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STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II cover art

STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II

LucasArts · 2009-09-16

SteamGOG

Action

Franchise: Star Wars · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: 1997 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II picks up where the award-winning Dark Forces™ game left off...with even more features and firepower in dazzling 3D graphics. As Kyle Katarn, you must acquire a lightsaber and learn the ways of the Force to become a Jedi Knight.

9
playing now
81%
positive of 2.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
83/100
IGDB user rating (108 ratings)
12h
to beat · rushed 7h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

9 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

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 Republic, who discovers his connection to the Force and "The Valley of the Jedi", an ancient source of power. With his father having been murdered years prior by the Dark Jedi Jerec and his followers over the Valley's location, Katarn embarks on a quest to confront his father's killers and find the Valley before they do.

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Estimated sales: 91k–181k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,267 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.55 at AllYouPlay (2020-10-26) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 25 of 45 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

1622026-08-06 22:00 — 9 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 7 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 8 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 10 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 7 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 12 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 14:00 — 9 players2026-08-10 22:00 — 10 players2026-08-11 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-11 14:00 — 8 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 7 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 6 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 11 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 8 players2026-08-22 03:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 9 players2026-08-24 18:00 — 15 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 7 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 9 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.51$0.552015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-12-02 — best price $2.392016-05-05 — best price $6.942016-12-20 — best price $5.992017-05-12 — best price $1.552017-08-21 — best price $6.162018-01-26 — best price $1.992018-05-02 — best price $2.392018-09-29 — best price $7.422019-04-24 — best price $2.482019-09-03 — best price $5.462020-01-08 — best price $2.092020-02-16 — best price $5.402020-10-03 — best price $5.272020-12-23 — best price $5.272021-06-24 — best price $2.092021-12-05 — best price $4.972022-02-24 — best price $1.412022-05-26 — best price $1.322022-08-01 — best price $4.782022-10-01 — best price $4.782023-01-03 — best price $5.992023-04-11 — best price $1.102023-06-18 — best price $4.782023-10-02 — best price $1.312023-12-05 — best price $1.242024-03-04 — best price $1.252024-05-01 — best price $1.492024-07-14 — best price $1.442024-09-23 — best price $4.792024-12-14 — best price $4.782025-03-13 — best price $1.102025-09-12 — best price $2.092025-11-14 — best price $5.992026-05-05 — best price $5.992026-07-09 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, Italian

Player tags

FMVFPSRetroSpace1990'sActionSci-fiClassicShooterAdventure

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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