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Santa in the City 3D Christmas Game + Countdown FREE – Simulation Game Review
Santa in the City 3D Christmas Game + Countdown FREE is a Simulation/Family/Lifestyle game from Useless Creations Pty Ltd, first launched in 25th November 2010.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 41+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Santa in the City 3D Christmas Game + Countdown FREE Stand Out
Take the reigns and fly with Santa through a highly detailed 3D city, and help him collect letters from kids in time for Christmas! That's right, Santa needs YOUR help! YOU FLY THE SLEIGH! And it's all in amazing real-time 3D!
Santa in the City is more than just a game, more than just an amazing, real-time 3D display, more than just a clock, and more than just a countdown to Christmas! Santa in the City is all these things and more!! Merry Christmas!!
Santa in the City features:
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FLY THE SLEIGH! Sure you can just watch Santa fly around your city, but you can also take the reigns and weave around skyscrapers yourself! Tap the Ho! Ho! Ho! button if you want to spread some cheer! And don't worry, the reindeer will make sure you don't crash!
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3 DIFFERENT GAME MODES! Be Santa as you fly the sleigh in 3 different modes: Free Flight lets you explore on your own, or you can collect letters to Santa hidden around the city and find out what kids want for Christmas, or you can play against the clock! How many letters can you collect before time runs out?
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COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS DAY! Watch the seconds tick away with the countdown mode as you watch Santa fly through the city. The countdown keeps track of not only seconds, minutes, hours, and days, but also how many more sleeps til Christmas, and more!
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Full real-time 3D graphics that'll blow any elf's socks off and show off the power of your iPhone, iPod or iPad like no other Christmas app!
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Includes a few Christmas tunes to help get you in the spirit of the holidays! Upgrade and get over 40!
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FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE OPTIONS! Choose how heavy the snow is, how long the sleigh trail is, how loud the music is, you can even choose between different skies above the city, clock options, and more!
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Full iOS4 support and full Retina display resolution graphics!
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Like a screen saver for your iPhone / iPad. A great Christmas display while it's charging, and a nice holiday night light to boot! :) And it works in any orientation!
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This app uses high detailed 3D graphics, so it'll only run on iPod 3rd Gen or higher, iPhone 3GS or higher, or iPad.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Santa in the City 3D Christmas Game + Countdown FREE is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th November 2014
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
v1.7 updates:
- Updated for Christmas 2014!
- Updated for iOS8.
- Updated for the new iPhone 6/6Plus screens.
- Bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Santa in the City 3D Christmas Game + Countdown FREE is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Santa in the City 3D Christmas Game + Countdown FREE 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:
We played this before, but when we installed it another time, its not responding to the tilt geoscope function, can you please fix it, ASAP. Thanks.
Ive had this app for years and it always makes Christmas more magical!!! Hope you have it for years to come.
This is a really fun game, but there are only 3different things you can do. Personally, we also thought the steering was pretty difficult….. We love it but you really can only play about one round.
This was so much fun! We played this with our nephews and niece ages 2, 3 & 4 years old and they sat on our laps for over two hours. Driving Santa's sleigh, had us all moving with the twist and turns and the ahs from the kids was awesome! Sweet app.
This is the best countdown to Christmas we've seen. It's like a screensaver with a game added in for extra fun.
Great idea for a app but it is Impossible to steer and the graphics are very bad. We think the whole concept is a good idea but it is just ruined by the physical part of the game.
While a seemingly good app, the graphics are decent but the steering is an overall MESS. While we liked the app at first it made us disappointed to have to delete it less than 5 minutes later.
It doesnt actually let you fly the slay you just see a count down to Christmas so we do not recommended getting this app.
We were hesitant to download this because of the 3.9 overall score, but a lot of the reviews seemed to be positive so we decided to give it a shot. That was a mistake! The moment we started playing, we encountered problem after problem. For starters, if you start the game with your device in landscape mode, it will completely screw everything up and the game will not adjust itself even when you turn your device to portrait position. An ad popped up and we couldnt close it because the right side of the ad where the X to close it was cut off. We had to force close and start again. We thought it was just a glitch so we again tried starting in landscape mode. Thats when we realized the game simply does not allow for it. Restarted and this time we did so in portrait mode. Even in portrait mode however, the edges of the game are cut off and you cant see everything youre supposed to. On top of all that, the game provides absolutely no instructions on how to play, tapping on the screen does nothing, motion controls are non-existent, and saying that ads pop up frequently would be an understatement. Im not sure how this game has any positive reviews at all unless they are fake which they probably are. Even for free, this game is not worth it.
We hate if we can't steer besides that boring good graphics though.
We love driving the sleigh through the town!! It is awesome how it can also be a count down!!! We it.
We think the people that are writing bad reviews are just people that need to lighten up or don't like Christmas because their just plain old mean. We personally love the game, it allows us to stalk Santa while counting down the days hes gonna leave a mess in our house from the cookies, so that's just our opinion. Thanks creators for this awesome game.
We love it. It's a great game for Christmas. We don't know why there are so many bad reviews. It's amazing.
We have checked a lot of Christmas countdown apps and this is by far the best app yet! Believe us when we say we have seen and used them ALL! We don't have a rating for the 3 in app games, we use the countdown! Santa's sleigh flies over the city in 3-D, the music is great, and love Santa ho-ho-ho'ing… :) Full of Christmas cheer.
It is a wonderful delightful game, the music and the visual effects are very well made and it keeps reminding you of how wonderful it is for a child to believe in sant who is an angel of GOD as the gift of giving as GOD gave JESUS to us is the greatest gift.
THIS IS A GOOD APP ,we LIKE THE IDEA OF THE COUNTDOWN ,ALSO MAKE AN APP ABOUT DRIVING BOATS.
This app is so cool get it totally im 10 and this app is 3d and u just watch it like a movie and it tells u information like hours minutes seconds days and nights till christmas awesome right download now guys.
We love Santa and we still believe and he's awesome.
Playing sleigh Ride was really fun and we would say a 5 star review.
It's a cute idea for an app, but it has some issues. The steering STINKS!! It is close to impossible to make the sleigh go down. It either goes left, right, or up. We do, however, like the countdown part where Santa is just flying around on his own. It would be really nice if the controls for the game part could be fixed though. Then this could be so much better.
Help Santa fly its fun and easy also free.
Freezes up way too MUCH!!!!Really boring when ya think about it.BAD BAD BAD.
Gimmick for AT&T ads Stop marketing using our kids and start focusing on your lousy coverage. Signed, Cris Kringle (North Pole) using Sprint.
This is bad you can't even steer right it goes in a different way don't get this game cause it doesn't work right when you want it to go straight it goes done when you steer one way around building it goes the other way.
Should be able to land and deliver presents+where's ruldolph? Needs some fixing: like make the screen less confusing! But otherwise it's fun.
They need to fix the graphics there a little confusing but over all we like the countdown.
You just ride around no giving out gifts! Annoying.
Terrable app dont get the controls are terrable and its pointless we wish we could give it 0 starzs.
We knew it was going to be horrible as soon as we noticed it downloaded in 2 seconds.
This app is a blast! You can drive Santa's sleigh all around the city, swooping down to collect letters or just zoom about with the snowflakes. The music is festive and cheery and definitely lifts your mood. No problem loading or running the app.
It is a fun 3D game it's like you r really flying.
Really cool app love the music although Santa sounds a little creepy all and all nice app but were is roudolph.
It's not a good app so DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS.
We like it but the graphics kinda make so u can't see so then it is confusing.
We got it, deleted it and got x-mas countdown.
This app is SO much fun, surprisingly. Even though when we first downloaded it we thought it was childish and pointless. It is pointless, but so much fun. Flying over a realistic 3d city on a sleigh, and steering it is a great way to pass time. It's a great app, wish there were more like it.
Great game it was boring at first but now we kind of like it.we think it was a great idea to do the countdown to Christmas.Very good graphics and nice music.A game to get.
Really it requires a 3 gen we pod wow.
This app is amazing. We just wish that the sleigh would stop before hitting a building rather than steering around it. We want to have more control and not have it steer around for you.
We like it . It was hard at first now easy.
It's entertaining for a free app. The controls are pretty sensitive and we wish you could stop during the free play mode but other than that it's a pretty good app. Probably ages 8 and up.
Hate it it's stupid we're deleting it.
It steers for you, not really that great, don't waste your time for this app. We think there shouldn't be just one city, it should be the whole world.
We have a second gen ipod and it requires third REALLY!!!!!!! THIS IS STUPID.
Lots of fun, keeps our kids entertained especially because their names pop up when you find the letters.
For some reason right as we open it it will close!!! We don't know why!!!! UHG!!! :(.
We can't play this game because it goes right back to our home page when we press it:(.
Every time we open this app it plays the music for a split second and then takes us back yo our home screen. We don't understand why it does this??? Is it because it the Lite version. Idk if anybody ever figures it out please post what is wrong with this app. Thanks.
It crashes right after you open it.
It doesn't even load. We're going to try downloading it again, but we shouldn't even have to.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.7
- Size: 26.46 MB
- iOS: 5.1.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Useless Creations Pty Ltd]()
Last updated: 18th November 2014 | Genre: Simulation, Family | Developer: Useless Creations Pty Ltd