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STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
Developer LucasArts
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II is a 1997 first-person shooter video game developed and published by LucasArts for Windows. It is the sequel to 1995's Star Wars: Dark Forces and the second installment in the Star Wars: Jedi Knight series. The story, set in the Star Wars expanded universe one year after the film Return of the Jedi, follows returning protagonist Kyle Katarn, a mercenary working for the New… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
184 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Sep 16, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
90
LovedLoved
162 positive · 19 negative
95% range 84–93%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 162 | 19 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
3 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
1,841 of 2,273 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 184 · most liked firstThe game doesn't work well unless you try a lot of workarounds. And even by applying the mentioned workarounds, it will not work as intended. The user is NOT supposed to patch a game, change its files or test options to make a game playable on modern PCs. I would do this if I bought it as an old CD/DVD or if I got it as an abandonware. The rule is, you buy, you play it. If it's not working, it shouldn't be sold.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Old. Rough. Foundational.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get your hands on this masterpiece before Disney decides to nuke it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →CONS: This game does NOT work AS IS (this is even the first ever game not to work on my PC... and I have plenty). PROS: using Jedi Knight Remastered HD Mods, you'lll have the perfect Jedi Knight game running from Steam <3 https://www.moddb.com/mods/jedi-knight-remastered/downloads/jedi-knight-remastered-30
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even more fun than Dark Forces 1. More good old old-school shooter Star Wars gameplay with the occasional lightsaber combat added in. The levels are not as maze-like this time around which is arguably for the better, and you can use some force powers. I HIGHLY recommend using the OpenJKDF2 source port for playing this, it makes the game work properly on modern PCs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ignore my play time. This is hands down the best star wars game I have played. Even better than Fallen Order and Survivor (Which are fantastic). A bit Jank, but it is from '97. But a 9/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is still canon, the rat lies.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →my therapist: you need to stop fixating on the Cunty Stormtrooper from STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith™, it isn't real and can't hurt you The Cunty Stormtrooper from STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith™:
unlabelledView post →Excellent sequel and improvement to Dark Forces I. Live action cinematics before all levels make this game feel like old star wars. Challenging battles/levels/puzzles having me spam quicksaves just to progress lol. Neat level design with larger and more linear maps. The Steam install was barely playable, but was fun to see the og textures. Wouldn't recommend a playthrough without installing OpenJKDF2 remastered mod pack.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →With mods it's amazing nostalgic paradise of a game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't get me wrong, it's good, I like the story and the actors for Kyle Katarn and Jan are great. But the game is in desperate need of a remaster. I didn't grow up with this game and beyond the first couple of levels this is more of a pain to play and really shows it's age. I like to play this in short bursts because I generally like old games, I preferred dark forces' gameplay but I would recommend outcast and academy over DF2 any day.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Needs a remaster with better support.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel bad for Kyle Katarn since he got decannonized by Disney, so I will give this game a thumbs up. Good game for its day but not really playable nowadays. After a recent replay I found the levels frustrating and boring. The first-person combat with the force and a lightsaber really works here. The live-action cutscenes still impress me: they are movie quality and better than much of the crap I saw in Episode VIII. And this game came out in 1997 which was TWO years before Episode I!…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please Nightdive, do your thing....
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is old. Don't play for the gameplay; don't play for the graphics. The story is decent. But if you're looking to reminisce on a game you grew up on, or want to experience Star Wars/gaming from the ancient world, this game is a good sample. What's fascinating about this game is that it came out before The Phantom Menace, so there are a few unique features of what Star Wars was like before the Prequels. One such example is that the term "Sith" didn't exist back when this game was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Game Bundle] Disney Classics Black Friday. $10: | Game Name | Steam Link | |----------------------------------------------------|------------| | LEGO® Star Wars™ - The Complete Saga | https://store.steampowered.com/app/32440/LEGO_Star_Wars__The_Complete_Saga/ | | LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean The Video Game | https://store.steampowered.com/app/311770/LEGO_Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_The_Video_Game | | LEGO® Indiana…
unlabelledView post →This is an amazing game that has aged like fine wine! Its better than the first game in every way possible! I had a blast with it! 8/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A classic, I played this as a kid and it still feels as amazing today as it did then.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good sequel to Dark Forces, and this time you gain force powers while advancing in the game. All this is really rudimentary though, limited by the primitive 3D engine, one of the first ones at the time. Still a nice story, with cheezy but faithful to Star Wars Lore and feel of the old movies, ironacally probably more so than the most recent movies of the saga. Despite its shortcoming in the jedi/sith fights mecanics, still a fun game to play. Recommanded, the game is not too long, which serves…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Remember the time when Star Wars was owned by LucasArts, and Star Wars didn't suck? This is a great game, with a good story and character cast. Kyle Katarn is the kind of classic male lead that "current day" Western AAA-companies SHOULD be having in their games, and that "normal" fans and players actually want. You know, NOT Concord, Forspoken, Redfall, Far Cry 6, Veilguard, SW Outlaws etc. Using Jedi Knight Remastered v3.0 is highly recommended. The upgraded visuals look like an official…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had some compatibility issues getting this to run on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04). I was able to easily get Jedi Knight to work by installing OpenJKDF2 via flatpack and following the instructions on https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.openjkdf2.OpenJKDF2. Note that OpenJKDF2 isn't the full game by itself, you'll still need to purchase a copy. Works easily with a steam install. Great classic game. My favorite part of Jedi Knight is what it added to the Star Wars lore.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game, and have way too much fun playing something like this. Beyond the fun of a nearly 30 year-old game, the level design is wild. Be prepared to go over every bit of the levels for secrets and fun for this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Star Wars classic
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Crashed a few times and corrupted my save a bunch too but it's all worth it. Basically Dark Forces but with light sabers and force powers. The level design is better this time and there's actually real bosses this time. Let's not forget the awesome cut scenes that were like the only real Star Wars media we had until the prequel trilogies. Haven't tried the mod for this game but it worked mostly fine right out of the box for me. Still an official remaster (hopefully fairly priced this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The fact that this game has some really cool lore and awesome concepts for the franchise that later got built up upon more makes me hate that this game also happens to have some of the worst gameplay I have ever seen in a Star Wars game. The Jerec boss battle alone has given me nightmares for years. Approach only if you're a really big Legends fan or just love Kyle Katarn in general.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Kyle Katarn looks like forsen
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is fixed at 480p resolution, and no display setting can be changed. I mean it is possible to choose different settings in game, but they literally don't do anything, so practically no display options can be changed. I'm not playing a game in 480p... Refunded.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun game. Not as tight as the first one, but an interesting continuation of the Kyle Katarn story nonetheless. There are some issues where you may soft-lock yourself, so save often so that you can backtrack if needed. The game was popular enough that you should've no problems findings guides if it comes to that. May need some patching to make music work on modern Windows and SteamOS, check pcgamingwiki, which also should reference some patches with improvements to the textures, sound, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A classic i wish id played sooner
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've always been a prequels fan since childhood, but something about this game really feels special to me, and it can't be nostalgia. First off, this is a definite improvement over the original Dark Forces (which was a Doom clone). Now it's 3D, you have a lightsaber and force powers, and the story is more personal. You do not need to play the first game at all to understand this one. The live action cutscenes are pretty cool and really give the game charm. This game really has the closest…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I first played this game back in 2002. It's a solid blast to the past, good action, solid puzzles, actions in your play style have consequences, real actors in cutscenes. It's a solid of a game now as it was 24 years ago...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This title bring back so many fond memories of early Star Wars titles. And Kyle Katarn is one of the great Jedi that deserve a resurgence. Amazing Star Wars FPS that hold up well as long as you can get the controls the way you like it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is probably older than the average Steam user, so obviously the graphics are dated, but it has some of the best level design for a first person shooter. The guns, lightsaber, and force powers are all fun to use. Overall, the game has aged incredibly well. And the story is really entertaining, especially since the cutscenes are live action. The actor playing Jerec deserves an award of some kind.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →still great. use OpenJKDF2.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unplayable for me, the graphics are completely glitched out. I'm sure i could fix it eventually with some mods or user-created fixes but I shouldn't have to do that to play a Disney-owned game on steam.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Star Wars, for me, is primarily a video game franchise. While I've seen some of the films, my fondest memories are tied to games like Knights of the Old Republic and Dark Forces. When I boot up Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, nostalgia hits hard with references to characters like Kyle Katarn and the infamous droid 8T88. But is it as good as I remember? I know the original Dark Forces is a classic, pioneering features like multi-floored levels and vertical movement, and it remains enjoyable even…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There Are only two good Kyle's in universe, one is Kyle Reese, and the other Kyle Katarn
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it doesn't work on new machines. great game though. one of my favorites as a kid. was hoping to play it again but controls do not work, and the when i change the resolution it black screens.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has always worked fine for me. I booted it up today and its broken. Mouse up turns right with high sensitivity, mouse right turns right with high sensitivity, mouse down turns right with high sensitivity, mouse left turns right with high sensitivity. I hate pc gaming.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was all about multiplayer on the Zone in the 90s, but finally decided to check out the campaign in 2025. Don't bother with playing the original game as is. It's barely functional on modern OS with widescreen and the graphics are incredibly dated. Grab the remastered mods which run the Opendf2jk (re-implementation of the game) and enjoy run and gunning in that classic level design with high resolution textures and bloom. https://www.moddb.com/mods/jedi-knight-remastered…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty much one of the most epic mercenary tales in the Star Wars era. Contains rougelike Jedi balancing on the light and dark side, evolving through Kyle's embrace of his emotions through out this awesome series. The story continues through Outcast and Academy which finally found a solid playstyle for the franchise aswell! I comeback to this game once a year to just as any SW fans watch A new hope everytime the SW feel is overwhelming.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →10/10 would be scared shi'less of yellow birds and probe droids again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Greatest game ever made. Multi-player on this back in the day was chefs kiss. Kyle Katarns story from Imperial scrub to mercenary to jedi to then let go of the force after falling for power then his quest to get it back. Better than anything disney could ever do.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →WARNING: The game was unplayable for me before I used the unofficial patch, you can configure it to keep the OG visuals, but with higher resolution and fps, which I did. I was not too big of a fan of Dark Forces 1, the level design was a bit too mazey for me (Lucas Arts fps special), but I might come back to it one day. Dark Forces 2 is a massive step up in rendering technology, and the gunplay was a bit more engaging, though I can't quite put my finger on why. While the levels can STILL…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was very fun at times but most of the time i spent on this game was begin lost in the many confusing levels but at least the unofficial remaster mod was good.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Coming straight here after my playthrough of Dark Forces, I can say this game is a pretty significant improvement, while yes there is still some weird level design, I really enjoyed the second game in the series! I know it says I only played for 6 minutes but I actually launched the game from the unofficial Jedi Knight Remaster, similarly to how I played Dark Forces. I appreciated the boss battles though most of them were won by just doing circles around them and swinging wildly with a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →JKDF2 brings moderate improvements compared to DF1. The story is more engaging, mostly because it has more cutscenes. The addition of lightsabers, Force powers, and more varied areas makes the gameplay more fun. However, just like in DF1, poor direction still occur, sometimes I got lost because I missed a key or didn't realize a button/door looked like part of the environment. If you're considering buying this game because people praise it as best Star Wars games in terms of gameplay, don't…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Old and fun. The rainbow colour glitch made me have my doubts there are good and bad parts of it: The Good The cheesy, live-action cutscenes genuinely feel like a 90s Star Wars fan film and add tremendous retro charm. Classic John Williams Score: The iconic soundtrack carries the atmosphere, even when the rest of the game falls flat. Quick save Lifeline: The ability to quick save at any second on a mouse button saves the experience from being completely unbearable. The Bad Ugly and Blocky:…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even though its an older star wars game i still enjoy it as i like outcast and accademy a lot. still slightly annoying mapping for the first time but still great as a defining star wars game. 8.5/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →6.5/10 This one is a mixed bag for me. It's super nostalgic, and just really reminds me of a better era for Star Wars. However, this game is riddled with small problems that really mount up after a while. It functions fine and runs well. But the archaic control-scheme, neglected controller support, strange map layouts, auto-aim, and terrible HUD really hinder this game's potential. It desperately needs a remaster with some quality of life improvements. Despite all this, it was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Solid game, bit random with the evil jedi story. Really felt out of place. It took away from the simple vibe the first one had.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game. This is the first game that really made me feel like I was actually in the Star Wars universe. I load it up and play a level nearly every week.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great old game, but... 4 levels in it started to crash repeatedly every time an explosion occurs near you in-game, no working solutions found after much internet searching. The only working strategy is to used ranged weapons well back from the foe, and where mines need to be passed use force speed so your well past them and receive little damage by the time they detonate, this problem occasionally crops up through the game but level 4 is by far the most problematic. This game (and all the Jedi…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The best in the Jedi Knight Collection
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played thiss game orignally start to finish on my old windows xp pc. I still havbe the disc. This runs really stablly on modern systems and is defo worth buying
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the game is fine but it needs the manual included
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"It was okay / I liked it." - 2.5 overall, with a round up to a 3 out of 5. When it comes to Dark Forces 2, I never played this 'back in the day', but wanted to check out the Kyle Katarn lore. While over the top cheesy, it was still fun and I enjoyed the experience. I know there is a lot of Kyle fans who really hype up how great he was. I don't have the nostalgia goggles on, no matter how hard I try I cannot compare to those who so passionately love this extremely old game. What I can…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →absolute cinema, this
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The level design of this game is good, in terms of how everything looks in a pretyt way, however, as it progresses, it gets more muddy and things become more maze-like about halfway through. I found myself less reliant on walkthroughs as I did on the first game, which was nice - until it got to this point, things got more complex. Also, there's too many keys to collect, which leads to confusion on certain levels, it's a cool classic feature of progression, but it becomes annoying. The Dark…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →massassi.net still exists and I LOOOOVE jumping into some old favourites with friends.
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