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Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.

FightingFirst-Person ShooterRole-Playing

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Player score
9.6/10
13,820 reviews
Released
2003
Developer
Raven Software
Platforms
2 systems
Critics
81
Steam Deck
unsupported
Download
Not stated
We have not written a full review of this game.This is a catalogue entry: everything below comes from a source we can link, checked on a stated date. There is no score and no verdict here, because we only publish those after a reviewer has played the game and written it up properly. Our team may well have played this one. Until someone writes the review, we are not going to imply a verdict we have not put our name to.

What is Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy?

Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.

Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.

The record

Catalogue facts
First released17 September 2003
DeveloperRaven Software
PublisherLucasfilm Games
PlatformsXbox, Nintendo Switch
GenresFighting, First-Person Shooter, Role-Playing
Languages4 supported

Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q55295, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.

How was Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy received?

Players96%positive of 13,820 · Overwhelmingly Positive
Metacritic81critic aggregate, PC

Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Metacritic page. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.

Accessibility

1 declared features

Seeing

None declared

Hearing

None declared

Input

  • Partial Controller Support

Difficulty

None declared

Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

What does it support?

Technical support
CapabilitySupport
Controllerpartial support
Cloud savesYes
Cross-platform playNo
Mod supportNo official workshop
Online playYes
In-game purchasesNo
Steam Deckunsupported
Download sizeNot stated
Add-on contentNone listed
Age gateNone

Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.

What does it cost?

$9.99

Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.

Is Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy worth it?

96% of 13,820 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Overwhelmingly Positive. It costs $9.99 on Steam, and critics score it 81/100.

That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.

How long is Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy? How long to beat it

Total play time for Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is about 14 hours to do everything, and around 10 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy length by how much you play
How you playHoursPlayers logged
Just the main story: straight through the critical path10h237
Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do11.4h188
Completionist: everything: 100% the game14h63

At its current price of $9.99, beating the main story works out to about $1.00 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.

Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.

Where Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy sits on the grid

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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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Estimated sales for Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

These are estimates, not reported figures. Raven Software has not published unit sales for Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.

415K–829KEstimated copies soldon Steam, lifetime
$1.4M–$5.5MEstimated player spendbefore Valve's cut
$957K–$3.8MEstimated to the publisherafter the 30% platform cut

How this was calculated

Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.

Sales estimate working
Reviews on Steam13,820
Sales per review30 to 60
List price$9.99
Assumed average selling price33% to 66% of list

What this cannot tell you

Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.

The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.

The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.

Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.

If Raven Software publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy price & deals: is it on sale?

We have one reading so far: $9.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.

What readers say about Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.

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Problems players report

We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.

  1. Crashes and freezes31 of 300 (10%)

    i cant even start the game......everytime i try to launch it it jusr crashes and says it has stopped working....help...

    Steam review, 20 July 2016 · 6 hours played · 6 readers marked it helpful

    bugs involving cut scenes freezing and the only way to continue is to skip

    Steam review, 30 April 2021 · 1 hours played · 5 readers marked it helpful

A further 17 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.

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Games like Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

24 games overlap with Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are STAR WARS Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and STAR WARS Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast.

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Common questions about Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

What platforms is Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy on?

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is available on Xbox, Nintendo Switch. It first released in 2003.

How much does Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy cost?

$9.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.

Do players recommend Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy?

96% of 13,820 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Overwhelmingly Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.

What is the Metacritic score for Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy?

81 out of 100 for the PC version, as published on the game's own Steam store page. Steam can lag Metacritic by a few points.

Does Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy work on Steam Deck?

Valve rates Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy as unsupported on the Steam Deck, from its own testing.

Who made Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy?

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy was developed by Raven Software and published by Lucasfilm Games.

Is Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy worth it in 2026?

96% of 13,820 Steam reviews are positive (Overwhelmingly Positive), and it is $9.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.

Is Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy on sale?

Not at the moment. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is at its $9.99 list price on Steam, read on 30 August 2026. It has been cheaper before; the price history above shows when.

How long does it take to beat Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy?

about 10 hours for the main story, 11.4 hours with the main extras, 14 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.

Is Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy worth the money?

At $9.99 for about 10 hours to beat the main story, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy works out to roughly $1.00 per hour. That is a value read, not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being better. Weigh it against the review sentiment above.