Wing Commander Anniversary Editions (2026)

What actually changed

Wing Commander and Wing Commander II integrate the Kilrathi Saga builds for the first time as a digital set, plus the WCAT and Wcdx patches, optional cheats, windowed mode, manuals, reference cards, ship blueprints and cloud saves.

Wing Commander III restores 475 full-screen cinematics and 460 in-flight comms scenes from source tapes, with an optional upscale, Enhancement Patch v0.16.0, and full voice and subtitles in English, French and German. Wing Commander IV restores 275 scenes, about 240 of 280 recovered from D1 tape, Enhancement Patch v0.11.1, and a missile-spam rebalance. Prophecy restores 150 scenes and includes Secret Ops. Privateer 2 restores more than 100 scenes, a director's-cut colour grade, and subtitles in English, French, German and Spanish.

Electronic Arts also described 60 frames per second, an input calibration tool and about 20 controller presets. I do not call that a remake. The store copy says restored.

Steam, GOG, and the EA app

All three sell the editions. Steam is where the nine-title bundle and the review counts below were read. GOG lists the same USD prices through its public catalog and, for Wing Commander and Wing Commander III, also keeps the original DOS build as a separate Legacy Version library entry. The EA app page requires an EA account and, in this session, showed $6.45 and $12.90. A GOG product page in the same session showed $6.39 and $12.79. Those are regional displays. The GOG US-dollar catalog and Steam both showed $4.99 and $9.99. I print both readings instead of picking one number.

Steam's listed system line is Windows 10, a 1.8 GHz CPU, 2 GB of memory, a DirectX 9.0c GPU, and 2 GB of disk for the first game, 16 GB for Wing Commander III, 10 GB for Privateer 2. No Steam Deck Verified or Playable badge was on the pages. One community report says WC1 through WC4, Privateer and Armada ran in the Deck's built-in DOSBox. That is one report, not a Valve rating.

Which edition to buy

Buy Wing Commander III if you want the full-motion-video finale and the largest restored scene count. Buy the first game if you want the 1990 campaign and the Secret Missions. Buy Prophecy if you want the later engine and Secret Ops in the same purchase. Buy Privateer if you want trading rather than a linear carrier tour; the 2026 Privateer page does not say whether Righteous Fire is included, so I do not claim that it is. The bundle is cheaper than buying all nine at the sale price only if you actually want the whole set: nine times is not the comparison, because the six anniversary titles and three reissues have different sale prices. At the 8 Nov 2026 sale, six editions at $4.99 plus three reissues at $2.49 is $37.41, and the bundle was $33.66.