STAR WARS™: TIE Fighter Special Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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The Imperial Navy is called upon to eradicate the last of the rebellion and restore law and order. As an Imperial navy starfighter pilot, you will safeguard imperiled lives thoughout the galaxy. Join the Emperor's cause in eliminating the Rebel uprising as the Empire strikes back!

STAR WARS™: TIE Fighter Special Edition is a action, space and space sim game developed by Totally Games and published by LucasArts, Lucasfilm and Disney.
Released on April 28th 2015 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.

It has received 597 reviews of which 485 were positive and 112 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified STAR WARS™: TIE Fighter Special Edition into these genres:

Action Space Space Sim Singleplayer Simulation Classic Flight

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows XP/Vista/7/8
Processor: 1.8 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (DirectX 9 recommended)
Storage: 406 MB available space
Additional Notes: The Windows version of STAR WARS: TIE Fighter (1998) requires a controller or joystick. STAR WARS: TIE Fighter (1994) can be played with a mouse and keyboard.

MacOS

OS: Mac 10.9+
Processor: 1.8GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 3D graphics card compatible with 256 MB VRAM

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Jan. 2025

Once considered the greatest Star Wars game of all-time. Possibly still is. Looks amazing with easy-to-find 3D hardware wrapper DLLs, and plays like butter, at any resolution. Looks, and plays, good in OG software mode as well, frankly -- although it seems more stable in hardware 3D mode with the wrapper DLLs. The game is hard. Tie Fighters are flimsy, and dying means starting over the entire campaign. Not joking -- hardcore mode is the only option, because Tie Fighter pilots are just that. That said, the game is worth playing again and again until you have a pilot who can survive an entire campaign, or all of them -- it is that good. Mission design is amazing. You cannot just sit in your comfort zone, and win -- you must use your fighter to it's fullest potential, in many missions. You must be good, and when you win, you will feel like you are an elite Tie Fighter pilot, because _you are one_. Puts modern games to shame, in many ways. Works good with a controller + keyboard (sounds complex, but hey, you're flying a starfighter, and it's not too bad), and if you have a flightstick, you are in starfighter heaven. You always wanted to fly for the Empire. You know its true. That Tie Fighter flyby sound is so satisfying, and blowing up those Rebel whiners... well that's fun too. Now is your chance.

Jan. 2025

The first time I played SW: TIE Fighter was when it was released in 1994. By then I was already a hardened veteran of SW: X-Wing and Wing Commander I and II. X-Wing and Wing Commander shall always be defining moments in the history of space flight simulators. But TIE Fighter was a noted improvement over anything I had played before. It defied my expectations and became one of my favourite space-based shoot-em-ups of all time. For better or worse, I obsessed over this game in my teenage years. Many a Friday night, while others my age were carousing at bush parties, I was happily nerding out in front of my IBM PC, blasting Rebel scum into oblivion. Time well spent or time well wasted? It doesn't matter - I loved every minute...except when pesky A-wings picked apart my Assault Gunboat! Now, 30 years later, I'm revisiting this classic. Despite the passage of time, it remains a legendary space combat simulation classic. The nostalgia is strong with this one.

Dec. 2024

I joined the Imperial Navy to drink ice cold blue milk and kick some Rebel ass, and I'm all out of blue milk. Long live the Empire!

July 2024

Classic of the genre. Today, with X-Wing ported to the Tie Fighter engine, the differences between the games are less obvious, but at the time of Tie's release, it was a big step forward. The graphics were improved, many ships were added, missions became more interesting (although some remained just as nerve-wracking). And, of course, the biggest change: you now play as the good guys instead of separatists. Plays well on Deck.

May 2024

I played endlessly this game back in the nineties, over a 386SX33 with a Soundblaster. Men, I feel old now.

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9.75€

7.7

485

112

Online players

Developer

Totally Games

Publisher

LucasArts, Lucasfilm, Disney

Release 28 Apr 2015

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