One year ago today, Star Wars Outlaws remembered an important truth: every underworld story gets better the moment Hondo Ohnaka walks in and starts smiling like a crime is already happening. Star Wars Outlaws: A Pirate’s Fortune released on May 15, 2025, as the game’s second story pack, bringing Kay Vess and Nix into a new pirate-flavored adventure with the galaxy’s most charmingly untrustworthy Weequay. Steam lists the DLC with a May 15, 2025 release date, while Ubisoft described it as a new story expansion centered on Hondo, hidden treasure, and the dangerous Khepi system. (Steam, Ubisoft) Hondo Was Built for Outlaws The base game already had the right ingredients: syndicates, smuggling, betrayal, blaster trouble, and Kay Vess trying very hard to survive people with better funding and worse morals. Then A Pirate’s Fortune added Hondo Ohnaka, which is basically Star Wars turning the scoundrel dial until it breaks. According…
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Star Wars Outlaws Gets Its Biggest Second Chance Yet on PlayStation Plus
Star Wars Outlaws is getting another shot at the spotlight — and this one may be bigger than its recent Steam comeback. Sony has confirmed that Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment’s open-world Star Wars adventure is joining the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog on May 19 for PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium members. The announcement came through the official PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for May lineup, where Outlaws appears alongside Red Dead Redemption 2, Bramble: The Mountain King, The Thaumaturge and more. That is not a tiny placement. That is a giant “go on, give it another try” button sitting in front of millions of PlayStation subscribers. Outlaws Is Suddenly Harder to Ignore This arrives at a very interesting moment for Star Wars Outlaws. The game has already been showing fresh movement on PC, with our recent coverage of Star Wars Outlaws trending on Steam pointing to renewed interest after discounts, patches,…
Star Wars Outlaws Is Suddenly Trending on Steam Again
Star Wars Outlaws is having one of those “wait, people are actually coming back?” moments. According to the latest Steam tracking chatter, Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment’s open-world Star Wars adventure has climbed high on Steam’s trending activity, with Bespin Bulletin reporting that the game was sitting as the 4th most trending title on Steam with a 125.7% 24-hour change on May 6. It was also listed around the 43rd best-selling game on the platform at the time. Not bad for a game that launched into one of the messier Star Wars gaming discourse storms in recent memory. The Star Wars Day Effect Is Real The timing is not exactly mysterious. May the 4th usually drags every Star Wars game out of hyperspace, slaps a discount on it, and politely asks everyone whether they really need food this week. In Outlaws’ case, that discount appears to be doing actual work. SteamDB…
Star Wars Outlaws Just Proved the Modern AAA Comeback Cycle Works
Star Wars Outlaws has quietly become one of the most interesting comeback stories in modern AAA gaming — not just because it relaunched, not because it was remade, but because it found its second life exactly the way modern blockbusters increasingly do: through long-term support and subscription discovery. If you want the most complete running list of every Star Wars game ever released, including timeline, platform, and key details, check out our complete Star Wars games list here. And the numbers in Outlaws’ resurgence back up a narrative shift that’s redefining AAA success. A Game That Didn’t Explode at Launch — But Didn’t Fade Either When Star Wars Outlaws launched in August 2024, expectations were sky-high. Developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft, it marked the first fully open-world Star Wars title in years. But early momentum wasn’t explosive. While many praised its scoundrel fantasy and Kay Vess as…