Star Wars Outlaws has become quite the hit in the past few months thanks to a number of different factors. Some new data has just come in providing an interesting look has to just how well the game is containing to do well after launch. The game is thriving amongst new players who are checking out its multi-open world and Kay Vess’ story.
Post Launch Success
Before we take a look at the Game Pass data in particular, it’s important to understand the Journey that Outlaws has been on.
Despite opening with soft sales in the summer of 2024, Star Wars Outlaws has gained lots of momentum at various points throughout the past 18 months. This started with the developers providing lots of free content and quality of life updates alongside story expansions. These were all met with praise by the game’s community.
Following those content drops, the game come to the Nintendo Switch 2 last Autumn. It was a magnificent port met with high-scoring reviews making this version of the game one of the best reviewed Star Wars games of all time. It is still continuing to impress gamers with how well the game looks and performs despite it’s humongous scope on a low-powered handheld device. Nintendo even made a real life advert for it and have been using the game as one of the few 3rd party titles in a billboard and poster advertising campaign.
It was a little bit of a phenomenon within the Switch community. Outlaws maintained position as one of the most purchased digital and physical Switch 2 games. These new players could not understand why so many Star Wars fans hated this game.
As Nintendo gamers sunk lots of time into the game, their love for it began to spread far wider. This led to a surge in copies being sold on home consoles and PC when the game was discounted last Christmas. For example, the game experienced joint peak concurrent player counts well over a year after the game launched on Steam (which was already the smallest pool of players as it launched months later on Steam).
A New Wave
Now we can get into the most recent event that caused so many more people to check out the game.
Star Wars Outlaws headlined the January 2026 additions to Xbox Game Pass. Subscribers have been able to play the game across console, PC and the Cloud. It’s also worth noting the game is only available to Game Pass Ultimate members; the most expensive tier at $29.99 a month. Early on, it was clear the game was on a path to success given it was charting highly on the Xbox Store. Plus, analytics on social media showed interest in the game was for renewed and at a new level.
But what about real numbers? Did tons of people actually check it out on Xbox Game Pass? Well, Alinea Analytics is reporting that around 100,000 people played Star Wars Outlaws via Game Pass on day one which was January 13th. In total, over 595,000 people have played Star Wars Outlaws thanks to Xbox Game Pass as of February 23rd. That topped the chart for the most unique Game Pass subscribers checking out a new addition to the service.
Meanwhile, True Achievements found Outlaws was the 14th most played game on the Xbox platform in the week it came to Game Pass using data from 3.1 million accounts. Have you checked out Star Wars Outlaws during this post launch period be it on Switch or with Game Pass? Let us know in the comments section below.
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