Almost a decade later, Mario Kart has returned with an all-new instalment for the Switch 2, inviting keen racers to our first open-world entry in the series: Mario Kart World. As you’d expect, Nintendo’s top racing game brings back plenty of familiar faces, including the titular Mario, of course, but the roster of available characters is longer than ever this time around.

You can drift around tracks as Super Mario 64’s Penguins, Super Mario World’s Chargin’ Chucks, or even Moo Moo Meadows’ Cows. These three only scratch the surface of who you can choose to play as, so without further ado, here’s exactly how to unlock all Mario Kart World characters.

How to unlock all Mario Kart World characters

Mario Kart World boasts a range of human and anthropomorphic characters to race around a track as, but you’ll have your work cut out for you trying to unlock them all.

First things first, a new character is unlocked for each Grand Prix you play and finish; it doesn’t matter where you place during these races, either. Simply complete a Grand Prix, and provided it’s one you haven’t played before, you’ll unlock one of the following characters:

• Birdo
• Bowser Jr.
• Daisy
• Donkey Kong
• King Boo
• Lakitu
• Rosalina

After completing all seven Grand Prix at least once, you’ll unlock the eighth and final Grand Prix – the Special Cup – and will have unlocked all seven of the above characters. Now, what about the rest?

To unlock the rest of the characters available in Mario Kart World, you’ll need to become affected by a Kamek Transformation. Kamek is a brand-new, very rare item that you or other players have a chance of receiving from the rainbow-coloured item blocks around a track (or in free-roam).

Upon use by yourself or another player, Kamek will fly around the course – in front of the player who used the item – transforming players into a different character, just for fun. If you are lucky and happen to be transformed into a character you don’t yet have, such as Coin Coffer, Dolphin, or Cataquack, you’ll permanently unlock that character.

So simply put, unlocking the majority of Mario Kart World’s roster of characters is a matter of taking part in races and hoping yourself or a fellow racer receives Kamek.

On top of that, however, alternate costumes for the main roster of characters can be unlocked by eating Dash Foods – shiny, yellow lunchbags – found outside of various food stalls across the map.

All Mario Kart World characters

To help you keep a track of who you have left to unlock in Mario Kart World, here are all characters and how they’re unlocked:

For more on Mario Kart World, take a look at our guide to how to unlock all vehicles in the game.

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What would Mario Kart World even be if it didn’t have a huge roster of karts, bikes, and buggies for you to race around its tracks in? There’s plenty of returning fan favourites to hop into, such as personal favourite Buggybud, as well as some new wheels to look forward to unlocking.

When first starting out in Mario Kart World, you’ll have approximately 10 different vehicles to choose from, with more unlocking as you play more of the game. In this guide, we’ve detailed all vehicles in Mario Kart World and how to unlock them.

How to unlock all Mario Kart World vehicles

Mario Kart World has approximately 10 different vehicles unlocked upon starting the game, but as you complete plenty of races or roam the open-world, you’ll find yourself unlocking a new vehicle for every 100 coins you collect.

There are 29 vehicles to be unlocked by collecting coins, which means gathering 3000 coins in total. This might seem like a lot, but if you’re doing plenty of racing – especially with friends in local co-op – you’ll wind up gathering these coins in no time.

As it stands, I found myself unlocking a new vehicle after every Grand Prix or Knockout Tour I did (and I was playing these solo), so it shouldn’t take you too long to get your hands on that cool-looking, speedy kart you want.

Here are all Mario Kart World vehicles and how they are unlocked:

For more on Mario Kart World, take a look at our list of all characters and how to unlock them.

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While Mario Kart 8 Deluxe had some customisation options, such as being able to choose which colour Yoshi or Shy Guy you are, Mario Kart World has done away with that in favour of costumes for its most famous characters. Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, and even Pauline from Super Mario Odyssey all have their own alternate costumes for you to unlock and kit them out in.

From Cowboy Mario and Explorer Toad to Biker Bowser and Wampire Waluigi (yes, Wampire), there’s dozens of different outfits to unlock and little time to waste! Here’s how to unlock all costumes in Mario Kart World, as well as a list of exactly which characters have costumes available.

How to unlock all Mario Kart World costumes

Costumes in Mario Kart World are unlocked by collecting and consuming Dash Foods, which are shiny yellow lunch bags found outside of food stalls run by Yoshis (shown below).

That said, costumes are only available for a select amount of characters in Mario Kart World, and are primarily limited to the series’ most famous faces such as Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Toad. Playable characters such as the Cow, Chargin’ Chuck, and so forth, do not have costumes to unlock.

The characters that have costumes available to unlock, and just how many they have (including their default costumes), are as follows (with thanks to our friends over at IGN):

• Mario – 10 costumes
• Luigi – 9 costumes
• Peach – 9 costumes
• Daisy – 7 costumes
• Yoshi – 9 costumes
• Bowser – 5 costumes
• Donkey Kong – 2 costumes
• King Boo – 4 costumes
• Wario – 8 costumes
• Waluigi – 6 costumes
• Toad – 5 costumes
• Toadette – 5 costumes
• Rosalina – 5 costumes
• Pauline – 1 costume
• Koopa Troopa – 6 costumes
• Baby Mario – 4 costumes
• Baby Luigi – 3 costumes
• Baby Peach – 5 costumes
• Baby Daisy – 5 costumes
• Baby Rosalina – 5 costumes
• Bowser Jr – 4 costumes
• Shy Guy – 3 costumes
• Lakitu – 3 costumes
• Birdo – 3 costumes

The most efficient way of unlocking costumes is done in free roam in Mario Kart World. This way, you can fast-travel to whichever track is home to the Dash Food you need for the costume you wish to unlock, while playing as the character you wish to unlock a costume for. You can then repeat this process – either by switching characters or fast-travelling between tracks and their Dash Food stalls – to quickly try and unlock all costumes.

To learn exactly which track (and stall) to get each Dash Food from, here’s our list of all Dash Food locations.

That said, while efficient, this isn’t the most fun way of doing things! If you’d rather unlock costumes while racing, then do that while keeping a careful eye on Dash Foods around the track. Make sure to switch courses so you can collect a range of different Dash Food, and therefore costumes!

Mario Kart World Mario costumes

Mario Kart World Luigi costumes

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Mario Kart World Waluigi costumes

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Mario Kart World Toad costumes

Mario Kart World Toadette costumes

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Mario Kart World Koopa Troopa costumes

Mario Kart World Baby Mario costumes

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Mario Kart World Baby Peach costumes

Mario Kart World Baby Daisy costumes

Mario Kart World Baby Rosalina costumes

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Mario Kart World Donkey Kong costumes

Mario Kart World King Boo costumes

Mario Kart World Shy Guy costumes

Mario Kart World Lakitu costumes

Mario Kart World Birdo costumes

Mario Kart World Pauline costumes

For more on Mario Kart World, take a look at all vehicles and how to unlock them, as well as where to find all Peach Medallions and where to find all P Switch missions.

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While the latest instalment in the Mario Kart series – Mario Kart World – has arrived without a 200cc mode, it has fortunately still got a Mirror Mode hidden away for you to unlock. That said, figuring out the exact prerequisites for Mirror Mode becoming available has been a challenge in and of itself.

Fortunately, after some testing, it turns out that Mirror Mode isn’t too much of a grind to unlock once you know exactly what you need to do. On top of that, Mirror Mode isn’t exclusive to racing; you can even explore the free-roam map in Mirror Mode too! Without further ado, here’s exactly how to unlock Mirror Mode in Mario Kart World.

How to unlock Mirror Mode in Mario Kart World

To unlock Mirror Mode in Mario Kart World, you want to complete the following list of tasks:

• Complete all Grand Prix (150cc)
• Complete all Knockout Tours (150cc)
• Find at least 10 Peach Medallions
• Find at least 10 Hidden Question (?) Panels
• Complete at least 10 P Switch mission

Once you have completed the above checklist, go ahead and complete the Special Cup (Grand Prix) once more.

After the Grand Prix, the credits will roll and then be followed by a brief cutscene. You will then get the ‘You have unlocked Mirror Mode’ pop-up!

Mirror Mode will then become an available difficulty when selecting a Grand Prix, Knockout Tour, or VS Race, but you can explore the open-world map in Mirror Mode while free-roaming as well.

How to Mirror Mode free-roam in Mario Kart World

To explore the free-roam map in Mirror Mode, you’ll want to travel to the Peach Stadium track and make your way to Peach’s Castle. At the top of the castle, there is a stained-glass window depicting Peach – taken straight out of Super Mario 64 – that you can drive into.

From where you spawn into the area (assuming you have fast-travelled to it), drive forward and take the left-most road. Follow the road around and keep looking right, until you see a red-tiled roof you can drive onto (shown below).

Just up ahead, you’ll see the stained-glass window depicting Peach that we’ve been on about!

Drive on inside, and when you re-emerge from the window, the free-roam map will now be mirrored!

For more on Mario Kart World, take a look at how to unlock all characters, all of their costumes, and how to unlock all vehicles.

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