STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 94%Very Positive · 94%2012

$9.99

US Steam price, checked 6 h ago

The verdict

A dark, philosophical, superbly written Star Wars RPG with standout companions, but rushed, unfinished and buggy on modern PCs. Skip it if you dislike dated combat or tinkering with mods.

Great for

Story-driven RPG fans who love Star Wars, moral choices and memorable companions, and don't mind modding

Main risk

Post-combat movement freezes and crashes on modern PCs, plus an unfinished, rushed second half

What players love

One of the best Star Wars games and RPGs

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews

“Arguably the best RPG ever made and demonstrably the best Star Wars game ever made.”
Steam review · 251.1 h played ↗

“One of the best RPGs in the world and one of the best Star Wars games.”
Steam review · translated · 15.2 h played ↗

Exceptional writing and morally gray story

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews

“KOTOR II constantly challenges why you believe what you believe.”
Steam review · 82.2 h played ↗

“Does that change the fact that it has some of the best writing in video game history? No. Play this game.”
Steam review · 87.4 h played ↗

“KOTOR 2 asks uncomfortable questions.”
Steam review · translated · 41.6 h played ↗

Restored Content Mod makes it far better

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“Get the TSLRCM. That's all I will say.”
Steam review · 117.7 h played ↗

“Recommend you install the restored content mod as it restores all the deleted cutscenes and character arcs that were cut during the rushed production.”
Steam review · 262.1 h played ↗

Memorable companions, especially Kreia

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“She's manipulative, frustrating, intelligent and one of the most fascinating characters Star Wars has ever produced.”
Steam review · 82.2 h played ↗

“Companions are some of the best in Star Wars.”
Steam review · 87.5 h played ↗

Choices, replayability and build variety

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“Deep choices and consequences give this game massive replayability!”
Steam review · 251.1 h played ↗

“Great customization and build variety.”
Steam review · 75.1 h played ↗

What players complain about

Game-breaking bugs and broken quests

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“Once you complete Nar Shadaa, you quite literally cannot progress through the story.”
Steam review · 41 h played ↗

“too many bugs to progress through game without looking up how to get around bugs that block you from progressing through storyline”
Steam review · 24.8 h played ↗

Crashes and unstable on modern PCs and Steam Deck

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“This game does not work properly on modern hardware and will crash when entering Peragus Fuel Depot as T3 in the very beginning.”
Steam review · 84.3 h played ↗

“It crashes constantly and unpredictably.”
Steam review · 3.5 h played ↗

Character freezes after combat

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“After combat, around 80% of the time, the game will not allow the player to move.”
Steam review · 153.2 h played ↗

“Locking FPS and resolution to 60fps did not prevent character from "freezing" after every single combat.”
Steam review · 3.7 h played ↗

“Setting it above 59 fps means constantly hitting a bug where you can't walk.”
Steam review · translated · 0.8 h played ↗

Unfinished, rushed, with cut content

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“When this game was said to be rushed, they weren't joking.”
Steam review · 37.5 h played ↗

“A good chunk of the setups have half baked payoffs or none at all.”
Steam review · 50.2 h played ↗

Boring combat and empty, enemy-packed levels

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews

“Last part of the game is the worst offender, every room packed with enemies that are all the exact same as the room before with minimal variation.”
Steam review · 53 h played ↗

“In the second half you get huge empty locations with crowds of enemies that put you to sleep.”
Steam review · translated · 37.2 h played ↗

Slow, tedious prologue and early planets

Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews

“the prologue tutorial zone brings this game down by 10 points for me”
Steam review · 5.5 h played ↗

“how AWFUL the first 8-10 hours are”
Steam review · 160.6 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSWindows 7 or newer

ProcessorIntel Core i3 (2 Cores), AMD A10

Memory4GB RAM

Storage10 GB

OSWindows 7 or newer

ProcessorIntel Core i3 (2 Cores), AMD A10

Memory4GB RAM

Storage10 GB

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