Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Reviews
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds delivers a unique racing experience for loyal Sonic fans, captivating them with its worlds, sounds, and design. It's a cohesive game in its own right, packed with customization and modification options.
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While it comes short even compared to some of its predecessors, and can never be accused of being elegant or polished, this game nevertheless nails the essentials and is so overbrimming with energy and chaos that one can't help but be enamored.
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Sonic Racing: Crossworlds is an excellent kart racer from start to finish. It's not just good for a Sonic game but arguably the best kart racer this year, and that's saying something in a year that gave us a new Mario Kart. It's easy to pick up, fun to play, packed with details for fans of the characters, and it remains accessible to newcomers. It's unbelievably fun to blitz around a corner, pop a boost, and rocket through a portal into a land of dinosaurs. If you're looking for a good racer, then Sonic Racing: Crossworlds is everything you could want.
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has a solid foundation but is lacking in content. You can immerse yourself in the excitement of racing, but the lack of a variety of racing modes, especially online, clearly detracts from the game's value. This, combined with the lack of a story, makes it hard to justify the $70 price tag.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Thanks to its abundance of playable characters, large selection of vehicles and neat Gadget Plate system, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is one of the best kart racing games currently available.
In Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, there is no open world, nor does it seek to reinvent what we have been playing for years; instead, it transforms each race into a battlefield, where the most important thing is to never hit the brakes. On the other hand, the lack of content is noticeable: although there are enough tracks and the crossworlds add variety, repeating the same circuits over and over again can become tedious. Hopefully, over time, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds will grow with new content and make the most of the licenses it has on its side. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds features fun, challenging gameplay, a diverse number of characters and tracks. There are also plenty of customization options. Multiplayer is the game's strong point, with a variety of modes both online and offline. However, the single-player content leaves something to be desired, becoming monotonous after a few hours. Furthermore, the Donpa Tickets grind is unnecessarily excessive.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Despite certain issues with the progression and presentation of its proposal, Sonic Racing: Crossworlds is the best racing game featuring the hedgehog that Sega has ever made, as well as a new benchmark for the genre.
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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds' strenghts are in its distinctly arcade feel and sense of speed, it's an incredibly fun kart game with a strong personality that clearly sets it apart from the competition. If you're looking for a kart game and don't own a Nintendo console, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is the answer, but it's also a solid alternative for everyone else, with cross-play undoubtedly adding value to the package, along with the extensive post-launch support already announced.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds features some of the best track variety in the genre as well as a visceral driving experience that has you seamlessly take to the skies, water, and road. If you love kart racers, it's an absolute must-play.
Sonic Racing Crossworlds successfully revives the Sonic kart racing series, setting new standards for the subgenre with its innovative track design, Crossworld system, and deep customization. The experience starts with polished gameplay, peaks with next-gen visuals and energetic music, and sustains engagement through online modes and progression systems. However, flaws like slow progression, unbalanced item pricing, and framerate limits on PC prevent it from achieving masterpiece status. Despite these issues, it remains an entertaining, well-crafted title highly recommended for fans of Sonic, arcade racing, kart racing, and multiplayer games.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is perhaps the biggest surprise of the year for us. Not because it's good, because it's genuinely great. Full of life, vibrancy, joy and celebrating the long history of the blue blur, this is a kart racer that's heavy value for its asking price. Unlike others.
Ignoring its live service nature, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is another solid entry in the kart racing genre — a fun, straightforward, and genuinely addictive arcade experience.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
The theme of traveling between worlds wasn't just a mechanic, it represented the idea of bringing everything possible (and more!) from previous titles to create the ultimate Sonic racing experience. All the development know-how from these games was put to good use, delivering robust and creative content, making Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds the best Sonic racing game and one of the best in the genre.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is a game that effectively blends accessible and dynamic gameplay, capturing the best elements from Sonic’s racing titles of the past 15 years while maintaining the expected chaos of the kart racing genre. The online modes, with active events and crossplay, create a sense of ongoing celebration, while the customization options and the variety of characters and tracks—along with the dynamic lap-switching mechanic—keep the experience fresh and encourage players to constantly rethink their playstyle. Although it lacks a more robust offline mode with additional activities, it stands as one of the best kart racers today and the best entry in the franchise, with great potential for long-term appeal.
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From it’s simple yet dynamic gameplay loop, accessible mechanics, solid roster of characters with more on the way, great selection of tracks to race, a good amount of variety added in especially when playing multiplayer and a nice chunk of unlockables. The blue hedgehog and crew have definitely earned the trophy as one of the most fun games of 2025 and one that I can definitely recommend for Sega fans, kart racer enthusiasts and those who want a game to blast out at parties (locally or online). Don’t skip a lap on this one!
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds embraces speed, energy, and chaos to redefine Sonic as a karting contender - a leap forward for the series.
Playing CrossWorlds, I'm happy to see that it doesn't just carry this title because of the stages' mechanics that change in the middle of the race with portals and crossovers with franchises inside and outside Sega, but it's also a mix that takes and revises several mechanics from previous titles.
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Sonic Racing CrossWorlds doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but with its magical rings it opens a portal to a world of fun that, in both solo and couch multiplayer modes, offers everything a kart racer needs.
Review in Unknown | Read full review
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is a fun and colourful racer that moves the series forward. The CrossWorld mechanic is a clever twist that keeps races unpredictable and exciting. Handling is smooth, tracks are varied, and the different vehicle types make each race feel unique. The soundtrack and visuals give the game plenty of personality, it isn’t perfect as progression can feel slow and items can sometimes create chaotic moments that feel unfair. Occasional visual bugs appear, but none of these issues stop the core gameplay from being fast, fun, and often thrilling. For fans of the series, there is plenty to enjoy and master. Newcomers will find an entertaining ride that captures the chaos and charm of Sonic. In short, CrossWorlds is bold, refreshing, and full of surprises, making it a standout arcade racing game. It fully deserves the Thumb Culture Gold Award, even if it occasionally drops a few rings along the way.