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Tail Drift – Action Game Review
Tail Drift is a Action/Racing game from Blocky Pixel Pty Ltd, first launched in 8th October 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 20+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Tail Drift Stand Out
"Tail Drift is like Mario Kart if it took place on tubes in the sky…" PocketGamer
Jump into the pilot seat and take to the skies in this free to play 360 degree arcade racer.
Zoom through fantastic environments including floating islands, ancient temples and desert canyons.
Compete with friends to win the Crown for each event and dominate the Leaderboards!
== Recommended for iPhone 5 and up ==
Features:
• 3 tours featuring 27 unique events to compete in
• 9 beautifully hand-crafted tracks to compete on
• 3 different event types including Classic Race, Time Trial, and Time Extension
• 8 unique planes to purchase and upgrade
• Upgrade each plane's speed, handling, acceleration and boost
• 4 unique power ups to give you the competitive edge including turbo boost, deadly mines, coin magnet and stun cannons
• Supports Game Center with 27 leaderboards and 13 achievements
• Play in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese and Turkish!
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Tail Drift is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th December 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Fancy new league layout!
- Ads removed!
Download & Availability
Tail Drift 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:
We just keep coming back for more after all these years.
This game is so much fun pass the greens to add more time at a speed record get a boost at races you can have a power up and boost too we hope you like our review thanks.
The game is really good it's so much fun and we're wondering why it's not popular, but the games should add more planes. Keep it up.
Love it!!! We play it every day, but it needs more planes. Keep up the good work.
Im trying to get 3 stars (not to be confused with our rating number) on a time trial, but the game is a little bit fast. Dont get us wrong the game is fun, but you need to lower the sense of speed a little bit. Make it better and Ill give 5 stars.
This use to have external controller support but not anymore? Is just tilt control now and the tilt control is sluggish. There no way to race when you keep crashing because the tilt is so sluggish.
Overall, we think the concept is great, but the controls are a little wonky and the plane never really moves where you direct it to go which makes us very frustrated at it.
It just reminds us of Mario Kart. If you love that game, you'll love this. Not really a freemium game and is challenging too.
We think this game real fine game.
No fuel? Heck yes! Thanks Good Guy Devs.
This game is really fun we suggest it to anyone good game to past time.
The graphics are great it's very fun and addictive game.
Great graphics! And excellent gameplay.
It's an Awesome 360 degree game it adds a whole new level of fun.
The update fixed nearly every problem with the Tail Drift, from removing the "fuel" and its diabolical wait times to adding more planes and tracks! What more could you want? (That wasn't a rhetorical question… Add multiplayer and it'll be perfect!).
This game is very fun, but it contains a lot of ads. Trail drift has a lot of potential, and we can see a lot more people playing it, but it has too much ads.
Our son had to download this. It's ok.
Definitely helps us pass the time when our gf is out doing her thing. Just wish it had more of an attacking feel to it.
This is a very fun app. We like the variety of races you can do, and the different landscapes. Also, it's addicting after a while, and a fun way to pass the time. However, there are a decent amount of ads, and you don't always get the opportunity to skip them.
This is a fun and addicting game and we can wait for more updates.
This is one of the best racing games that we've played. Well balanced.
The game makes u want to play for hours but to accumulate coins takes a long time and the controls can get a little confusing.
Good game it's a good idea and very fun but there is waaayyyy to many adds also there is no way to immediately restart you have to quite and then go back through the process of picking the level and the plane.
Fun graphics. Don't get paid enough for races in relation to expense of planes. Fun graphics.
And ads kill performance. Not fun.
This game looked fun and the game play is decent but you have to watch a 30 second ad after every race. It's too much and not worth the hassle.
The game is fun, though it has a some lag issues. But holy ads, Batman. A 30 second ad after each round? Really? It's more like an advertising app with an occasional game thrown in.
This game is not fun enough to have 30-40 second ads after every single thing you do and for that it gets 2 stars but if your into ads then this is the game for you. (You can watch all the Kate Upton Game of War ads you want;).
Good game but we shouldn't have to see ads. Bought it when it was originally a premium app. We have to pay again to remove them.
Ads Ads galore. Non-skippable ads everywhere. As for the game. The controls are laggy and sloppy. The constant 'spinning' is dizzying on such a small screen. 1 star is generous. Skip this game.
We played three races and after each there is a 30 second ad that cannot be skipped, so it was immediately deleted.
Can be very fun but you spend just as much time if not more watching adds then having fun racing! Give us the $4.99 option too opt out all together and just play? Until then not worth the time sink in commercials.
U r making an awesome unique game feels lame with adding ads after every single round even some ads repeat itself zz ,we'll delete most probably.
No, just no… It looks like some cool game but it WILL NOT let u download it on an iPhone 4. We've tried six times WITH full internet connection and it will not download, we waited a whole hour for it to download. But.. UGH. Fix this, and we'll download the game, otherwise the graphics and designs look A+. Help.
Something rated 4+ should not include an ad for game of war where a dragon burns an army of people. Ad is after the first race.
Great game, fun… WHERE IS THE UPDATE.
Performance is laggy. It's not a game built for iOS. Originally this was a flash game. We could only say that the devs ported it wrong.
Squishy controls, confusing camera, money-grubbing energy system that doesn't even grant you enough starting energy to make you want to play more. Interesting visuals, good idea, but poorly executed in general.
3 races and suddenly you either watch an add or you spend money. No thanks. Watching adds is ok, but at least have a refuel timer or something.
Look, there's only about enough content to occupy you for an hour or two (we three starred every event within a two hour time frame) and it seems the plane you choose to buy is inconsequential, and the game leaves little incentive to unlock them all. Along with this, the power ups you get during races are incredibly dull (only three options), and only the boost is actually reliably helpful, it's too hard to aim the gun. Aside from that be aware that there are in-app purchases (1500 coins for a dollar) that or you have to watch 15-30 second ads before each race. That being said, it is a cute idea, and the level design is good, but the game feels largely incomplete. Shouldn't have been released yet. We don't recommend it.
Ol meu nome Jhonattan sou do Brasil, o jogo Tail Drift depois de instalado no meu iPhone 5, abre mais fecha imediatamente. Como resolver esse bug ? GRATO.
Please do not support these money-grubbing tactics. Bought this game. BOUGHT this game upon release. This developer will never again see any of our business.
Unplayable because of game braking bug. Can't play the game. Glad we got it for Free. Please fix so we can give an actual review.
We were one of the first buyers who not only believed in the developer, but gave them our early support by BUYING the game. Now, a slap in the face. Game has gone free with ads and paywalls. We don't appreciate the disrespectful manner the developer is working within. Ripped off for early supporting and it hurts. We recommend against these poor ethics and urge people to go elsewhere.
You know, this is kind of hard for us to write. We had high hopes for this game, and when we saw there was an update when checking our apps, we were pretty excited. …until we found out it was in pursuit of this very, very hard-to-sell free-to-play model like every other app out there, which ironically makes us, and we wager, people like us, want to play them less. We liked this game, thought it was a fun way to kill time, and even if it was very incomplete, we wanted to see it grow, but this is growing in all the wrong places. Perhaps you could have persuaded more people to play this game by keeping the original price point and then offering more game to play in an update.
Progress throttling is when a game prevents you from progressing at your own pace via some sort of in-game currency. You can either wait for it to regenerate on its own, or you can purchase more of the resource for cash. This is a very disappointing development in gaming. Please do not support any game that uses this payment model.
"Not enough fuel to race. Watch a video for 5 fuel?" How about…. No.
When you get used to the game, you'll know how fascinating it is. Am looking forward to further update.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.0
- Size: 219.07 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Blocky Pixel Pty Ltd
Last updated: 4th December 2016 | Genre: Action, Racing | Developer: Blocky Pixel Pty Ltd