Fuse Games and Secret Mode have not said when Star Wars: Galactic Racer is coming out. But Steam may have done it for them.
A pre-order graphic briefly appeared on the game’s Steam page showing an October 6, 2026 release date. It didn’t stay up long. Gaming account Wario64 caught it on X before it was pulled, and gaming forums and Reddit users were quick to spread the screenshot before it vanished. The same Steam update also appeared to include pre-order and Deluxe Edition materials before those details were removed — which is why most outlets covering this are treating October 6 as more than just a glitch.
Neither Fuse Games nor Secret Mode has said anything. The live Steam page still only lists 2026 as the release window. Until the developers speak officially, October 6 should be treated as a strong indicator, not a done deal.
Star Wars Galactic Racer Release Date: What the Steam Page Showed
The Star Wars Galactic Racer release date wasn’t the only thing that slipped out. Before the listing came down, it laid out the full pre-order and edition structure in detail — none of which had been announced anywhere officially.
Star Wars Galactic Racer Pre-order buyers are reportedly in line for a custom livery usable across all in-game vehicles and a matching player banner. Step up to the Deluxe Edition and you get three exclusive vehicles, a Deluxe livery, three extra arcade events, an additional player banner, and a digital art book. The Steelbook appears tied to physical Deluxe purchases on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, while the PC version is currently being presented through digital storefronts.
The fact that a full edition breakdown was sitting in that listing suggests this wasn’t a half-built placeholder. It went up looking ready.
Denuvo Appears to Have Been Removed
There is a second story running alongside the release date leak that PC players will want to know about.
Secret Mode appears to have removed Denuvo anti-tamper software from the game’s Steam listing on April 25, before the game has even come out. Denuvo had previously been listed on the Steam page and was gone within hours. Publishers dropping Denuvo before a game releases — rather than quietly removing it months after launch once the sales window closes — is not something that happens often. For players who avoid buying games that ship with Denuvo, this removes that barrier before it ever became one.
Star Wars Galactic Racer PC Requirements
Secret Mode published the PC specs through a Steam FAQ page earlier this year, and they are lower than you might expect for a game that looks as good as the trailers suggest.
To meet the minimum bar you need an AMD Ryzen 5 2600, Intel Core i5-8400, or 10th-gen Intel i3 on the CPU side, paired with an Nvidia RTX 2060, AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT, or an Intel Arc GPU — the live Steam page currently lists the Arc A580 at minimum, though the Steam FAQ has also referenced the Arc A380, and Secret Mode has noted the specs may still change before launch. Either way, 12GB of RAM and a 50GB SSD round out the lower end.
Recommended specs move up to an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel Core i7-10700, an Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti, AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT, or Intel Arc B580, with 16GB of RAM. Storage stays at 50GB. For context on how Star Wars games have handled PC requirements in the past, Star Wars Squadrons set a similarly accessible bar when it launched — Fuse Games appears to be following the same approach.
At the high end, the game ships with DLSS 4.5 — covering Nvidia’s second-generation transformer model for Super Resolution upscaling and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation — alongside hardware ray-traced Lumen lighting that can be pushed further with DLSS Ray Reconstruction. For Steam Deck players, Secret Mode confirmed a 30fps experience described as high-fidelity for handheld play.
What the Star Wars Galactic Racer Game Actually Is
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is being made by Fuse Games, a UK studio set up in 2023 by people who spent years making Need for Speed and Burnout at Criterion Games. The studio’s CEO, Matt Webster, worked on Star Wars: Battlefront while still at Criterion. About 150 people in total are working on the game, with Lucasfilm Games involved in the creative side from day one — part of a wider push to bring the Star Wars licence to more studios, a shift that also brought us Star Wars Outlaws in recent years.
The story is set after the fall of the Empire, in the New Republic era. You play as Shade — a racer with a grudge against a family called the Bool clan — who gets pulled into the Galactic League, an underground racing circuit operating out of the lawless Outer Rim. The man who runs the league, Darius Pax, brings Shade in to help bring down Kestar Bool, the ruthless rival who has taken over and is pushing Pax out entirely.
The game supports up to 12 players online in PvP racing, with a ranking system planned for competitive play. The PlayStation Store also lists optional in-game purchases alongside the confirmed 12-player online support. There are four types of vehicles: landspeeders, speeder bikes, podracers, and the skimspeeder — a new class that has not existed in Star Wars before this game. Sebulba and Ben Quadinaros from Episode I are both returning. Fuse Games has confirmed that podracing is part of the vehicle lineup — which matters, given how much of the game’s early buzz was built on nostalgia for the 1999 Star Wars Episode I Racer. The game is being positioned as a current-gen release for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Fuse Games has also said there are currently no plans for a season pass — notable given the backlash Star Wars Outlaws faced over its post-launch content strategy.
It is the first dedicated Star Wars racing game since Racer Revenge in 2002.
October 6 and What It Means for the Rest of 2026
If October 6 holds up, it drops the game into a stretch of the fall calendar that is relatively open right now. Kotaku pointed out that publishers have been steering clear of the pre-holiday window this year, with most of them trying to avoid landing too close to Grand Theft Auto 6 in November. That has left October with breathing room — which could work in Galactic Racer’s favour, or it could just mean there is less competition around a quieter window.
PC Gamer raised the question of what this means for Star Wars Zero Company, the other major Star Wars game targeting 2026 but with no date at all yet — and further down the pipeline, Star Wars Eclipse reportedly remains years away, making Galactic Racer one of the few Star Wars titles actually on track for a near-term release.
What the leak suggests is that the pre-order structure is already prepared and the promotional materials were ready to go. An official announcement from Fuse Games and Secret Mode could come at any point. Whether that confirms October 6 or adjusts it is the one thing left to find out.
All release date information on Star Wars Galactic Racer in this article is based on a Steam listing and promotional materials that appeared briefly on April 24–25, 2026, as reported by Wario64 and covered by PC Gamer, Kotaku, and Twisted Voxel among others. Fuse Games and Secret Mode have not officially confirmed any release date for Star Wars: Galactic Racer.