Games Like STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™

It is four thousand years before the Galactic Empire and hundreds of Jedi Knights have fallen in battle against the ruthless Sith. You are the last hope of the Jedi Order. Can you master the awesome power of the Force on your quest to save the Republic? Or will you fall to the lure of the dark side?

Why similar: Classic 21.4% ★, RPG 19.2%, Real-Time with Pause 15.5% ★, Sci-fi 9.4%, Party-Based RPG 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match by far, sharing the same Star Wars setting, party-based real-time-with-pause combat, companion dynamics, and light-or-dark choice structure.

Explore a stunning world, make complex moral choices, and engage in bone-crushing combat against massive and terrifying creatures. The Ultimate Edition includes Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening and all nine content packs.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21.7% ★, RPG 21.4%, Party-Based RPG 14.1%, Story Rich 10.7%, Classic 9.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the best spiritual successors to KOTOR II, with tactical pausable combat, memorable party members, and choices that heavily shape your journey.

The Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition includes single-player base content and over 40 DLC from the highly acclaimed Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3 games, including promo weapons, armors, and packs — remastered and optimized for 4K Ultra HD.

Why similar: RPG 19.8%, Story Rich 15.3%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Classic 13.4% ★, Choices Matter 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers BioWare's best blend of squad-based sci-fi roleplaying, morality choices, companion loyalty arcs, and galaxy-spanning storytelling.

Step into the role of an aspiring martial-arts master and follow the path of the open palm or the closed fist.

Why similar: RPG 31.1%, Classic 13.4% ★, Story Rich 12.9%, Party-Based RPG 12.7%, Third Person 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Built on the same classic BioWare formula, it offers alignment-driven choices, companion banter, and a story-focused RPG structure very similar to KOTOR II.

Experience a story-driven RPG where your choices mean all the difference in the world.

Why similar: RPG 33%, Real-Time with Pause 22.9% ★, Story Rich 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Party-Based RPG 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its morally complex writing, companion relationships, and choice-driven roleplaying make it a great fit for players who loved KOTOR II's darker tone.

Patch 5.0 - Turn-based mode and The Ultimate challenge out now! Pursue a rogue god over land and sea in the sequel to the multi-award-winning RPG Pillars of Eternity. Captain your ship on a dangerous voyage of discovery across the vast unexplored archipelago region of the Deadfire.

Why similar: RPG 29.9%, Party-Based RPG 20.1%, Real-Time with Pause 20.1% ★, Story Rich 9%, Character Customization 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes party management, rich dialogue, faction choices, and classic real-time-with-pause combat in a way KOTOR II fans usually appreciate.

STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is a free-to-play MMORPG that puts you at the center of your own story-driven saga. Play as a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, or one of many other iconic STAR WARS roles in the galaxy far, far away over three thousand years before the classic films.

Why similar: RPG 19.5%, Character Customization 15%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Story Rich 13.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Despite being an MMO, its class stories, companion system, and light-side/dark-side choices make it the nearest modern continuation of the KOTOR style and setting.

Made in a close partnership with Games Workshop, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a story-rich classical RPG from Owlcat Games, developers of the critically acclaimed game, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.

Why similar: RPG 18.5%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Story Rich 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Character Customization 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This party-based sci-fi RPG captures a similar feel of commanding a crew, making ideological choices, and navigating a grim, reactive universe.

Rediscover the beloved RPG classic— now enhanced for modern adventurers! Gather your party of heroes and continue the legendary adventure in this story-rich fantasy epic where every choice matters.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 32% ★, RPG 19.3%, Party-Based RPG 17%, Story Rich 10%, Choices Matter 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: As a foundational party-based story RPG, it shares KOTOR II's focus on companions, reactive quests, and strategic pause-based combat.

Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.

Why similar: RPG 31.4%, Real-Time with Pause 24.8% ★, Party-Based RPG 16%, Story Rich 11%, Classic 7.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its tactical party combat, companion writing, and lore-dense roleplaying strongly echo the classic RPG design KOTOR II came from.

Uncover secrets of past lives in this story-rich, tactical roleplaying game set in Sigil, a dark fantasy city at the heart of the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse. Explore the planes, survive combat alongside a party of bizarre companions, and solve puzzles unlike any ever seen in the genre.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 38.1% ★, RPG 26%, Story Rich 15.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Atmospheric 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: If KOTOR II's philosophical storytelling was your favorite part, this is one of the strongest narrative-heavy CRPGs ever made.

Embark on a journey to a realm overrun by demons in a new epic RPG from the creators of the critically acclaimed Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Explore the nature of good and evil, learn the true cost of power, and rise as a Mythic Hero capable of deeds beyond mortal expectations.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 24.3%, RPG 23.5%, Story Rich 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Character Customization 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep character building, major alignment-driven decisions, and a party-centric epic with a strong sense of consequence.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.

Why similar: RPG 34.5%, Story Rich 17.8%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Character Customization 15.4%, Turn-Based Combat 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its cinematic companion interactions and highly reactive choices capture the same sense of leading a party through a personal, branching RPG adventure.

Colony Ship is a turn-based, party-based role-playing game set aboard a generation ship launched to Proxima Centauri. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and branching dialogue trees.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 23.4%, RPG 18.3%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Story Rich 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong sci-fi CRPG match thanks to its tough choices, party systems, and emphasis on surviving through roleplaying rather than brute force alone.

Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.

Why similar: RPG 42.8%, Story Rich 15.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Sci-fi 7.7%, Party-Based RPG 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This leans heavily into dialogue, philosophy, and consequence-driven storytelling, which makes it especially appealing to fans of KOTOR II's writing.

The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.

Why similar: RPG 27%, Sci-fi 17.1%, Story Rich 15.1%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Space 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It brings Obsidian's signature choice-driven quest design, companion interactions, and sci-fi roleplaying into a first-person format.

Engage in a core roleplaying experience, and forge the destiny of a new world seeping with magic, and filled with riches, lost secrets, and fantastic creatures. With diplomacy, deception and force, become part of a living, evolving world - influence its course and shape your story.

Why similar: RPG 39.4%, Character Customization 15.5%, Story Rich 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Third Person 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It has a very BioWare-like structure with recruitable companions, diplomacy-heavy quests, and faction decisions that shape the story.

The story of Cal Kestis continues in STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™, a galaxy-spanning, third-person, action-adventure game.

Why similar: Sci-fi 23.6%, Story Rich 17.2%, RPG 12.3%, Space 11.3%, Third Person 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This expands the cinematic Jedi adventure formula with stronger character moments and a broader sense of Star Wars world-building.

Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!

Why similar: RPG 42.4%, Sci-fi 15.7%, Story Rich 14.2%, Turn-Based 12.7%, Moddable 6.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its tight crew-based storytelling, strong companions, and noir sci-fi tone make it a great pick for players who want a more tactical KOTOR-like narrative experience.

A galaxy-spanning adventure awaits in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a 3rd person action-adventure title from Respawn. An abandoned Padawan must complete his training, develop new powerful Force abilities, and master the art of the lightsaber - all while staying one step ahead of the Empire.

Why similar: RPG 23.1%, Sci-fi 22.4%, Story Rich 19.7%, Space 13.1%, Third Person 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks party RPG systems, but its single-player Jedi story, exploration, and focus on rebuilding after tragedy make it a strong Star Wars follow-up.

Fallout® 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed game that took RPG'ing out of the dungeons and into a dynamic, apocalyptic retro-future. It's been 80 long years since your ancestors trod across the wastelands.

Why similar: Classic 40.9% ★, RPG 28.6%, Sci-fi 7.8%, Story Rich 6.4%, Turn-Based Combat 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its old-school reactivity, player freedom, and morally flexible quest design align well with the roleplaying depth that makes KOTOR II memorable.

Return to the Forgotten Realms in this bestselling Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Combines all the content of Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition with all-new enhanced features. Includes 100+ hours of award-winning adventures and the tools to create your own!

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 34.5% ★, RPG 20.6%, Moddable 15.6% ★, Story Rich 9.4%, Character Customization 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the classic BioWare DNA of dialogue-heavy adventuring, alignment roleplay, and D&D-inspired progression, even if it is less party-focused.

The classic adventure returns! Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition includes the original Baldur’s Gate adventure, the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion, and all-new content including three new party members.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 29% ★, RPG 21.4%, Story Rich 15.4%, Party-Based RPG 15.3%, Character Customization 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its classic real-time-with-pause adventuring and companion-based questing make it a natural recommendation for anyone tracing KOTOR II's RPG lineage.

Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 21.3%, RPG 18.9%, Story Rich 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Character Customization 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers squad-based RPG combat, consequential decision-making, and a bleak tone that should appeal to fans of KOTOR II's harsher moral choices.

Each person you aid, each flower you crush, and each creature you slay will change this world forever. Fable: Who will you be?

Why similar: RPG 35.2%, Classic 27.3% ★, Choices Matter 8.6%, Story Rich 6.7%, Third Person 6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a lighter but still satisfying take on alignment-based roleplaying, character growth, and a personal hero journey shaped by player choices.

A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.

Why similar: RPG 30.3%, Sci-fi 17.7%, Turn-Based Combat 13.7%, Story Rich 10.9%, Choices Matter 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi CRPG offers faction choices, classic roleplaying systems, and a retro-styled party-driven structure close to old-school genre roots.

The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 25.5%, RPG 22.2%, Story Rich 15.2%, Moddable 12.3% ★, Character Customization 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: While more systemic and turn-based, it excels at companion-driven storytelling and player choice in ways that scratch a similar party RPG itch.

Determine the destiny of Rome as you conquer foreign lands and navigate political intrigue in this turn-based RPG. Directly fight with your party of Praetorians, guide your legion to victory, and choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. How will you shape the future of Rome?

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 34.6%, RPG 32%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Story Rich 7.7%, Turn-Based Combat 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its companion relationships, branching decisions, and tactical party progression make it a good fit if you want another story-led team RPG.

From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.

Why similar: RPG 62.5%, Turn-Based 17.9%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Adventure 3.8%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like KOTOR II, it emphasizes party composition, tough decisions, and roleplaying consequences over pure action spectacle.

Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.

Why similar: Classic 34% ★, Moddable 16.4% ★, Sci-fi 15.7%, RPG 8.3%, Character Customization 7.7%

The Technomancer is a sci-fi RPG that offers players plenty of dynamic combat action based on 4 skill trees dedicated to 3 combat styles and the destructive electrical powers of the Technomancers.

Why similar: RPG 40.8%, Sci-fi 23.9%, Third Person 9%, Choices Matter 5.1%, Story Rich 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its sci-fi setting, recruitable companions, faction choices, and AA-era BioWare feel make it a worthwhile lower-tier match for KOTOR II fans.

The Legacy of Star Wars Dark Forces™ and Star Wars® Jedi Knight lives on in the intense first-person action of Jedi Outcast.

Why similar: Classic 49.1% ★, Sci-fi 18.6%, Story Rich 8.2%, Third Person 6.4%, Moddable 4.3% ★

Join the rise of Darth Vader’s elite 501st Legion of Stormtroopers as you fight through an all new story-based saga where every action you take impacts the battlefront and, ultimately, the fate of the Star Wars galaxy.

Why similar: Classic 46% ★, Sci-fi 17.7%, Moddable 14% ★, Space 11%, Third Person 4.1%

A game that will show gamers the deepest, darkest side of the Force in a story that puts them on a collision course with Luke Skywalker himself.

Why similar: Sci-fi 28.9%, Story Rich 15.8%, Third Person 14%, Classic 10.8% ★, Singleplayer 6%

Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?

Why similar: Moddable 27.7% ★, Sci-fi 23.6%, Classic 22.6% ★, Space 16.8%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Experience the first-ever open world Star Wars™ game and explore distinct locations across the galaxy, both iconic and new. Risk it all as scoundrel Kay Vess, seeking freedom and the means to start a new life.

Why similar: RPG 18.2%, Sci-fi 18.1%, Story Rich 13.8%, Space 11%, Choices Matter 10.3%

The Star Wars® Saga continues with Star Wars®: The Force Unleashed™ II, the highly anticipated sequel to the fastest-selling Star Wars game ever created.

Why similar: Sci-fi 40.1%, Third Person 17.8%, Story Rich 9.3%, Action 7.9%, Singleplayer 7.7%

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.

Why similar: Classic 54.5% ★, Sci-fi 21.6%, Third Person 6.8%, Space 6.5%, Action 4%

You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

Why similar: Classic 47.7% ★, Sci-fi 25.5%, Space 8.6%, Singleplayer 4.6%, Great Soundtrack 4.4%

Fight the greatest battles in the STAR WARS universe any way you want to. The choice is yours.

Why similar: Classic 60% ★, Sci-fi 17.1%, Space 7.2%, Moddable 4.1% ★, Action 3.2%

Be the hero in the ultimate STAR WARS™ battle fantasy with STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II: Celebration Edition!

Why similar: Sci-fi 37.5%, Space 24.1%, Third Person 11.7%, Character Customization 10.8%, Singleplayer 7%

As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.

Why similar: RPG 24.7%, Sci-fi 20%, Real-Time with Pause 12.9% ★, Story Rich 12.7%, Space 7.4%

Lead the great armies of the Star Wars™ Episode II: Attack of the Clones saga in intense real-time strategy clashes. Enter the fray as the Galactic Empire, Rebel Alliance, Wookies, Trade Federation, Gungans or Royal Naboo to determine the course of the Galactic Civil War.

Why similar: Classic 64.3% ★, Sci-fi 24.6%, Singleplayer 5.3%, Action 4%, Great Soundtrack 1.9%

Bring In Your Bounty, Dead or Alive

Why similar: Sci-fi 37.7%, Classic 23.3% ★, Space 18.1%, Third Person 7.9%, Adventure 5.6%

Behind a veil of secrecy the evil Empire is creating a doomsday army - one that, if finished, will become the final cog in the Empire's arsenal of terror and domination. Your Mission? Join the Rebel Alliance's covert operations division, infiltrate the Empire.

Why similar: Classic 68.8% ★, Sci-fi 20.4%, Action 3.2%, Singleplayer 3%, Space 2%

It is five years after Kyle's victory over the seven dark Jedi. Invading Imperial forces advance upon a quiet Rebel outpost, interrupting Kyle's training of a brave new Jedi, Mara Jade. First introduced in Timothy Zahn's award-winning Star Wars novel, Heir to the Empire, Mara Jade blends her past experiences as a one time smuggler and...

Why similar: Classic 45% ★, Sci-fi 27.9%, Third Person 7.9%, Action 6.7%, Female Protagonist 6.2%

Are you prepared to lose everything to save the galaxy? You'll need to be, Commander Shepard. It's time to bring together your greatest allies and recruit the galaxy's fighting elite to continue the resistance against the invading Reapers.

Why similar: RPG 22.1%, Sci-fi 16.6%, Story Rich 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Space 10.2%

As Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance struggle to defeat Darth Vader and the Empire, a new threat arises. Dark Prince Xizor aspires to take Darth Vader's place at the Emperor's side. As Dash Rendar, it's up to you to protect Luke and help the Alliance. May the Force be with you!

Why similar: Classic 51.9% ★, Space 24.5%, Adventure 13.8%, Action 7.4%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Play through all nine Skywalker saga films in a game unlike any other. With over 300 playable characters, over 100 vehicles, and 23 planets to explore, a galaxy far, far away has never been more fun! *Includes classic Obi-Wan Kenobi playable character

Why similar: Sci-fi 29.5%, Space 21.3%, Story Rich 17.3%, Third Person 10%, Adventure 7.9%

Return to the Mass Effect universe & lead the first humans in Andromeda on a desperate search for our new home.

Why similar: RPG 22.3%, Sci-fi 20.9%, Character Customization 16.1%, Space 10.2%, Story Rich 8.6%

You are Hawke, a refugee seeking to escape the darkspawn-plagued land of Ferelden and become Champion of Kirkwall. Rise to power and fight epic battles while making decisions that determine the course of civilization.

Why similar: RPG 42.7%, Character Customization 11%, Story Rich 10.8%, Choices Matter 10%, Third Person 6.2%

Kick Some Brick in I through VI! Play through all six Star Wars movies in one videogame! Adding new characters, new levels, new features and for the first time ever, the chance to build and battle your way through a fun Star Wars galaxy on your PC!

Why similar: Classic 53.7% ★, Sci-fi 20.1%, Space 9.3%, Adventure 6.3%, Great Soundtrack 4.3%

Authentic Star Trek adventure from former members of Telltale Games. Engage in diplomacy, pilot shuttlecraft, and use your tricorder and phaser to overcome challenging puzzles and deadly threats. Tough decisions will impact relationships, your story, and the fate of the galaxy. What will YOU do?

Why similar: Sci-fi 20.5%, Story Rich 17%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Space 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.2%

It is a time of great upheaval. The first Death Star has been destroyed, marking a major victory for the Rebellion. But the Empire remains strong. As commander, you must choose to take control of either the Rebel Alliance or the Galactic Empire. Your goal: complete domination of the galaxy.

Why similar: Classic 63.5% ★, Sci-fi 24.8%, Space 8.3%, Singleplayer 3.4%

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.

Why similar: Classic 33.2% ★, RPG 28.1%, Moddable 16.6% ★, Story Rich 6.3%, Character Customization 4.3%

Two Engines. One Champion. No Limits.

Why similar: Classic 66.2% ★, Sci-fi 24.9%, Action 5.1%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Join three heroic starfighter pilots in harrowing deep space and planetary missions to save the planet of Naboo. Rookie Naboo pilot Rhys Dallows, mercenary Vana Sage and alien pirate Nym form an unlikely alliance as they join together against an unexpected assault on the peaceful planet.

Why similar: Sci-fi 43%, Space 38.1%, Action 12.3%, Singleplayer 6.6%