the 4 best Star Wars apps you should know

May the 4th be with you! It’s International Star Wars Day and that’s a time to celebrate our favorite heroes and villains from a galaxy far, far away. We’ve listed the best Star Wars apps for you.

Star Wars™: Galaxy of Heroes

Galaxy of Heroes is the best free Star Wars game that allows you to create your own two teams: one of heroes and one of all known Star Wars villains. Galaxy of Heroes is a so-called ‘turn-based strategy game’, which means that your team and your enemies take turns attacking each other. You choose special attacks for each character in your team and you fight in the locations from the Star Wars movies and series.

Galaxy of Heroes contains missions, but you can also compete against other players’ teams. Furthermore, it is the intention that during missions you find the clean stuff with which you can make your heroes stronger. You can unlock new attacks this way. In addition, the game is also regularly expanded with characters, for example when new Star Wars series are released. Galaxy of Heroes is a game that will keep you busy for hours. There are of course microtransactions, but you can also safely ignore them.

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There really is a lot to experience in the official Star Wars app. You can go there for news about Star Wars and new trailers, but the app also has a nice soundboard with special sound effects and sounds of characters.

In addition, the app also allows you to create fun content that you can share. For example, there is an augmented reality function that allows you to take a photo as a Jedi with one of the Star Wars worlds in the background. There are also special emoji and animated gifs that you can share in messaging apps. In short, the Star Wars app serves as the app that keeps fans informed about everything.

Launch Bay Next

This isn’t the app to get started right away, but it’s actually part of a general tip from our editors about a delicious piece of Star Wars content. Star Wars has a great tabletop game called ‘X-Wing Miniatures Game’. With that, you use real miniatures that you can buy of famous Star Wars starships to fight against your friends’ fleet. You control the planes, give the command to fire and the table you play on is the room in which you fly.

To get started with X-Wing Miniatures Game you have to buy miniatures and then you have to tactically assemble your fleet of spaceships. You choose which ships go into battle and you determine their weapons, armor and the pilot that flies. That’s where Launch Bay Next comes in, because in this app you can put together your fleet down to the last detail. The game is very tactical and planning is everything. But before you know it, you’ll be flying on your kitchen table with Han Solo in the Millennium Falcon to hunt TIE fighters. May the 4th is ideal to start a new Star Wars hobby with your friends.

Star Wars™: KOTOR

We already talked about one of our favorite free games, but the best premium Star Wars game from the Play Store is KOTOR, which stands for Knights of the Old Republic. It’s the mobile version of a classic RPG game – or role-playing game – where you choose your own path in the Star Wars universe. You can start your Jedi training or work as a bounty hunter.

The nice thing about KOTOR is that the game has a very strong story and there is a huge open world – actually there are eight different ones. You get a lot of freedom to explore and play with your character as you would like to live in the Star Wars universe.

Of course, there are many more excellent apps and games that you can try as a Star Wars fan. We are therefore very curious which one you have on your phone. All Wookiees and Twi’leks on Androidworld can tell about it in the comments at the bottom of this article. May the 4th be with you! Oh, and which Star Wars movie is your favorite and which one is not?

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