A twin-engine pod racing through a red desert canyon toward a stone arch

A hover-pod canyon racer

Pod Racer

Two engines, one seat and a canyon wall on either side.
Five worlds. Fifteen courses. Go.

Actual gameplay · Tavrith

See it in motion

Watch
the trailer.

Thirty seconds, captured in the game.

Lights out

Fast, loud
and very close.

Strap into a pod pulled by two engines and throw it down courses cut straight into the landscape: canyons, slot ravines, caves and cliff drops.

Seven rivals start beside you. Boost past the redline, slide the tail out for a turbo and keep the hull in one piece to the flag.

Free to playPlays in your browserFive worldsNothing to install

Actual gameplay: a pod at speed in a sunlit desert canyon with the HUD showing position and speed

Tavrith

No road.
Just the canyon.

There is no painted track. Every course runs through the terrain itself, with real ravines under the jumps. Win the Dune Sea Circuit, the Frostbite Cup, the Forge Cup, the Skyline Cup and the Void Cup.

Three courses on every world
A boss rival at the end of each cup
Keyboard or gamepad

Three ways to get ahead

Race, fight
and tune.

Race

Eight pods,
one line.

Draft behind the pod in front, lean into the bends and hold a powerslide long enough to pay out a turbo.

Space to boost, Shift to slide.

A pod with a turbo power-up beside a rival in the canyon

Power-ups

Pick up,
stack, fire.

Rockets, oil and mines, a shield and a turbo. Collect white amps to stack any of them up to three levels.

E to fire.

The workshop

Build your
own pod.

Swap the pod, engines, binders, fins and power cell, tune the chassis and paint it. Every part changes how it drives.

Six stats, nine makers.

A pod racing through a purple trench on a shattered moon

Heat is
the whole game.

Boost builds heat. Past the redline you go faster still, and at one hundred percent the engines blow out.

Hold R to repair on the move. It costs you speed, so pick your moment.

Four of the five worlds

Every world
drives differently.

Sand drags, ice slides and lava does what lava does.

A desert canyon course on Tavrith — Tavrith, Kryos, Mordrak and Aurelia. The fifth is Orbis.

Nine corners of the circuit

Go on.
Pick a line.

All of it captured from races as they ran.

Orbis.

Trench runs on a shattered moon.

Boost pad.

Hit it straight.

Cirrus Gorge.

Layered rock on both sides.

Shield up.

Someone behind you has a rocket.

Cinder Gutter.

Cracks full of lava.

In the pack.

Sparks when hulls touch.

Rimefall Run.

Under the aurora.

Oil slick loaded.

A present for whoever follows.

The Grand Classic.

Where the desert opens up.

Every screenshot on this page is captured in the game. Select one for a closer look.

Flat out

Blink and
it is behind you.

Top speed climbs past nine hundred on the dial. The walls do not move.

A pod passing under a stone arch at speed — The Grand Classic

A pod and a rival in a canyon — Beggar's Canyon

Chase camera, two enginesActual gameplay

One tab, five worlds

A racer
to play.

The whole game runs right here in your browser, with nothing to install.

W A S D: Drive
Space: Boost
Shift: Powerslide
E: Fire power-up
R: Repair
C: Camera

Chrome, Safari, Edge & FirefoxKeyboard or gamepadBuilt with Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5

Engines hot

The grid
is waiting.

Get Pod Racer free.
Play in your browser.

An unofficial fan creation, made for fun and inspired by the podrace in Star Wars: Episode I. Star Wars belongs to Lucasfilm and Disney. Not affiliated with or endorsed by them.

Pod Racer

Watch the trailer.

Fast, loud and very close.

No road. Just the canyon.

Race, fight and tune.

Eight pods, one line.

Pick up, stack, fire.

Build your own pod.

Heat is the whole game.

Every world drives differently.

Go on. Pick a line.