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STAR WARS™ X-Wing vs TIE Fighter - Balance of Power Campaigns™ cover art

STAR WARS™ X-Wing vs TIE Fighter - Balance of Power Campaigns™

Totally Games · LucasArts · 2015-04-28

Steam

ActionSimulation

Franchise: Star Wars · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Apr 30, 1997 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Real-time against real pilots; this is Star Wars space combat as it was meant to be! Featuring challenging real-time dogfights of 2 to 8 players, Star Wars™: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter is one of the most historically significant space combat simulators ever made.

0
playing now
76%
positive of 307 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 53% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.7k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 307 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.11 at AllYouPlay (2020-10-26) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 24 of 43 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

502026-08-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.26$1.112015-01-212026-07-092015-01-21 — best price $9.992016-06-07 — best price $10.152016-12-22 — best price $3.992017-06-06 — best price $3.992018-01-26 — best price $2.992018-06-19 — best price $9.992018-12-21 — best price $2.492019-08-12 — best price $7.592019-12-11 — best price $3.492020-02-06 — best price $8.092020-06-23 — best price $8.792020-11-25 — best price $3.492021-05-03 — best price $2.182021-11-24 — best price $2.222022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-05-05 — best price $9.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-09-29 — best price $3.492023-01-03 — best price $9.992023-04-10 — best price $2.502023-06-18 — best price $7.972023-09-13 — best price $8.992023-12-04 — best price $2.092024-02-19 — best price $6.472024-04-27 — best price $2.402024-07-13 — best price $1.992024-09-20 — best price $2.042024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-02-26 — best price $3.492025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-11-05 — best price $9.992026-02-03 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

Player tags

SpaceActionFlightSci-fiClassicSpace SimSimulationMultiplayer

Census log

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

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