Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 09:08 pm
Reckless Racing 3 – Entertainment Game Review
Reckless Racing 3 is a Entertainment/Racing/Casual game from Pixelbite, first launched in 9th October 2014.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 352+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Reckless Racing 3 Stand Out
Reckless Racing is back with dirtier racetracks, more epic power slides, eye-popping graphics and the largest selection of cars and trucks to date.
Play the career mode loaded with 60 events in 9 different seasons and the Arcade mode featuring 24 challenges, or compete on the online leaderboards in Single Event. Reckless Racing 3 has the most detailed physics and complex graphics so far, giving you the smoothest racing experience ever.
GYMKHANA
The precision stunt driving mode, Gymkhana, is the latest addition in race events. It’s the true skill test for any seasoned race driver and features a special range of suped-up rally cars.
DRIFT MODE
Feeling the need to skid in every corner? Well then, this is the event mode for you. Score points for awesome drifts and huge bonuses for executing them perfectly.
RECKLESS MASHUP
The mixed starting grid is being reintroduced to all races, pitching Cars vs Trucks vs Buggies in a reckless mashup. Do you want to go big and bully your opponents or be small and quick? It’s up to you, but beware the A.I. drivers have been infused with an extra dose of reckless behavior.
Strap down and get ready for some pure racing delight!
• Probably the best power slides in the world!
• 36 routes in 6 different environments.
• 28 cars and trucks to choose from.
• Career, Arcade and Single Event game modes.
• Gymkhana, Drift, Hot Lap and Race event types.
• More detailed and complex graphics and physics than ever.
• Customizable touch controls.
• Full gamepad support.
• Features optional IAPs for players who want to unlock things faster.
• Record and share videos (currently disabled for some devices).
• GameCenter leaderboards and achievements.
• iCloud support.
• English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano, 简体中文, 한국어, 日本人, Português do Brasil
Requires:
iPhone 4S or newer
iPad 2 or newer
iPod Touch 5 or newer
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Reckless Racing 3 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th November 2022
Recent improvements include:
- Minor bug fixes
Download & Availability
Reckless Racing 3 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Reckless Racing 3 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 is exactly what we needed, super fun! Great graphics, we have no idea why we waited so long to get this game! We get to be Ken Block! Even better with Xbox controller.
In a world where there are constant upgrades, disctrations, side agendas, or whatever..this has ZERO for any of the nonsense. Its fabulous. Wanna play a quick game? Open the app theres nothing to wait for. As for the playability, its also fantastic. Its unique with fish-tailing around corners keeping it challenging, fun and sometimes aggravating. If we could change one thing it would be the controls. The positioning could be better, closer together, larger, slight different positioning But its hella fun. Get it.
Superb game for casual gaming. Small tracks helps us kill time when we are bored. Controls and physics have a great mix of realistic and arcade style. We never write game reviews, first time because the game deserves it. Hats off to the developers. Worth every penny.
(11/25/23) After all these years, RR3 is still our favorite racer on iOS. Using a ps5 controller with our iPad Pro is an awesome way to play it. We cant believe this franchise hasnt released a Reckless Racing 4 and 5 by now! Please make another one!!! We can only imagine how amazing it would be.
As someone who played Skidstorm many years ago when it was around, this is a good comparison if you really enjoyed that game. There are aspects missing, and the controls feel a little different, but overall, this is still a fun experience.
Very fun game. More arcade-y style play than simulation, but thats just more fun. Variety of race styles (Race, Drift, Gymkhana) keep it fun for a long time. We've played throught twice already. Highly recommended.
This game is perfect, but the collisions dont work well.
Greatest game Ive ever played ever.
Ive had these game for years and its fun to play over and over again. For better controls use the steel series controller.
Paid for the app. But it is unplayable.
Spent 3 dollars for this mf to not open after playing for 2 days fix ur game.
PixelBite is awesome. Many of their games are great btw. We own several. Old School – just play the game. No ads. Game returns to play almost instantly. And thats on top of: Great graphics, great game play, great sound/music, great detail, fun all around.
Fun as F%##! Very challenging and very addictive.
Although this game has been around for a long time (released in 2014), we just got round to playing it. We remember with fondness playing the original Reckless Racing many years ago, and this has the same highly addictive qualities, with new Drift and Gymkhana modes added. Graphics are great and the game runs very smoothly on our 2018 iPad Pro. Its also compatible with game controllers and Ive been using the PS4 Dual Shock, which works great. We imagine the game would be a lot tougher with touch controls. At first we were a bit nonplussed by the varying difficulty. We would win a race easily, and then our next race we would get thrashed. It turns out the default difficulty is set to dynamic. Rather than the usual in-race rubber-band difficulty of a lot of racing games, here the difficulty is fixed for a race but is then adjusted for the next race depending how you performed. We preferred to set the difficulty ourselves to give us a consistent challenge. We found 85-90% was good for the Race and Drift modes, and we could go up to 100% for Gymkhana. We found both the Drift and Gymkhana modes to be a lot of fun, and a good break from the racing modes. In both youre on your own, so youre not at the mercy of crashes with other cars or leftover debris. Gymkhanas a good test of driving skill, while in the Drift mode you can do some crazy drifting, swinging from corner-to-corner to rack up big scores. The racing gets really intense when you get up to the A-class cars with some great battles with the other drivers. Its a pity there isnt an online multiplayer mode as this would have been a lot of fun.
Let us tell you something, Ive had an iPhone since the iPhone 4, and we used a iPod touch before that. Ive played A LOT of games on them over the many years. Reckless Racing 3 takes the cake. Sure its a little dated now, and could certainly use some difficulty balancing, but overall this is an incredible games. Probably our all time favorite. Ive actually come back to 3 different times to play through completely. All we ask is this – can you PLEASE bring us Reckless Racing 4.
We really like this game! Its a lot of fun to play and we think it has a unique style. We much prefer the tilt steering to the buttons, and o highly recommend you change to tilt and it makes gameplay much better. We feel like the challenge is at a perfect level: its not too easy and it definitely isnt impossible. Great game.
The 3rd reckless racing game and no online multiplayer racing??? Get it together this game is good and fun af to not be played online.
Id love to be able to review this game , but after trying to open several times and after several attempts to get app support, Ive got nothing but an app tab for three bucks. Very disappointed.
Cant even open the game up. Clicked on the app immediately sends us back to home screen what a waste of money wish we can refund this game.
This game is so fun!! We like racing! Thank you for gamemaker Chu chu~.
From Reckless 1 to 3 we found these games amazing. Of course are arcade, but we havent found drifting/rally arcades this fun and competitive in any computer or console, from our first commodore 64 to our last xbox 360. We hope a Reckless 4 is release one day.
This is a really great racing/drifting game. If you dont like the controls then change them up there are a ton of configurations to accommodate everyone that isnt too lazy to try. It feels like your on ice skates but learn to look ahead and drift around gloriously to your hearts content. U cant just step on the gas here you have to flutter it a bit, yeah, we said FLUTTER the brakes or youll be flying off into water or worse just getting stuck with no where to go. The advice is free-take it or leave it, never said we were some professional or anything… Id take it if we were U though cuz it looks like youll need it Greenie… Your Welcome. No,no, no tips please but Thanks for the offer.
The feel. The gameplay. The graphics. This game is probably the best game Ive ever had on IOS. Thats out os hundreds and hundreds.
New cars, and tracks needs to be added to the game.
Amazing physics and a fun pass time.
Gets frustrating sometimes but it was worth the money. One of the best graphics games on the App Store. Its very realistic with adjusting the gas and reverse on turn. Its a lot of fun.
So fun! And the graphics are so Good.
We use Nimbus. Using a game pad for games that support them makes the games so much better. We love the graphics on this game. On iPad Pro with Nimbus is awesome.
This is exactly what we needed, super fun! Great graphics, we have no idea why we waited so long to get this game! We get to be Ken Block.
Its just a lot of fun to play. Its like a drifting version of the old Super Sprint for the NES.
What a fun game but unfortunately the developer just forgot he evr made this game. We think last update was a year ago.
This is an excellent racing game but what it really needs is the inclusion of weapons and car combat. With that included this game would have been perfect.
The game gives you the feeling like when you were a kid & went riding bikes at a friend's house. Invariably you'd get to racing with your friend and his buddies in their neighborhood. You were out-gunned from the very beginning, they knew the track, their bikes were set up for the track, they knew all there was to know, you on the other hand were off the cuff. This game recreates that feeling of hopelessness, never being able to get ahead & win a race, you quickly lose interest & move on. These days that "friend" we had in grade school never graduated & to the best of our knowledge his strung out on drugs these days. Let's hope the programmers of the "car wreck" of a game don't go down the same path, although we would lose sleep either way. Thank you programmers for reminding us WHY we don't spend any money in the app store anymore.
The game crashes when we get out of the game and go to homescreen and after return to play then the game screen blinks and back to home screen and the game reset to begining. Please fix this we have an iPhone 7plus running iOS 12.3.1 . Conclusion : we can play but we cant get out to home screen or multitasking or we lost the current game . Thanks.
Same as another reviewer, controls in tank mode, which we prefer need to have bigger and better touch area… Other than that game is great! Which is too bad, its unplayable for us.
Controls dont work. Frustrating af when you are playing and car doesnt turn cuz this game is shotty af.
Stupid gameplay not fair to player bot can hit us. But we cant.
Please add a freeride game mode with no time limit and you can try out all of the cars you own and your by yourself. Make it to where we can choose which map we are on.
The touch controls arent bad, but without tactile feedback (button pressing) they can be, well, touchy. With some finesse and discipline keeping fingers where they need to be, the racing is enjoyably challenging and most importantly, fun. Taking lines to force the competition away is as enjoyable as the Ben-Hur action smashing into opponents to keep yourself on course while fending off challengers. We really should get an MFI controller to enjoy this wonderful racing game even more.
UPDADE IT AND ADD MULTIPLAYER PLZ.
This game is really fun, but we can only get through one game before we quit due to awful awful controls. Even with configuring the largest area for touch controls, the car does not respond. We would not recommend this game.
Paid 2.99 for the game and the left steering stops responding even after we change the touch area. Waste of money.
We love this trilogy. We've beat the game and it's taking up space, so we got rid of it. If you add more tracks or game modes we will re install.
The controls are fine, you just have to learn how to finesse them (we.e. You can't go pedal to the metal all the time). The graphics are great, game play is smooth. There is a lot of drifting, so learn how to let off the gas before turning, or using the side of an opponent's vehicle to keep from going off the track. We think it is a lot of fun. Great racing game.
This game is the excellent we surprised that why is it free.
Just needs a free roam like the first.
This game is fun and addictive but the difficulty ramps up too quickly. Not a $ grab just gets tough but it keeps us wanting to win more and give reward for wins.
The basics of the game are good in terms of graphics and smoothness of play. But there are a lot of shortcomings. This game requires that you tap your fingers in various areas during game play to control the car. On the right of the screen are two distinct areas for forward and reverse and on the left are two distinct areas that control turning left or right. If you miss the area, you don't get the intended control change. If this were on a console with a tactile controller, there would be no issue. Since you have to keep your focus on the game play, you have to rely on "feel" for where to place your fingers for the controls you need. And, on a touch screen device, there's nothing to help guide your fingers. We're constantly missing the left or right turn control and VERY frequently messing up forward and reverse. It makes game play with some cars/courses much harder than it should be. You earn "money" as you compete and then you get to spend that money. Your choices are to buy worthless custom options for the cars you already own (like a different color paint) or buy new cars. There is no option to modify the car with performance upgrades like every other similar game would offer. The worst part of not being able to upgrade existing cars is that some of the very expensive cars are actually pretty poor performers when it comes to many of the courses you're allowed to run them on. Performance upgrades would allow you to overcome this. The game could be really good. Instead it's very below average.
The game looks pretty but gets frustrating quickly. The game runs very smoothly on our 6s, but then out of nowhere the turn buttons stop responding. At first we thought maybe it's just the game because we're on certain terrain or skidding. We shrugged it off for a bit but after several more races there were clear times where we were on paved road, driving straight, then it just wouldn't even start turning. We even tried expanding the size of the touch screen controls, but it did not help. Just unplayable with this glitch. Too bad.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.7
- Size: 371.58 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Gambling, Frequent/Intense Contests
- Developer: Pixelbite
Last updated: 14th November 2022 | Genre: Entertainment, Racing | Developer: Pixelbite