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Race The Sun – Racing Game Review
Race The Sun is a Racing/Action game from FlippFly LLC, first launched in 30th July 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 252+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Race The Sun Stand Out
"Words cannot express how insanely fun it is…” – Touch Arcade (5/5 stars)
Watch the world blast by you in your solar powered glider and try to keep pace with the setting sun, while avoiding deadly collisions further and further into a strange and dangerous landscape.
Upgrade your ship by completing challenges and learn to adapt to a world that changes daily. Compete on local and global leaderboards against friends and the world… but in the end the sun always wins.
Key Features
- Race at insane speeds through an infinite world that changes every day
- Complete objectives to unlock upgrades and level-up your ship (25 levels)
- Customize your ship with attachments like faster turning and decals
- Unlock two ultra-hard worlds as you level-up
This Racing game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Race The Sun is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th August 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Added free new game mode: "Sunrise." Play in a beautiful new environment with a focus on relaxing, zen-like gameplay. No highscores, no speed boosts – just endless flow
- Added several beautiful new portal worlds. The portal world will update every 24 hours.
- Added 3D Touch support for newer iOS devices.
- Bug fixes and optimizations
Download & Availability
Race The Sun is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
Its a great game its worth it to pay the money.
Great game, works perfectly offline, with hindsight Im glad this game costs money because of what it couldve been otherwise.
Its fun, really gets your heart rate up.
Ima keep this short. Best game Ive ever played on mobile. Must buy <3.
This is one our favorite games the graphics are beautiful and the music is soooo peaceful.
We love this game its so relaxing and so fun!!! We play this so much probably about 10 time a day at least.
Love the game just need more levels.
Overall this game keeps us entertained while we're waiting for something. A cockpit view would make this even better we think.
This is a great game. The only thing we would recommend is multiplayer races.
Game is just really beautiful. Not only the design but the flow of gameplay. Got all achievements and unlocked all levels and still love zoning it with it for a bit. Feedback for game makers: love the new sunrise level but would also love a similar level where you can't crash/die. Just tons of boosters and jumps!! You can cycle back to beginning stage over and over.
This game is amazing. It is so well done and has the perfect combination between peace and serenity and fast paced action. This game is absolutely amazing.
The game is fun but needs to update so it can fill the entire screen.
This would be a 5* review if the game would update and take advantage of the new Bluetooth controller support. The game is awesome. We own it on so many platforms and would play it so much more on here if it supported thee new controller support. Please update <3 Id even buy it as an in app purchase if it just comes down to cost to develope <3.
We thank its a really good game but we wish it fit the screen of a 11 pro max.
A very good game (even though Im terrible at it ) we recently starting playing sunrise mode and it is very nice, but we do have one suggestion. Making the sound you get when crashing something less jarring, it is very intense after the calm music of the game-mode. Changing the death music as well would be nice. Maybe the sound of magi a wind chimes to represent the sparks or something like that for the death sound could be nice, and the post-death music could possibly just be the same soundtrack that plays when you are flying in that world. This would make the experience more calming without the jolt of a crash sound to interrupt the zen.
We just bought it and was disappointed to reveal that it doesnt support iPhone X screen. We would give it 5 stars if it was supported.
Please release an update for iPhone X.
We love the integration with 3D Touch, its such a good game. Will it be optimized for iPhone X.
You see our 4 out of 5 stars? Well, here's why: we were extremely cautious in buying this game, we rarely buy games, especially for $5. We got it, and was immediately very UN-satisfied with our purchase. BUT, after 20 or so minutes, we began to understand the games cool features and interesting gameplay, and now we LOVE IT. We also never write reviews so trust us, this is a good game. We wouldn't say it's worth $5. Maybe $3, but we still think you should buy it. So why 4 stars? We simply thing there could be more color to the game. Literal color. Anyways, cheers and have fun rocking on in that plane.
We love this game we have it on our PlayStation. We use to play it all the time and when we saw we could get it on our phone we were ecstatic. Our one and only gripe about it so far is that you can only touch to move. We think the game would be more fun and more interactive with the accelerometer. We really hope you guys have an update adding that to the list of controls. Also we're not 100% sure on this we just got it the yesterday but we haven't noticed the field change at all like it does on console. We're not sure if this is due to us just not having it long enough for it to change or what. But if it doesn't that would also be another concern. Td;lr: please add accelerometer option to list of controls.
This is indeed the original game as seen on Steam and game consoles. Used to play it years ago, it was fun! You need to release an update though to make it fill the screen of newer phones, as several other disappointed customers have mentioned. The last update to the paid version was 8 years ago, while the ad version got an update last year. Please release a patch to make it properly support newer devices and we will update this review.
For paying 5 dollars we would expect it to fit our screen with the challenge edition we paid for the premium and didnt receive it so we tried this version of the app instead and also feel scammed the least you could do is make this free if if your not going to continue updating/optimizing this game for new generation phones.
This game doesnt fill the screen. We infrequently tap in the empty area between the edge of the play area and the bezel. When our thumb slips here, we tap, get no response to the craft and wreck. It makes a great game unenjoyable. If an update arrives that causes use of the whole screen on an 11 iPad Pro, then Ill be happy to update the score.
Please update to fit the whole screen on the iPhone X, other then that its good.
Great gameplay, but looks pretty poor on the new X compared to older plus devices. Please update.
We used to average between 2 and 3 million point. FYI we have an iPhone 5s. Now, after an update, we can barely get a million before the sun sets. Either it sets too fast now or not as many yellow time savers are offered anymore. Idk.
This game is great and all and is very pretty but it is way over priced. For $5 all you do is turn right and left and left and right until the sun goes down and u die we recomend pokemon go.
Why doesnt this fill the screen on iPhone X or newer? Literally any game on this App Store does this. Why not this one? Makes an otherwise beautiful game look terrible.
This game is fun and all but it is way too hard and there was nothing we could do but try again over and over. Also there isnt a way to get back except to go back through all the regions we just did and go through all the hard work we just did.
We bought this for our kids to play with…we saw it when we were at a store…it works on some iPads but not older iPads. We think for $5 it's kind of a rip-off…we think this is a 99 cent game or a free game…not worth the 5 bucks. Fix the game to work on all iPads…not just the newer ones.
We have played Breakneck, which is free, and has a much more rich environment and better music than Race the Sun. After spending $5 on this app, we were discouraged that it was so difficult, and we kept dying at the same place but, there was no option to continue at the last region. We just don't have the patience.
Sorry this is not worth 5$ Not even close. Maybe 1$. You have to start in the same place every time so it's very hard to see the other stages.
Great game but our iPhone 5s U.S cellular phone will no longer work with mad catz micro controller.
We loved this game on PC and was excited to buy it on our phone. It might run fine on other phones, but not the iPhone 11. The game relies on screen taps to control the ship, with taps at the edge giving sharper turns than those in the middle. Unfortunately, on the 11 the game screen doesnt reach the edge of the real screen, meaning many of our sharp turns dont turn at all because we didnt realize we tapped just outside the game screen. Could be fixed if the game could be made full screen or if turns were sharp no matter where the screen is touched. Would love to see this in the options menu.
Last update was 2yrs ago? Does not support iphone xs max screen. Outdated game.
It says we should sign in with the game center at options but we dont see the options feature.
The game doesn't work with 3D Touch. With normal controls the screen goes white during events like getting resetting the daylight and getting to the next region. We've tried to fix the problem but nothing's worked.
We really liked this game when we first bought it. Unfortunately with with upgrades the game doesn't perform well on 6s plus. When in 3D touch mode, which wasn't there originally, as soon as one touches the screen it goes white. Have to exit and put in regular mode. Even in this mode the screen goes white when picking up extended sun, which leaves the player flying blind and usually crashing. The are other instances of whiteout for unknown reasons. This needs to be fixed.
This app drains our battery 20% a minuet we can't play it unless we plug our phone in.
0.0 Star rating. Does start but plane crashes instantly when the screen is touched, each and every time. It says it is compatible for iPhone 6splus. What a headache, nothing else gained but lost time, so we rate it less than zero star (forcing customers to give a star is bad business and makes us tell a lie about a product we bought). We want a refund.
We absolutely love this game and play it all the time. We just wish they had the dlc on mobile as well because that was very enjoyable on pc.
Just our cup o' tea. Cool flat shaded graphics, one great music track, tight controls, and tough. But the good kind of tough that keeps us trying one more time! Upgrades keep things interesting, and portals change things up nicely. Not for the feint of heart.
On iPhone . Screen is just too small.
This game is insanely fun. It is a must-buy. It's like pod racing on steroids. Get this game. You won't regret it.
Wow! This is an absolutely perfect game! It is one of the top 10 games on our iPad Pro, and it has gorgeous graphics. We love this game. If you don't buy it, you are wasting your life.
This game is great for 2 reasons. First one being, it is a very fun game and just zipping though the levels is fun on its own. The second and most important reason is that we were not able to beat the game in less than 24 hours. So many iOS games are so easy you buy them and within the first few hours or minutes you beat it. This game has challenges that are actually challenging which make the game last a lot longer and actually be worth the money. Great port developers.
It's a really fun tough game. But really it's not worth $4.99. They need to bring down the price.
(Update for game not loading and how we finally got it to work) Bought this app and installed it on our iPhone 6. When we launch and the game we get the "loading" screen and that that's where it stops. Uninstalled it,reinstalled it numerous times, rebooted the phone Nothing helped. Contacted app developer. We received a reply from the apps support team. One of the things that they asked about was see if we had an account set up in the Game Center app, which we do. But for some reason it was failing to connect to the Internet. We tried everything we could think of, nothing helped. We called AppleCare tech-support and the lady told us to go to Settings app and logout of 'iTunes and App Store' account and log back in. This fix the problem with the Game Center failing to connect to the Internet and simultaneously the problem with RTS game not able to load, was resolved. Now the game loads and works perfectly.
This game is incredibly fun. You get super into it and it's a crazy sensation flying through obstacles at light speed. It never gets old, because each "phase" you go through is entirely different, and every 24 hours the game randomizes the worlds and changes them up. Awesome game.
This game yet addicting does not want to make you throw your phone across the room the makers of this game did an outstanding job and if you are questioning the price it's well worth it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.02
- Size: 144.92 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [FlippFly LLC]()
Last updated: 25th August 2016 | Genre: Racing, Action | Developer: FlippFly LLC