Mario Kart Tour

Nintendo's 2019 mobile Mario Kart, built around two-week themed tours and city-inspired courses.

Mario Kart Tour is a kart racing game for Android and iOS, developed and published by Nintendo and released on September 25, 2019. Rather than a fixed set of cups, it runs a rotating series of themed tours, each offering cups made of three courses and a bonus challenge. Its tracks mix classic courses from earlier Mario Kart games with new ones inspired by real-world cities. The launch was huge, with 90.1 million downloads in the first week, a record for a Nintendo mobile title. Critics liked its simple controls but objected to its monetization and gacha system. Nintendo announced on July 8, 2026, that the game would end service on September 30, 2026.

Quick Facts

Publisher

Nintendo

Producer

Hideki Konno

Director

Kosuke Yabuki
Yugo Hayashi
Shinya Fujiwara

Programmer

Erika Abe

Engine

Unity

Platforms

Android, iOS

Released

September 25, 2019

Genre

Kart racing

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Background

Nintendo revealed a mobile Mario Kart in January 2018 and ran a closed beta for Android users in 2019. The game missed its original target of a release by March 2019 but arrived that September, passing ten million downloads within a day. Multiplayer was tested in December 2019 and January 2020 and launched fully on March 8, 2020. Later updates added landscape play, Miis as racers, and in 2022 the removal of the controversial ruby spotlight pipe in favour of a regular shop, along with a returning battle mode. New content stopped on October 4, 2023, after which Nintendo reran older tours, and many of the game's courses were carried over to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Mario Kart World.

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