STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™

[h1] PERFORMANCE NOTE: [b] go to the properties tab for this game in your steam library, and under launch options, TYPE "-dx12" [/b] [/h1] this forces the game to run with dx12 and has fixed the stuttering issue for me ENTIRELY!! i can run this game with ray tracing and high graphics and it runs smooth as butter!!! i may edit this review later with more of my thoughts on the game, but before you refund it, PLEASE TRY THIS!! edit: for people asking about Koboh, stuttering is still non-existent, however the game does start to chug if i look out at the entire open world section. but my god that open section is huge and i'm playing on the highest graphics so, this is an issue present in every recent massive open world game

Gameplay worse than fallen order and includes a DRM to force online on a single player game. Just wait for them to shut off their servers and you won't be able to play your singleplayer game you PAID for.

Two years post-launch and this game still runs like garbage. The only way to get this game to properly run without being a stuttering mess is to treat your PC like a console when playing it: You can't have anything else running, it has to be in dedicated fullscreen mode, disable any background overlays like Steam/Discord/GameBar/etc., disable your second (and third) monitors if you have, set your primary monitor to 60hz regardless of VRR, etc. Even downloading the NexusMods that the guides tell you won't fully solve the performance issues with this port. Aaaaand even after doing all that work and giving the game an ideal scenario, it will still crash to desktop at the dumbest times. I really enjoyed Fallen Order and nearly 100% it on PC with no issues. I enjoy Survivor when it's working fine, but I feel like I'm going to need to finish this game on a PS5 just to get through the rest of the campaign without having to deal with the PC port issues. Fingers crossed the next and final game is optimized better, whenever it comes out. UPDATE: I roughed it out and continued just to complete the campaign. It took another +10 hours and doing the steps I listed above helped keep the game from stuttering and it looked like I had a solid 60fps, however I still had 5 crash-to-desktop situations. The game has some really epic moments, like climbing to the highest parts of Koboh and seeing the entire map beneath you, but it really sucks to be immersed, locked-in with the combat and traversal puzzles, then have the game crash and you need to do it all over again. I recommend playing the game, but just not on PC.

I picked this up on sale following a lot of positive reviews that have come some time after its initial poor release. Let me just say, I'm sure the gameplay, story, etc. are all fantastic, but none of that matters because of how absolutely terribly this game runs. Of the 7 hours I "played" this I would say at least 2 of those hours was spend tinkering with settings and googling ways to resolve the horrific stuttering. I'm by no means using the most up to date hardware, but everything I have meets and exceeds what was considered optimal when this game was released. Despite that, the game still micro-stutters every time you dare to step into a new area and often grids to a halt entirely, especially when transitioning to a cutscene. "Wow, look at the view", Cal sighs as he presumably looks over a fantastic vista. I wouldn't know, I'm still looking at his mid-climbing animation as a surprise attack comes out of nowhere and I get 3 or 4 frames of what the cutscene should have been before being thrust into jittery combat that often results in the enemies getting a few free hits in before I can do anything. I thought this was perhaps just new environments loading in being taxing on the game, but no, after respawning following a defeat on a boss maybe four times, the entire game decided to freeze. Tie that with the unbelievably sluggish loading after a death and it becomes increasingly frustrating (to the point that you go and write a review). I've tried the solutions recommended by others (launch in -dx12, lock to 60fps, etc.) and yes, it does stutter less than it did previously, but that just takes me from an unplayable game to an almost more frustrating level of inconsistency which seems to wait to present itself at the worst possible moments, ensuring that you die mid-freeze seconds before reaching your next save point. I'm also aware there are mods which supposedly make a difference, but I almost resent having to install them given that someone else has had to do the job of a multi-million dollar company handling one of the most popular IPs that exists! I was enjoying what I saw of the game so far (despite everything) and I was willing to press on, but it has just managed to whittle me down, eroding any good will or interest I had to continue. If you really want to play this, get it on console. At least we know they put effort into making sure that worked. Well done EA, you got my money for 4 hours of gameplay and a presumably a few hours off my life stressing about why nothing would fix the terrible performance. At least it was on sale.

Do yourself a favor and hold off on collecting all the things until you get a later game ability to access all the puzzle towers on the desert planet, and you’ll have saved yourselves about 30 hours hunting. I love the game. Good story, great combat, glitchy ai, and a ton of beautiful places to explore. However, it’s magnetic buggy platforming and freezing issues that keep me from giving it a 10/10. It’s a good sequel, builds onto what made the first so good, but maybe perhaps could use less collectibles and maybe possibly by chance one more decent sized world. Take what I say with a grain of salt though, I’m thugging it out 2 years after release with 24+ fps on a Steam Deck. Also the game being 130+ gb’s is crazy. I’m gonna give it a 7.65/10

After playing the first game i was excited for this one until i played it. first of all the combat system is clunky and annoying with dashes, blocks and parry just not working at all. also the game doesn't run very well and i found it quite laggy. note: whilst making this review the game crashed and then crashed again after.

This is the first game that I have ever played, that actively tries to not let you play the game. It is very good, don't get me wrong on that, but you just can't play it. It crashes every 10 minutes or so. And tbf I do have a well above average PC. So good luck if you try playing it.

I've waited a long time to play this game on PC, mainly because of the complaints about performance and bugs/glitches, but I have to say that throughout my playthrough, I've had very few issues with either of those problems. So I believe most of them have been fixed by now. Other than that, it improves upon or adds to the previous game, so if you liked the first one, you'll certainly enjoy this one as well. One little thing to note though: achievements only worked for me when launching the game through the EA platform. So if you're hunting for a plat, be sure to launch it through there to avoid missing out or locking yourself out of any.

as much as i enjoy this game i cannot recommend this to anyone due to insane performance issues i had to resort to 1080p high dlss balanced and frame gen and it still didnt achieve stable 60 on a 4070 i even tried lossless scaling 5x frame gen and it still dropped into the single digits i only get stable performance in bossfights even cutscenes have insane stutters the game crashed when i opened the map before you say hardware issue i have 32gb ddr5 r9 9800x3d and a 4070 i also suffered similar issues on a 4070s this shit is ridiculous even if you can get 60 you will see stutters bringing it down to 3 fps on ue4 btw

This is the worst optimization I have ever seen. I am running a 4080 Super that could literally not get past 7 FPS on a CUTSCENE. I would have more fun if I took the money I spent on this and set it on fire.

Jedi Survivor is a mess from start to finish. For a game that launched at a premium price, it felt more like a beta test than a full release. The performance is consistently bad throughout the entire game. Constant stuttering and frame drops ruin the flow and make it hard to stay engaged. The story takes a while to get going, and the early hours are slow and uninspired. Combat feels rough and repetitive until much later, and even then it only barely comes together. For a sequel, it somehow manages to feel like a step back from Jedi Fallen Order. Some of the late game moments are solid, and there are flashes of good design buried under the mess. But by the time anything interesting happens, you are already hours deep into frustration. It is a shame because the potential is there. The setting is rich, the characters have promise, but it is all dragged down by a game that feels unpolished and poorly optimized. Jedi Survivor should have launched in a polished and ready state. Instead, it is a technical disaster that never really recovers. Despite all its problems, I still enjoyed the game. Skip it or wait for a deep discount if you are curious. Hopefully the third game can finally deliver the experience this series deserves without all the problems.

Why on gods green earth...in this day and age.. do i need a friggen INTERNET CONNECTION... to play a single player only game...EA can rot. never seen a company fall so far and still exist.

A worse experience coming from Fallen Order. The story feels unfocused, the game tries to do too much to "tick boxes" on the feature checklist that every AAA game must have. Combat is a mess in any situation other than 1vs1. Did not have a good time with it. Performance issues are a known issue as well

Well, I can finally play Star Wars Jedi Survivor after acquiring a big new PC with a 5080 in it... and I even after 10 Hrs into this game, I can't recommend it. The Story up to know is interesting, the combat is still hecking fun like Fallen Order, but my god, the Performance of this game. I thought ARK: Survival Evolved was unoptimized but this game takes the crown in my library. I have a brand new GPU with new Windows (Unbloated via AtlasOS) and the newest GPU driver, why the heck do I get a black world when I leave Database entry? Why does the game randomly get smearing when I exit the meditation point? Why does the randomly force itself down to 30 or lower FPS? So many issues after almost TWO years of Updates and patches... (In the time of writing this we're on Patch 9) and yet it doesn't work. For a Triple A Studio, this is laughable and sad. Even with optimization mods, it does not fix it. Usually I get around 100 FPS on my 2K monitor, but it still feels laggy due to the FPS Response Time. I am 100% sure there is a beautiful game underneath all this performance crap, I will try to play it if I get the urge to, but until then I cannot recommend it.

I can't recommend this game if you have a AMD, the game for some reason crashes AMD Adrenalin and the pc flags it as a hardware error and no updating drivers is not a guarantee that the game will run, the error itself will happened when loading in game assets ao there is something worng with the backbone coding of the game that enters in conflict with the AMD drivers, if you have NVIDIA you may give it a try otherwise stay away from this game.

Awsome game, super fun, runs like shit, be ready to torubleshoot and download mods to make the game work

lost 15 hrs of progress because I never unlocked the confusion skill tree. Bugs ruined the game 1/10.

Game still has stuttering issues and i had about 3 crashes in 2 hours of gameplay even when game always runs above 90fps.

The game is really good but does not run well, it clearly wasn't and still isn't optimized for PC as of Jun 2025.

in 10 hours of playtime, i probably crashed more than 10 times and it tough when the last save point is meditation point. thus sometimes i have to replay again until the crash point. imagine doing it more than 10 times in 10 hours. imagine if u play 50 hours. Waste of time and money playing at desktop.

Game is good, but the EA launcher is actual fucking malware

Everything is good execpt the optizimzation of the game

60 minutes play time, 3 crashes. Game is still busted, even for $20 I wouldn't bother.

The game is now fixed, and in a pretty good performance state, I have a pretty ok rig so maybe i'm not the best to talk about performance, but thankfully i didn't let all the talk about the performance deter me from one of my favourite games from the star wars series, this one is just an amazing game expanding on what they built with fallen order. The Sekiro Inspiration is also my kinda jam. Parrying blaster shots, using my blaster to parry enemies, its just too good, super fun game loop with the metroid vania esque map too. I wasnt planning on doing all the things but I just felt so compelled to check out the map and pick up fashion stuff around. Super fun traversal. I needed my prince of persia climbing fix and this game gave me that in spades. If you're a clone wars fan you should absolutely play this series of games.

constant red and white flashing lights. nothing helps. great job

The game is launched using an EA App. Launching it through Steam is impossible. The EA App is terrible!! ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE!!!! Full of errors, and if the game crashes (which it will), you may get a 24 hours ban, saying you accessed the game from too many computers. This is specially true if you play using a cloud service. And be prepared to loose your progress constantly. The game crashes every time you do something. I'll never EVER again buy anything related to EA. It won multiple times times the "Worst Company in America" 'Award'.

Picked this up for a replay after playing it originally at release on PS5. Finally being able to max out the graphics with RT at 60 frames on an ultrawide, was insane. Only had one crash, with no game breaking bugs and no major performance issues.

Loved the story, game play but the optimization is horrible on PC had to restart the game multiple times due to high stuttering issues.

It just don't feel like Star Wars. Level design with focus on path itself which is okay, but the levels seem to be total unrealistic. The Jedi protagonist acts somehow like a jedi, but on the otherhand slaughters every storm trooper to death. The lightsaber seems to be not a real powerful weapon slicing through everything, but to be more like a butter knife. You hit your oponent thousands of times and finally in a cutscene he is hit by one strike and dead. It just don't feel like a star wars game.

this one’s a struggle. weird story that is find this and that to get to that. cool gameplay but for the love of god make sure you run it smoothly and pretty. otherwise it’s annoying to get through.

This game is fun and I have played and beaten it before on my PS5 however I do not recommend purchasing this for the PC. My rig more than meets the requirements and I have still been plagued with near constant stuttering and odd UI/HUD Ghosting which does not occur on any other game except this one (including Fallen Order). 5070TI 32 GB RAM AMD 7800X3D

An incredible game, plagued by poor optimisation. Don't want to talk about the story, because I definitely will spoil something by accident: all you need to hear is - it's really good, probably my favourite out of the video game adaptations of Star Wars :)! Doesn't look much (if at all) better than Fallen Order yet runs much worse (literally had to upgrade to a brand new PC to still play it with like 70-ish FPS in Open Locations, 120+ in more closed off ones, though. Performance with or without Ray Tracing (or actually most settings) seems to not change at all, which is quite weird (maybe there's something extremely borked, and honestly I'd assume so) Game crashed on me once randomly. Though not in an important place, so nothing was lost. The gameplay is an improvement over Fallen Order in almost every way, though by doing so the game has become more of an action game, a bit less so dark-soulsy let's say, especially so with the difficulty being a bit easier. While I played on the Jedi Knight difficulty in FO, I had to ramp it up to Master here. Combat feels snappy, feels great to use all the combat styles [spoiler]especially the blaster/saber hybrid :)[/spoiler] and bosses felt satisfying to defeat! Exploration and puzzles were nice too! Outside of that, the game could've been a really good contender for a GOTY when it released, but the horrid optimisation ruined it's chances. A shame really, since the game has been a really enjoyable time :D Hoping to see this trilogy, tetralogy or whatever it will become, continue on the right track, while fixing the short comings! I only recommend it to people with powerful enough computers to run it (basically with any CPUs from the last 2 generations and a RTX 5060 TI/RX 9060 XT+ at a minimum), since the game still has performance issues.

Ran on an 8GB VRAM 5700XT with a Ryzen 7 3700X. Looks like an N64 game, no matter what graphics settings were selected, nothing ever changed. Don't buy on PC and buy the console version instead. Refund was Requested.

Here is another adventure featuring Cal Kestis as he fights his way across the galaxy. The Dathomir Witch that accompanies Cal is a cool sidekick. The game play and game world are excellent like the game that preceded it. Overall it's a great Star Wars game that made a fine addition to my collection.

PROS: I really enjoyed the game. It felt way better than Fallen Order. The game worlds look amazing and don't feel so cramped like Fallen Order. Combat was pretty satisfying with the 5 weapon styles. Customization is fun where you can make a neato Lightsaber and change Cal's outfit and hair. I liked the Force Echos where you see an echo of the past. Getting to hidden areas and collecting equipment for outfits and lightsabers was fun. CONS: I wish they made force powers a more powerful way to fight. For example, being able to throw objects - boxes, poles, whatever - you can mainly only pull and throw enemies and there is no force choke like Vader does. And another thing, I really hate when games force alternating between two different evasion systems like in this one - Parry and dodge. 75% of the time you can parry which is very smooth, but sometimes enemies will do an attack that highlights them red and it can only be dodged. The attacks come fast and alternating between dodge and parry is awkward. Some of the fights felt as difficult as something out of Elden Ring. The game world looked beautiful but at a certain point all the platforming gameplay annoyed the hell out of me. I probably climbed and jumped across a 1000 wall running points, grates, pillars, ledges. The maps are like a maze. It's rare theres just a simple walkable path. You are always jumping, hanging, walking on a beam, wall running (only at designated spots). It almost breaks immersion. The game world starts looking like an American Ninja Warrior episode The story felt alright. I thought the hidden planet across the void idea seemed lame. I was mainly annoyed when Merrin came into the picture. I feel like she was intended to be a strong female protagonist to partner with Cal Kestis. Her backstory was neat but she ended up being a serious Mary Sue. She was cooler, wiser, more powerful, and honestly seemed more capable at everything. At times I felt like my character Cal was a sidekick. There was a pattern of Marrin subtly or even obviously putting Cal down. Her personality was grating. It feels like an empowerment thing but that doesn't require belittling others - (See Ahsoka in Clone Wars cartoon (2008)). The romance being forced annoyed me.

This game keeps crashing for me which completely ruins it. What's worse is since you have specific save points it means you have to constantly replay areas if you get a crash. I also noticed that the crashes conveniently start when you are already more than 2 hours into the game and it is passed the point where you can refund it.

This game requires a 3rd party launcher from EA to operate. This launcher worked at launch, but currently does not function at all, and will close the game after a few seconds of loading. I cannot get this game to run without it, no matter what I try. I love this game, but it is not playable on my machine.

Oh boy, 2,5hours in and already shuttering and a crash. Now gotta investigate how to tweak settings to minimalize/eliminate them, peak gaming experience.

Continuous CTD during a plot quest about midway through that has stopped me from progressing. Add that alongside really all over the place performance and an overall just fine at best game mean I'll probably never finish or come back to this.

Star Wars never interested me, didn't watch a single movie of the franchise and randomly decided to play this game, and look at me now a Star wars fan, watched all movies and tv series, and all bc of CAL KESTIS. Cameron Monaghan is amazing! And i don't care if some gamers don't like this game, this game is AMAZING. P.S. Now wasting money on star wars merchandise, i guess this is how marketing works.

Very immersive gameplay that does not simply have an avatar run around with a lightsaber, but it imposes on you to have the calm and focus needed to respond in combat with the correct stanced...parry...or counter-attack. The world building feels like you're in STAR WARS universe.

Story has some strong and some weak points, gameplay overall is fun until towards the end of the story when it feels mostly waves of enemies are used as filler between story boss battles. If that would have been all, it would have been a thumbs up but add to that the EA account requirement (plus a whole sh*tload of issues with linking EA and steam - non of which is Steams fault) as well as huge technical performance issues. Searching online I found tricks to get it playable but a fluid experience ist something else and that's not a hardware issue. I've seen the same reports by people with RTX 4090s. This is simply an incredibly bad port and it's clear EA does not intend to do anything. Even if you get it for a very low price, it's not worth the time you spend on it. Shame, I really enjoyed the first one.

I don’t enjoy this game for two simple reasons. First, it’s basically an endless parkour game — actual sword fighting makes up maybe 2% of the gameplay. Second, there’s no proper save system. If your computer shuts down unexpectedly (like during a Windows update), your progress isn’t guaranteed to be saved. You’d expect that after more than 20 years in the industry and publishing so many games, that EA would have figured this out by now — but apparently not. So I have wasted a whole Sunday. I enjoyed Star Wars Outlaws, but Surivor is the worst...I'm not gonna touch this game to know the ending.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor delivers an unmissable galactic journey, combining fluid lightsaber combat with satisfying Force abilities that make each encounter thrilling. Cal’s gripping story, paired with breathtaking worlds and an immersive soundtrack, draws you deeper into the fight against the Empire. Add clever puzzles, dynamic exploration, and unforgettable allies, and you get an adventure that feels immense, heartfelt, and utterly epic.

This game runs like dogshit, The devs and it been like that since launch and they dont seem to bother to fix it tbh The game is good tho I did like it

Overall a good game, has a few downsides but here is my oppinion: PROS: - visuals looks good, world is quite immersive - combat is great (copy/paste from last game) CONS: - the secondary characters are REALLY bad (big humanoid frogs and other weird stuff that look so bad and unrealistic that they completely ruin your imersiveness and just like Disney did to ruin this franchise - woke'd characters: can't find a decent male character, what you get is all types of female characters and a few males that you just can't like (except Greez, which was already in the game) - i don't like at all the way collectables are implemented. I am a completionist, and it is really annoying to search for that last collectables in a zone, just to see that it is not yet accessible and you have to get back who knows when. What you will end up doing is following a walkthrough and stick with that Overall grade: i give it a 6 or a 7

I played through the main story. I did some of the side missions and some of the base management. I really enjoyed this game. Sure there's a some bugs here and there but nothing that ruined the game for me. The story was well thought out and kept me engaged. I really enjoyed the fighting mechanics and the boss fights. I played on the default difficulty and I can say it was perfect for me, not too challenging but also not too easy. I would definitely recommend this game for any Star Wars fan and if you like fighting with a lightsaber! I can see myself coming back to this game for a New Game+ run for sure!

Im a Star Wars fan from the old movies not so much the Disney stuff...so i might be biased, but I enjoyed the game. I 100% it on Jedi Master (so i guess hard) and found it enjoyable. Its got collectibles, upgrades, different combat styles, force upgrades, puzzles, challenges, characters, planets, enemies, cameo's and so much to do. If you want to collect everything it can be a grind. Sometimes the jump puzzles can get annoying an buggy at times but over all good controls. I didnt want to spoil anything but overall I feel its a good game. Grab it if its on sale. Only really bad side is EA launcher or whatever. EA is ass....

Loved the game until it started crashing and its been crashing for 5 days now! I've sent in the reports but still waiting for a fix, this has almost turned me off the game. I will give it a couple of more days and then I'm moving on. Very disappointed.

ngl I work full time and go to school full time and still managed to find time to play this game. It's such a fun raw star wars experience. I cannot recommend this game more.