Star Wars: Galactic Racer Launches October 6: Price, Editions and What's New
Fuse Games, the Burnout team's new studio, launches its podracing revival on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC this week. Here's what the $60 price covers, and what the pricier editions add.
A jungle-world circuit in Star Wars: Galactic Racer's Galactic League. Image: Secret Mode.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer launches on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC on October 6. It comes from Fuse Games, a studio built around former Criterion staff who worked on the Burnout series, published by Secret Mode in partnership with Lucasfilm Games. The pitch is a lawless, unsanctioned racing circuit called the Galactic League, set in the stretch of timeline between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, with podracing itself returning as one of its disciplines alongside landspeeders and skim speeders.
Release Date, Platforms and Price
The standard edition is $59.99 / £49.99 / €59.99 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, sold both digitally and on disc. On Steam the listing confirms Nvidia DLSS 4.5 support at launch and Denuvo anti-tamper protection, and the store page recommends a controller over mouse and keyboard even on PC. Online races hold up to 12 players, and PS5 owners will need an active PlayStation Plus subscription to join them. The PlayStation Store listing also lists 29 separate accessibility options, which is a larger set than most racing games ship with at launch, covering input remapping, visual aids and difficulty adjustments.
It's worth placing this alongside the series' own history. Star Wars: Episode I Racer, from 1999, is still the game most people picture when they hear "Star Wars" and "racing" in the same sentence, with 2002's Star Wars: Racer Revenge as its combat-focused sequel. Galactic Racer isn't a remake of either — it's a new IP set after the original trilogy, built by a team with a very different pedigree in arcade racing — but Fuse Games has been explicit in press materials that reviving podracing as a mechanic, not just a reference, was a deliberate pitch to that older audience.
Three Editions, Three Very Different Price Points
Everyone who pre-orders gets a bonus livery and a multiplayer player-banner background, with the exact livery color varying by platform. Past that, the jump between tiers is steep:
- Standard Edition ($59.99): the base campaign and online modes, digital or physical.
- Deluxe Edition ($79.99): three bonus Kor Sarun repulsorcraft, three exclusive arcade events, a deluxe livery pack, an extended player-banner pack and a digital art book.
- Collector's Edition ($159.99): everything in Deluxe plus a physical Kor Sarun landspeeder model, a Kestar Bool banner, pilot patches, a printed art book, a steel case and slipcover.
Unless you want the shelf item, the Deluxe Edition is the one worth weighing against Standard: three extra vehicles and arcade events is a meaningful amount of day-one content for twenty dollars.
What You're Actually Racing
The singleplayer campaign puts you in the cockpit as Shade, a newcomer entering the Galactic League to challenge its reigning champion, Kestar Bool. Between races you customize repulsorcraft at a workshop run by a mechanic named Hibi, building toward three distinct vehicle classes rather than one universal car, with build strategies that change how a craft handles jumps, water and tight canyon turns. The campaign's planets range from a wrecked Star Destroyer half-buried in desert dunes to a jungle world circuit and an icy canyon run lined with sponsor billboards, before culminating at a custom-built arena called Derven Acos. It's a looser, more arcade-leaning structure than a traditional racing-sim career mode, closer in spirit to the original podracing games than to a Forza-style progression ladder, and the multiplayer side layers the same vehicle classes into 12-player online races rather than keeping them campaign-exclusive.
Pre-Order Bonuses and Day-One Details
Besides the livery and banner, pre-order buyers on every platform get the same cosmetic bonus, not a platform-exclusive one, which is worth knowing if you've been burned by console-locked pre-order content before. Secret Mode has not announced a day-one patch size or a review embargo lift time as of this writing, so treat launch-day performance claims with some caution until the game is actually in players' hands.
Quick Facts Before You Buy
- Release date: October 6, 2026
- Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
- Developer: Fuse Games
- Publisher: Secret Mode, with Lucasfilm Games
- Price: $59.99 Standard, $79.99 Deluxe, $159.99 Collector's Edition
- Multiplayer: up to 12 players online; PS Plus required on PS5
Full details on pricing by region and edition contents are on the official Galactic Racer site and in Secret Mode's own release-date announcement. The game is listed for pre-purchase on the Steam store page, the PlayStation Store listing and the Xbox Store listing, all of which confirm the October 6 date and current pricing in your local currency.