Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is an action-adventure video game played from a third-person perspective. It adopts the "Metroidvania" style of exploration and progression.[1] Players control Cal Kestis and have access to a lightsaber and the Force, which are used in both combat and puzzle scenarios. Enemy types range from Imperial stormtroopers, droids, and Purge Troopers, who have been trained specifically to battle Jedi, to wild beasts and skilled Zabrak warriors that are native to each planet Cal explores. The game's bosses include Inquisitors, who also wield lightsabers and the Force, bounty hunters hired to hunt down Cal, large vehicles such as AT-STs, and wild beasts like the Oggdo Bogdo and the Gorgara.
Cal acquires abilities at certain points in the story; each ability allows access to previously inaccessible areas. Once these abilities are unlocked, the player can upgrade them through a skill tree. The game can only be saved manually at checkpoints, which appear as "meditation circles". At these meditation circles, the player can "rest", which replenishes Cal's health, Force energy, and healing items, but causes all enemies to respawn. The game includes cosmetic collectibles that include different outfits for Cal to wear, pieces that can be used to customize Cal's lightsaber, and alternate color schemes for Cal's mode of transport, the Stinger Mantis (which is used to travel between planets), and droid companion BD-1 (who is used to access these collectibles, as well as complete certain puzzles).
With the addition of a Star Wars Day update released in 2020, players can access the Meditation Arena through the meditation circles. This allows them to complete combat challenges, involving fighting multiple waves of enemies in arenas based on certain locations from the story mode; completing these challenges awards the player with one to three stars, depending on whether the player abided by restrictions on the character's health (i.e. never recovered health or took any damage), which can be used to unlock additional skins for BD-1. The Meditation Arena also includes a battle grid, where the player can face off against their own custom enemy wave, while being able to grant themselves invincibility, unlimited Force, and other cheats
