Brazil is the latest destination added to Crazy Taxi: World Tour, the arcade driving revival from SEGA. The “Welcome to Brazil” trailer walks through the map’s cities, coastlines and mountain roads, and shows the familiar fare-chasing gameplay the series is known for. Original Crazy Taxi creator and producer Kenji Kanno unveiled the map during the Brasil Game Show 2026 press conference.
Quick answer: Brazil serves as the fourth map in the five-map single-player World Tour story campaign. Crazy Taxi: World Tour is scheduled to arrive in 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC.
What the Brazil map includes
The map mixes dense urban areas with wide open natural scenery. You drive through city plazas and colorful hillside neighborhoods, then out onto beaches, coastal roads and winding mountain routes. Kanno said the contrast between Brazil’s packed, eclectic streets and its modern city life shaped the team’s design, alongside the beaches and dramatic landscapes.
- City streets, plazas and favela alleyways
- Beaches with volleyball areas and crowds of beachgoers
- Botanical gardens (“Jardim das Plantas”) and large waterfalls
- Mountain peaks, rural estates and a cable car line
- Harbor docks with stunt ramps and a historic colonial church
Gameplay shown in the trailer
The core loop is the same arcade formula: pick up passengers, race to drop them off, and rack up fares while pulling off stunts. The yellow convertible cab drifts through traffic with green and orange spark effects on its wheels, boosts with flame trails, and launches off ramps. Floating circular money icons mark your pickups and fares.
Brazil adds its own local flavor to those pickups. Workers balancing burlap coffee sacks flag down the cab, with the coffee loaded onto the taxi as you speed off. The trailer frames this around delivering fresh coffee, exploring beaches, and driving through major cities in both day and night.
Beach runs lean into the stunt driving. The cab jumps onto the sand, weaves between volleyball nets and beachgoers, and drifts along the shoreline. After dark, the map shifts to neon-lit streets, stairs and plazas, with carnival dancers riding along on the cab. A night-driving sequence plays on the idea that the city never sleeps.
Real-world storefronts on the Brazil map
Like earlier games in the series, the Brazil map drops in recognizable real-life brands along its streets. Three Brazilian chains appear on the map: Habib’s, Fogo de Chão and Fast Shop. They join the growing roster of actual stores featured across World Tour, keeping with how the original Crazy Taxi handled its sponsors.
Where Brazil fits in the World Tour lineup
The World Tour campaign offers five maps in total, and Brazil is the fourth to be shown. The earlier reveals covered the West Coast, Germany and Japan. A fifth map has not been revealed yet.
| Map | Status |
|---|---|
| West Coast | Revealed |
| Germany | Revealed |
| Japan | Revealed |
| Brazil | Revealed (newest) |
| Fifth map | Not yet revealed |
Platforms, release window and wishlist
Crazy Taxi: World Tour is slated for 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC via Steam and the Microsoft Store. It is an Xbox Play Anywhere title and can also be played through Xbox on PC. No specific launch date or time has been confirmed beyond the 2027 window.
The game is already available to wishlist on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and Steam.
How the game connects to the wider series
Crazy Taxi: World Tour is the first major entry in the series since 2002’s Crazy Taxi: High Roller, and it first appeared at the Xbox Games Showcase earlier in 2026 with a reveal trailer. It is part of SEGA’s push to bring back dormant franchises such as Jet Set Radio.
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