Since its release Sept. 29, 2025, Sonic Racing Crossworlds has received a large variety of additional game content and updates, the most defining of which being additional crossover racers, each from a variety of games and television shows. These post launch characters are either paid content or free updates accessible to all players, with most memorable characters desired by fans making the cross-over racing game feel even more multiversal. Here are the top 10 post launch character additions to Sonic Racing: Crossworlds based on quality and fan reception.

10. Joker (Persona Series)

The iconic Phantom Thief, originating as the protagonist of the role-playing game Persona 5, Joker arrives with only a small handful of five re-used music tracks from his debut game and its many spin-off’s. Joker’s plain character model, with an appearance almost identical to his decade old debut title, makes the thief reek as an early post launch inclusion. Joker is lacking the quality and unique content of even subsequent free characters.

9. AiAi (Super Monkey Ball)

The titular Monkey Ball protagonists ‘Banana Cruiser” cart is amusing but the lack of an iconic marble vehicle unique to the Monkey Ball franchise feels like a missed opportunity for AiAi. AiAI has made plenty appearances in most previous Sonic Racing titles such as Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, which makes his re-debut feel less surprising and more underwhelming. More is needed for the titular monkey ball protagonist’s appearance to feel truly bananas.

8. Nights (Nights into Dreams)

Being the second original creation by Sonic Team, Night’s inclusion was inevitable and was rightfully represented by their unique hoverboard design and additional music. However, Night’s in-game design and lack of reference to their debut title, evident in the music, feels disheartening to fans of the character; Night’s long history has not been acknowledged by developers or Sega for years.

Red’s pitiful three music tracks and lack of general fan reception amounts to a very lackluster inclusion for the mobile game icon. However, Sonic Team’s and Rovio’s choice of only including a vehicle and music from Angry Birds own racing game, Angry Birds Go, is commendable, showing how much the creatives care for the franchise they chose to include.

6. Spongebob and Patrick

The two Nickelodeon icon’s appearance as guest characters is surprising but falls short from capturing the identity of the Spongebob series. The lack of identifiable references in the Bikini Bottom race course towards the source material is apparent. Additionally, even though all post launch characters lack voice acting, Spongebob and Patrick suffer the most from it; the characters feel incomplete, uncommendable compared to their contemporaries.

5. Steve, Alex and Creeper (Minecraft)

These three almost identical characters, alongside their simplistic race course, makes the price of the Minecraft Pack questionable. The character’s Minecart vehicle on the other hand is simple but easily customizable. Crossworlds has a large amount of customization options, and the simple Minecart is easily able to showcase that front and center. This simplicity and potential for player freedom adds charm to a simple pack of characters.

4. Tangle and Whisper

As the only non-crossover characters to be added as additional content, Tangle The Lemur and Whisper The Wolf had the largest reaction by Sonic fans, as their inclusion was a first for the Sonic franchise; no previous characters that have come from secondary material such as comics have been added to any game beforehand. However beloved, the absence of any full length original music tracks, compared to other free to play characters, can make the lemur and wolf almost feel incomplete as additions.

3. Pac-Man and Team Ghost

Namco’s beloved mascot received a unique full length course, including a unique maze section. The track also includes references to the wider parts of the Pac-Man series. The intelligent use of the game’s skin system to separate Team Ghost into only one character also shows how much time and effort was put into representing the pellet eating hero.

2. Hatsune Miku

Originating as a mascot for digital voice software, Hatsune Miku brought five wholly original music tracks to the game. These tracks were each created by different musicians, utilizing the characters proprietary software. The collaboration between these artists and the games developers make the iconic synthetic singer’s inclusion feel like a love letter to her roots; this love is evident in a wholly original character design, which is a choice not shared by other crossover characters.

1. Megaman and Protoman

The Mega-Man series was represented in Crossworlds with an unfound amount of love and respect. Both the quality of Megaman and Protoman’s character models, along with a brand new item to use during races and head-banging musical remixes, makes the developers’ love of the blue bomber feel palpable.

Long time players of the cross-over racing game to newcomers rolling in a few months late will have plenty of content to drift through, with a roadmap of content still waiting to be added. The quality of these characters, what they bring to the game in track design and the music and vehicles, will nonetheless affect the longevity of Crosswords and its ability to grab the attention of brand new players and maintain their enticed playerbase.