Star Wars: TIE Fighter
Still the one people name when they say best Star Wars game ever made. You fly for the Empire, the missions branch on how well you actually fly, and the iMuse score reacts to the fight around you. Get it on GOG rather than Steam: that version includes the 1995 Collector’s Edition, with the voices and joystick support intact.
- Released
- 1994
- Developer
- Totally Games
- Genre
- Space combat
- Platforms
- DOSMacPC
Coverage (4)
TIE Fighter vs X-Wing: which is better, and which to play first
TIE Fighter is the better game, and if you only buy one, buy that. If you are going to play both, start with X-Wing. Story, flight model, difficulty, every version and which store has it, compared head to head.
Every Star Wars space combat game ranked, X-Wing to Squadrons
Thirteen starfighter games across thirty-three years, ranked on review scores, published sales and who is still flying. TIE Fighter first, Rogue Leader the best console entry, Squadrons the only modern one and already a ghost town. Plus which ones you can actually buy.
How to play TIE Fighter on a modern PC: three routes, and the free one is the best
TIE Fighter is ten dollars on Steam and GOG, but the version you get by default is the wrong one. Which of the three bundled builds to launch, why GOG beats Steam here, the joystick problem, and the free total conversion that turns it into a 2026 game.
The best Star Wars games of the 1990s, ranked by the numbers
Metacritic barely covers the decade and nobody counts its players. So we ranked the 1990s on documented sales, period awards, and what you can still buy.