10 Best Easter Eggs Found in Star Wars Games

With a franchise as vast and as popular as Star Wars, developers were bound to create numerous Easter Eggs in their own video games referencing the galaxy far, far away, such as the countless lightsaber knock-offs or recreations of Luke Skywalker being frozen on Hoth in gaming titles.

However, Star Wars games themselves are filled with just as many fun and somewhat hard-to-find Easter Eggs of their own, often referencing parts of the SW universe in comical ways, developer inside jokes, or even non-Star Wars games in a few cases.

Some of these Easter Eggs directly impact the ways games can be played, but most of the time they're simply comical ways to reward those who take the time out to explore every corner of each individual galaxy-spanning adventure.

10 The Lost Jedi Lightsaber

Republic Commando's Views on the Jedi

Most Star Wars games tend to have people play as Force wielders of varying types, but one of the best SW titles to not allow people to play as Jedi or Sith that features a fun Easter Egg referring to that limitation is Star Wars: Republic Commando.

Here, people embody RC-1138, nicknamed Boss, as he leads the Clone Commando Delta Squad on high-risk missions throughout the Clone Wars with only their skill and teamwork ensuring mission success, as they are not directly led by Jedi Knights like other Clone battalions.

Early on, during Delta Squad's second mission infiltrating the RAS Prosecutor, players can find a ventilation shift near a barricade where they'll find a dead Clone Trooper lying near a lightsaber, causing Boss to comment on how the Clone Wars era is no longer a civilized time, potentially referencing the Commandos' widespread disdain for Jedi tactics.

9 Boba Fett

Bounty Hunter's Long-Awaited Completion Bonus

Despite the widespread appeal of Mandalorians, there are not many SW games that solely focus on people playing as iconic armored warriors, with one of the few being Star Wars: Bounty Hunter following Jango Fett before Attack of the Clones.

Originally released in 2002, Bounty Hunter was filled with several Easter Eggs but one of the most upsetting Easter Eggs to fans was Aurebesh text that, when translated, claimed that players could play Boba Fett if they cashed in all bounties in the game.

Despite that Easter Egg being in the game, players couldn't actually play as Boba Fett in the original version of Bounty Hunter, with the feature only later appearing in 2024's remastered version of Bounty Hunter after players completed one playthrough of the campaign.

8 Jar Jar In Carbonite

The Force Unleashed's Hilarious Gungan Fate

Sometimes SW game developers hide Easter Eggs that will simply make players laugh if they go out of their way to find them and a perfect example of such an instance is the appearance of Jar Jar Binks frozen in carbonite in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

When Starkiller returns to Kashyyyk searching for Princess Leia, players will eventually enter Captain Ozzik Sturn's trophy room, where they'll find mounted heads of numerous SW creatures such as a Krayt Dragon, a Wampa, and a Gorax, the towering creatures that preyed on Ewoks on Endor.

However, Sturn's prized possession is the clumsy Gungan himself, Jar Jar Binks, frozen in a comical stance in carbonite which made thousands of fans annoyed with Binks from the prequel films laugh when they played through The Force Unleashed.

7 Indiana Jones

LEGO Star Wars' Greatest Cameo

Traveller's Tales' recent LEGO games have tended to tease their next LEGO projects in subtle ways in each of their titles, such as LEGO Jurassic World depicting Dr. Alan Grant finding a LEGO piece teasing LEGO Dimensions, but arguably their greatest instance of teasing the next game was seen in LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga.

Being a compliation of LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game and LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, The Complete Saga has its hub located in the Mos Esley Cantina and if players travel to the back of the cantina into the room marked with a question mark, they'll find another room marked with a camera.

Here, players can watch a trailer for LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures and subsequently unlock Indiana Jones as a playable character for purchase for 50,000 studs, allowing people to play through all six original SW films as Indiana Jones.

6 Mogu Painting

Jedi: Survivor's Hidden Droid Painting Session

Respawn Entertainment's Star Wars Jedi series is chock-full of hidden details and Easter Eggs, with one of the most famous being the Order 66 door in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, but I'd argue that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has a far more fun and hilarious Easter Egg.

If players travel to Harvest Ridge on Koboh near where a Bilemaw can be found in an overhang, players can climb up and fight a hidden path behind some vines that Cal Kestis will have to slide through leading to a small cave with a few Bedlam Raider B1 Battle Droids painting a Mogu in a suggestive pose.

There's no special cosmetics to be found in this cave and the Mogu and droids here don't actually move and don't activate an achievement when discovered, but it's still absolutely hysterical to find such a bizarre Easter Egg in Survivor, especially with how well hidden it is.

5 Atton Rand's Acting Aspirations

KOTOR II's Jab at Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

The RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic games are oddly ones that don't feature many Easter Eggs despite being massive games, but Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords did feature one Easter GG that made a comic jab to The Phantom Menace and another SW title.

If players complete two playthroughs of Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, one light side and one dark side, the third playthrough will have Atton Rand say that he wasn't supposed to be in the game and that he was originally supposed to star in a Jedi Knight spinoff, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy.

This is in reference to how Atton Rand was meant to be the name of Jaden Korr in Academy, but if players encounter Rand as a female character in the third playthrough, he'll actually begin the conversation by asking if the player is an angel before stating that he hopes a poor kid won't use that line, referring to one of Anakin Skywalker's most infamous lines.

4 The Towani Family Portrait

LEGO Star Wars' Ode to Caravan of Courage

Traveller's Tales' LEGO Star Wars games are full of secret collectibles, levels, and hard to find references to SW and LEGO characters, with one of the best being found in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.

If players travel to Wicket's Hut in Ewok Village on Endor, players will be able to use a Force sensitive character to lift and put together pieces of a large portrait, eventually revealed to be a portrait of the leading Towani from SW' first spinoff film, Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure.

While Caravan of Courage is not widely regarded as one of the best SW live-action projects, it's still fondly remembered by those who grew up watching the television film at a time when new SW content was released sporadically, and it was great to see it be represented in the largest LEGO Star Wars game yet.

3 A Space-Worthy Buick

Rogue Squadron's Long-Running Starfighter Gag

The Star Wars universe is home to hundreds of iconic starfighters and other types of space-faring ships such as the X-wing and The Ghost, but in Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, players can gain access to a starfighter unlike any other in the galaxy far, far away: a 1969 Buick Electra.

The luxury car/starfighter can only be accessed on the Nintendo 64 version of Star Wars: Rogue Squadron by entering the passcode KOELSCH, which replaces the V-wing with the Buick based on Factor 5 developer Rudolf Stember's own personal Buick Electra.

The Buick went on to become a long-running gag in starfighter-centric SW games as it was flyable in every other Rogue Squadron game and Star Wars: Episode I: Battle for Naboo, while it made a brief background cameo flying around the city skyline of Coruscant in Bounty Hunter.

2 Max, the Rabbit Detective

Dark Forces II's Most Bizarre Addition

Most of the time when developers put Easter Eggs in Star Wars games, they tend to simply reference other parts of the SW universe or use SW elements in comical ways, but one fantastic exception can be found in Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, which features an Easter Egg connected to an entirely different franchise.

In the Baron's Hed level within the Fallen City on the planet Sulon, players can wait by a house near a bridge to wait for a woman to open the door and, if people are able to slip into the house fast enough, they'll find the anthropomorphic rabbit private eye Max from the video game series Sam & Max who can aid the player in battle.

Max's appearance in Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II is more logical than it seems, as the first Sam & Max game, Sam & Max Hit the Road, was developed by LucasArts and SW is known to feature the rabbit-like Lepi species best represented by the smuggler Jaxxon.

1 Guybrush Threepkiller

The Force Unleashed II's Nod to LucasArts' History

Similar to how LucasArts developers lovingly referenced one of their non-Star Wars games in Dark Forces II with the Max Easter Egg, they referenced arguably LucasArts' second most famous game series with an Easter Egg in their final game, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II.

Early on, after arriving on Cato Neimoidia, players will come across a hologram of Jabba the Hutt with three alien slot machines in a room filled with statues of strangely cartoonish men.

If players destroy all three slot machines, a holocron will appear, rewarding players with the Guybrush Threepkiller costume based on the comical protagonist Guybrush Threepwood from LucasArts' Monkey Island game series, allowing players to slice and dice Imperial forces as gaming's most hapless pirate.