I was looking through people’s opinions on Star Wars books/comic books on Reddit. For comic books someone suggested the Darth Vader comics. I read through the first few chapters and it’s just him being an idiot and manipulated by Palpatine, slaughtering his own troops and then committing atrocities on non-combatants. Does it get any better? He is gonna remain the bad guy until the end so I am not sure what the value is in reading this. Sounds like it’s made for Star Wars wehraboos.
For books some people suggested the trilogy about Thrawn. I know nothing about him except he is a villain too so I am not optimistic about that either. Haven’t started reading it yet.
I don’t know if it’s still available these days, but Jedi Academy was the shit when I was a kid. I loved that game. Everything you mentioned was also fun, but special mention for the KOTOR series and the emotional moments they could evoke.
Steam has just about the entire lucasarts library including the Jedi knight series