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11 Star Wars: Galactic Racer is built around runs rather than a fixed campaign ladder, and the unit of a run is a tour. The developers describe the game as a roguelite, and the tour is where that label earns itself. You enter a tour, race through it, and either come out the far side or wreck out and start over with a little more than you had before. This page covers how a tour is put together and what survives between attempts.
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33 What a tour is
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66 A tour spans three acts and is randomized each time you start one, so the exact sequence of events changes from run to run. Over its length a tour carries you across multiple worlds, roughly six distinct ones, with the challenge escalating as you go. Branching paths through the tour hand out different rewards, so part of the strategy is choosing which events to chase and which to skip. The worlds themselves are covered in Planets and Circuits.
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88 Event Types
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1010 The events that fill a tour are not all the same kind of race. Alongside standard races, a tour mixes in a handful of distinct event types, and the variety is part of what keeps a run from feeling repetitive.
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1212 EventWhat It Asks Of YouStandard raceA normal race against the rest of the field; place near the front to keep your run aliveField TestA time challenge: hit a target time in a vehicle you may not be used toEliminatorCompetitors are culled as the race goes on until only the top three remainMystery EncounterAn event whose nature is not revealed up front
1313 When you begin a run you also choose between three difficulty paths, which sets how punishing the road ahead will be. Combined with the branching routes through the tour, that choice shapes both the challenge and the rewards on offer.
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1515 Getting in: the League Entry Token
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1717 You cannot just join a tour. Competing requires a League Entry Token, which is the gate into The Galactic League's tour. You earn the Token by qualifying, and holding onto it is the whole game.
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1919 Wrecking out
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2121 The Token is conditional. If you crash too many times, or you fail to place in the top three of an event, the League revokes it and you wreck out of the tour. Wrecking out drops you back to the qualifiers, where you race to re-earn a Token and start a fresh tour. This is the roguelite loop in plain terms: a strong run can collapse, and when it does you go again from the front of the line.
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2323 ElementDetailTour lengthThree acts, randomized each runWorlds per tourAround six distinct worldsEntry requirementLeague Entry TokenWreck-out triggersToo many crashes, or failing to finish top three in an eventAfter wreck-outRestart qualifiers to re-earn a Token
2424 What carries over
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2626 Not everything resets. Only certain perks and unlocks earned on earlier attempts carry into the next one, so you start each tour fresh but not from zero. The narrative goal, toppling Kestar Bool, persists across runs regardless of how any single tour ends, which keeps the campaign moving forward even through a string of bad tours.
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2828 The run economy
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3030 There is a persistent resource economy attached to the loop, used to buy parts from vendors and tune your vehicle, and at least some of it is kept even when you wreck out. The exact name of this resource has not settled in public coverage: some material calls it Galactic Credits and other material refers to a resource called Tuning Parts, and it is not yet clear from the outside whether these are the same thing or two separate resources. Until the game pins it down, treat the persistent currency by what it does rather than by a single fixed name.
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3232 Multiplayer alongside the runs
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34-The runs-based campaign is single-player, but the game also carries PvP multiplayer in the form of grudge matches for one to twelve players, with cross-platform support and no season pass. It sits beside the tour structure rather than inside it; the customization and class choices you learn in Gameplay and Controls carry across into it.
34+The runs-based campaign is single-player, but the game also carries PvP multiplayer in the form of grudge matches for two to twelve players, with cross-platform support and no season pass. It sits beside the tour structure rather than inside it; the customization and class choices you learn in Gameplay and Controls carry across into it.