This $17 Open-World Star Wars Game in the Steam Summer Sale Makes the Hate Look Ridiculous

I initially told myself I wasn't going to be buying anything in this year's Steam Summer Sale because my backlog is already out of control, but a $17 open-world Star Wars game just changed my mind. That title is none other than Star Wars Outlaws, a game that I actually fell in love with when it originally launched in 2024 but never finished for a variety of reasons. When it finally made its way to Steam just a few months later, I considered buying it again just to experience it on the PC, but at $70, all of its issues were more noticeable—plus, there were just far too many other games at the time that I wanted to play. Now, at $17, it's much easier to see Star Wars Outlaws for what it actually is: a flawed but genuinely compelling Star Wars adventure that arguably deserved much less hate than it originally received.