STAR WARS™ - X-Wing Special Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Against the overwhelming might of the Empire stands a small but growing Rebel Alliance. Scattered resistance groups are uniting and what is needed most now are Starfighter pilots. Will you join their struggle to end this tyranny and become a hero of the Rebellion?

STAR WARS™ - X-Wing Special Edition is a action, space sim and simulation game developed by Lucasfim and published by Lucasfim, LucasArts and Disney.
Released on April 28th 2015 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.

It has received 426 reviews of which 329 were positive and 97 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified STAR WARS™ - X-Wing Special Edition into these genres:

Action Space Sim Simulation Singleplayer Space Flight Classic 1990's Sci-fi Retro

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System requirements

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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)
DirectX: Version 7.0
Storage: 216 MB available space
Additional Notes: The Windows version of STAR WARS: X-Wing (1998) requires a controller or joystick. STAR WARS: X-Wing (1993) 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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March 2025

a nostalgic classic with blocky graphics that takes me right back to the early 90's! still a challenging game all these decades later

Jan. 2025

Still great. Plays buttery smooth, at any rez, and still is a blast. Mission design is fantastic -- shift power the engines, and get those tie bombers, or you're gonna lose. You'll need to mix it up a little, with the keyboard and the gamepad. There aren't really enough buttons. Not much of a problem, really -- think of it as a real X-Wing simulator, where not all the controls are on the stick itself. There are hardware wrapper mods available for playing in 640x480 (or higher) resolutions, and.. yeah it looks good, like an update from 1993 to like... 2004? Still a pretty good improvement, especially with the higher rez textures in the remaster. It's a hard game -- if you die during a mission, you'll either be rescued and get to try again, or be killed, or captured, and then your pilot career is over, then yeah -- you need to start again. Yup, you read that right -- step aside, Dark Souls, its Ironman mode for everyone, all the time. You could copy your save file, if you want to cheat death (even though that's pretty sad) -- they hadn't made such a thing impossible, at the time. Should you buy it? Yes, yes you should. Worth every penny, if you ever dreamed of flying a starfighter, and have even the slightest appreciation for the quality of older games' solid gameplay.

May 2024

I played this in the 90's, and playing it again all these years later is even better. Its so much fun, makes you feel like a starfighter for real. Remember to save a backup of your character manually to avoid being captured by the empire and losing all of your points. Do it after every mission, and also verify game files every time too or the game might crash.

May 2024

If you're even considering getting this game, then clearly you love nostalgia for nostalgia's sake, and I will not try to deter you from this game. So how does it actually play? First of all, if you want an exhilarating and realistic x-wing simulator, just go straight to either Star Wars: Squadrons or my preference, Star Wars: Battlefront 2. Both of those games do an incomparably superior job simulating the feeling of an X-wing in the Star Wars universe. They are both insanely fun, and look incredible. I played this game as a kid, and it was really difficult and slow then, but it was the coolest space sim game in existence. Now, it's still really difficult and slow, but is also really dated. That being said however, this is the game that popularized the Space Sim genre. You know what you're getting! So don't bother buying this game unless you specifically love the charm of early Star Wars games, or want to learn the history of Space Sim design. If what you want is the best X-Wing experience, go with the more recent Battlefront 2 or Squadrons.

May 2024

This game is very fun but it's hard for me because im stilll young

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9.75€

7.3

329

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Developer

Lucasfim

Publisher

Lucasfim, LucasArts, Disney

Release 28 Apr 2015

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