How many people are playing STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995) right now?

1 people are playing STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995) on Steam right now, making it the 12278th most played game on Steam. In the last 24 hours it peaked at 3 players. The number updates every few minutes.

What is STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995)'s all-time peak player count?

STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995)'s highest concurrent player count on Steam is 281, reached in May 2014.

Is STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995) good? What do Steam reviews say?

88% of 3,103 Steam user reviews are positive (Very Positive).

How much does STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995) cost on Steam?

STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995) isn't currently sold on Steam.

Does STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995) work on Steam Deck?

STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995) is Playable on Steam Deck (with small issues), according to Valve's Steam Deck compatibility check.

STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995)

by LucasArts · published by LucasArts, Lucasfilm, Disney · Released Sep 16, 2009

Steam Deck PlayableLinux & Deck: Platinum

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Review score

88% positive

Very Positive3,103 reviews

Owners (est.)200K–500K

24h peak

Highest seen281

May 201412.5 years ago

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Steam Deck

Works, but may need extra effort. Results from Valve's own testing.

Steam Deck Playable

!Text input does not automatically invokes keyboard
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Mar 19, 2018, 11:22 PM UTC
Build 2293941the current build when we started tracking378 MB on Windows

Patch notes

Mar 19, 2018
PatchCompatibility Patch Update
Minor bug fixes and optimized performance, including support for the Macintosh.
Mar 19, 2018
PatchCompatibility Patch Update
Minor bug fixes and optimized performance, including support for the Macintosh.

Other news (18)

Apr 14, 2026
Disney yank a bunch of games from Steam, including bonafide classics Star Wars: Dark Forces, Outlaws and High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance
A bunch of older games linked to or published by Disney have just been delisted from Steam in one fell swoop, with the original 90s versions of Star Wars: Dark Forces and Outlaws among their number. These 15 make up the second round of Disney-related games to …
Jul 29, 2024
The circle is now complete: The developer of an open-source port of Dark Forces who consulted on the Nightdive Remaster is working on putting the remaster back in the source port
First reported by GamingOnLinux , we're getting a bit of retro FPS source port turducken courtesy of Force Engine creator luciusDXL. The developer's expertise on Dark Forces led him to consult with Nightdive on its Kex Engine remaster of the classic …
Mar 1, 2024
Star Wars: Dark Forces' box art showed a level that wasn't in the game: nearly 30 years later, we can finally play it thanks to the remaster
Nightdive Studios' quality remaster of Star Wars: Dark Forces is an excellent way to revisit Kyle Katarn's first adventure, a landmark FPS that would give rise to some of the best lightsaber action games ever. As pointed out by the Twitter account of…
Jan 26, 2024
Remastered classic Star Wars FPS gets official Steam Deck status
The long-awaited Star Wars Dark Forces remaster is due for release next month, but its Steam Deck status has already been confirmed. Full verification has been given by Valve, and it's great to see this news reported long before release, rather than leaving it…
Nov 13, 2023
Nightdive says Dark Forces has been 'difficult to change' because LucasArts created its own version of multi-threading years before it became popular
Star Wars: Dark Forces is the latest nineties' PC gaming classic to receive an overhaul from remastering maestros Nightdive Studios. But as this month's PC Gamer magazine reveals, LucasArts' shooter has proved unusually challenging from a techni…
Oct 24, 2023
Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster comes to Steam in February
Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster , the next big overhaul from Nightdive Studios, is set to arrive on Steam and consoles on February 28, 2024... Read more.
Aug 23, 2023
Beloved Star Wars game Dark Forces is back, nearly 30 years on
The Star Wars Dark Forces Remaster finally gives one of the best Star Wars games , albeit often one of the more underappreciated entries, the love it truly deserves. As the origin point for the beloved Jedi Knight series, Star Wars Dark Forces is a classic of …
Aug 23, 2023
Classic '90s shooter Star Wars: Dark Forces is getting the Nightdive remaster treatment
Star Wars: Dark Forces was the first big film tie-in first-person shooter, and it was hugely impressive upon release in 1995. It wasn't as fast and bloody as Doom but it was definitely Star Wars, and that's what mattered most. It captured the spirit …
Dec 19, 2022
After 3 years of work, modders have remastered the first Star Wars FPS
Star Wars: Dark Forces, the first Star Wars FPS and predecessor to the Jedi Knight series, has finally gotten the ZDoom treatment. Developers luciusDXL, winterheart, and gilmorem560 have released the 1.0 build of the Force Engine , an open source reverse engin…
Mar 18, 2019
Star Wars: Dark Forces is getting a fan remake from an Obsidian developer
A senior environment artist at Obsidian, Jason Lewis, is creating a fan remake of Star Wars: Dark Forces, which introduced the world to Kyle Katarn and the joys of shooting Stormtroopers in first-person back in 1995. So far, he's been able to make a recre…
Jan 18, 2019
Nightdive wants to talk to Disney about remastering Star Wars: Dark Forces
These are disappointingly barren times for Star Wars games: only two Battlefronts (and a mobile game) have been released since EA acquired the licence back in 2013. Earlier this week, too, it was rumoured that the company's open world project had been kil…
Dec 21, 2016
Four ways that Rogue One plays homage to Star Wars PC games
The following article contains plot details for Star Wars: Rogue One. This is a strange time to be a Star Wars fan, particularly if you were a devotee of the books, games and comics that sustained the series in the mid-1990s. When Disney axed the Expanded Univ…
Jul 12, 2016
Eight must-watch PC speedruns from Summer Games Done Quick
When you beat games quick, you tend to beat a lot of games. This year's Summer Games Done Quick speedrunners tore through dozens of PC games, and even if you had the stream on all week like we did, you probably missed some amazing runs. Below we've compiled a …
Feb 18, 2016
20 years later, Dark Forces and Jedi Knight are still great Star Wars games
More Star Wars! We love Star Wars. We write about Star Wars a lot. For a tour of every Star Wars game on PC, check out our  complete history . And for our favorites, check out  the best Star Wars games of all time . In the last months of 2015, Star W…
Dec 22, 2015
The 10 Best Star Wars PC Games
There’s no shortage of ‘best Star Wars games’ features across this nerdly old internet of ours, but the majority focus on console games which don’t often stray from the action/shooting category. On PC, we’ve had so much more varie…
Sep 2, 2015
Have You Played Star Wars: Dark Forces?
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Dark Forces was the first of the Star Wars FPS shooters and one I always felt was unfairly eclipsed by the (admittedly superior) Jedi Knight.…
May 13, 2015
The 50 Best FPS Ever Made
Gathering together the best shooters is no easy task, but if you’re looking for a new PC FPS to play, look no further. Your favourite game is at number 51. …
May 4, 2015
Why Star Wars Makes For Better Games Than Films
Star Wars started as cinema and ended up as something else – lots of things, from pillow cases to theme park rides. But chief among them, the form that best captures the core of Star Wars now, is games. The last Star Wars I enjoyed watching was released …

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