STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™

I cannot describe in words how much I love this game! It has great characters, great story, good mechanics and a wold that is engaging and absolutely brilliant.

having just purchased this game and started it up it was a bit hard to understand but after some clear understanding from the start of the game how this game works. and having now landed on the world taris and tryed out the controlls i can now see why people love this game soooo much the music and stuff is awsome as,and already iv been informed who bastala is and what taris is. honestly can see now why this games loved by people. have yet to see the rest of the game for myself.

Very good game, fun to play and has lightsabers. I love mystically hot sticks of impossible heat that somehow acts as a sword instead of a light

STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic is a poetic tale about corruption and redemption, entirely up to your play style and choices. This remarkable role playing game provides countless hours of replay-ability, all the while immersing you into its captivating universe. While very familiar to fans of the film franchise, this narrative takes place centuries before the events of The Phantom Menace, allowing it to tell its own tales without the risk of lore-breaking retcons to the films. Everything happens so long ago, that there's plenty of time for the Galaxy Far, Far Away to change toward the events of the Prequel Trilogy.

Continuing off of the mention of its story, SWKOTOR does an excellent job of world-building to immerse you into its setting. Each planet you visit throughout the game, and each settlement, has its own history that you can uncover. From the different species to the different factions, this game provides a plethora of rich lore, even as far as providing history that can be otherwise irrelevant to the plot itself. You truly feel as if you've stepped into this new world and are living it in real time. Granted, the plot does revolve around your custom character developing amnesia from the start, in order to explain why you are ignorant of everything in this universe, but for as cliche as that may sound, it pays off in the end with the plot twist this game has. It may not be as compelling of a story as its sequel, however it was the stepping stone for the sequel and its own story--at least in my own personal opinion--is far more charming in a light-heart'd manner. It's story is in the same comprehensive level as the Original Trilogy, whereas the world building is more akin to the Prequel Trilogy or even the Solo movie. That is to say, there are bits of lore that may remind you of the Prequels, or even the scenery in some worlds. Playing this game had actually gave me a new appreciation for the Prequels. If you've found yourself disconnected from Star Wars due to the current handling of the franchise, this game may reinvigorate that awe.

Besides the narrative and world-building, the game itself runs smoothly as a turn-based-combat RPG. It's a movement and combat style that players of Star Wars The Old Republic would be familiar with. I admit it was quite jarring to experience at first, as I had been used to the more fluid style of The Force Unleashed or even the LEGO Star Wars games, however once you get used to the turn-based-combat, the game is actually exciting and even challenging! It requires strategy to take on certain scenarios, especially since you can customize and upgrade your character and [collectible] allies--each who have their own personalities, mind you. Speaking of allies, there is an affinity system, providing even more branching paths and replay-ability. Being a Jedi, there is a fairly simple corruption system, which also impacts your allies. The more you follow the darker path, the more you gain access to darker and more powerful Force Abilities, but this is reflected in your character's face starting to go pale, darkness forming around the eyes, and a yellow tinge painting your irises. It's a nice touch, especially for those familiar with the Dark Side corruption as depicted in the films.

To reiterate a previous line above, this game revitalizes endearment for the Star Wars franchise. It's far more respectful to the source material, whilst remaining far more original, than the Sequel Trilogy of films, and tells a tale that most ages can enjoy! It's neither immature nor complex, and it's certainly not too grim for teenagers and young adults to enjoy. It is also a great introduction into the duology, allowing you to learn the story that would later lead to the events of the amazing, albeit far more mature sequel!

One of the best ever. Has everything a Starwars RPG could possibly have for its time. Wish 2 would have been completed, wish there was a 3. MMORPG version isent bad, I just wish for more of this too. I feel like these days are long, long gone however

The first time I played this game was way back in the early 2000s on the Xbox. While not all of it has aged gracefully, this is still a masterful RPG and a testament to the fact that Star Wars lore is so much better than the Star Wars films and shows we usually get. If you enjoy character pieces and sweeping story arcs, this might be for you. The gameplay is semi-turn based, and it adheres to the D&D rules mostly. Worth a try!

Chat this game was excellent. I love putting twileks in slavery and being super evil. Very good and re playable

Finally replayed this game since what has to be 2004-2005. Peak old school BioWare RPG, can really feel the inspiration of the original Mass Effect game while playing. Great writing, actual choices in dialogue, good combat. UI is definitely dated and the game can be a pain to play on newer hardware since it's so old, fullscreen bug is very annoying and tabs you out of cutscenes and can crash your game so make sure you save often. Other wise a must play experience for RPG and Star Wars fans.

A great Star Wars romp through space, also an excellent mix of dnd and scifi to really enjoy.

This is one of the few games out there that deserves the superlatives thrown around about it. Choice and actions matter, and what you do determines how things play out.

While the gameplay is a bit dated by today's standards, its still fun and deep if you can get into it.

20 years ago I borrowed a mostly busted Xbox from a best friend just to play KOTOR.
Every time the game had to load there was about a 25% chance the game would crash.
I just asked Grok to do the math and it said I probably had to restart ~100 times.
Which I definitely did because I'll never forget force lighting up Darth Malek back then!

One of the best RPGs ever made and one of the best Star Wars stories ever told.

This is the most frustrating game I've ever played and that's because it hates modern hardware.

First I booted the game and everything was stuck in 800x600 and I couldn't go to windowed mode. Okay cool, found out there's a patcher so I installed that and replaced my .exe and now I can play in 1920x1080 windowed, awesome!

Then I make my character, get into combat, and as soon as it ends I can't move my character. Do some searching, find out any framerate above 72FPS causes your traversal script to break. Okay, download rivatuner and set the FPS cap to 72FPS.

Awesome, seems to be going great, I play for 6 hours straight with no issues and beat Taris. Oh no, in the undercity there's black textures streaking across my screen and preventing progress. Okay, let's google, oh apparently having grass of all things enabled causes the bug. Disabled grass, all works fine.

Get to the Ebon Hawk. Pause and save my game, I'll play tomorrow.

Tomorrow comes, try loading my game from the main menu, every single save crashes on load. Search around, the only fix is to delete everything in the "currentgame" and "futuregame" folders, start a new game then load your game from the in-game pause menu. I do that, and it works, but now I have to do that every single time I play the game because the fix for disabling pause buffer and soft shadows doesn't work on it.

Now I'm on Kashyyyk and loading into exteriors crashes the game, look online, you need to run in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP2. Do that, works fine now. Waiting on the next inevitable issue.

And another issue cropped up a day later, I quicksaved and the game crashed at the same time, corrupting my quicksave entirely. Fortunately, I had a manual save from 20 mins before, but man that took the wind out of my sails.

Another thing that likes to happen is sometimes your ally and player AI breaks: you can start a fight, but your two companions stand still and are locked onto the enemies but wont do anything. You can solve this with quicksaving then quickloading, but it got me killed a few times.

I feel like I've worked 4 hours doing tech support just to play this thing but I loved this game. I beat it on the Xbox years ago but only remember the plot twist. Despite my headaches, I do recommend this game, but be prepared for some major headaches ironing out all the compatibility issues you'll face. Even if you're not a Star Wars fan, which I don't consider myself either, this game as an RPG is one of the best and you can see a lot of the DNA that carried over into Mass Effect. All in all, if we judged this game as a product of its time, it's easily a 10/10 and likely worked out of the box back then. Judging it by modern hardware standards, it's an 8/10 due to the tedium of getting everything to cooperate, but once it does, you get one of the best Star Wars games and RPGs ever made. I never felt restricted to one path, I played light at first, then I turned to the Dark Side on Korribaan but the game allowed me to redeem myself which I chose to do after Juhani gave me a speaking to. That kind of flexibility is absent in a lot of modern games, even BioWare's own. KotoR really lives up to its reputation of being one of the best games ever made. I hope Steam gives it the same treatment KotoR 2 got so it works better for future players.

Jolee Bindo is the best Star Wars character. Game is pretty solid overall.

Best story of ANY RPG ever!!! Best Combat style over anything except the Enigma Engine. KOTOR set the bar so high, it has never been surpassed, and we're talking 20 plus years ago now! I'm playig it all over again, and while I have the original disks, I bought it again on steam to preserve them. LOVE this game!!

Replaying this game for the first time in a long time, haven't played it since having it new for the Xbox when I was young. It was really good as far as the story and detail with writing, especially the lore of the sandpeople on Tatooine. I credit the dialog in this game for helping instill in my young brain the understanding of what is xenophobia and what is segregation, both themes on the first planet you visit. I learned a desire for non-violent solutions as well. This game does a good job of making bad choices really silly and undesirable to me, which adds to the humor of playing a dark side play through.

Spoilers and fun fact: I did not know until recently that Juhani was the first character in Star Wars to be written to identify as a non-cis character. That is pretty cool, but a bummer though that it had to be written deep into the story since Juhani is an optional party member where if you decide she is unredeemable, she can be killed and you would never know her backstory. I only found out because of my third play through when I was younger.

Classic turn-based game considered among the best of all Star Wars games - great writing, strong character backgrounds, and interesting quests. With mods, an even better experience!

Put it this way... KOTOR has been my favourite game since I was 8 in 2004... Imma always come back to this game til the day I die!!!

You should try it too :)

KOTOR did not age well - it doesn't like wide screen, it doesn't like resolutions of last two decades and it frequents with rendering errors on newer hardware, but slap enough patches, fixes and mods, and the game starts to shine once again. Gameplay-wise it is rather simplistic Bioware RPG, with combat powered by dnd-esque dice rolls, illusion of real-time and not particularly complex quest design. The good news are that the game is carried by its' story and cast, which while being trope-y, are worthwhile and possess this old storyteller magic our expectations of have been successfully subverted in the last decade.

It's so silly to give Darth Revan such a cool design only to relegate him to flashback cutscenes, what were they thinking???

A true classic, which contains possibly the most jaw-dropping plot twist in history. Or at least eleven year old me thought so.

Kotor 1 is like a wise old man with a very good story to tell, but gets dementia every time a cutscene loads as the game crashed a lot for me. One of the best story driven games I have ever played, If you can put up with the crashes, give this game a shot.

Still one of my favourite Star Wars games of all time. Flexible play style, great characters, amazing story, fun gameplay. Easy high recommendation.

*The* best Star Wars game of all time. Bioware's masterpiece. You get to be the "Luke Skywalker" of your own Star Wars journey, filled with fun gameplay, a top-tier story, and an amazing array of supporting characters that make the game come alive.

Bioware at it's best. I adore this game in every sense.

God I hope the remake ends up being good.

this game is awesome but i keeps on crashing if the game worked it would be a 10/10

I modded it for 12 hours and broke 8 saves, barely became a Jedi and began antagonising people. 10/10 immersive game that accurately depicts what it's like to fall to the dark side.

Amazing game that's held back by dated design philosophy and ancient programming that prevents it from being even remotely manageable to play on modern hardware without going through a ridiculous 100+ mod community playlist (Only an idiot would go through the KOTOR NeoCities Mod Build, perhaps an idiot like myself who thought this game stands up in 2025. It doesn't.).

Unfortunately, due to Electronic Arts being literal demons from Hell that destroy everything gamers love about their favorite hobby, we won't be seeing an official remaster of this and KOTOR 2 any time soon.

I love this game series, it's just a shame it was abandoned for the worthless The Old Republic MMO. I'm sorry, but thinking about playing this game is 100x more fun than actually playing it.

Very good WRPG overall. Likable characters, engaging plot, simple but satisfying gameplay, and good areas/quest design. It feels very much like a Star Wars story while still expanding things in its own original direction

Super fun and re-playable, very intriguing and in-depth story, with lots of great characters you quickly fall in love with, all voiced by exceptional voice actors. The turn-based action, and old clunky nature of the game may not appeal to the modern audience any more. But if you don’t mind these elements, you will love this one. And it is way, way better than the MMO.

One of the best video games I have ever played, if not the very best, even 20 years after playing it for the first time. Trust me, besides the graphics, which can be considered by many somewhat outdated, games like Baldur's Gate 3 have nothing on Knights of the Old Republic.

The game is very story driven with lots of choices to be made and places to explore. Also, the companions you come across are all quite unique, with their own character flaws and qualities which you can discover if you decide to chat with them along your journey. The combat is turn based, somewhat close to that used in D&D, since the math done behind the curtains that decide your success of an attack or skill check is made with rolling D20 against various DC (difficult classes) and leveling up also resembles that, but even so, you don't need to know those mechanics to have a good time fighting and progressing your own character, even though, truth be told, the combat is indeed the "weakest part" of the game if you can call it that.

In conclusion, this game is worth the 10$ and then some, you will not regret buying it after finishing the game, especially since it has quite a good replay value as there are quite a few scenarions that branch out along the way based on your actions.

this game need overhall. tried the differt os versions with no help to game launching. And this is on a I-7 machine..I would return it but this should be shelfed for now.

Pretty good combat, but the dialogue and writing can be reaaally outdated and cheesy. Specially the Sith. But it`s a fun time, so I recommend it

Literally the best game of all time and all platforms. It is so good that it's insane.

its an old game, and the graphics are "old school", but if you love SW and arent a FPS neckbeard, then this is a fine purchase on a steam sale. Steam deck friendly as well.

One of the best RPG games ever made that's driven with an amazing story and captivating character building and lore. Would love a remake of this game with modern gaming mechanics.

Amazing classic. The dialogue, especially if you decide to become evil, is so absolutely hilarious and ludicrous at times that I couldn't stop myself from laughing uncontrollably. Arguably the best rpg star wars game I'll ever have the pleasure of playing, aside from the second game, which is equally as ludicrous and hilarious! Gameplay rocks. The only downside is the buggy nature of both games, very frustrating sometimes but I got a clean playthrough for the most part.

Hours and hours of fun here, several different play though options to experience different things on multiple play through, what a great choice driven game look no further after decades I still play this, and PC is the best way to play.

It is old as dirt and extremely rough around the edges. You need to download a patch to make it run at modern resolutions. It will occasionally crash. The combat is clunky and slow. If you are willing to put up with these drawbacks, you will find a game that is absolutely still worth your time. The characters are nuanced and lovable, most have satisfying arcs. The story has some fantastic twists and keeps you interested all the way through, and the game does not overstay its welcome. The leveling and progression are a fun spin on a pen-and-paper RPG system. If you love star wars, play this game. If you don't really care about star wars but want to play a game made and written by BioWare at their peak, play this game. Then play the second one.

Nice story and hours of gameplay.

8/10
really good game just really rough around the edges and has not aged the best but still would recommend any bioware or star wars fan to play this!

I love this game. This is easily one of the best Story lines in the SW universe. I wish they would come out with the modern remake of it already.

Very good game. Well, it can be a bit buggy at times(mainly with your character not being able to move post-combat for a bit, but this can be solved by saving and then reloading), but for a game that is over twenty years old I can't say I didn't expect it. Of course, graphics also aren't up to standard, but that doesn't really matter.

Story is great. Won't spoil the twist, obviously, but I think it works very well. There are some weaker companions story wise (looking at you t3) but most of them are pretty good as well.

Gameplay is also fun, in my opinion. Most of the time, anyways.

Good stuff

Very good game. Though, might not work well on modern systems. Be weary of your character(s) locking place after battles.

Only beaten it once but found it thoroughly enjoyable. You can tell its old but its still a lot of fun to play through and build your character around the star wars universe.

8/10 game, understand it's the game you remember but it runs worse and you will be stuck in place unless your pc runs at 60x60 naturally. Worth when on sale.

So, im sure many would be surprised at the negative review but i honestly cant reccomend *this version* of KOTOR in good conscience, the game is good, alright if very simplified dnd combat, a fun story and a cast that while cliche is still fun to interact with, its a good rpg, far from the best but a good one that any rpg fan would reccomend.

The reason why i dont reccomend the game is because its absolutely borked on pc, at least in my experience.

-frequent crashes
-a memory leak that forces you to quit the game and relaunch every couple hours
-save file corruptions
-random issues like my characters not moving after the battle ends, forcing me to quicksave and quickload to regain movement

These type of issues were very common in my playthrough and they made the experience an absolute pain and soured my experience, an example is that while i was out in dantooine my game crashed every time i left the ruins but that was fixed by... loading the autosave? no other save files worked and i honestly dont know why it fixed itself.

I simply cant reccomend this version of KOTOR because even after installing bug fixes, patching the game to be playable at my monitors resolution (if you dont do this some cutscenes may crash your game) and many other fixes the game still crashed and the memory leak was never fixed, its too much of a hassle, play it on XBOX if you can.

Slow at the start but amazing none the less. Probably one of my favorite RPGs, though I haven't played it in a while (I put 60 hours into it on my phone cause, shockingly enough, there is a Mobile version).

classic game with classic/timeless gameplay and a great story. It still runs solid on modern hardware with minimal glitches. Still one of the best Star Wars video game experiences, especially if you like the "Old Republic" setting.

It's an oldie but a goodie. I would say that it is a great way to spend your time if you have limited internet. Though be warned that you can soft block yourself.

genuinely an amazing game overall. if you can, go in blind. but i will say that the final boss is absolutely horrible. on my playthrough i somehow specced into a character that was completely useless against him. all the guides said to use stuff i did not have and could not go back and grind for because to load an earlier save would be to redo the entire dungeon leading up to him. which, might i add, throws like a gazillion enemies at you almost as if it was created just to drain your resources right before the final battle. i literally had to use cheats to beat him because it would have otherwise been impossible.

so some tips i guess. DO NOT get stasis field or force whirlwind or anything that either has a save or inflicts status effects. at least not until you get the other things i'm about to mention. they're good against every enemy EXCEPT the final boss. what you want for powers is at least one level of lightsaber throw, force immunity, heal, and force aura. for feats you need to max out flurry, don't even bother with the other attacks like critical or power strike. then max out both toughness and conditioning. finally, once you enter the final dungeon there's no going back. you'll know what it is when it's available for travel. it's a space station. USE ALL YOUR CREDITS BEFOREHAND. you need a ton of life support kits and advanced med kits. adrenals too. also make sure you have a bunch of computer spikes because you need them to get armor in the final dungeon. you can't bring companions with you into the final two battles, but you should give them the same stuff.

overall i really enjoyed the game, i just wish the ending wasn't undercut by my character having literally no way to beat the final boss legit.