10 Best Star Wars Video Games

The greatest Star Wars games of all time (from a certain point of view).

by Ewan Paterson
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Star Wars is amazing. The films, the TV shows, the comics and novels - most of it is pretty fantastic. But you know what might be the best of all? Star Wars video games.

For decades now, different studios and publishers have been crafting immersive experiences in the galaxy far, far away, giving players a license to live out their Star Wars fantasies in a wide variety of different genres. So synonymous is Star Wars with the medium that it could feasibly lay a claim to being as much a beloved video game franchise as any IP that started out in gaming to begin with, and that comes down to the fact the vast majority of Star Wars games have been enjoyable to play.

Not every release has had fans dancing along to Yub Nub (literally, in the case of Kinect Star Wars), but something needs to be said about how effectively LucasArts managed to build one of the most beloved video game empires in history - at least until things came crashing down to a halt in the late 2000s.

Even then, EA have shown signs of continuing Star Wars' strong form in video games, with Star Wars Battlefront II making a solid turnaround in 2018, before Respawn's Jedi: Fallen Order and Motive's Squadrons released to positive reviews in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

But what are the best Star Wars games of all? Spanning several decades, console generations, genres and studios, it's a bit of a tricky task narrowing down the best ten. (Which is why I'm going to attempt to do exactly that now, obviously.)

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.