Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 05:55 am
Death Road to Canada – Roleplaying Game Review
Death Road to Canada is a Roleplaying/Action/Entertainment game from Rocketcat LLC, first launched in 22nd March 2017.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 1,318+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Death Road to Canada Stand Out
New content update added! More updates coming, see below for details.
Death Road to Canada is a Randomly Generated Road Trip Action-RPG. You manage a group of jerks as they explore cities, find weird people, and face up to 500 zombies at once. Everything's randomized: locations, events, survivor personalities and skills. There's a different story every time you play.
Travel the Death Road from Florida to Canada, the last nation on Earth. Find special events, rare encounters, and unique recruits. Recruit a grunting super-bodybuilder who's strong enough to pick up and throw the car. Try to teach a dog how to walk upright and shoot a minigun.
Most of all, get eaten by enormous hordes of slow, classic-style zombies.
DEATH ROAD FEATURES:
- Designed for massive amounts of replay value.
- Character Maker lets you put friends and family into the game.
- Meet your custom characters during your travels. Get them eaten by mistake or on purpose.
- Make tough choices in text events that change depending on your group.
- Your team has different personalities, and someone may betray the others. Be careful!
- Lots and lots of secret events and unique characters with special abilities.
- Equip a wide variety of different weapons. Splat zombies with a flamethrower, battleaxe, hockey stick, wizard staff (lightning bolt), Mjolnir, boomerang, and much more.
- Canada jokes written by a real Canadian so they're 100% accurate.
- Get rid of all humans and make an entire team composed of dogs driving the car.
- Airhorn weapon with incredibly realistic, computer-generated airhorn sounds.
Update Plans
We've already done lots of updates, and there are more updates coming! We're adding new features, locations, characters, weapons, and more!
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Death Road to Canada is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 27th October 2022
Recent improvements include:
This is a truly large update! Here's a summary of changes, because otherwise we'd easily hit the character limit in these patch notes.
- Added new Halloween Event stuff!
- Greatly extended the time period the Halloween Event covers. Before it would only happen on Halloween itself, and now it will last from the launch of the update all the way up to Nov 1st!
- Big revamp to how your AI Followers value different weapon categories and tiers! Short version: They should no longer drop a Claymore for a Tennis Racket, ever
- Lots and lots of new character customization options, both base and unlockable
- New ZP upgrades to get!
- Series of ZP upgrades that let you buy from Tnomey multiple times in one game!
- 12 new zombie head types!
- Duffle bag added, which lets you access your Trunk in Trader Camps where you don't have a car, or in the new Indoor-Only trader camps
- New Rare Trading Camp: Final Hospital, featuring a really good hospital food cafeteria and the Golden Scalpel
- Cleaning Lady buffed
- New Rare Trading Camp: Mechanical Fortress
- Two new and powerful robot special characters, designed by Professor Sycamore!
- New Location: Graveyard, with two variations
- New Location: Public Park, with many variations and random bits
- New Character: Jack Hamm, the jackhammer expert
- New Fireworks vendor added to the general trader rotation! Sells 4 new fireworks types, all useful for distracting zombies, and then the KO BOOMER which is useful for blowing yourself up by mistake
- Jackhammers added
- Lots of tweak to the following old locations: Quiet Factory, factories in general, and all standalone houses and apartment locations including the starter locations
- Ultramop power nerf, but knockback and cleave buffs
- Debutante Umbrella power buff
- The best weapon, the Tire Iron, changed so the AI don't favor it as much
- Magazine chance removed from farm locations, as it would just glitch out anyway
- Farm tractors can now be looted for gas
- Mysterious Past + Martial Artist no longer gives points in shooting
- New characters added to OPP mode!
- You can now simply eat the bandits in the "Merciless Bandits" event
Download & Availability
Death Road to Canada is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Death Road to Canada on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game is good but please add iCloud save. We cant switch progress bettween our divices.
Game great but the controls could use improvement. Sadly been 3 years since any new content. The only thing we didnt like about this game was increasing the price every update they did recommend picking it up if its on sale.
Hello creators of Death Road to Canada! We just want to say this is the BEST zombie game Ive ever played! We do have one problem with our Bluetooth controller. Whenever we connect it, our character wont move. We can swing our bat in the game, so we know the controller is connected, but the joystick wont move our character. Do we need to delete or reset the app to fix this? Im worried about losing our saved characters if we do. Could you please let us know how to fix the Bluetooth issue? Thank you so muchand again, your game is AMAZING.
Its a weird hassle to select it or it cant be used at all what a total joy of an update otherwise.
When we want to go to Vancouver Costco we just play this instead and we get to experience madness in the comfort of our home instead of having to Canada.
Game is fun, unexpected, and full of funny moments, highly recommend but be warned to see your allies and you be swarmed during your attempts.
This is not a bad review, because theres nothing bad about DR2C. Yes, the price is a bit high for a IOS game, but have this kind of mindset; paying a bunch for never ending fun and entertainment. This game is challenging, funny, and strategic. We had this game for 3 years and never ever got bored of this. We still play it often, to whoever is reading this, consider the purchase. Also this is not a paid review or we get something in the game if we leave a review. We genuinely love the game. Also if a DR2C creator is reading this, please add new customization for characters. PLEAAASSE ok bye people, just buy the game lol its fun.
We really do love this game, its so much fun and enjoyable but we have yet to find a multiplayer mode on it. We wish they would work on making this a thing for itll be lots of fun if they did.
Wen we were playing the game we saw link and more this game is very fun and hard.
Amazing game but co op online would be awesome.
Underrated and should be in the top charts. Will keep you hooked.
Best mobile game definitely worth the $15 please dont stop updating! Free gunna rip takeoff.
Touch controls feel really clunky, doesnt feel great dying to a horde of zombies because your character decided they were going to turn right when youve been pulling hard left, but the game itself is really fun.
This is annoying, since it blacks out the option to enable music entirely again while in a call. We usually call on Discord to stream our game to our friends, and we can never stream the game with the music enabled. The game itself is fun though, Ive been a fan of it and play it on PC too.
This game is so fun but there is a glitch for iPhone that MAKES THE GAME UNPLAYABLE. What it is the joysticks for the game GOES OFF SCREEN!! This makes the game NOT PLAYABLE it has happen to us 3 TIMES and we had to delete the game and it reset ALL MY PROGRESS so PLEASE fix it. Also we really like the game but if you dont fix it we CANT PLAY IT.
DRTC has to be our favorite game. We return to it again and again. But periodically, the movement control for the player character stops working, making the game unplayable. Im having that experience now. :<.
Its a great game but Im not sure why the dev neglected to add such a basic feature.
The game is definitely worth $15, thats without a doubt. The amount of time and effort put into this game to deliver it this close to pristine on mobile is pretty insane. Our ONLY issue though is how ANNOYING the goddamn movement is in this game with mobile. It feels so incredibly janky at times when youre trying to do a 180 and go straight up or down and the movement is insanely important for survival in this game, you dont want to mess it up. If youve ever played project zomboid on PC, youre movement failing when weaving around hordes in this game is just as fatal as your movement failing when you weave around zombies and hordes in Zomboid, if it messes up, youre completely screwd. We wish there was a way, other than the poorly defined options in the option menu, to make it smoother to move around. Trying to learning curve around it, is really starting to get infuriating because in the later stages of the game, the second you mess up your direction, youre done.
It took us like 2 years to finally beat it lol. The only reason we gave it 4 stars is because something weird is happening in our game. The game wont let us move. No matter what we try to do. And ive made a lot of progress on the game so we dont want to delete it and redownload.
It needs ICloud Synchronization, we would love if our game across our phone and IPad were synced.
Ive connected and played DRSC on IOS with a PS4 controller and a Nintendo Switch pro controller Then after maybe a day or so. The controller no longer worked. Only thing that seemed to work on both controllers is the button that makes the character attack. You cant move, you cant do anything other then attack. The only way to make the controllers work again is to delete the app, that deletes all your data and you cant get it back we brought up 2 controllers cause we thought maybe our DualShock was acting up. Both controllers work fine on other games. Rocket cat games. PLEASE FIX THIS BUG. ITS EXTREMELY ANNOYING.
Ngl tbh this game has provided hours of enjoyment from the witty lines and endless possibilities in each game. That being said, we cant progress into Endless because Marathon will NOT clear. No matter what. Not sure what to do but hopefully the creators see this cause we really like the game but at its current state for us, it is incomplete/buggy.
Movement is annoying to learn. Perhaps there are areas where the moving joystick is necessary, but it seems simple to add an option in the settings to fix the joystick location.
Can be super fun! Highly recommend playing on PC though. The analog for IOS is very wonky and needs an update. Very frustrating trying to navigate the character.
Sound works just fine but no music ,the music option button is grey.
We ABSOLUTELY love this game, in fact its okay in our list of TOP 10 Favorite Games. We mean the sheer comedy action packed with zombies, cameos and Easter Eggs its just awesome! Our point is that it continuously changes, with a different experience at every gameplay. It becomes an obsession to collect all the endings, events, weapons, characters and so forth and so one. No to finish it, the point of this game is not to make you wonder the destination, that is already pretty obvious from the title, but the adventures, the experience, the friendships and the memories you carry to that destination.
It was on sale on Xbox for $7 bought it tried it out and decided to get it on our iPhone for $14 too pricey. This game would kill time on airline flights during airplane mode.
We were initially looking for a game that we could play outside the country where we had no internet access or in road trips, and found this masterpiece of a game. The text and the dialogues keep us very entertained and we keep finding new things even tho Ive been playing this for years.
We love the game but we usually play with a remote but recently the game stopped working with the remote and all our other games are fine.
We love this game and its just our style, but Im concerned about what will happen to our progress when we get a new device. Both our phone and iPad are linked to the same game center account, but progress is not shared between them (when we make progress on our iPad it does not go to our phone). What can we do? When we click the skull button it just tells us Im linked to our game center account and doesnt give us an option to unlink and relink.
Death road to Canada is a fun game that is pixel-y and has a lot of blood and gore, but it is all animated and fun to play. The game is like Oregon trail and we still have not Beaten the game yet and it has ZOMBO POINTS, and those are very special in the game but we are not going to tell you any more about the game you will have to play it your self and give the have a good rating please!!! We would say it is the best pixel zombie game you could play . Play it and see for your self. Thanks and enjoy the mega hard game that we still cant beat.
This is one of those games that you just always come back to, as a walking dead/zombies fan this game was perfect for us to drift off into another world for a short amount of time. The game is well put together, no bugs that Ive experienced and it runs great on most phones. The devs constantly come back and make the game better, we are surprised this game is so cheap if we are completely honest. The game is just a great investment and we can safely say we will play this game for many years to come, maybe not every day, but for years to come.
You cannot argue, this is the most fun and replayable mobile game out there.
We feel like this game is as fine-tuned and crafted as love as it gets from the developers. It comes with a hefty price tag but honestly is worth every penny. The game offers endless customization, and replay-ability. Theres different modes to unlock, different traits and perks, and much more. The things we dont like are the difficulty. Its meant to be mega-hard but the devs need to understand not every likes games like that. Give people the ability to customize their play through difficulty and we promise the devs wouldve seen a better response to this game. Another way they lack is they have the perfect games to support mods, but we dont see any mod support at all for mobile. While the games that do offer mod support for mobile are very few and far in between (we offer rebuild 3 as an example of a game that DOES), we feel like mods would make this game so much more fun. Its meant to be endlessly replayable, and if you allow people to mod the game and the player the choice to choose their play through more uniquely, we promise youd see a rise in popularity in this game. This has the potential to be like the Skyrim of mobile games.
All we ever want was a good feeling game with strategy and this game is a good mobile strategy game that help us in boring school day thank you dev and please update the game again.
Ya its s ight for a chill game.
We love this game its so fun! And Im really happy to see that its still getting updates.
Ive never played a game so addictive in our life . We had our doubt at first and honestly was a little mad we spent so much on this game but after we actually played we realized the true greatness of this game.
Love it! We always look forward to the new updates! By far the best game on the App Store.
Pretty Decent Game Have Been playing since middle school all the way to highschool, pretty fun game and good to play when you have no wifi. Another thing is that its randomized every time so it feels like a new game and theres alot of weapons.
Game is fantastic. Very important question… Why isnt there an iCloud backup for this game? We switched phones and we have to start all over. We really dont like that! Can you guys add a mode where we can save our data.
It might be hard starting off but you learn with time. Endless replay-ability is off the charts. There are probably more different combinations of events you have every game then atoms in the universe.
We can play this game for 4hrs and still not be bored. The first time you make it to Canada feels like heaven. The fact that the game allows you to you a double barrel shotgun as a screaming pug while driving an ice cream truck is spectacular. We recommend this game, 5.
If we find multiplayer Im never clicking it would ruin the experience. The npcs are better keep it this way.
We love this game, its amazing, funny, and an overall blast to enjoy. However, there is one problem, not with the game, but when we decide to connect our controller. We use an Xbox controller and when we connect it, the game recognizes the controller, highlighting text that we can choose, but none of the buttons work, in game we can only attack, and in menu we can only click the option highlighted. If the devs could please add proper controller support, that would be amazing! Thanks for reading our review :D.
Fun, quirky and unforgiving, DR2C is a gem of a game, with procedurally generated challenges that ensure you never play the same game twice. You will not make it to Canada often. You will have a lot of fun along the way, though.
We love this game! Please update the controller support.
Please for the love of god, add a static joystick. Most runs end because of the stupid movement controls.
We accidentally bought this game thinking it was free and just instinctively used our thumbscan, and Im not sure how to contact for support.
So how do you play multiplayers on the mobile device? Ive search everywhere how to do it and so far Ive only found videos with someone using wireless controllers that are bluetooth. Which allows you to play with someone else. But we want to play with someone is isnt sitting right next to us without extra controls just our phone and the app itself Im playing on. And the description for the game doesnt explain that we would need extra controls to do that etc. But Is there a way we could play without extra controls.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.2
- Size: 104.57 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Rocketcat LLC
Last updated: 27th October 2022 | Genre: Roleplaying, Action | Developer: Rocketcat LLC