Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge

• 1. Introduction

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  Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge arrived on the 19th of November, 2020, built for Oculus Quest headsets. ILMxLab designed the game's graphics. Players stepped into the role of a droid mechanic on the planet Batuu, caught between criminal gangs and blaster fire. The game drew its world from a physical place: the Galaxy's Edge lands at Disneyland Park and Disney's Hollywood Studios. How a theme park setting translated into a virtual reality shooter is one question this story traces. Why the game kept finding new audiences years after its launch is another.

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• 2. Seezelslak's Stories

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  The Guavian Death Gang's leader, Tara Rashin, is the first character the droid mechanic faces after crash landing on Batuu. Between firefights with the gang, the mechanic finds a bar run by Seezelslak. The bartender becomes the game's structural device. His stories carry the mechanic into episodes spanning different eras of the Star Wars timeline. What begins as a single-location shooter becomes something closer to an anthology. The downloadable content, subtitled Last Call, brought in Dok-Ondar, a treasure dealer first mentioned in the film Solo: A Star Wars Story. He sends the mechanic on new adventures through the darkest parts of Black Spire Outpost. That content later earned a VR Game of the Year nomination at the VR Awards 2022.

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• 3. Critics and Charts

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  On OpenCritic, the game earned a score of 74, with mostly positive notices alongside complaints about its short length. The 15th of September, 2021 brought the release of Last Call, and with it a shift in how critics read the title. The content drew favorable notices from most reviewers who had found the original game too short. AndroidCentral gave it 4.5 stars out of 5. Geeks of Color called it "the ultimate playground for Star Wars fans." TechRadar counted it among the best Star Wars games available.

  In 2023, Last Call ranked 4th among the most-downloaded PlayStation VR2 games in the United States and Canada, and 6th in Europe. In 2024, the numbers held close: 5th in the United States and Canada, and 6th again in Europe. By 2025, Last Call had joined the best-selling titles on the Meta Quest platform of all time.

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