LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Deluxe Edition

I went in expecting a charming but shallow nostalgia trip and came out somewhere around hour fifteen still unlocking characters I had never heard of. The Skywalker Saga is a genre-blending action-adventure that condenses all nine mainline Star Wars films into a single package, and the sheer density of what TT Games crammed in here is genuinely staggering. The structural hook is real freedom: you can start with the prequel trilogy, jump straight to The Force Awakens, or go classic with A New Hope, and the game never forces a linear march through the timeline. Each of the nine films breaks into five story missions, with large open hub planets to roam between them. Combat got a serious overhaul compared to older LEGO entries. The camera shifted to an over-the-shoulder perspective, cover-based blaster shooting replaced the old top-down spray, and melee now runs on a combo system where enemies will actively block you if you keep mashing the same button. Jedi characters get Force throw to pick up and hurl objects or enemies, while non-Force users lean on third-person shooting with some light tactical cover play. Counter-attack windows flash over enemy heads with a visible prompt, which keeps fights readable without dumbing them down to one-button spam. Class-specific upgrade trees, funded by studs and kyber bricks, let you expand abilities like extended Jedi mind trick duration or bypassed hacking minigames for astromech droids. None of this rivals a dedicated action game, but for the LEGO series it represents a real leap. Space sections also make an appearance, letting you fly X-Wings and TIE fighters between planets, though reviewers broadly agreed that those sequences feel thinner than the ground combat. The weaknesses are consistent across critics and Steam players. The open hub worlds, while visually faithful to Tatooine, Coruscant, Naboo, and more than twenty other planets, can feel underpopulated once the main mission markers are cleared. Some individual story levels fly by quickly, and players who remember the longer campaign chapters from earlier LEGO Star Wars titles may feel short-changed per film. The climbing mechanic drew criticism for being clunky, the HUD gets cluttered, and the absence of character customization (a feature older games had) is a sore spot for longtime fans. One more gripe worth flagging: online co-op is absent; multiplayer is local split-screen only, though Steam Remote Play Together covers the gap if you need couch co-op over a distance. Where the game genuinely excels is in its humor and its affection for the source material. The writing lands jokes for both kids and adults without feeling forced, with voice work from film actors like Anthony Daniels and Billy Dee Williams alongside Clone Wars veterans James Arnold Taylor and Matt Lanter. Set-pieces from the Death Star trench run to the AT-AT assault on Hoth are lovingly reconstructed with slapstick twists that earn real laughs rather than just knowing winks. The Deluxe Edition adds DLC character packs covering spin-off films and series, which pads out an already enormous roster. If you are a Star Wars fan with even a passing tolerance for LEGO's accessible difficulty ceiling, the content-to-playtime ratio here is hard to argue with. Solo players and couch co-op pairs both have plenty to work through, and completionists chasing minikits, datacards, and the full character roster will be occupied for a long time.

Alex · Scout Team

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