The next Mario Kart game takes place inside your house

Even the Mario Kart franchise is working from home now.

Nintendo on Thursday announced Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, the series' new installment that will see players actually racing in their own homes, per Polygon. To play, users set up gates to create courses in the real world, and as they play on the Nintendo Switch, a physical RC car will race around like it is inside the game. Yes, the racing series that has taken gamers through jungles, icy mountains, and haunted castles is now headed into ... your living room.

Home Circuit, which hits the Switch in October, was revealed during a stream Nintendo held based around the 35th anniversary of the original Super Mario Bros, and a trailer demonstrated how the game works in action. Nintendo says the RC car "responds to boosts in-game and in the real world, stops when hit with an item and can be affected in different ways depending on the race."

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Granted, for those who live in small apartments, the experience might not end up being quite as smooth as that advertisement makes it appear, and the game isn't cheap: it will set players back $100. No word yet on whether it comes with actual banana peels.