The Best Star Wars Game in Years Is Officially Free To Play

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Published Oct 7, 2026, 11:59 AM EDT

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There’s a good reason Star Wars fans are still talking about the podracing sequence in The Phantom Menace more than two decades later. The roaring engines, questionable competitors, and very real possibility of exploding before the finish line made racing feel right at home in a galaxy far, far away. The franchise’s newest racing game brings that excitement back, and anyone who has been waiting for another reason to climb into the cockpit now has a particularly tempting one.

Star Wars: Galactic Racer puts speed, handling, and spectacular crashes at the center of an adventure that understands the appeal of this corner of the franchise. Collider’s review awarded the game a 9.5/10, praising its arcade racing and the nostalgic thrill of the Boonta Eve Classic. The review’s verdict makes the appeal clear: “With superb handling and spectacular crashes, Galactic Racer captures the thrill of arcade racing at its best.”

Now, Amazon Prime members can play Star Wars: Galactic Racer at no additional cost through Amazon Luna. The game joined the cloud gaming service on October 6, alongside its worldwide launch, making this a day-one addition for subscribers in eligible regions. Amazon’s announcement confirms access to the single-player campaign, as well as Arcade and Scenarios. This is access through Luna’s cloud library, so players will need to use the service to enjoy the game rather than claim a permanent downloadable copy.

Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Star Wars Crew Should You Join? Falcon · Ghost · Skeleton Crew · Razor Crest

Eight honest questions about how you actually are: what your friends come to you for, how you handle a night that falls apart, what you want out of work, what keeps you going. Answer them and we will tell you which ship has your seat. Four crews are hiring: the smugglers, the rebels, the kids who got hopelessly lost, and the one man who works alone until he does not.

🚀Falcon(Original Trilogy)

👾Ghost(Star Wars Rebels)

🗺️Skeleton Crew(Skeleton Crew)

🪖Razor Crest(The Mandalorian)

FIND YOUR CREW →

What role do you play in your friend group? Everybody has one, whether they admit it or not.

AThe one who talks us out of trouble. BThe one who keeps everybody together. CThe one who suggests the bad idea. DThe one who turns up and fixes it.

NEXT QUESTION →

How do you pack for a trip? This says more about people than it should.

ALast minute, and I always forget something. BEnough for me and whoever forgot theirs. COne bag of nonsense and no real plan. DExactly what I need and nothing more.

NEXT QUESTION →

Your plans collapse an hour before. What do you do? Everybody reacts to this differently.

ACome up with something better on the spot. BGet everybody on a call and sort it out. CGo out anyway and see what happens. DStay in, quite happily.

NEXT QUESTION →

What would you actually want out of a job? Be honest rather than impressive.

AGood money and nobody watching me. BWork that means something, even if it pays badly. CSomething different every single day. DClear terms, paid on time, left alone.

NEXT QUESTION →

What do people come to you for? You already know which one it is.

AGetting them out of something. BHolding it together when things get bad. CMaking a boring day interesting. DThe thing nobody else wants to do.

NEXT QUESTION →

How do you handle a disagreement with a friend? This is where people differ most.

AJoke about it now, deal with it later. BTalk it out properly, however long it takes. CForget the whole thing within an hour. DSay very little, then quietly fix it.

NEXT QUESTION →

What does a really good Saturday night look like? No wrong answers, but there are revealing ones.

ASomewhere loud with people I like. BA long dinner at home with my favourite few. COut with no plan at all. DQuiet, alone, and completely happy about it.

NEXT QUESTION →

What actually keeps you going? Eight questions in, this is the one that picks your crew.

AFreedom, and the money that pays for it. BBeing part of something worth fighting for. CCuriosity, mostly. DOne person who depends on me.

REVEAL MY CREW →

Docking Clamps Released Your Crew Is…

Four ships, four completely different reasons to be up there at all. Here is the one that has your seat, what flying with them would cost you, and what it would give back.

Millennium Falcon

You belong on the fastest piece of junk in the galaxy, with a crew that took the job for the payday and then quietly stopped caring about the payday. Nothing on the Falcon has ever gone according to plan, and everybody aboard prefers it that way.

You improvise better than you prepare, which is why you keep ending up in situations that a careful person would have avoided.
The Falcon is the only ship on this list that is genuinely funny, and half of that comes from it breaking at the worst possible moment.
You would pretend the whole thing is transactional right up until somebody you like is in trouble, and then the pretending stops instantly.
This crew is the reason the rebellion had a chance at all, and not one of them would ever admit to that out loud.

The Ghost

You belong with the crew that turned a tiny cell of misfits into an actual rebellion. The Ghost is a home before it is a ship, and everybody who boards it arrived with something broken that the rest of them decided to look after.

Found family is the whole engine here, and Rebels earns it by making you watch these people choose each other over and over again.
You are in it for the cause, but what actually keeps you going is the four people who would notice immediately if you stopped showing up.
Hera is one of the best captains in the franchise, and the show is smart enough to make her competence the quiet centre of everything.
This crew pays for its wins, which is exactly what makes the wins land the way they do.

The Skeleton Crew

You belong with the four kids who found a buried ship, launched it by accident and are now extremely lost in a galaxy that eats people like them. Nobody here knows what they are doing, and that turns out to be the fun of it.

Your instinct is to open the door that says do not open, and you would do it again tomorrow.
Skeleton Crew is the closest Star Wars has come to an eighties adventure movie, where the stakes are real but the wonder never gets sanded off.
You make friends out of whoever is standing next to you when things go wrong, which is a genuinely useful survival skill.
The pirates in this one are properly frightening, and that is precisely why the kids being out of their depth works so well.

The Razor Crest

You belong in the quietest ship in the galaxy, with one small passenger and a code you have never explained to anybody. You told yourself this was a job, and then it stopped being a job somewhere around the second week.

You work alone by preference and by habit, which lasts exactly as long as it takes for somebody small to need looking after.
The Mandalorian works because almost nothing gets said out loud, and the armour does the acting that a face usually would.
Your loyalty is narrow and absolute, so there are very few people on your list and nothing will move you off it.
The Mandalorian and Grogu took all of that to the big screen over Memorial Day 2026, the first Star Wars film in seven years.

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‘Star Wars: Galactic Racer’ Gives Fans More Than a Nostalgia Trip

Developed by Fuse Games, whose founding developers have credits on Burnout and Need for Speed, Galactic Racer follows Shade, a racer chasing glory and revenge during the New Republic era. The Galactic League offers an underground circuit where dangerous courses and powerful syndicates make reaching the podium a complicated ambition. Its campaign unfolds through runs, with players choosing routes, events, and upgrades that shape their approach to the competition. There’s also plenty to recognize along the way, including Sebulba, who returns after making Anakin Skywalker’s life difficult in The Phantom Menace. The vehicle lineup includes landspeeders, speeder bikes, skim speeders, and podracers, giving players different handling styles to master. For longtime fans, the familiar machines and characters offer an immediate draw, while the variety gives racing enthusiasts a reason to experiment beyond their first choice of vehicle.

Galactic Racer joins more than 80 games available through Luna Standard, with Sonic X Shadow Generations also joining the service’s October lineup. Prime members can head to Amazon Luna and sign in to find the available games in their region.