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STAR WARS™: TIE Fighter Special Edition cover art

STAR WARS™: TIE Fighter Special Edition

Totally Games · LucasArts · 2015-04-28

SteamGOG

Action

Franchise: Star Wars · Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 28, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 28, 2014 (Mac), Oct 28, 2014 (Linux)

The Imperial Navy is called upon to eradicate the last of the rebellion and restore law and order. As an Imperial navy starfighter pilot, you will safeguard imperiled lives thoughout the galaxy. Join the Emperor's cause in eliminating the Rebel uprising as the Empire strikes back!

2
playing now
81%
positive of 643 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
29h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Star Wars: TIE Fighter is a space combat simulator published in 1994 for MS-DOS and Classic Mac OS as the follow-up to Star Wars: X-Wing. It places the player in the role of an Imperial starfighter pilot during events that occur between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

Health check

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  • · Top 41% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 16k–39k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 643 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.11 at AllYouPlay (2020-10-26) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 24 of 44 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.192015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $9.992016-05-27 — best price $9.992016-12-22 — best price $3.992017-06-02 — best price $9.992017-11-28 — best price $8.392018-05-03 — best price $2.992018-10-18 — best price $8.392019-05-09 — best price $9.992019-09-28 — best price $7.732020-01-15 — best price $8.212020-03-16 — best price $3.492020-09-28 — best price $9.992021-01-04 — best price $9.992021-07-30 — best price $8.762021-12-28 — best price $2.492022-04-01 — best price $8.162022-06-08 — best price $7.972022-08-14 — best price $1.852022-11-01 — best price $2.192023-01-20 — best price $3.492023-04-15 — best price $8.792023-06-23 — best price $2.092023-10-04 — best price $2.092023-12-13 — best price $3.492024-03-15 — best price $9.992024-05-08 — best price $8.892024-07-25 — best price $9.992024-09-30 — best price $6.292025-02-02 — best price $2.502025-06-18 — best price $3.492025-11-14 — best price $9.992026-04-30 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Player tags

Space1990'sActionFlightClassicSpace SimSimulationSingleplayer

Census log

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

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