Mario Kart Tour shuts down September 2026, no offline version planned

Nintendo will pull the plug on mobile racer Mario Kart Tour on September 30, 2026 (September 29 at 11 p.m. PT). Unlike Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, which received a paid offline edition after its service ended, Nintendo says an offline version of Mario Kart Tour is “not scheduled for release.” That means the game, which launched in 2019 and introduced courses later folded into the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass, will simply vanish.

Live-service shutdowns are routine by now, but this one stings because it’s Mario Kart, a series whose pre-mobile entries are built to last. You can still fire up Mario Kart 64 on original hardware and have the full game, but in a few months Mario Kart Tour becomes a memory and a pile of server errors. The four years of content updates that stopped in 2023 left behind a genuinely solid mobile racer, and soon there will be no way to play it.