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Kayos – Racing Game Review
Kayos is a Racing/Action game from Jonathan Lanis, first launched in 22nd April 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 148+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Kayos Stand Out
From the developer that brought you the award-winning original game Boost 2, comes another adrenaline rushing experience: K A Y O S. More intense, more challenging, and more chaotic than ever before. With simple controls and a clean, visually enticing interface, Kayos will immerse you into a world with no boundaries or rules – but do you have what it takes to survive?
Thank you for playing – your purchase helps support an independent developer continue to create fun, original games!
This Racing game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Kayos is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 7th December 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Kayos now supports TOUCH input along with more sensitivity controls for greater fine-tuned precision! Bring your gaming experience to the next level with these awesome new controls. Also, tons of bug fixes and glitches have been fixed. Thanks for playing!
Download & Availability
Kayos 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:
If Im being honest, just download it and try it yourself, its so good we feel like Im not giving it enough credit when we try to explain. Its simple and you just cant stop playing it. If we had to put it into words, Id say this game is absolutely amazing, and honestly a tad bit addictive. We have a lot of no ad, good games like this, but we just cant stop playing this one. Sure Ill play daddy long legs for a couple of minutes, but this one is just so fun and simple, but so detailed and amazing at the same time. This is an easy but escalating game where each level is fun and doesnt get boring even after awhile, and it pushes you to beat your high score. We love the controls, and we really dont understand when people say the controls are to sensitive. You can adjust them to just use your finger or tilt your device unlike many other games. Just get the game already, its amazing.
Please update for the larger iPhone X screen! Great game but needs updating for the new screen sizes.
We love ur game even though its soooooo triggering.
Better than "Boost" 100%. Awesome.
A modern looking fast paced endless runner.
Redownloaded boost 2 the other day and really for got how much fun it was and didn't think it could get any better until we downloaded this.
Absolutely stunning visuals. Gameplay is a little shaky but the uniqueness and difficulty of the game completely make up for it. A great sequel to Boost 2. We look forward to more games by Lewis in the future.
We like games where you must go very fast evading obstacles, so we sure played Boost 2 before. But Kayos is the most challenging and with those silky smooth graphics it becomes our favorite.
Don't pass this one up. Very fun game, we highly recommend it.
This game is so visibly pleasing we think we're starting to dream in geometric objects. It's stupid how great this is. Someone help, we have work to do.
It's fun! There's two game modes. There are different control schemes with sensitivity slider for each scheme. We love the new touch controls. We love the clean and crisp graphics. We love the sense of speed. It's a really fun game.
We love boost 2 and have spent a lot of idle time playing it, when Kayos caught our eye we were naturally excited to see that it was made by the same developer. The game looks to be in similar taste to boost, however unfortunately we can't give it a good rating until we see some improvements on the tilt controls. Boost's tilt controls were really well done and are one of the main reasons we love the game so much. Kayos' controls on the other hand are wayy to sensitive, even with the sensitivity bottomed out. As is it almost feels like we're playing a reincarnation of flappy bird. We will be leaving this review at 3 stars until we see an option to further decrease the sensitivity of the controls.
Restoring purchase works until the next time you play, and you have to wait through an ad to get the option.
Is entertaining and a cool game!! Recommend.
Such a fun game. Definitely recommend playing.
Very enjoyable and addictive game to play when you're looking for something to do.
We love this game, just like flying a real plane. Give it a try,you will love it.
Blast to play, especially with the upbeat music going. Very smooth play; great physics displayed.
This game is pretty addictive, and we love it.
Just great simple clean and very fun.
Very nice game! Thanks Jonathan.
This is a nice little game to pass the time.
We love the cool music track and the aesthetics of the game. We know it's supposed to be challenging but we think you die a bit too fast most of the time. It's like flying a paper plane through blocks. You can use "boost" but it only makes you die faster haha.
This is really kinda fun and addicting. We're not sure we find the charm of the game being the non exciting graphics or if we'd appreciate better graphics .either way this is a fun addicting game.
Could you please add manual control too? We're not a big fan of accelerometer control.
We suppose we could spend a lot of hours getting good at this game but we'd rather spend that time doing almost anything else.
We're ok with an ad between games, but when they interrupt a game for a lengthy ad, DELETE.
This game is very incredible with beautiful graphics and rhythmic music. The gameplay is very hard but it comes with its own advantage as there's nothing more satisfying than beating your previous high score and seeing what crazy phase is next! It certainly brings terror and entertainment. The only issue we have is it's slightly, barely even noticeable, jerk when staying to go straight. This is only not isle on a large screen like our iPad but otherwise, this game is made flawlessly.
Been playing boost 2 for a year and some, and we love it. It was only right that we went and downloaded this game from Jonathan. The concept is very cool and we see the potential but as another user says the game is a bit too hard to enjoy in the way its meant to be. The solution we suggest is making shield bar generate faster and/or items in game that appear (sort of like the boosts in boost 2) that give you the shield. Hope to see improvements.
This dev has great vision, design style and a great team working with him! No we're not a friend, colleague or acquaintance! We're a 50 year old dude that plays very few games. However KAYOS & BOOST 2 have easy but challenging gameplay, albeit frustrating at times. This frustration fuels addiction! The music may seem like it may be "canned" or "stock" it isn't and its fresh! The minimalistic, clean modern design brings a futuristic feel. The gameplay reminds us of arcade games from childhood in the early 80's. So the combination of retro-like gameplay and modern/futuristically designed GUI makes it a very fun, challenging "FUTURO" game.
This is one of the funnest games we have ever played, like no kidding. But there is one thing. You should make a setting to where you can change the sensitivity higher or lower. Besides that awesome game.
It is addicting and we love how the boost can give a shield but also increases your risk of crashing. :).
Please add GC Achievements. It makes the game way more fun to play. We're really enjoying the game. Keep the updates coming.
Great follow up to Boost 2, reminds us of cube runner.
Yes, you have probably seen a game of this general form before. But what stands out is the polish. The design is beautiful to look at, the boost/shield mechanic pushes you to make the game harder yourself, the controls are dead on, and the game over screen isnt up in your face punishing you for too long before you can reload.
This game is right in that zone between frustrating and addicting. It's brutal – so much as clip an object and game over. It's especially frustrating when your shield is almost fully charged and than SMACK! The visuals are simple and cool. The music is catchy and fitting. The game plays smooth and the tilt control is very well calibrated and responsive. Perfect game for short, quick gaming bursts for those of us who are always short on time.
We really like this game. We really do… But it is WAY too hard, we constantly die, and gets very frustrating and way too hard to get a very high score or anything. Maybe if the boost built up the shield faster or if your shield bar didn't go down even when you weren't boosting that would be nice. But currently this game is way too hard to have that much fun…but oh well, cool we guess.
Okay, really? We've seen too many games like this one on iPhone that has been around for years. Boost is pointless, it's not a race! Why boost, for shields? What a joke.
There are better "infinite flyer" games on the App Store. This isn't a bad effort for a free game, but it isn't worth $1 or any higher amount. Like others have said, this is too twitchy and hard of a game. Will give two stars for the effort, but will delete.
Worst game we've ever played in our life. Not worth 2 dollars.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.1
- Size: 41.90 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Jonathan Lanis]()
Last updated: 7th December 2015 | Genre: Racing, Action | Developer: Jonathan Lanis