STAR WARS: Galactic Racer vs Cronos: Lazarus

• Platforms: PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2
• Game Engine: Unreal Engine 5
• Parent Game: Cronos: The New Dawn
• Release Date: October 27, 2026
• Storage Footprint: 30 GB Available Space (SSD)

• BD-6 Co-Pilot Droid: Scans track terrain in real-time, pinging optimal apex trajectories, hazard alerts, and incoming weapon lock-ons.
  Astromech / Exploration Droid
• DUM-Series Pit Droid Crew: Performs high-speed pit repairs between heats, rapidly restoring vehicle structural integrity and cooling radiators.
  Labor Droid Unit

• Echo-3 Recon Drone: Illuminates unpowered subterranean corridors with floodlights and pings enemy locations through walls.
  Autonomous Tactical Drone
• Tethered Harvester Bit: Hovers around the Warden, automatically collecting dispersed essence globules during high-speed combat.
  Magnetic Siphon Construct

• Coaxium Hyper-Fuel Canisters: Located along high-risk track detours and precarious drop-offs; traded in the garage for experimental engine prototypes.
• Classic Podracer Schematics: Buried in junk heaps across Outer Rim scrapyards; unlocks retro engine sound profiles and visual liveries.
• Syndicate Bounty Tokens: Awarded for completing in-race takedown contracts on specific target rivals; unlocks black-market chassis cosmetics.

• Shattered Essence Shards: Concealed within secret containment alcoves and reward safes throughout the Terminal sectors.
• Collective Encrypted Black Boxes: Recovered from deceased Collective reconnaissance units and fallen security commanders.
• Prototype Upgrade Matrices: Discovered in high-security engineering vaults to enhance phase-dash and weapon telemetry.

• Survival Horror
• Sci-Fi Horror
• Eastern European Brutalism
• Fast-Paced Combat
• Time Anomalies
• Dystopian
• Atmospheric
• Dark Fantasy

• Mag-Ram Kinetic Shunt: Electromagnetic Prow Weapon
  Channeling massive repulsor power into forward bumper magnets, this weapon discharges an explosive kinetic shockwave upon colliding with rival vehicles.
• Seismic Mine Dispenser: Proximity Explosive Countermeasure
  Releases devastating acoustic charges that linger on the racing line, detonating in a flat planar blast that flips and shreds trailing craft.
• Ion Pulse Emitter: Short-Range EMP Disrupter
  Fires a concentrated burst of ionized particles, overloading rival electronics to stall their boost engines and disable their steering for 2 seconds.
• Tractor Harpoon Tether: Tow-Cable Harpoon
  Fires a magnetic cable into leading vehicles, allowing the pilot to slingshot around sharp hairpins or yank enemies into track hazards.
• Scram-Jet Afterburner Vent: Thermal Countermeasure
  Vents unspent hyper-combustion fuel rearward, blinding trailing pilots in thick black smoke and overheating their engine radiators.

• Harvester Scythe-Pike: Polearm / Melee Executioner
  The Warden's iconic signature weapon, capable of fluid sweeping strikes, guard breaks, and instant essence-siphoning executions on staggered mutants.
• Overcharged Trench Scattergun: Heavy Shotgun
  A close-quarters industrial shotgun firing devastating kinetic buckshot that staggers massive armored monstrosities.
• Pneumatic Spike Cannon: Heavy Ballistic Rifle
  Fires high-velocity industrial rebar spikes capable of impaling advancing creatures and pinning them to concrete walls.
• Phase-Disruptor Pistol: Energy Sidearm
  Rapid-firing tactical handgun calibrated to break bio-shielding and detonate corrupted energy sacs on mutated enemies.
• Thermite Cluster Grenades: Tactical Ordnance
  Sticky incendiary explosive charges that latch onto enemy weak points and unleash sustained high-temperature chemical flames.

• Durasteel Bumper Plating: Impact Resistance +40%, Craft Mass +15%; maximizes kinetic ramming force against rivals while reducing top-end acceleration.
• Ablative Carbon-Fiber Cowling: Top Speed +8%, Aerodynamic Drag -12%, Impact Resistance -15%; grants blistering straight-line velocity at the cost of fragile durability.
• Deflector Energy Shielding: Absorbs up to 2 direct weapon blasts or high-speed wall scrapes before collapsing and requiring recharge.
• Reinforced Heat Baffles: Overheat Threshold +30%; allows prolonged engine overboost duration in hot biomes like Sullust.

• Reinforced Warden Hazard Rig: Defense: +220; grants 30% resistance against toxic gas and dampens kinetic shock from heavy boss strikes.
• Phase-Shift Tactical Exoskeleton: Defense: +340; accelerates Phase-Dash recharge by 25% and emits an electric pulse when dodging through enemy attacks.

• Outer Rim Flight Suit: Durable padded leather jumpsuit with pressurized oxygen seals, available in syndicate colorways.
• Heads-Up Targeting Visor: Customizable tinted polarized helmet visor with integrated holographic telemetry displays.
• Scrapper's Armored Gauntlets: Heavy-duty magnetic gloves providing enhanced grip on dual-stick repulsor throttles.

• Warden Heavy Combat Armor: Standard Industrial Olive, Collective Inquisitor Black, Reactor Hazard Yellow, and Arctic Slate.
• Renegade Pathfinder Trench Coat: Heavy ballistic canvas overcoat with reinforced pauldrons and weathered Collective insignia.

Progression is built around a comprehensive roguelite garage economy. Players accumulate Credits and Scrap from race placements, rival takedowns, and side bets to invest in modular upgrades across five mechanical systems: Repulsor Coils (handling, lateral drift stability, ceiling adhesion), Thruster Manifolds (top speed, acceleration curve, boost efficiency), Hull Plating (impact absorption, ramming mass, EMP deflection), Heat Sinks (cooling dissipation, overcharge threshold), and Combat Hardpoints (countermeasure deployment, seismic mines, disruptor bursts). Over a million distinct configuration permutations let players tailor their craft as light agile speeders or armored battering rams.

Gameplay radically shifts from slow-paced methodical survival to fast, predatory combat. The Warden wields the Phase-Dash module (allowing short-range directional teleportation through enemy strikes and environmental lasers), Kinetic Parry Counters, an Overclocked Harvester Device (which drains essence mid-combat to replenish armor plating and weapon energy), and modular Suit Enhancements that alter teleport cooldowns, melee shockwave radii, and firearm critical strike chances.

Tracks span six distinct, hyper-detailed Star Wars planetary environments designed with dynamic branching paths, hazardous terrain, and verticality. Locales include the rusted industrial scrap shipyards of Corellia, the treacherous crimson salt-flats and crystalline ravines of Crait, the dense canopy and root tunnels of Kashyyyk, the cloud-city atmospheric exhaust pylons of Bespin, the volcanic magma tubes of Sullust, and the neon-lit casino city outskirts and canyon rifts of Canto Bight. Dynamic track events such as seismic sandstorms, falling Imperial wreckage, and native fauna stampedes force pilots to adjust their racing lines in real time.

The expansion centers on the Terminal, a sprawling multi-tiered Eastern European brutalist installation composed of interconnected zones: the Monolithic Reactor Core, the Abandoned Rail Classification Yard, the Cryogenic Decontamination Sinks, the Corrupted Botanical Hydro-Labs, and the Sub-Level Archive Vaults. The environment blends claustrophobic corridors with cavernous industrial chambers optimized for fast teleportation traversal and tactical verticality.

• Viper-X Heavy Landspeeder: Armored Landspeeder
  A customized dual-turbine terrestrial craft featuring reinforced durasteel plating and immense ramming kinetic force.
• Apex Skim-Speeder: Ski-Speeder / Drifter
  A high-stability monowing craft utilizing a retractable stabilizer fin to carve precision high-speed drift arcs.
• Ghost-Runner Swoop Bike: Light Repulsorbike
  A minimalist, stripped-down racing bike with exposed thrusters delivering unmatched acceleration at extreme personal risk.
• N-1 Star-Skimmer (Deluxe Edition): Modified Starfighter Chassis
  A modified terrestrial repulsorcraft converted from a sleek Naboo N-1 starfighter airframe with chrome finish.

• Collective Transit Railcar: Armored Monorail
  Heavy fortified freight train utilized by Collective pathfinders to navigate across contaminated wasteland sectors.
• Industrial Shaft Elevator: Hydraulic Freight Hoist
  Massive deep-shaft lift connecting the surface staging areas to the subterranean Terminal reactor levels.

• Vulptex (Crystal Fox): Canine Mammal
  Native crystal-furred creatures that dash across subterranean shortcuts on Crait, signaling hidden cavern exits.
• Bantha: Large Herbivore
  Massive lumbering beasts wandering desert canyon fringes that act as stationary collision hazards.
• Tibanna Gas Whale (Beldon): Colossal Atmospheric Creature
  Gigantic fauna drifting through Bespin's clouds, creating majestic backdrop visuals and hazardous turbulent wind corridors.
• Fathier: Space Equine
  Towering racing beasts seen galloping through pasture paddocks near the Canto Bight track perimeters.

• Apex Hunter: Engineered Bio-Mechanical Organism
  A terrifying, relentless predator dispatched by the Collective that stalks the player dynamically through the facility.
• Corrupted Carcass Stalker: Mutated Quadruped
  Fast, skittering bio-mass hounds that swarm in packs and leap from shadowed ceilings and maintenance grates.
• Spore Leaper: Parasitic Bio-Form
  Agile subterranean creatures that detonate upon close proximity, releasing blinding toxic spores.

• Shade: Rookie Repulsor Pilot (Protagonist)
  A gifted scrap mechanic and fearless pilot determined to conquer the Galactic League and secure freedom from syndicate debt.
• Varek: Pyke Syndicate Champion
  A brutal, cybernetically augmented alien racer known for using ruthless vehicular takedowns to eliminate competition.
• Sulla: Chief Engineer & Mentor
  A veteran Sullustan mechanic whose technical genius keeps Shade's custom repulsorcraft competitive against elite factory teams.
• Jaxen Voss: Galactic League Commissioner
  An influential Outer Rim fixer and underworld syndicate boss who arranges high-stakes purse races and clandestine contracts.
• Zephyr: Daredevil Swoop Racer
  An agile thrill-seeker piloting hyper-fragile swoop bikes, known for mastering suicidal high-altitude shortcuts.

• The Warden: Protagonist / Rogue Pathfinder
  An elite combat operative of the Collective who breaks all protocols to execute the forbidden Lazarus resurrection mission.
• The Apex Hunter: Antagonist / Relentless Executioner
  A grotesque, cybernetic apex predator programmed to track and eradicate rogue personnel across the Terminal facility.
• Magdalena: Key Narrative Figure / Lost Essence
  A central figure from the Warden's past whose lingering essence is the sole focus of the Lazarus Protocol.

• The Corellia Scrapyard Derby: Circuit Championship Race
  Survive a chaotic 12-craft brawl through collapsing Star Destroyer hulks and place in the top three to secure syndicate funding.
• Crait Salt-Flat Sunder: High-Stakes Syndicate Elimination
  Outrun a catastrophic seismic fissure across the red mineral plains while destroying Varek's armored vanguard.
• The Cloud City Apex: Grand Prix Finals
  Navigate high-altitude wind shears and industrial atmospheric conduits in Bespin to win the Galactic League Championship Cup.

• Breach: The Terminal Perimeter: Expansion Campaign Infiltration
  Sever communications with the Collective, breach the quarantined industrial rail yard, and enter the lower facility.
• Stalker in the Sinks: Survival & Boss Encounter
  Navigate the flooded cryogenic cooling sectors while evading and counter-attacking the stalking Apex Hunter.
• The Lazarus Protocol: Climactic Final Battle
  Defend the resurrection chamber against waves of biomechanical horrors and successfully revive the lost essence.

Features 12-player online competitive multiplayer across multiple game types: Standard Grand Prix (high-speed circuit racing), Eliminator (last-place pilot eliminated every lap), Syndicate Wars (team-based escort and tactical ramming matches), and High-Roller Bounty (players wager credits on rival pilot takedowns before green light). Also includes full offline single-player roguelite career mode and two-player split-screen on consoles.

Available in three tiers launching worldwide on October 6, 2026: Standard Edition ($59.99 USD) contains the complete base game and the 'Outer Rim Drifter' pre-order cosmetic pack. Deluxe Edition ($79.99 USD) includes the base game, three exclusive licensed bonus repulsorcraft (including a Naboo N-1 Starfighter modified racer and an Imperial TIE-vessel hybrid), exclusive arcade challenge modes, the Digital Artbook, and 48-hour early access. The physical Collector's Edition ($159.99 USD) includes a premium 1:18 scale die-cast replica of Shade's signature repulsorcraft with working LED thrusters, an embossed steelbook, syndicate challenge coins, and all digital deluxe content.

Standard DLC Expansion ($19.99 USD) requires the base game Cronos: The New Dawn to play across PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2. Deluxe DLC Edition / Complete Bundle ($29.99 USD) includes the original Lazarus dark ambient digital soundtrack by Arkadiusz Reikowski, an exclusive Digital Concept Artbook detailing the brutalist architecture and Hunter evolution, and the 'Renegade Pathfinder' carbon-fiber suit skin.

Fuse Games and Secret Mode have outlined a multi-season post-launch roadmap without pay-to-win microtransactions. Upcoming seasonal updates will introduce new planetary circuits (including Tatooine Podracing relics and Nar Shaddaa sky-tracks), seasonal syndicate sponsorship contracts, new vehicle chassis classes, and limited-time community bounty hunts.

Post-launch developer roadmap features include an intense 'Terminal Gauntlet' survival horde mode with randomized enemy waves and temporal hazard modifiers, a Boss Rush challenge arena testing mastery over the apex Hunter encounters, speedrun leaderboards, and full Steam Deck and handheld optimization patches.

• Q: What is STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™?
  A: STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™ is a runs-based, high-stakes arcade combat racing adventure developed by Fuse Games and published by Secret Mode in partnership with Lucasfilm Games, set in the underground racing circuit of the Outer Rim.
• Q: When is the release date for STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™?
  A: The game is officially scheduled to release worldwide on October 6, 2026.
• Q: What platforms will the game be playable on?
  A: It will launch on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store.
• Q: Is this a remake of Star Wars Episode I: Racer?
  A: No. Galactic Racer is a brand-new, modern racing adventure set after the fall of the Empire, featuring new characters, modern repulsorcraft classes (landspeeders, ski speeders, and swoops), roguelite run mechanics, and aggressive combat racing.
• Q: Does STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™ have multiplayer?
  A: Yes. It features full 12-player online cross-play across all platforms, competitive ranked seasons, syndicate clan tournaments, and 2-player local split-screen on console editions.

• Q: What is Cronos: Lazarus?
  A: Cronos: Lazarus is a combat-heavy story expansion and new chapter to Bloober Team's survival horror game Cronos: The New Dawn, starring the Warden.
• Q: Does Cronos: Lazarus require the base game?
  A: Yes, Cronos: Lazarus is a downloadable content (DLC) expansion that requires Cronos: The New Dawn to play.
• Q: How does combat differ from Cronos: The New Dawn?
  A: Lazarus shifts to a faster, more aggressive playstyle with rapid phase-dash teleportation, aggressive melee cleaves, and active essence harvesting.
• Q: What platforms will Cronos: Lazarus release on?
  A: The expansion will be available on PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2.
• Q: When is Cronos: Lazarus releasing?
  A: Cronos: Lazarus is scheduled to launch in Fall 2026.

Leveraging Unreal Engine 5's Nanite and Lumen systems, the game delivers photorealistic sci-fi racing fidelity. Visual highlights include dynamic dust clouds kicked up by repulsor downdrafts, red-hot glowing turbine exhaust manifolds, real-time vehicle deformation with tearing metal panels, and ray-traced reflections on chrome chassis and rain-soaked tracks.

Built natively in Unreal Engine 5 leveraging Nanite virtualized geometry for photorealistic brutalist concrete surfaces, Lumen dynamic global illumination for real-time light bounces in darkness, and advanced Chaos physics for environmental destruction during boss battles.

Features an authentic Star Wars soundscape combining the iconic sound design of Ben Burtt with aggressive modern industrial electronic rock and orchestral brass. Thrusters howl with deep resonant thrumming, repulsors whine when scraping tarmac, and collisions deliver thunderous metallic crunches. The dynamic score reacts dynamically to race position, surging into frantic orchestral crescendos when drafting in first place or surviving critical hull damage.

Scored by renowned horror composer Arkadiusz Reikowski, blending oppressive industrial percussion, distorted Soviet-era analog synthesizers, metallic scraping tones, and visceral spatial audio engineered with Unreal Engine 5's MetaSounds to heighten the terror of the Hunter stalking the player.

Utilizes a crisp, immersive in-cockpit and chase-camera diegetic HUD designed to emulate Star Wars aerospace instrumentation. Features Aurebesh-inspired velocity meters, turbine heat gauges, real-time hull integrity wireframes, drafting slipstream vectors, and syndicate sponsor bounty pop-ups. Fully customizable UI elements allow toggling speedometer units and disabling overlays for cinematic capture.

Features a diegetic and streamlined tactical HUD. The Warden's suit spine illuminates energy nodes indicating available Phase-Dash charges and armor integrity, while weapon ammo counts and essence reserves are projected via holographic readouts on firearm receivers and the wrist-mounted Harvester interface.

Includes extensive motor and visual accessibility options: one-touch auto-acceleration and steering assist, customizable collision bounce-back margins, full controller and keyboard remapping, colorblind visual filters for racing lines and hazard markers, screen shake and motion blur sliders, high-contrast UI modes, and scalable subtitles with speaker identification.

Extensive accessibility suite including individual sliders for combat aggression and enemy damage, customizable auto-aim and target snapping, visual sound indicators for footsteps and monster growls, colorblind rendering modes, full input remapping for controllers and keyboards, and scalable subtitle fonts with speaker tagging.

• Built natively in Unreal Engine 5 leveraging Nanite virtualized geometry and Lumen dynamic global illumination. The PC version features unlocked frame rates, ultrawide (21:9 / 32:9) display support, full force-feedback racing wheel and controller support, and comprehensive shader pre-compilation on first launch.
• Laptop Performance Note: High-speed asset streaming and volumetric atmospheric dust demand consistent GPU power. Laptops should maintain at least 80W TGP to prevent aggressive downclocking during dense multi-racer cluster collisions.
• Laptop Consideration: G P U T G P: Target mobile GPUs with 85W-115W+ TGP for locked 1080p 60 FPS output on High settings.
• Laptop Consideration: Cooling Thermals: High sustained CPU/GPU loads in multi-craft races; utilizing elevated cooling pads or aggressive fan curves prevents thermal throttling.
• Laptop Consideration: C P U Power Limits: Set Windows Power Plan to Maximum Performance to avoid frame-time stuttering during rapid speed boost transitions.
• Laptop Consideration: M U X Switch Optimus: Dedicated GPU (dGPU) mode via MUX switch is strongly recommended to eliminate iGPU bandwidth bottlenecks.
• Optimization Detail: Upscaling Tech: Supports NVIDIA DLSS 3.7 (Super Resolution & Frame Generation), AMD FSR 3.1, and Intel XeSS 1.3.
• Optimization Detail: Key Settings Impact: Volumetric Fog, Motion Blur Precision, and Screen-Space Reflections have the highest impact on rendering overhead.
• Game Name: STAR WARS: Galactic Racer

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system. DirectX 12 is required. Solid-state drive (SSD) installation is mandatory for fast level streaming and seamless phase-teleport traversal.
• Laptop Performance Note: Unreal Engine 5 Nanite geometry and Lumen dynamic lighting demand steady mobile GPU power; a sustained 75W+ TGP is strongly advised to maintain 60 FPS during intensive combat brawls.
• Laptop Consideration: G P U T G P: 60W minimum mobile TGP for 1080p 60 FPS; 95W+ TGP recommended for high refresh 1440p displays.
• Laptop Consideration: Cooling Thermals: Ensure elevated laptop chassis and unrestricted intake vents to curb CPU thermal throttling during multi-enemy particle collisions.
• Laptop Consideration: C P U Power Limits: Sustained 40W CPU power delivery avoids micro-stutter when rapid teleport dashes stream high-poly brutalist assets.
• Laptop Consideration: M U X Switch Optimus: Activating discrete GPU mode via MUX switch significantly cuts input lag for responsive dodge counters and quick-turn aiming.
• Optimization Detail: Upscaling Tech: Features native support for NVIDIA DLSS 3.7 (Super Resolution and Frame Generation), AMD FSR 3.1, and Intel XeSS.
• Optimization Detail: Key Settings Impact: Lumen Global Illumination, Volumetric Fog Quality, and Screen Space Reflections exert the heaviest GPU impact.
• Game Name: Cronos: Lazarus

• Upscaling Tech: Supports NVIDIA DLSS 3.7 (Super Resolution & Frame Generation), AMD FSR 3.1, and Intel XeSS 1.3.
• Key Settings Impact: Volumetric Fog, Motion Blur Precision, and Screen-Space Reflections have the highest impact on rendering overhead.

• Upscaling Tech: Features native support for NVIDIA DLSS 3.7 (Super Resolution and Frame Generation), AMD FSR 3.1, and Intel XeSS.
• Key Settings Impact: Lumen Global Illumination, Volumetric Fog Quality, and Screen Space Reflections exert the heaviest GPU impact.

• G P U T G P: Target mobile GPUs with 85W-115W+ TGP for locked 1080p 60 FPS output on High settings.
• Cooling Thermals: High sustained CPU/GPU loads in multi-craft races; utilizing elevated cooling pads or aggressive fan curves prevents thermal throttling.
• C P U Power Limits: Set Windows Power Plan to Maximum Performance to avoid frame-time stuttering during rapid speed boost transitions.
• M U X Switch Optimus: Dedicated GPU (dGPU) mode via MUX switch is strongly recommended to eliminate iGPU bandwidth bottlenecks.

• G P U T G P: 60W minimum mobile TGP for 1080p 60 FPS; 95W+ TGP recommended for high refresh 1440p displays.
• Cooling Thermals: Ensure elevated laptop chassis and unrestricted intake vents to curb CPU thermal throttling during multi-enemy particle collisions.
• C P U Power Limits: Sustained 40W CPU power delivery avoids micro-stutter when rapid teleport dashes stream high-poly brutalist assets.
• M U X Switch Optimus: Activating discrete GPU mode via MUX switch significantly cuts input lag for responsive dodge counters and quick-turn aiming.