re-live from my childhood. My best advice is to save your money, buy an external controller and buy the iOS version on the mobile store, as it runs way smoother. The ONLY reason I went for the PC version is because on mobile, there is no console command or mods to give you the dark side Revan's Star Forge robes early on, which is my favorite look in the game. Two thumbs way the hell down. What the actual f**ck is this garbage?

It feels old now, a lick of paint in a remaster wouldn't go amiss but one of the best Star Wars games.

Ever since I played this game for the first time on my xbox 360, I've loved it, so i decided to buy it on pc and yet again I am reminded of how good of a game it is, a great story with interesting lore and characters, it is a great introduction into the old republic era of star wars and initially took me by surprise about how great it was, despite being seperate to all of the movies.

Played it as a kid when it was new, still holds up today! Its a bit simplistic, graphics ofc arent the greatest, its a little buggy, but other than that its still a really fun, satisfying Star Wars DND game.

An all time classic with a great story of redemption and forgiveness.

Great story, pretty good characters.

Great game, if you can get it to run correctly. I had to go to my local computer store and pay 20 dollars to get them to help me figure out the display settings on my pc to be able to run this game. There is no cloud storage, even though it says there is. If you have an old xbox you would be better off playing it on that. Great game though. The lore is great. The graphics is obviously something you have to get used to. Can't wait to play KOTOR 2

Well this is a fantastic game from my childhood. I love it but the game breaking bugs I've encountered means my 13 hours I put into my character are for nothing... I can't get off of the wookie planet lol. Great game held together with toothpicks sadly.

Great to revisit one of the top games ever! Includes the lost (on xbox) DLC. Runs great.

A lot of back tracking compared to kotor 2, combat a lot more buggier but still a great game. The story seems well finished and complete compared to kotor 2

Still one of the greatest Star Wars games of all time. I will say I noticed a bug that sometimes after combat you won't be able to move. You can actually just save and reload and it'll fix it.

If you like clunky 2000s gameplay and a fan of RPGs, then this game and its sequels are a must play. You don’t even need to watch the Star Wars movies to play. 👍

Only downside to this game is its old and therefore has a ton of issues that will require some fan patches or some other fiddling with PC settings. But once you get into the game its one of the best experiences you can have in a game. Story is top notch. The characters are amazing, the locations are amazing, and even the gameplay is fun. I'm not much of a turn based RPG player but I've played and finished both KOTOR games several times on multiple platforms. Some of the best games of all time

This is the biggest reason why I love Star Wars and although the sequel is definitely better in terms of writing they had a great foundation thanks to the many great creative choices that laid the groundwork for the era. I love that this game really respects your time and doesn't have an insane amount of padded content with quests being both varied and having multiple solutions and can be finished prettying quickly. Not having steamworks integration is an issue because it definitely needs to be modded or otherwise everything will look terrible in anything larger than 800 x 600.

STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ is an incredible game. So many emotions and memories. The only problem that this game has, is that in some areas it crash, but if you go to the options and disable the Grass the game operates normally.

I've tried playing this game a few times and am always hit by a bug that prevents my character from moving. I've tried on multiple machines and it still always happens. It's a shame because the game otherwise seems worth playing.

Amazing game to this day. Story line is fantastic and is always a classic!

First game of the only Star Wars CRPG genre. Play cheap enough you can buy this and the sequel and play them both. One of the best Star Wars game series.

This is an amazingly fun game, and I still enjoy playing it every so often. However, as fans of the game know, this game is pretty hard to get to work on Windows 10 and Windows 11, typically requiring a lot of fiddling with graphics settings, disabling movies, and sticking the game in windowed mode. These fixes also do not always solve the problem anymore. I do want to add a fix that's worked pretty well so far: DgVoodoo2 DgVoodoo2, by Dege, acts like an adapter for the graphics in older games, letting us play them on modern machines. I am including all the steps I followed, in the hopes that this will help someone else get this game to run properly. 1) Download DgVoodoo2 from dege.freeweb.hu (Yes, this is the right url) 2) Copy D3D8.dll, D3DImm.dll, and DDraw.dll from MS/x86 into your swkotor directory (the directory that contains swkotor.exe) 3) Copy dgVoodoo.conf and dgVoodooCpl.exe into your swkotor directory. 4) Run dgVoodooCpl.exe. (This is not a virus) 5) On the DirectX tab, set VRAM to 1024 MB, and enable "Force vSync" and "Fast video memory access" You should be able to enjoy the game! Review written 2025-06-10

If you haven't played this game, it is a MUST HAVE for those who like RPG style games. Will warn that it is a turn based system and may feel a little wonky when first starting but it is a great game. This is one of my favorite games and I played this when I was young so it has a lot of nastalgia for me. There is a second one as well, and it is a great game to play if you don't want to play TOR (The Old Republic) because it's an MMO. This is basically pre-TOR and explains a lot of things that you wouldn't otherwise know if you hadn't played it. This game is also moddabble, but I've had troubles modding it so it's your choice. At any rate, give this game a try! It's super fun and was a great game for its time.

One of the best games ever made. The first time I played KOTOR was 2005. I was in the fourth grade and nothing made sense. Eventually, around middle school, I was able to grasp some of the basics. While undoubtedly more competent now, the world building and writing of KOTOR remains as strong as ever. I have purchased this game three times in hard copy and once digitally. Anyone who wants to experience one of the best told Star Wars story in the franchise should pick this game up. Maybe brush up on your Dungeons & Dragons, too, while you're at it.

Despite being game from 2003, it still has it's charms and certain aspects of the story that I like and have nostalgia for.

Without this game Mass Effect may never have happened. And what a tragedy that would have been. Still my favorite Star Wars game despite having left my Star Wars phase after Revenge of the Sith. Still one of my favorite games period. Edit: After escaping The Leviathan and shooting down the fighters afterward, my game CTDs. Everytime. Tried loading a previous save, tried uninstalling a reinstalling. Tried adjusting various knobs and switches. Crash to Desktop. Then I realized I can get a physical copy of the original for 15 bucks. Love this game.

Recently got the game since its still not on console and the remake is taking forever. Kinda buggy but nothing that cant be fixed in 5 seconds. So far really good story and characters. Really cool to play a great star wars rpg. Wish Bioware still made good games like this. They haven't made a good game in almost 12 years, since inquisition. Unless you count the mass effect remake. Edit - Just finished the game, and it is easily one of the best games I have ever played. Need a remake of it real bad now. If this game was made today, with todays tech, I dont think people would stop meat riding it cause of how good it is.

This is and will always be one of the greatest games ever made. Everything about the game is not only enjoyable but it captures you in your soul and removes you from the problems we all face. The ONLY thing i can say about this that wasn't smooth is every cut scene that I viewed would not fit to my computer screen. I tried other resolutions but i couldn't get it to play as it should. It may be just my computer or monitor but I cannot say for sure.

Honestly if you aren't prepared to mod the ever loving fuck out of this game don't bother purchasing it lol it's truly an un-optimized DISASTER because it's not made to run on modern hardware. the mods you can add that make it a million times better will definitely make you glad you bought it though. I purchased it for like 2 bucks when it was on sale and I easily put a ton of hours into it because this was when Bio-ware was at it's prime. Just trust me on this if you want to play this game watch some YT videos on how to mod the game and what mods you actually NEED to make it run on your PC and that's all you need anything else is just complementary to tastes. Phenomenal game though and better than anything Lucas ever did with the IP which I know is a bold statement but I will stand on that firmly.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic – A Timeless Classic What can be said about KOTOR that hasn’t already been said? Not only is it arguably the greatest Star Wars game ever made, it also stands tall as one of the finest RPGs of its era. Set thousands of years before the films, Knights of the Old Republic gives you the freedom to shape your own path through a galaxy teetering on the edge of light and darkness. The storytelling is masterful, the characters unforgettable, and the plot twist....if you know, you know.....is still one of the most iconic moments in gaming history. I’ve played this game multiple times over the years, and while my current hours played (steam) might only show around 40+ as of writing this, most of my time with it was spent on the original Xbox If you’ve never played it, do yourself a favour and dive in. This is peak Star Wars. rich lore, moral choices that matter, epic lightsaber battles, and one of the most compelling characters ever created in the franchise. Whether you walk the path of a noble Jedi or fall to the Dark Side, KOTOR is a journey every Star Wars fan should take at least once.

the best rpg's of all time, best star wars games of all time and of course the best game of all time. it has one of the most immersive stories you've ever seen with an awesome twist that first time players likely never see coming. i remember playing this when it first came out and have loved it ever since.

This game feels really good to play for an older game. Definitely recommend it also for its story.

Don't sleep on KOTOR. This game will have you up all night for just "five more minutes" if you somehow missed this masterpiece on Xbox in the early 2000s pick it up NOW. No need to wait for a sale this time, its worth every penny. Runs great on steam deck after fiddling with controls a bit, but i did it well so no one else has to. Use my controller settings "Best KOTOR" and set the mouse look to enabled in game settings.

Every version I've played of this game crashes so frequently it eventually becomes unplayable. In the past decade I've played it on several different operating systems and it's just a thoroughly unstable game that gets moreso the further you get into the game. Such a disappointment. *** Up to 40 hours having navigated regular crashes and I've reached the planet where the Star Forge is located. Unfortunately, none of my saves work any longer. Just a brutally cruel conclusion if I fail to get this working again.

This game is literally the perfect star wars classic RPG the only game I would say is better is Jedi Survivor.

Not like I remembered, I get stuck and have to either load the save file, or not figured tab to companion to move about in the game. Mini game of shooting down fighters that chase you off Taris the screen goes black! Major fail for a remaster/reboot for steam use.

The best Star Wars game ever. With exception to that its old and has some bugs. But, the story line is amazing. Would highly suggest multiple save files when playing. Otherwise, great game!

Simply one of the all time greats. Way ahead of it's time, and still one of the best RPG gameplay you'll find