Star Wars: Galactic Racer opens at 88 on PS5 Metacritic before launch

Star Wars: Galactic Racer had its review embargo lift on October 2, 2026, four days before launch. On Metacritic, the PS5 version scores 88, with 52 positive reviews and 2 mixed in a set of 54. On PC, the score is 84, with 13 positive and 1 mixed in 14 reviews. Both pages list the game as generally favorable. No negative score appears in those cuts.

The game, from Fuse Games and published by Secret Mode, arrives October 6 on PC, PS5, and Xbox. The campaign casts the player as Shade, a cargo pilot who enters the Galactic League to face champion Kestar Bool. The Verge describes the structure as a roguelite: each tour starts with a vehicle and perks, and the podracer only arrives partway through the campaign.

What the reviews highlight

Eurogamer treats the game as a meeting of the Episode I podracer and Burnout muscle memory. The piece points to two boosts. Afterburner holds a button and drains a bar, in the spirit of the classic boost; there is a second, separate one. The copy reviewed was provided by Secret Mode. Eurogamer Germany, listed at 100 on Metacritic, calls the run-based campaign an audiovisual feast. VGC, also listed at 100 on PS5, says a standard single-player mode would already have made a good game and that what is here is inventive.

Those high scores sit next to caveats. The Wand Report, at 90 on PC, suggests waiting a week or two for the first patches. That is a review opinion, not a Fuse Games statement about problems. Metacritic is still taking in write-ups: the totals above are the cut published on the page on October 2, not a final close.

Why the score matters now

Galactic Racer lands in an already crowded week, with Gears of War: E-Day on the same October 6 on Xbox and PC. A critic score does not say how the game behaves online or how long the campaign runs — those figures are not settled in the sources used here. What is clear is the tone of the first reviews: arcade speed, cruel tracks, and a campaign that treats each tour as a run, not a linear cup calendar.

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