STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™
Worth it · RPG · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 29h
- Value
- $0.34/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 32 MB with Hardware T&L, 3.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
It is four thousand years before the Galactic Empire and hundreds of Jedi Knights have fallen in battle against the ruthless Sith. You are the last hope of the Jedi Order. Can you master the awesome power of the Force on your quest to save the Republic? Or will you fall to the lure of the dark side?
What drives the score
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in January 2013. 64 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 65 percent off, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 9 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™ ($9.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Jade Empire™: Special Edition ($14.99, scores 33).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 2,989 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Players
424 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This is, and always will be, one of my favorite games. I've owned and played countless hours on every platform I can, PC, Phone, xbox, 360, xbox 1, etc. It never gets old. It is an absolute classic, and if you like Star Wars you need to have this game. Even if you don't like Star Wars, you should still get this game. KOTOR and KOTOR 2 are the GOAT's of Star Wars games.
The immersion is almost unbroken throughout the playthrough. Only some of the parts of Taris feel meandering. The setting and the story are what Star Wars was in the mind of the West End Games D6 player circa 1997. Truly a special game, exceeded by precious few story-telling experiences in media.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ scores 84/100 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/32370/star-wars-knights-of-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 Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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