Best Star Wars Videogames of the Last 20 Years
Videogames based on movies often get a bad rap, but those based on the Star Wars universe have largely bucked the trend. Fans are spoiled for choice—there’s a wide selection of excellent titles across a number of genres. Here are the 25 best Star Wars games from the last two decades, as rated by the critics (and our unique Metascore).
Note: For the purposes of this list, we excluded Star Wars pinball titles and games with fewer than seven reviews. (And if a game was released on more than one platform, we included the version that received the largest number of reviews from critics.)
(#1) You begin this classic Star Wars RPG—set 4,000 years before the formation of the Empire—as a Jedi, but your decisions decide what side of the Force you will align with.
Electronic Gaming Monthly hails the game as being “like the movie we all hoped ‘Episode I’ would be—enthralling plot, marvelous visuals and voice acting, deep immersion in the galaxy’s many worlds, with all that noble Jedi malarkey lightened up by old-school ‘Episode 4’-style humor.”