Star Wars: Galactic Racer Release Date Is Oct. 6: Price, Platforms

Star Wars: Galactic Racer launches on October 6, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, with a Standard Edition priced at $59.99, a Deluxe Edition at $79.99 and a physical Collector's Edition at $159.99, according to the official release-date announcement from publisher Secret Mode. There is no officially confirmed Nintendo Switch 2 version and no confirmation that the game is coming to Xbox Game Pass — both remain open questions two days out from launch, despite heavy search interest in both.

Here's everything that's actually been confirmed by the publisher and the platform storefronts, plus what's still unverified, ahead of Tuesday's release.

What is Star Wars: Galactic Racer?

Star Wars: Galactic Racer is a high-speed vehicular racer set after the fall of the Galactic Empire, when the New Republic is still rebuilding and a new underground obsession takes hold: speed. Out of that chaos comes the Galactic League, an unsanctioned racing circuit where crime syndicates bankroll pilots and fortunes change hands in seconds, according to the official game announcement on Secret Mode's news site.

The single-player campaign follows a mysterious pilot named Shade, who races for revenge and glory while forging alliances and settling old grudges against a rival named Kestar. Players can build across three distinct repulsorcraft classes — landspeeders, speeder bikes and skim speeders — plus podracers, each with its own handling and customization options, per the publisher and the PlayStation Store listing.

It's the debut title from Fuse Games, a studio led by Matt Webster, the former general manager of Criterion Games — the studio behind Burnout and several Need for Speed entries — working with independent publisher Secret Mode and with Lucasfilm Games attached on the Star Wars side. Secret Mode is a relatively young publishing label, but one that picked up the MCV/Develop Indie Publisher of the Year award in 2025, which is part of why a licensed Star Wars project landed with a studio this size rather than a larger first-party label.

Release date and platforms

Secret Mode has locked in October 6, 2026 as the global launch date across PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, confirmed on the publisher's own release-date announcement page and mirrored on the Steam store page, the PlayStation Store and the Xbox store listing. The PC version is available through both Steam and the Epic Games Store, and the Steam listing notes the PC build ships with Denuvo anti-tamper protection, which is worth knowing if you're the type of PC player who tracks DRM before buying in.

There's no previous-generation release planned — nothing for PS4 or Xbox One has been announced, which lines up with the game's focus on 4K Ultra HD visuals, HDR10 and 60fps+ performance modes referenced on the Xbox store page. The PS5 listing separately calls out "Pro Enhanced" support, meaning the game is tuned to take advantage of PS5 Pro hardware specifically, on top of running on a base PS5.

Because the launch window sits in the thick of the 2026 holiday release calendar, platform availability is one of the first things worth double-checking before you pre-order — storefronts occasionally list regional pricing or edition availability slightly differently, so it's worth confirming on the exact storefront you plan to buy from.

Is Star Wars: Galactic Racer coming to Nintendo Switch 2?

Despite plenty of searches asking about a Switch 2 version, Secret Mode, Fuse Games and Lucasfilm Games have not officially announced one anywhere in their own press materials, store pages or social accounts. The only "evidence" circulating online is a listing on a Middle East retailer's storefront that briefly showed a Switch 2 SKU with an October 6, 2026 date attached — but that listing displayed PlayStation 5 box art under the Switch 2 product name, a telltale sign of a placeholder or retailer-side error rather than a confirmed port. Retailer listings like that get created from incomplete back-end data well before a publisher locks in a platform list, so they're not a reliable signal on their own.

Until Secret Mode or Nintendo says otherwise through an official channel, the safest assumption is that Galactic Racer is a PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC release only at launch, with a Switch 2 version — if one ever arrives — coming later rather than day one. That wouldn't be unusual: plenty of higher-end, physics-heavy racers skip Nintendo hardware at launch and arrive as a scaled-down port months afterward, if the sales numbers justify the extra development work.

That kind of staggered rollout isn't unique to this game, either. Our breakdown of how Nintendo Switch 2 GameShare works and which games currently support it is worth a look if you're weighing whether to wait on a console version before buying in on PC or PS5 now.

Price and editions compared

Galactic Racer ships in three tiers at launch: Standard, Deluxe and a physical-only Collector's Edition. Pricing is consistent across the PlayStation Store, Xbox Store and Steam listings, give or take regional currency conversion.

All three editions are listed for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, and pre-orders are already open across every confirmed platform. The Standard Edition's pre-order bonus is a cosmetic livery for your repulsorcraft plus a player banner background usable in multiplayer, per the Steam and PlayStation store pages. None of the three tiers change the core campaign or multiplayer modes — the jump in price buys cosmetics, bonus arcade content and, at the top end, physical collectibles, not extra chapters of the story.

What's in the Deluxe Edition

The $79.99 Deluxe Edition is digital-only and layers extra content onto the base game rather than changing the core experience. According to the official PlayStation and Steam listings, it includes:

• Three bonus Kor Sarun-series vehicles: the Darc X landspeeder, the Ciza T speeder bike and the Rak S skim speeder
• A unique Naboo N-1 starfighter-inspired livery
• Three deluxe arcade events
• A deluxe player banner pack with a unique insignia
• A digital art book

None of the Deluxe content appears to be gameplay-exclusive progression or pay-to-win material — it's cosmetic vehicles, a cosmetic livery and bonus arcade modes layered on top of the same campaign and multiplayer every edition gets. If you're mainly after the three bonus vehicles for variety in long-term play, the $20 jump over Standard is roughly in line with what other licensed racers charge for similar cosmetic-and-bonus-mode bundles this generation.

What's in the Collector's Edition

The $159.99 Collector's Edition is physical-only and bundles in all of the Deluxe Edition's digital content alongside real-world collectibles. Per Secret Mode's official announcement, that includes a scale model of the Kor Sarun: Darc X landspeeder, a physical version of the game's art book, a cloth champion banner, two pilot patches, and packaging finished with a custom slipcover and steel case. It's confirmed for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, and because it's physical-only, it isn't offered as a Steam or Epic add-on — you'll need to buy it through a retailer that stocks the console or PC boxed edition.

For context on how that stacks up against other big 2026 releases juggling multiple edition tiers, our look at Final Fantasy Resonance's release date, platforms and editions covers a similarly structured Standard/Deluxe/Collector's split, if you're trying to figure out whether collector's editions are generally worth the premium this season.

Is Star Wars: Galactic Racer on Xbox Game Pass?

Not that's been confirmed. The Xbox store listing prices the game as a standard $59.99 premium purchase, with the Deluxe Edition at $79.99 sold the same way — there's no "Included with Game Pass" badge or messaging anywhere on the page. Nothing on the official Xbox, PlayStation or Secret Mode pages mentions a Game Pass day-one release, either.

The Xbox listing does note that online multiplayer requires an active Xbox Game Pass Core, Essential, Premium or Ultimate subscription — but that's the standard requirement for online console play on Xbox generally, not an indication that the game itself is included with a Game Pass membership. It's an easy detail to misread if you're skimming the store page, since "requires Game Pass for online" and "included in Game Pass" look similar at a glance but mean very different things for your wallet. If Galactic Racer is ever added to the Game Pass library, that would typically be confirmed through an official Xbox Wire post or a Game Pass lineup announcement, not buried in store-page fine print, so it's worth checking Xbox's own channels directly rather than trusting secondhand roundups.

At a $59.99–$79.99 price point, Galactic Racer lands in line with most big single-platform-exclusive-free racers releasing this cycle. If you're comparing total cost across this season's blockbuster releases before deciding where your budget goes, see how it stacks up in our Modern Warfare 4 vs. Black Ops 7 price and platform comparison.

Story, setting and vehicles

Set in the Outer Rim after the Empire's fall, the game's campaign casts players as Shade, described by Secret Mode as "a lone racer chasing revenge and glory." The story follows Shade through the Galactic League's underground circuit, forging alliances and running up against a rival racer named Kestar across a mix of established and new locations — including a newly revealed planet called Derven Acos, shown off in a story trailer, alongside returning fan-favorite tracks built around Mos Espa-style podracing circuits familiar to anyone who grew up with the prequel-era pod races.

Mechanically, the game splits vehicles into three repulsorcraft classes — landspeeders, speeder bikes and skim speeders — plus dedicated podracers, each with distinct handling characteristics and its own customization tree. Official messaging from Secret Mode emphasizes "dynamic risk-reward choices" and run-based progression, alongside takedown mechanics and ability unlocks that carry across races rather than resetting each event. That run-based structure — building strategy and unlocks across a session rather than a single race — is closer in spirit to modern roguelite-adjacent racers than to a traditional arcade racer with a static garage.

The game carries an ESRB rating of E10+ for Fantasy Violence and Language, according to the rating information listed on its official store pages, which is a fairly mild rating for a vehicular combat racer and suggests the "high-stakes" framing is more about tone and stakes-raising narrative beats than graphic violence.

Multiplayer and online play

Beyond the single-player campaign, Galactic Racer supports online PvP for up to 12 players at once, according to both the PlayStation and Xbox store listings (some pages list the supported range as 1-12 players total, which includes solo play within that same count). Multiplayer includes competitive races with a reputation and ranking system, and players can show off cosmetics earned or purchased through the edition tiers — liveries, banners and insignias — in those online matches.

There's no mention on any official page of a separate battle pass or live-service season structure layered on top of multiplayer, and the developers have publicly pushed back on the idea of adding one, tying season passes more to free-to-play models than to a premium release like this. For now, Galactic Racer reads as a complete, self-contained package at launch rather than a live-service game expecting ongoing monetization beyond its three edition tiers.

How to get it and what's next

Pre-orders are live now across PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC through Steam and the Epic Games Store, with digital pre-orders unlocking the Standard Edition's bonus livery and player banner immediately upon purchase, and Deluxe Edition buyers getting the additional vehicles and arcade content from day one. Anyone wanting the Collector's Edition will need to buy a physical copy from a retailer, since that tier isn't offered as a purely digital bundle through any of the confirmed storefronts.

With launch set for October 6, the biggest open questions — a possible Nintendo Switch 2 port and any future Xbox Game Pass addition — remain unanswered by the publisher as of this writing. Secret Mode has used its own official news page to confirm every other detail covered here, so that's the best place to watch for either announcement to become official, rather than relying on unverified retailer listings or third-party rumor roundups in the meantime.

Written byJonah Reyes

Jonah Reyes leads Pandromeda's gaming coverage: console and handheld hardware, release dates, pricing changes, patch notes and the business moves behind the biggest franchises. He sources every date and price from the platform holders and publishers themselves, and says plainly when something is still only a rumour.

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