Star Wars Galactic Racer update released
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The gist
Fuse Games released Star Wars: Galactic Racer's first update, raising multiplayer party size from 3 to 6.
The patch answers the game's most common criticism two weeks after launch.
Background
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is an arcade racer released October 6, 2026, for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X by developer Fuse Games and co-releaser Secret Mode. It drew rave reviews, but players commonly criticized how few friends they could bring into online multiplayer. Fuse Games said players had reached out asking to share the game with more friends, and that it wanted to ship the update as soon as possible.
How it unfolded
- Oct 6, 2026Star Wars: Galactic Racer launches on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X.
- Oct 18, 2026A SteamOS 3.9.3 Beta update released two days earlier fixed Galactic Racer performance issues when resuming from suspend on Steam Machine.
- Oct 21, 2026A Steam API leak hints at an upcoming update: a depot titled guilherme_test_crash is added and the test branch removed half a minute later.
- Oct 22, 2026Fuse Games announces and releases the game's first update, version 1.005, on console and PC, over two weeks after launch.
- Oct 22, 2026Patch notes raise multiplayer party size from 3 to 6, add keyboard layout options, lift mid-Tour join credits from 4,000 to 6,000, tidy the Spectator camera, remove the PC multiplayer menu's 'Exit the game' option, and fix party stability, a PS5 connection issue and an AMD Frame Interpolation crash.
Who’s saying what
- Official
- Fuse Games said players asked to share online multiplayer with more friends, so it wanted to bring the update as soon as it could, and it looks forward to seeing players challenge more friends in multiplayer Tours.
- Analysts
- Traxion.GG noted that small multiplayer party sizes, with room for only two friends, were among the most common criticisms of the game.
Still unverified
Bespin Bulletin speculated about what the leaked Steam build contains, saying it was just speculation and the build may hold dev tools and other internal-use-only items.