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Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster

Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster uses Nightdive Studio’s proprietary KEX engine, support up to 4K resolution at 120FPS, feature modern gamepad support, remastered cutscenes, and add trophies and achievements to…

79 28 February 2024

Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster is an adventure developed by Nightdive Studios, released 28 February 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

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What Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster is

Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster is an adventure game developed by Nightdive Studios and released in 2024. It was published by Lucas Arts. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on KEX.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Behind a veil of secrecy the evil Empire is creating a doomsday army - one that, if finished, will become the final cog in the Empire's arsenal of terror and domination. Your Mission? Join the Rebel Alliance's covert operations division, infiltrate the Empire, then battle every man and machine the Imperial Forces can muster. Search a vast galaxy for clues, attack enemy bases-all in a desperate attempt to stop the activation of this fearsome new weapon.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Star Wars series

Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster is the 314th of 334 entries we hold in the Star Wars series. The next entry was Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection in 2024. Its critic score of 79 is 8 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Angry Birds Star Wars II at 100.

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How it was received

Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster launched on 28 February 2024, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Balatro, Helldivers 2 and Pacific Drive. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Balatro, Helldivers 2, Pacific Drive.

Cheats and codes

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When did Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster come out?
Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster was released on 28 February 2024 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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