Star Wars™: KOTOR

YOUR CRASH COURSE

Create Your Character and Choose a Class

Start as a soldier, scout, or scoundrel — each with distinct skill proficiencies, feat progressions, and dialogue options. Character creation includes attribute allocation (strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence, wisdom, charisma) that permanently shapes combat viability and conversation checks throughout the entire campaign.

Navigate the D20 Combat System

Battles run on real-time-with-pause D&D rules. Each attack rolls a virtual d20 against enemy defense; Force powers check against saving throws. Queue up to four actions per character — flurry attacks, Force lightning, grenade throws, medpac heals — and watch the dice resolve. The auto-pause on enemy sight gives you time to plan without breaking flow.

Build Your Party and Their Relationships

Recruit up to nine companions — Jedi, smugglers, Mandalorians, assassin droids — each with personal questlines and moral alignments. Your choices during planetary missions shift their loyalty meters. Invest time in a companion's backstory and they become a Jedi; ignore them and they may betray you at a critical juncture.

Travel Across Iconic Star Wars Planets

Tatooine, Kashyyyk, Manaan, Korriban, and the Jedi enclave on Dantooine serve as hub worlds with main-quest arcs, side missions, and unique vendors. The game's structure is open enough that you can tackle planets in any order, with difficulty scaling loosely to your level and party composition.

Master the Force — Light, Dark, or Gray

Spend Force points on powers drawn from three tiers — buffs (speed, valor, armor), offensive abilities (lightning, choke, wave), and control (stasis, fear, insanity). Light-side powers cost less for light-aligned characters and vice versa, mechanically incentivizing moral consistency rather than cherry-picking the best abilities from both trees.