Mario Kart Tour is no longer playable. Nintendo took the mobile racer offline at 22:59 PT on September 29, the deadline it set when it announced the closure in July, and players can no longer log in to its servers.
Mario Kart Tour was a mobile spin-off of the Mario Kart series, released in September 2019 as a free-to-play game. It made its money from microtransactions, among them a gacha pipe system for unlocking new characters that drew criticism and was removed in 2022.
At the point it closed, the game carried 267 playable characters including alternate outfits, 340 karts, 238 gliders and 546 courses, built up across the 93 tours it ran over its lifetime.
What the game earned
Video Games Chronicle cited estimates from the analytics firm AppMagic, reported by Mobilegamer.biz, that Mario Kart Tour was downloaded more than 276 million times since launch and generated around $268.5 million for Nintendo over its seven-year lifespan.
AppMagic's figures put the game's monthly revenue at around $5 million to $6 million for most of 2020 and 2021. By the time Nintendo announced the closure in July 2026, that had fallen to roughly $650,000 a month.
A final post
The Mario Kart Tour account on X marked the shutdown with a final post listing the 93 tours introduced over the course of the game, alongside a message to players.
The many stats we've looked at show how much time you've spent with Mario Kart Tour. Thank you for supporting the game these past seven years.
