Kirby Air Riders

Game Informer

Charles Harte·Nov 26, 2025

Critic85/100

Agreement—

Kirby Air Riders overflows with Sakurai’s signature style, making bold creative choices even if it limits the game’s appeal to a slightly narrower audience.

Eurogamer

Alex Donaldson·Nov 20, 2025

Critic80/100

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Kirby Air Riders pushes beyond the confines of a traditional racing game and serves up a fascinating genre-defying party racer.

IGN

Logan Plant·Nov 19, 2025

Critic80/100

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This unexpected sequel makes a significant leap forward.

GameSpot

Jake Dekker·Nov 19, 2025

Critic80/100

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Kirby Air Riders is an impressive package that makes the most of its deceivingly simple mechanics.

GamesRadar+

Rollin Bishop·Nov 19, 2025

Critic80/100

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Kirby Air Riders is perhaps an ideal video game in that it's easy to overlook its flaws because it's just fun enough to play over and over again.

Nintendo Life

PJ O'Reilly·Nov 19, 2025

Critic80/100

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Kirby Air Riders is a cracking sequel that gives solo players much more to dig into with its story campaign, whilst also bringing all-new levels of shiny graphics, bells and whistles to its returning City Trial, Air Ride, and Top Down Racing modes. This is a chaotic and frenzied racer, there's no doubt, but it's got depth for those who wish to learn and plenty of competition to be had both online and at harder difficulties for diehards.With lots of excellent tracks, riders and machines to unlock, sat alongside some surprisingly deep machine customisation, Kirby's latest air riding adventure is off to a strong start. Oh, and that soundtrack!