STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™

Races are contact sport. You slam, shunt and take down rivals on the way to the line, and the game pays out more when you take bigger risks, so the safe racing line is rarely the profitable one. A clean lap matters less than surviving the pack with your craft in one piece and your opponents scattered behind you.

The garage is split into repulsorcraft classes, each with its own physics. Podracers are the iconic pick, but landspeeders, speeder bikes and skim speeders all ask for a different touch, and learning which class suits which circuit is a big part of getting faster. You also build out your ride, tuning it for an edge and dressing it in a livery that says who you are, down to colour and patina.

Structure is built around runs. In the campaign you push through the Galactic League as Shade, picking up rivals and allies whose loyalty shifts as your standing grows, and the choices you make along the way change your prospects in the league. Outside the story, PvP grudge matches put your reputation on the line against other players online, with cross-platform matchmaking. Adjustable difficulty lets newcomers ease in, while the top end rewards players who can thread a podracer through traffic and still land the takedown. Full controller support covers DualShock and DualSense pads, and the game recommends playing on one.

Galactic Racer is set after the Empire's collapse, in the years when the New Republic is trying to rebuild the galaxy and failing to reach its edges. Out in the lawless Outer Rim, people want entertainment, a bet to win and a hero to cheer, and speed delivers all three.

That appetite gives birth to the Galactic League, an illegal racing circuit bankrolled by syndicates who treat pilots as investments. Fortunes rise and fall on a single race, and the people who run the league are not the forgiving type.

You play Shade, a lone racer with a score to settle. There are no Jedi here and no destiny pulling the strings, just skill, strategy and a willingness to take risks. Alliances shift as Shade climbs the standings, and every rivalry you pick or avoid shapes how far up the league you get.

STAR WARS: Galactic Racer is out now on Windows PC through Steam at US$59.99. Local Steam prices are RM149 in Malaysia, S$63 in Singapore, ₱1,874 in the Philippines, ฿1,560 in Thailand, Rp 638,000 in Indonesia and 805.000₫ in Vietnam. It ships in 14 languages, including Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Turkish and both Chinese scripts, but no Southeast Asian languages. Minimum spec is an RTX 2060, RX 5600 XT or Arc A580 with 12 GB of RAM and 50 GB on a required SSD. Online PvP supports cross-platform play, and full controller support covers DualShock and DualSense.