Mario Kart World, the best game soundtrack of 2025, just hit Nintendo Music

Last year saw some great, dramatic, cinematic game soundtracks: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33‘s, by Lorien Testard, won almost every award going, while Woodkid and Ludvig Forssell’s Death Stranding 2 and Toma Otowa’s Ghost of Yōtei both drew plenty of plaudits. But my favorite soundtrack of 2025 isn’t anything like those, and didn’t get any nominations. It was Mario Kart World.