Last updated on December 15th, 2025 at 08:32 pm
Derby Life – Racing Game Review
Derby Life is a Racing/Sports game from Nexelon inc., first launched in 22nd July 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 97+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Derby Life Stand Out
Raise your own horses and participate in races!
◎ Derby Life
Tired of the city life, you decide to visit your hometown where grandpa lives.
After reuniting with grandpa, who was running the horse ranch alone, and your old friend, you give up on the life in the city and begin to manage the horse farm.
Raise horses with your long-awaited friend to race and fulfill your dreams.
◎ Features
- Realistic graphics
Realistic 3D graphics of horses. - Horse raising and farm management
Horse raising through training, condition management and breeding.
Upgrade stables, training facilities and more buildings. - Colorful horse types
Running styles: Front Runner, Stalker, Pressure and Closer
Preferred Track: Grass, Sand and Synth - Train your horses
Increase your horses' Speed, Sprint, Stamina, Boost and Agility through training and gear upgrades.. - Participate in races around the world
Raise your horses to win in races. - Breed your horses to birth the ultimate race horse
All horses have different looks, perks, stats and growth rates. - Upgrade horse gear to boost additional effects!
Obtain various gear from boxes. - Upgrade the ranch facilities
The ranch environment will change with the upgrades of the facilities.
This Racing game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Derby Life is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Age rating update
Download & Availability
Derby Life 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:
This game is exactly like rival stars horse racing!!!!! Its graphics are ok and we would definitely recommend downloading it!!!. This game is easier to play than rival stars because you can get all the coins and gems for FREE by playing the game instead of rival stars where you have to pay a lot. If the game is willing to expand and put more breeds in and coats and expand the stalls for how many horses you have we WILL SUPPORT YOU. This game is amazing.
This game is amzing we love the horses they are so relastic.
We literally cant do the match the blue circle thing and it wont help us do it we need instructions on were to stop it Anyways the horses are great and realistic.
We want to play but we never got to play.
Hello this game review is going to be very short due to there being nothing to say about it. We want to play this game, but guess what? We cant get in the game! We download it and it just glitches us back to our home screen. Please do not download unless they fix this. Thanks.
We had this game a year or so ago and it worked fine but in recent updates its stoped loading completely and wont let us in even after redownloading it.
ALL YOU SEE IS A DUDE WHIPPING A HORSE WITH A CROP.
The animations are not the best in this game, and it seems to be a copy of rival stars.
We want to play this game so badly because it looks like sooooooo much fun, BUT IT WILL NOT LOAD! Plzzzz fix this.
This game seems super fun but it wont load at all like we sat there for like ten minutes and nothing happened pls fix this and then we will play.
It looked so fun but when we got in the game we sat there for 20 minute and it loaded and our friend tried the game and hers loaded something is ring with the game.
We tried to play the game but all we see is the white jockey and we actually havent played the game cause it wont load.we got it last year and it did the same thing. We guess Ill never play the game.
So surprise surprise! It wouldnt even let us get in this must be a fun game but just not for us with a loading screen.
We just downloaded this game and when we click on the app Im just on a loading screen with a dude on a horse, nothin else for like 20 mins we never can get into the app, PLS HELP because it looks like a good game.
Hello, Before you download, theres a bug. It doest let you even get on the game. We would love to play it! It looks really fun. We dont like the secret bug. So, beware to spend money on the game for your children. Dear Derby Life editors, Please fix the bug. We want to play the game SSSOOO bad So bad, we cant even tell you. Sincerely, Danielle. Horse farm.com.
So it probably is a good game but it will not load in.
We hate hate this game so much we hate all the camera moves you cant control the horse.
When we try to come on to the game all we can see is the white jockey and horse and its really annoying and we were so excited as it looks really fun so please please please fix it so we can play on this looking like amazing game.
We just downloaded the game and its not working its not loading please help.
Hi, this game looks like fun but we cant get in is anyone else having this problem.
Hi,we have never played this game before it looks super fun and realistic and it looks like we would have a fun time playing but we cant seem to get on the game.
We can not even get in to this game drives us crazy we deleted it.
When we try to play it is stuck on the horse running with the jockey we were very excited but we are not now please fix it soon thank you.
This is a really enjoyable game! Currency: we love how it doesnt require you to use real money to get the special currency like many other games do. Racing: The racing aspect is really fun. We like that each horse has its own preferred terrain. We also like that there is a meter for fatigue and injury. However, the game doesnt really explain the meanings of certain warnings during racing (why does our horse get injured? Does the weather effect our horse? Why am we being told to slow down?) and the help button doesnt explain very well. Breeding: we like that you dont have to wait hours to raise your goal. Additionally, the fact that you can raise the chances of the stats of your goal are cool! We do think the breeding aspect could be worked on tho. Every horse is given breeding potential which says how many times it can be used to get a new horse however there are multiple missions that require you to breed and sell horses. It makes it difficult to move forward if your trying to improve your race horses but end up running out of potential on the breeding missions. We really look forward to what the developers do with this game.
It looks really fun but it wont load. Please fix it.
We tried to get into the game but it wont load.
We still cant get on but it looks like a lot of fun we never played it.
We tried opening the game and it wouldnt let us play, we were stuck on a black loading screen with a jockey.
Ok so we just downloaded the app and we wanna go in it to see what it looks like and now IM HAPPY and so Derby life looks amazing like its basically like the ages of the horse like it makes it so much better from. Birth to grown up then death but like we wanna try this out.
So this game is very similar to rival stars BUT its not nearly as greedy. You can progress in the game quite fast without having to buy things with real money. We really enjoy the gameplay and have spent hours playing already. We also love how you dont have to wait hours for the foals to mature either and you can even use diamonds to speed up maturity. Id have to say the only thing we wish to be out into the game is a stud farm. You have to use your own horses to breed foals and they only have so many breeding opportunities. So that can make it extremely hard to get better horses.
We have actually been playing this game on our android phone for a few days now. It is very similar to rival stars except we think that this game is not as unfair or grinding as that one. It looks a lot like a simplified version of Rival Starrs with Simplified racing controls and race stats. We really like the art style and animations of the horses. Although they are not as good as Rival stars. The music never gets too intense which creates a pretty relaxing atmosphere for the game. We do like the race Controls, tap at the correct moment to gain sprint meter boost, boost at the best time and look back to see how far you are. But we do think that the tap at the right time to gain boost can be a bit difficult to pull off and can happen randomly. This game does have some type of loot boxes that you can pay for. This does not bother us because we can earn Them from winning races and through daily rewards and challenges. The monetization feels very fair. We really love that we are never forced to watch an ad. We definitely think this is worth a try.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.9.29
- Size: 585.12 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes
- Developer: Nexelon inc.
Last updated: 15th October 2025 | Genre: Racing, Sports | Developer: Nexelon inc.