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Tricky Machines – Racing Game Review
Tricky Machines is a Racing/Simulation game from Peter Soltesz, first launched in 21st January 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 98+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Tricky Machines Stand Out
Tricky Machines is a physics based racing game. Get the best times on tracks that may include jumps, physical puzzles, shortcuts or just drifting on a racetrack. Watch replays from the best players to improve your technique.
You can drive sports cars of rear wheel drive, front wheel drive or all wheel drive with different mechanical traits.
Some tracks include heavy machines, boats, or segmented trucks, which need to be parked into tight spots at the end of the course.
First person view parking is forced on some maps.
This Racing game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Tricky Machines is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th February 2023
Recent improvements include:
bug fixes
Download & Availability
Tricky Machines is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Tricky Machines 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:
Great game, could be better with more updates, but fun nevertheless.
This is a very fun a challenging game and we like it but can you please consider adding controller support it would be soo much more fun and easier to drive and would be a big improvement.
We noticed recently that when you go into your likes levels or other levels people made they dont show up Fix when possible, thanks.
As a longtime fan of Tricky Truck, we were really excited to play this game as we thought it was basically the successor to the original. But were missing a few things that made Tricky Truck good. The razor sharp controls of yesteryear were much better than these new controls, everything just feels so slippery. So you should add button controls instead of the wheel movement the lines on the terrain when playing should be invisible, as it doesnt really fit when playing, you should just keep it only in edit mode. And the $9 price of unlimited skips really sounds like a slap in the face in terms of price for a mobile port. On another note: update Tricky Truck to support newer devices so we can relive that amazing game, its the only game of your collection that you somehow didnt renew and yet, its the best game youve created. Anyways, we kinda enjoy the new game, but its going to take some work to make it better than the original. Thanks for reading.
Your physics games are so fun because of the real physics they have in them like falling ragdolls breaking apart explosions and also you should update your soccer game goof balls.
The game is overall one of the best car games on iOS, but we have found an error, to make long story short: on level the way home there is an error when you pass through one of the checkpoints it says: Great crash! /Users/archeeq/pd/ arcvector.h: line 637: (unsigned int) (char) &first[index] – (char)first) < (unsigned int) ((char)_Mylast – (char) first) = 0x54c910,0xfffff05d -crashdata- simulation.cpp 460 (475) (487) (503)(646) $ simulation.cpp 683 $ aphys.cpp 1954 $. And game crashes.
Can you please add soft body physics? Please.
The offline maps are great but get boring after a while, we hope you can add the ability to download maps to be played offline, we have to download them anyways so why not make them accessible offline.
GREAT GAME but pleaseeeeeeeeee we bet of you, pleaseeeeeeeeeee add tilt controls and an easier way to create maps and cars pleaseeeeeeeee.
Ok, Im just gonna say this, A super good game. Good physics, but it needs softbody dents. Besides, all of the other games are on android, why not you make this game softbody for once.
This is a pretty good game but we really want to see these three things 1 realistic crashing physics 2 more controller options for iPod touch iPad and iPhone because from what we understand you cant use the map creator without a keyboard and/or a mouse 3 better physics in general and dont get us wrong we do love the way you can make a car the size of a space shuttle and still be able to move it around with normal sized wheels but we dont think the water physics are that good but other than that this is one great game.
To potential players: This game is fun, unique, & rich with potential. Just download, & give it a try! & to the Dev: As title suggests, Im interested in controller support. We really wish mobile game developers Understood how much of a crucial feature controller support is for players like ourselves, we developed any/all of our video game skills on a console, with a physical controller in our hand A feature like controller support ONLY adds to your game; It has zero negative impact on the existing player-base, & it grows The number of interested potential players. Whenever Im looking through about game or version history & we see the rare controller support added, we dont hesitate to install & give the developers game a try immediately.
The overall game is terrible. The only thing that couldve saved it was the level editor, which apparently yOu NeeD tO BE oN STeAm To uSE ThiS. We DONT HAVE A PC! NOT EVERYONE DOES.
Honestly, we have quite a bit of fun with this game even without being able to make our own maps and the controls, in our opinion, are great for a game like this but, we would still like controller support because it just feels like its a game thats meant to be played with some kind of controller.
Honestly we find this game really fun even without being able to edit maps and other things (partly because Im not good at those things) but, the one thing we would really love for this game would be controller support. We like how the mobile controls use a wheel instead of arrows but. We would like to be able to connect a controller to our phone and play on something other than our iPad. (we play on iPad because of the bigger screen and more area for well sized controls and at the same time the same if not more FOV than on our phone).
This is our most played racing game period and the dev adding insane features like LAN well past the release date deserves respect.
This is a great game, but there needs to be more detail. Also, there is really nothing to do except drive around.
Mostly because it isnt just racing. Very good.
Game is awesome. Super realistic physics and graphics are amazing. Not sure if there is an option to make your own map on iOS but if not you guys need to add it. Kind of gets boring after playing so many maps and not being able to make your own. Other than that its super fun. Downhill soap box races are amazing too.
Hey developer, we love your game but we cant figure out how to make custom maps.
Good game but it heats our phone up and we can wait until users can make their own sandbox.
This games really fun, has better physics and graphics than most games but would be cool if we could customize the button lay out. Please add this feature soon will make the game just that much better.
Hard physics but drains batterie life.
Last game we played was Sumotori which was 5 years ago…than you never updated it which made us sad as it was a fun game! However its seems you have a new game out so Ive been playing it and well its good however the performance is lacking and we feel as though its more of a sandbox than a game and thats great but we think you should Lean more towards the idea of being able to create vehicles in this game as the basis is there besides performance you gotta fix that we think if you got that down you could really have a good game/sandbox brewing heck we would pay money if you made the performance better and made it to wear perhaps we could build stuff.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.134.6
- Size: 36.61 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Peter Soltesz]()
Last updated: 20th February 2023 | Genre: Racing, Simulation | Developer: Peter Soltesz