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Star Jolt – Retro challenge – Racing Game Review
Star Jolt – Retro challenge is a Racing/Entertainment/Action game from Beardybird AB, first launched in 17th December 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 748+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Star Jolt – Retro challenge Stand Out
Challenge yourself, your friends (or enemies), family, the world!
Star Jolt is a pure highscore chasing 80s arcade style game where control at break neck speed is essential.
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"Death comes often, but because games are so short, you’ll instantly want to try again – not least because of Star Jolt’s humor, entertaining hidden features, and eye-popping visuals." – Techradar, The best free iPhone games
"it laughs in your face as your digits repeatedly fail you, ending games within mere seconds. But the compulsion loop is strong to the point that you'll want to have another crack immediately." – Macworld, 40 brilliant free iPhone games you need to play"
- Race and compete against your opponents ghost ships.
- 20 ships to unlock, which one is your favourite?
- A wide range of achievements to strive for
- Multiple score boards to compete in, globally
- Challenge your friends to beat your hot score
- Record and share your highscore attempts
Reach for the hottest scores in this challenging endless runner and improve your skills, one crash at the time.
Space is full of space junk, this is a problem here on earth, but also near the left shoulder of Orion where a civilisation of annoying lizard-like creatures are locked in a race with their own creations: stupid but nice robots.
As a unifying force and hero of both sides, only you can help them collect all the space junk around their planet. Only you can help them expand into space, if it wasn't for the constant bickering and short sightedness of both sides that is…
This Racing game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Star Jolt – Retro challenge is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th November 2024
Recent improvements include:
- Added German and French localization.
- Minor fixes and tweaks
- Tried to settle a few disputes between aliens and robots
Download & Availability
Star Jolt – Retro challenge is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Star Jolt – Retro challenge 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:
One of the most unique games Ive played. Style is very cool and has a lot of personality.
We cant stop shooting for the high score, its become a need, an addiction, we need to achieve that all time score. ODX count your days cuz Ace is coming for that top spot.
The arcade style is so cool and the game is challenging and fun to play. Gameplay is very smooth. The retro aesthetic is what sets this game apart. They Should make more games with this same aesthetic. Very cool.
This game completely changed our life entirely! We became a CEO of a multi-million dollar stock market business that Ive been able to run successfully for the past 6 months. We are now a billionaire and this all happened when this game popped up on 2024, thanksgiving. We have never seen a game better than this on the App Store since 1945. This game makes us time travel into the future and grants unlimited abilities and gifts. This game deserves at least, at minimum of 5 stars. Not only that after GNX releases on the Friday beforehand making this the best month of 2024. This game predicted the creation of starry cranberry, generational music albums, and more! This game is the best thing we have on our phone. W game.
This game is really cool, but we do have one problem with it. You can only play a few rounds before getting an ad. This wouldnt be too annoying, but some ads you arent allowed to skip until youve watched the entire thing. So you can play for like two minutes or less and then have to sit through an ad for 30 seconds. We understand a game has to have ads to make money, which Im fine with, but at least make it so you dont have to sit through the entire 30 seconds.
Just update the app icon its misleading.
Great game. Reminds us of the early 2000s.
Hooked. Game has some great sounds and visuals. Its one of those games that you can pick up and put down at any moment and its gonna be fun.
Its okay gameplay wise. What really shines is the style of the game. You must download it to see how it works. Lots to be done here.
This game literally blew our expectations out of the water. Its strangely addicting to see how much higher you can get on the next run. Super extorted to see where this game goes in the future and im looking forward to more content.
This game is hard but very fun when you get the hang of it and we just love the art style.
Genuinely enjoy passing the time with this little gem.
We love the aesthetic of the game and it sets itself apart from most games. You go in and outside of the game which also makes it challenging but awesome. The sound is also great, the voice, the coin noises, even the buttons, they give that retro feel. Honestly this might be one of the best free retro games on the App Store.
Old school arcade style, we like it.
At first glance we thought it was gonna be one of the og shooter games. But when we first played it was really fun with minimum adds. It is just an overall fun and awesome game.
Stylistic simple fun. Download ferda ferda.
Get the game. Cant write review because we want to play more.
Pretty good distraction and time killer puts us in mind of an old-school cathode ray tube 1950s video game.
Thiss a great game, probably our favorite in the crapple app store. If there wasnt ads Id rate it 5stars.
Just downloaded but it wont even start. We click the dialogue box twice and it just shuts down and our phone reverts to the Home Screen.
The art style and audio alone has forced us to give you guys 5 stars. Thank you so much for this.
This game is absolutely amazing! More people definitely need to try it out.
This is such a fun retro arcade style game! Its a joy to play. Well done, team.
We really like this game it's challenges but fun in our opinion we really recommend it when you are looking for a challenge or we just don't know how to play the game.
It was a good fun game to pass time, we purchased the no ads though and after a maybe 3-4 hours the game randomly closed and reset itself completely. We lost all progress in the game and now have ads again. It also wont let us restore our purchase.
Only suggestion is that some of the ships are not balanced like at all. Theres pretty much no reason to use a ship that doesnt have a score multiplier.
Its a great game with a cool asthetic and occasional bugs/freezing, im using a iphone XR on IOS 17.1 some ads are much longer than others the shortest around 5s and the longest at 20s-30s the ads are slightly too frequent we think the game would greatly improve via a more clear storyline / lore.
Our stylistically appealing game on the App Store and very fun.
This game could use a few different controls, like holding the left/right side to go left/right, but overall is very good.
So our grandma owns an island. We frequently visit it, but now theirs a rat infestation. So, we take coconut, and make a trap where when rat bite it it go on rope. When the rats were up there, we give no food, so they have to eat each other, eventually, their were 2 rats left. We freed them. Whered we put the last 2 ur asking. Answer is simple, we let them live, because now they dont eat coconut, they eat rat, and their free exterminator.
Easily worth $.99 The art is what caught our eye immediately. We dont have an OLED iPhone, but this game makes us want one! Dev really nailed the 70s gaming aesthetic perfectly. Controls are a TAD touchy, a bit more lenient dead zone could be added, or at least a sensitivity slider, as its registering a turn when Im actually lifting our thumb to re-center. Other than that though, this is basically a perfect game! We bet it could even do well with a Apple Watch port.
This game is criminally underpriced. Idve paid good money for this gem! Bravo ~L.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.9.0
- Size: 119.87 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, RU, ES, SV, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Beardybird AB
Last updated: 28th November 2024 | Genre: Racing, Entertainment | Developer: Beardybird AB