Crazy Taxi: World Tour picks Japan as its next stop
SEGA has named Japan as the third stop on Crazy Taxi: World Tour, and picked Logitech G as the game's steering wheel partner ahead of a 2027 launch.
SEGA has revealed Japan as the next map in Crazy Taxi: World Tour, the third stop on the game's world tour after the United States and Germany. The reveal landed on the game's Steam hub on 17 September with a new trailer, and the release window is still just 2027.
What SEGA showed
The announcement describes Japan as “a place beautifully suspended between two worlds”, where “historic neighborhoods and tradition sit alongside the bustling energy of the modern city”. It closes with the line SEGA has ended every World Tour post with so far: get ready to fall in love with the land of the rising sun when Crazy Taxi: World Tour hits the streets in 2027. The Steam listing still dates the game to 2027 and SEGA has not moved it. This is the story-driven one, chasing Axel's stolen taxi across five cities and a crew of international car thieves, and it is headed for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC.
And a wheel to go with it
SEGA also announced on 17 September that Logitech G is the racing wheel partner for the game, with SEGA joining the developer alliance Logitech runs for optimised wheel support and its Trueforce force-feedback technology. It is a sensible pairing. Crazy Taxi has always been a drifting game wearing a driving game's coat, and force feedback is the part of a wheel setup that tells you what the front tyres are doing a moment before the corner arrives.
Our opinion
Crazy Taxi: World Tour has collected plenty of arguments since it was announced, and a third city will not settle any of them. What the announcement does show is a publisher still treating this as a real game rather than a nostalgia exercise: three cities revealed, a wheel partnership signed, a story campaign attached and a 2027 date that has not quietly become 2028. Japan is the obvious stop for a series that started life in Sega's arcades, and it gets the one thing a map reveal has to get right. If a taxi game cannot make a city feel worth driving through, nothing else on the checklist matters.
- SEGA named Japan as the third city in Crazy Taxi: World Tour, after the United States and Germany
- The game is still dated 2027 on Steam, with no day or month given
- Logitech G has been named the game's steering wheel partner, with SEGA joining Logitech's developer alliance