STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it at free.
- Length
- 79.2h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 75 GB of storage. Windows only.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is a free-to-play MMORPG that puts you at the center of your own story-driven saga. Play as a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, or one of many other iconic STAR WARS roles in the galaxy far, far away over three thousand years before the classic films.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Champions Online (free, scores 28) and Secret World Legends (free, scores 22) both come in lower.
It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 79.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 1357, 17 times as much.
Still 6.6K concurrent players, 6 years in.
It is still busy. 6.6K players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. Steam lists the aggressive monetization types on it: currency and loot box.
The drop-off
20% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
6,625 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
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STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1286830/star-wars-the-old-republicThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11.
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