STAR WARS™ X-Wing vs TIE Fighter - Balance of Power Campaigns™
Skip · Multiplayer · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 39, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 14.9h
- Value
- $0.67/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 309 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Real-time against real pilots; this is Star Wars space combat as it was meant to be! Featuring challenging real-time dogfights of 2 to 8 players, Star Wars™: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter is one of the most historically significant space combat simulators ever made.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (DirectX 9 recommended), 492 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 56 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 29 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Astro Colony ($9.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats STAR WARS™: Squadrons ($39.99, scores 14).
More about STAR WARS™ X-Wing vs TIE Fighter - Balance of Power Campaigns™
Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
STAR WARS: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter - Balance of Power Campaigns is one of the most important and ambitious space combat simulators ever released, combining tactical starfighter gameplay with large-scale multiplayer warfare inside the Star Wars universe. While earlier entries in the series focused heavily on cinematic single-player storytelling, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter originally shifted attention toward multiplayer...
1 more review
For the game to run PERFECTLY and at 60 frames per second on Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows 11 and in the future, Windows 12 Do this: Download xw_series_60FPS and xwing_ddraw_d3d11_1.5.14 and put the contents of each of these 2 folders (NOT the entire folder!) inside the XvT folder ... AND in the BalanceOfPower folder! And after that, DO NOT FORGET to Switch "3D Hardware ON" in the game's configuration menu! Once...
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STAR WARS™ X-Wing vs TIE Fighter - Balance of Power Campaigns™ scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/361690/star-wars-x-wing-vs-tie-fighter-balance-of-power-campaignsReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.