Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster release date set for February 2024

Classic first-person shooter is coming back

Marco Wutz | Oct 24, 2023

Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster release date set for February 2024 /

Developer Nightdive Studios has announced the Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster release date as February 28, 2024. That day will see the classic first-person shooter come to PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch – talk about making a game widely available!

Dark Forces originally came out on February 28, 1995, so it’s been a while for the Star Wars title and its protagonist Kyle Katarn, who went on to become a staple of the Star Wars universe and starred in several other video games and novels throughout the years. In Dark Forces, Kyle must stop the Galactic Empire’s Dark Trooper project that seeks to develop a series of powerful and lethal battle droids that could destroy the Rebel Alliance.

Kyle Katarn, Mon Mothma, and Admiral Ackbar in one of the refreshed cut scenes :: Nightdive Studios / Disney

You’ve read that right, fans of The Mandalorian on Disney+ – this is the original source of those badass droids Moff Gideon used in the second season of the show. Kyle Katarn may also have been one of the inspirations for Cassian Andor from the Disney+ show named after him as well as the Rogue One movie. Yeah, this is a Star Wars classic!

Nightdive’s remastered version of the title runs in resolutions up to 4K at 120FPS, features full gamepad support, improved textures, lighting, and rendering, and all fourteen original levels of the game.

Gameplay-wise you can expect a typical first-person shooter for the age, which includes some light puzzling alongside the shooting and brawling, for which you’ve got ten different weapons at your disposal. You’ll also find power-ups strewn throughout the levels to help you out with shields and new ammunition. Alright, it’s basically Doom. A boomer shooter, as we apparently call them now.

Thanks to GameSpot for scouting this one.

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Published Oct 24, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg