Unlike Sumo Digital's previous racing games, Team Sonic Racing only features Sonic characters, as the team wanted to expand the series' world and character roster. Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka conceived the cooperative gameplay, and Sumo Digital used the team-based Sonic Heroes (2003) as a point of reference. Sumo Digital, which had previously worked on Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (2010) and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (2012), developed Team Sonic Racing.

Game modes include competing to earn points, time trials, customizing the racing rules, and a story-driven tutorial campaign.

Team Sonic Racing differs from traditional kart racers because of its focus on cooperative gameplay, similar to the kind featured in Splatoon (2015) and Overwatch (2016)-players are part of a team of racers and win races through efficiency rather than speed. Gameplay is from a third-person perspective, with players performing tricks, drifting, and collecting power-ups. Controlling one of 15 characters from the series' cast, players compete in races using sports cars. Team Sonic Racing is a 2019 kart racing game and a spin-off from Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series.

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