Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is the best title on the Switch 2 by FAR. A delightfully fast-paced battle royale with simple controls that offers hours and hours of fun for the whole family, whether you're online or playing solo. I'm not a fan of games like this, usually. Sakurai, the developer, just does NOT miss. If you're going to pick up any one title when you get your switch, skip Mario Kart and get Kirby Air Riders instead!

His might be the best Switch 2 game I have played. It’s a fun racing game. Feels like Super Smash Bros but on wheels. 12/10 highly recommended.

Very satisfied with this game. The gameplay is engaging, the graphics look great, and performance is smooth. Everything worked as expected with no issues during installation or play. The game offers good content and replay value, making it enjoyable for both casual and dedicated players. Overall, a great gaming experience and definitely worth it. I would recommend it.

This game is not a remake/remaster but it is very much a lot of the original game again, in a good way. Some of what is new is great, and some of what is new is not so great. Overall this is one I will play from time to time but I don't love it as much as the original game. The main issue is city trial. Being chaotic was always a major appeal of the mode, and it is by far the most interesting mode for most people they spend the most time in. The problem in this title is the cranked the craziness up to 11 in city trial and it becomes too much to keep up with. Once you get some top speed upgrades you usually start going around the map too fast to properly take everything in and you don't have enough time to make decisions about where to go and what to get as much. The mode turns into a lot more of quick reactions instead of any sort of planning or thinking about what to do. You zoom around and miss so many boxes or power ups that you didn't see until you're past it. This makes the mode a lot less fun for most people cause you don't feel so much in control as you do just being along for the ride. The other two modes are more of the same, and some fun but not significantly better than the original and nothing too stand out from any other racer. One new addition is the rogue like mode added with a story. It's kinda good but very long and a lot of the content is a little underwhelming or really short. A run can take 2 hours but a decent amount of it isn't all that fun. Some part are but for how long a run is the great parts get overshadowed by the boring parts usually. I love the original and I like this game, but it did not overall captivate me as much as I hoped.

Super fun game! Definitely not what I expected. The game is very fast face however, the tutorial is really great and breaks down everything at a reasonable pace. This game is awesome and my wife and I are happy with the purchase.

The passion baked into every facet of this game is incredible and is getting rarer and rarer in the AAA game space. Lots of content and tons of replay value simply by how much fun it is to drive around.

Owned the original one many years ago as a kid. This one is amazing! Everything I could have asked for: controls, music, gameplay, customization.

Kirby Air Riders is a refreshing and fun twist on the kart-racer genre — colorful, fast, and packed with personality. While it’s not your typical Mario Kart clone, it brings its own charm and creative ideas to the table that make it stand out. 

[Employee of bestbuy] I have always been a fan of the kirby series, and never got the chance to play kirby air ride when it came out on GameCube. This game is chaotic with a capital C, if you are photosensitive DO NOT GET THIS GAME. It is visually overstimulating but such a blast, and easy to learn. There are a lot of ways to customize your experience with the vehicles and stats, which make it great for strategists and noobs alike.

As someone who grew up with the GameCube Air Ride since 2015, this game was an absolute treat. To all the returning game modes receiving some major tweaks to make them far more enjoyable than their old school counterparts, to the brand new characters and machines that add extra variety to the game design, to all the very fun features that make the game feel so much more joyful, online play and events, machine customization, to even something as simple as collectible gummies. This was an absolute blast to play. Like Nintendo's other Switch 2 games so far, the price tag is a bit steep. If you're willing to bite the bullet, you MIGHT have a special little game in your hands.

Kirby is always fun. Love the graphics and game play for my youngins.

As a fan of Kirby Air Ride on the Gamecube, I can confidently say that this is the successor I've been waiting for! It's a massive improvement from the Gamecube days with so much more added (Characters, Tracks, Story Mode, Online Play, More Vehicles, Tons of Customization, etc). The game also just controls, looks, and feels amazing thanks to all the adjustments that have been made!

Amazing fun and beautiful game. Tons of things to do with a lot of variety.

This game is a beautiful love letter to long time fans of the Original Kirby Air Ride back on the GameCube over 20 years ago! Definitely a Must Buy if you'd played the original and even if you haven't its just simply incredible! The amount of content is massive and leaves you with tons to do and accomplish which is amazing! Highly recommend!

The game is fun and is leaps and bounds better than the original. The addition of more players in city trial really makes it feel even more chaotic which is good. And the addition of a actual single player mode that sort of guides players on how the rest of the game works is very nice. Its a fun game that I would quite call a cart racer, more like a fight on wheels.

Best Kirby Racing game since the SNES, its very nostalgic with enough new twist to keep you experiencing something new with ever race. Tons of characters vehicles and other goodies to unlock. The UI is similar to smash Bros, so is announcer so you'll fell right at home

Wonderful game, so much fun to play. Easy controls and great story .

Great game this is the perfect version of the Nintendo GameCube game just everything dialed to 11 If you don't have any nostalgia for the original or dont like Kirby I wouldn't get it but, If these apply to you and you're looking for a racing game other than Mario kart go for it, also great game to play with the kids.

Kirby is a spicy, delicate lad. Their exploits are always pleasant. This game, right here, can fit so many fun things inside it. “Like what?” you ask? Well, I’ll tell you. There are characters. Many. Machines on which to race and fly and do battle. Game modes? You bet! You can race. Or fly. Or do battle! Mario Kart but with Kirby? No. This is wrong. Don’t think like this. Kirby Air Riders is so much more than this. Kirby Air Riders is more like a poem with no beginning or end. A long, glorious middle. This game has nothing to do with Grand Theft Auto or the price of celery at your local grocery store. It’s about Kirby and their buddies doing races. Collecting power ups. Battling? Occasionally. Is it multiplayer? Yes. Can children play this? Of course, but only if they have the will to succeed and the power to do great things. Everyone should own Kirby Air Riders. Even if they don’t play it, they can put it on a shelf or maybe a little basket. Everyone should have Kirby in a basket by their front door. This is so you don’t forget Kirby when you leave and also Kirby is one of the first to greet you when you return. Go ahead and purchase this game. It cannot be used as an antiseptic.

An amazing fast paced game with a ton of content and very high replay title