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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Review - IGN
Awards
Nominated: 13 nominations
- British Academy Games Award 2024: Animation, Audio Achievement, Music, Narrative, Performer in a Leading Role, Performer in a Supporting Role (for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor)
- D.I.C.E. Award 2024: Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition, Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design, Adventure Game of the Year (for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor)
- Steam Award 2023: Outstanding Story-Rich Game (for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor)
- The Game Awards 2023: Best Performance, Best Action/Adventure (for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor)
Main competitors
- God of War Ragnarök · Santa Monica Studio / Sony
Third-person narrative action adventure with close-quarters combat; Prima lists the pair as sharing an open-world versus linear balance.
Source - Horizon Forbidden West · Guerrilla Games / Sony
Open-world action adventure with a mix of melee and tools; frequent comparison point among 2022-23 narrative action games.
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At first I was afraid, I was petrified – I kept thinking "how could Respawn follow up on its outstanding Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order?" But then I spent so many nights playing the sequel finding out how they got it right and Cal Kestis grew strong, and I learned how to get along. And now we’re back, in outer space… okay, okay, don’t leave! I’ll stop. The point is that with vastly expanded combat options, bigger, more open maps, vastly more abilities to play with, and enough collectable stuff to fill a Correllian freighter, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is in many ways the Batman: Arkham City to Fallen Order’s Arkham Asylum. And much like the Arkham games did for Batman, nothing else convincingly captures playing as a Force user quite as well as this.
- Respawn's Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, sequel to Fallen Order set five years later with Cal Kestis, was originally slated for March 2023 and delayed six weeks to 28 April 2023[4][5]
- Respawn said the game was "content complete" after three years and the extra six weeks were for bug fixes to performance, stability and polish; announced 31 January 2023[4][5]
- It released 28 April 2023 on PS5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S, with PS4 and Xbox One versions following 17 September 2024[1][2][5]
- IGN's review calls it "a sequel that does virtually everything better than the original", likening it to Batman: Arkham City after Fallen Order's Arkham Asylum[1]
- The launch was rocky, especially on PC, and Respawn apologised and began patching[1][2]
- Reception was positive; it was nominated for Best Action/Adventure at The Game Awards 2023 and was EA's last release under its 10-year Lucasfilm exclusivity deal[2]
Notable features
- A third-person action-adventure game by Respawn with a Metroidvania-inspired structure split between lightsaber and Force combat, platforming and puzzle-solving, and a darker tone than Fallen Order[2]
- Gameplay adds five lightsaber stances (two equippable at once), grapple, air dash, bigger open maps and many collectibles; the story is called predictable but fun[1][2]
- Cal can wall-run, air-dash and double-jump, uses the Ascension cable as a grappling hook, and can ride mounts; some planets are linear levels while others are large spaces to explore freely[2]
- The droid BD-1 heals Cal and hacks hostile droids, AI-controlled companions assist in combat and traversal, and five difficulty modes are offered[2]