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Star Wars: Dark Forces
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TheForceEngine

Brings back Star Wars: Dark Forces · By TheForceEngine

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Ways to play

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    How to play
    1. It plays Star Wars: Dark Forces from your own purchased copy of the original game, which it does not provide; its documentation says how to buy one legally.
    2. Outlaws is not playable yet: its support is planned for version 2.0.
    3. On Windows, download its release package from the downloads page of its website: it holds the program and everything it needs but the game.
    4. On most Linux systems, install it as a Flatpak from Flathub; on the Steam Deck, in desktop mode, through KDE's Discover.
    5. Mods go in its Mods folder, as zip files or folders.
    6. Its menus need a mouse or a touchscreen for now.
    7. For the feel of DOS, play in 320x200, set the mouse to menus only or horizontal in the input menu, and turn on the classic software renderer.
    8. It needs OpenGL 3.3, on 64-bit Windows 7, a modern Linux or macOS.

    Written by recomp.gg from its README, read Oct 12, 2026.

Details

What
The studio released the code; this port carries it to today's systems.
Code
github.com/TheForceEngine/TheForceEngine1.2K stars on its repositoryLast updated Oct 12, 2026
License
GPL-2.0
Release
v1.22.420, Sep 10, 2025

Its game

News

All news
  1. Hacker NewsPost · Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026The Force Engine: Modern "Jedi Engine" Replacement Supporting Dark Forces, Mods
  2. Release · Sep 10, 2025v1.22.420
  3. Release · Sep 9, 2025v1.22.410, and 1 more that day
  4. Release · Mar 30, 2025v1.22.300

From recomp.gg's How to play, read Oct 13, 2026, SubmitGame's list, read Oct 16, 2026, SubmitGame's list, read Oct 11, 2026, the GitHub API, read Oct 19, 2026 and the GitHub API, read Oct 11, 2026. Where How to play names the page it was written from, recomp.gg wrote the steps from it; elsewhere they are the ones every way of its kind shares, and the project's repository or site has the rest.