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Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition vs STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition is an open-world RPG game from BioWare (2010) while STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic is an open-world RPG game from BioWare (2009).

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition

2010 · BioWare

7.9GamingPickz Score

$29.99

Steam: Very Positive

STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic

2009 · BioWare

7.9GamingPickz Score

$9.99

Steam: Very Positive

What each one is

Steam files Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition under Open-World and RPG. In contrast, it files STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic under Open-World and RPG.

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition

Explore a stunning world, make complex moral choices, and engage in bone-crushing combat against massive and terrifying creatures. The Ultimate Edition includes Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening and all nine content packs.

Description from its Steam store page

STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic

It is four thousand years before the Galactic Empire and hundreds of Jedi Knights have fallen in battle against the ruthless Sith. You are the last hope of the Jedi Order. Can you master the awesome power of the Force on your quest to save the Republic? Or will you fall to the lure of the dark side?

Description from its Steam store page

At a glance

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate EditionSTAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic
GamingPickz Score7.9/107.9/10
Steam ratingVery Positive (86%, 31,317)Very Positive (91%, 33,917)
Critic aggregate91/100No aggregate
Price$29.99$9.99
Install size
Steam Deckunsupportedplayable
Released20102009
DeveloperBioWareBioWare

Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition vs STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic, point by point

Each facet side by side. A round is marked won only where a figure settles it; feel and "which is better" carry no mark, because no number we hold decides them.

  1. Genre and premise

    Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate EditionOpen-world RPG game
    STAR WARS Knights of the Old RepublicOpen-world RPG game

    What each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.

  2. How it plays

    Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate EditionRPG, Fantasy, Story Rich
    STAR WARS Knights of the Old RepublicRPG, Sci-fi, Story Rich

    The tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.

  3. Reception

    Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate EditionScore 7.9 · 86% on Steam · 91 critic
    STAR WARS Knights of the Old RepublicScore 7.9 · 91% on Steam

    The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.

  4. Content and scale

    Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition31,317 reviews
    STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic33,917 reviews

    Reach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.

  5. Price

    Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition$29.99
    STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic$9.99

    Read live from Steam and subject to change.

  6. On a Steam Deck

    Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate EditionUnsupported
    STAR WARS Knights of the Old RepublicPlayable

    Valve's own Deck compatibility rating.

STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic takes 2 of the marked rounds to 0. That is only what a number can decide, not which you will enjoy more.

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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.

Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.

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Which to pick, by what you want

  • The cheaper right now: STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic ($9.99)
  • Better on a Steam Deck: STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic (playable)

What they have in common

Both are tagged by Steam players with:

RPGFantasyStory RichChoices MatterSingleplayerParty-Based RPGReal-Time with PauseAdventure

Where they differ

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition is also

Character CustomizationMatureMultiple EndingsWell-WrittenDark FantasyStrategy

STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic is also

Sci-fiThird PersonActionSpaceExplorationAtmospheric

Tags players apply to one game and not the other.

Difficulty and who each is for

By the tags players apply, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition is middle-of-the-road on difficulty. STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic is middle-of-the-road on difficulty.

System requirements, side by side

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate EditionSTAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic
Minimum GPU32 MB with Hardware T&L
Minimum CPUIntel Pentium 3 1Ghz
Minimum RAM
Install size

Can your PC run them? Check each against your own kit: Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition · STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic.

Accessibility features

Steam store pages declare 0 accessibility features for Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition and 0 for STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

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Common questions

How different are Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition and STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic in scope?

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition has drawn 31,317 Steam reviews. STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic has drawn 33,917 Steam reviews.

Is Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition or STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic better?

By the GamingPickz Score, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition rates higher (7.9 to 7.9). That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, not our taste. "Better" also depends on price, length and platform, which the table above lays out.

Which is cheaper, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition or STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic?

STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic is cheaper right now at $9.99, against $29.99. Prices move, so this is read live from Steam and can change.

Do you rank one above the other for a fee?

No. Neither game, nor anyone else, pays for placement or a verdict here. The order and every figure come out of the same public data the rest of the site uses.

How we compare, and what we will not do

The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment (adjusted for sample size), the critic aggregate and popularity, computed by the same code every ranked list on this site uses. The Steam rating label is Valve's own, reconstructed from the positive percentage and review count. Prices are read live. We do not write an opinion of which game is "better": we report the numbers and say which wins each measurable question above.

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