Mario Kart World
Mario Kart World is a kart racing game for the Nintendo Switch 2, featuring characters from the Mario franchise. It introduces an open-world design to the series, allowing players to drive freely between…
Mario Kart World is an adventure developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 9, released 5 June 2025 on Nintendo Switch 2. The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What Mario Kart World is
Mario Kart World is an adventure game developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 9 and released in 2025. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mario Kart World is a 2025 kart racing game developed by Nintendo EPD for the Nintendo Switch 2. As in previous Mario Kart games, players control Mario characters as they race against opponents. World introduces an open-world design and mode, off-roading techniques, an elimination mode, and unlockable costumes for the playable characters. Races support up to 24 players, twice as many as previous Mario Kart games.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, open world and party. It supports multiplayer for up to 24 players online. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Mario series
Mario Kart World is the 660th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. It arrived 7 months after Mario & Luigi: Brothership. The next entry was Super Mario Party Jamboree: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV in 2025. Its critic score of 92 is 15 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.
How it was received
Mario Kart World holds a critic score of 92 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Players rate it 85, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs.
What it launched against
Mario Kart World launched on 5 June 2025, within three weeks of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Doom: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening and The Alters. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 8 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Doom: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening, The Alters.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Mario Kart World yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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