Game

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II

Windows 95/98 PC · 1997 · LucasArts · First-person shooter

Statement: The patient's heart was built for Direct3D five, meatbags, and the world kept moving. Its makers still sell the corpse. None of them kept it breathing.

LucasArts' 1997 sequel to Dark Forces, which handed Kyle Katarn a lightsaber and the Force and sent him after the Dark Jedi Jerec, with live-action cutscenes between the levels.

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Decomp port Active v0.9.9 · 2026-07-05

OpenJKDF2

A function-by-function reimplementation of Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II in C, with 64-bit ports to Windows, macOS and Linux.

Runs on: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Nintendo DSi, Web browser (demo)
Needs: A licensed copy of Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II: GOG (recommended: DRM-free, with the soundtrack as Ogg Vorbis), Steam, an existing install, or the original two CDs. No game assets are included. On Windows, openjkdf2-64.exe goes in the same folder as JK.EXE.

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