Star Wars: Galactic Racer is absolutely a Star Wars game, and familiar locations, musical motifs, and characters will delight fans. But mentioning Star Wars these days feels like someone playing a song I’ve heard too many times. Fortunately, "Star Wars" is the least interesting aspect of Galactic Racer. Developer Fuse Games crafted an excellent racing roguelite that’s enthralling, challenging, and hard to put down, even when minor frustrations choke its engines. This fun spills over into the game’s various other modes, too, making for a robust package with no shortage of tournaments to speed through.

Galactic Racer’s campaign is the foundation of Fuse’s revival of the Star Wars racer. You first compete to join the Galactic League to thwart champion Kestar Bool, an alien responsible for your prior imprisonment. Once in, you compete in a multi-planetary tournament and hopefully defeat him, bringing shame and embarrassment to Kestar and the treacherous Bool family.…