Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 12:04 am
True Surf – Action Game Review
True Surf is a Action/Sports/Entertainment game from TRUE AXIS PTY LTD, first launched in 3rd October 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 3,311+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes True Surf Stand Out
THE WORLD'S MOST AUTHENTIC SURFING GAME
True Surf launches with 21 of the world's greatest surf breaks driven by True Axis' real world physics simulation engine and powered by live Surfline weather forecasts.
REAL TIME CONTROLS
Realistic touch based physics enable complete control of your surfer in real time. Use one finger, your thumb or mind surf with two fingers like the Pros.
THE WORLD'S BEST WAVES
A huge part of surfing is about chasing the perfect wave and True Surf comes jam-packed with the world's best. Level up to travel the world chasing classic reef breaks with hollow barrels at Pipe in Hawaii, Cloudbreak, Fiji to rolling 'power-curve' breaks at Bells Beach, Australia. Or try to beat the sections at some of the world's fastest point breaks like Jeffreys Bay, South Africa. If BIG waves are your thing then head to Nazare, Portugal and Jaws (Pe-ahi), Hawaii.
LIVE FORECAST BY SURFLINE
True Surf is powered by real time surf forecasting data from Surfline (experts in marine weather forecasting). Data is updated throughout the day and includes Swell Height, Swell Direction, Wind, Tide and Water Temperature. Power up by initiating 'Perfect Storms' at your favorite surf breaks.
EVOLVE YOUR CHARACTER
True Surf comes with six characters to choose from around the world. Start surfing performing tricks, spine-twisting maneuvers and massive wipeouts to build up your reputation and advance your career, unlocking travel, perfect storms, and gear to purchase. Look out for new apparel arrivals from many of the world's leading surf brands.
BUILD YOUR QUIVER
Start building your quiver. You will need shortboards, funboards, longboards, guns and fish according to wave conditions to build up your reputation and become a surfing legend. As you progress through your career, you will unlock new boards to purchase.
COMPETE IN WORLD SURF LEAGUE EVENTS
Are you ready for the big leagues? Test your skills via LIVE WSL competitions and compete against other players from around the world to see if you have what it takes to become a world champ!
Note: An internet connection is required to access some features.
Frequent Flyer (monthly) is a monthly subscription service that enables you unlimited travel to all surf spots in True Surf. Frequent Flyer Monthly cost 2.99 USD/month (or local equivalent) and will be charged on your iTunes Account after purchase and when the subscription renews monthly.
Perfect Storm (monthly) is a monthly subscription service that enables you unlimited activations of Perfect Storms at all surf spots in True Surf. Perfect Storms provide a boost to live surf conditions and each activation lasts for 5 minutes. Perfect Storm Monthly cost 2.99 USD/month (or local equivalent) and will be charged on your iTunes Account after purchase and when the subscription renews monthly.
Subscriptions will renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period.
Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to users iTunes account settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period.
Terms of service can be found at https://trueaxis.com/tsfua.html
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, True Surf is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th March 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Fixed duplication of WSL Events
Download & Availability
True Surf 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:
Best surf game we ever played.
Please add hang ten,board grabs and like flips or something cool and more long boards and also different fins and stuff.
We are a professional surfer and we love this game. It is a very good game.
Maybe throw in some penguin characters while youre at it.
Jogo muito bom bastante desenvolvido mas precisa colocar umas onda mas altas.
This game is really fun and we love the mechanics to the game. But the quests seem to be bugged. We will go do the quest like jump 3 feet to the air but we wont get rewarded anything. Also it was very confusing to learn how to properly do 360s and all of the cool stuff. Please fix the quests and make clearer tutorials.
Love the game. Would really like to see waves that are not necessarily in the circuit though chile, MAVERICKS!! Idk.
Add bodyboarding. Add bodyboarding. Add bodyboarding.
Such a fun game, good quality realistic surfing, we like how it tells you when your surfing it right or wrong, theres also real surfing spots like nazare! Best surfing game.
This game is great but it would be even sicker if it had some more spots to surf like some more north shore waves.
Games awesome. We can sit there and kick it for hours and surfing some outrageous waves. This game is awesome.
We love this game and its super fun playing with the real world tides but we wish that they added some new animations like to longboards so that you could hang 10 or move up and down the board which would make the game more fun on smaller waves when threes not to much besides using a perfect storm. We also wish they added being able to surf while its raining, or in the middle of a hurricane and show the rain.
They should add places like Rockys ,Kirra, and maybe some more North American locations like Tofino the wedge, blacks beach, and Malibu.
We absolutely farmed skeleton bay for like 10,000 shakes and the mechanics are great give it a try.
Its a very good game but we think it would be so much better if you could customize your Surfboards, and also having more beachs.
We think this game is awesome but pls Make so that when in fp cam your looking forward always. And pls add some new spots.
The game is super fun and it will keep you busy for a while, but then it gets kinda repetitive and boring. It would be more fun if there were more tricks or options, or new boards and stuff.
The game is amazing its the best surf game you can find. But the tasks/ missions dont always work. Specifically the airs. If you do it it never counts it.
We love the game, but we wish you could add nose riding for longboards to make them a little more fun because right now they do t feel as fun to ride like in real life.
This game super we just wish they added more surf spot.
First off, love the game, but, should add paddling, duck diving, etc. Second, needs a big graphics update. And add skimboards.
Great game, just needs work on the airs and the physics on the airs. Most of the time we throw airs that are too big even if we do it just right off the lip in the power section, you eat it every time. Either make it to where if you are headed for the face of the wave and the board is lined up you land it or dial down the anti gravity. Lol.
The game is amazing its the beat surf game you can find. But the tasks/ missions dont always work. Specifically the airs. If you do it it never counts it.
Sick game if they would do a couple updates it would stay fun. Especially the broken challenges like the big airs kicking you off or just not counting at all. So many of the 2ft air challenges we will finally get it and it wont even count. Also adding in more tricks or grabs would be sick.
Fun game. Rating system is innacurate. For example, epic simply means big. Most of the time when the conditions are described as epic, they are just huge closeouts. It seems like if its over 10 feet its considered epic. That distinction has nothing to do with shape or surfability. You can be fooled into thinking you should spend your passes going somewhere thats listed as epic, when the surfing experience is actually worse than the spot you left. Scoring system is wildly inaccurate. You can get an 8 second barrel straight into two airs on and still get a four. It would also be really cool if you could save the scores or compete against other people on the app.
One of our favorite mobile games. Definitely some glitches but overall really fun. Talked with the developers and they helped fix an issue.
This game is very entertaining. It is easy to learn and pick up anytime you want to escape and ride some waves. There are plenty of real locations to surf with pretty accurate wave conditions. However, days that the entire planet is on the low side, it can get a little stale. A couple locations are needed for big waves like Cortes Bank. But a great location would be an artificial park. A Kelly Slater Wave Park would make a great addition for days like today when the planet is seeing a lull in the waters. This is our go to game for relaxing and enjoyment, especially if Im unable to get deep into a game due to time limitations. It would be great if we could ride even when the ocean isnt cooperating. The price for boards are a little high but the 400 clams for riding the Wave of the day helps a lot. More ways to acquire these would be a great upgrade too. Thanks for the years of fun.
True surf is okay it sometimes get boring with the same maps we feel like it would be better with bodyboard mechanics and new maps like the wedge n stuff like half of the players surf and bodyboard it would mean much if they added bodyboarding.
It is stuck in auto-drop in mode. We go to manual drop in to enable but it doesnt work.
Waves seem realistic, some actual potential for mechanics, but any kinds of high line stuff or airs into the flat kick you off the back of the wave. Makes it difficult to draw any kinds of lines or replicate the feel of surfing, which is a bummer. Id throw a few bucks into it if they fixed this stuff. Got some potential for sure.
We have been playing this game from the beginning, we think going onto 6 years now and been stuck on lvl 22 for 3 years. Every time we get to the end to level up, it says we completed stage 1 ( 100x now). Need to fix.
We are not sure if Im doing something wrong or not but everytime we air on any spot for instance the third star on Margaret river has you get 3 feet of air to pass and we have gotten up to 9 feet multiple times have even got exactly 3 feet a few times we are not sure what the issue is but it doesnt let us pass we are landing the air by the way its not an issue of us flying behind the wave.
So Ive been playing this game on and off for about 7 years and honestly not much has changed besides the forecasting map and a few minor elements or animations. Its a really fun game and Ill always love it! Thats why we want to see it expanded. We believe that this game has so much potential. Ideas include: Introducing weather animations. Allow players to change perspective while surfing. Give players the ability to do longboarding maneuvers! Moving up and down the board, hanging 10, pivoting in the pocket etc. Speaking of longboards, add more of them! You could also give players the ability to customize their own board shapes. And the biggest thing is add more breaks! Maybe its asking too much but it would be cool if players actually had to paddle themselves to position right for a wave.
Multiple people mention it. But the missions. You complete the task and it won't take. Aerial specific ones especially. The addition of missions is great but that is the most annoying thing in the world to triple the height and not get a completed mission. Over. And over. Fix it.
When ever we pressed update and onto the game we couldnt do first person or drone view.
If you hit a air it doesnt register the height to the missions no matter how many you land.
Great game but when it tells you to do a 1 ft or 6 ft air in a task and you do it it doesnt work and say you completed.
Air height doesnt record on the missions. Im trying to progress in the game, but we cant because the air height doesnt get recorded. Please fix or advise.
Please fix the glitch that does not count landed big airs that you complete. So frustrating to finally hit the exact 1 foot wave for it not to even count.
Fun game but we cant level up everytime Im about to level it goes back to the same level so we have level up for example level 17 3-4 times before we get to level 18.
We think the games great but notice no new spots we think you should add more spots like mavericks ca,mullaghmore, ocean beach San Francisco ,Cornwall,and Santa Monica,also east coast beaches and pls add some Great Lake spots that would be amazing ty.
Keramas doesnt break most of the time unless you use a perfect storm, even when its 4-6 foot. Make Keramas surfable and theres also a big at the bottom of the wave when youre behind the white water where it makes you bounce and lose speed. Other than that, the game is great and we love it.
The game doesnt allow us to level up. Im stuck in level 24 for forever now. Also, the surf ranch event did work. Maybe you guys can make it available for us.
Alright. We love this game. Absolute cinema. Anyways. There's a few (thousand) things about the game that should be added. First: make a setting that controls whether or not you exit the wave automatically. Whenever you hit big air time, (20 ft.+) the game makes you exit the wave mid air. Making the 3 second air time mission impossible. So you should make a setting that controls whether the game automatically gets you off the wave, or you having to manually pressing the x button. SECOND: fix the wave bug. Have you even been riding nazare and the wave ur on just suddenly starts breaking? Like, you know nazare has a bad shoulder, but it keeps up. But sometimes, the shoulder becomes the same height as the current highest point on the wave. You'll know it when you see it. It's basically when the wave flickers really fast from broken to normal until it fixes itself. We fall a lot from this. THIRD: make a camera setting. We know there is already one. "Camera zoom" and "camera distance". But you should make a third setting where when you press it, it switches between the camera settings found in replay. You know that moment when you are in a deep barrel and don't know where you are going? (Ribbon might help with that) so basically we're saying that you could switch to any camera stance (inside settings or even while on the wave). Thank you. This update should be a minor-major update. If you even do it. Also, BRING BACK THE TUTORIAL MAP we WANNA RIDE IT.
Add bodyboarding or bodysurfing it would br awesome and great game.
And the fact that you have to pay for it.
Great game. Our only suggestion is to create different scoring criteria per location. For example, you can never score Big at Nazare since it is optimized for high-performance surfing. You score nothing on big waves.
This game is our life fr. It would be siper sick to add comps between friends, or do more multiplayer stuff because the community comps everyone just has a perfect score. Also adding fins that upgrade one tick of speed, carve, etc Eitherway, love the game please add heats between players.
This game is the only one we have on our phone. Thats how much we love it. We wish that the points system would be changed to give more points to how deep a rider can get into a barrel. TruSurf should give more ride points for technical difficulty and deep barrel riding. Somehow it seems the best way to gain points is to just do multiple turns on the lip and thats not fun.
The game is fun to play and really cool tho we think you should add first person while playing not just on the replay this will make it a lot more realistic also add some more surf spots and bodyboarding. Also we think it would be cool if you can add stickers in the games so you can apply it on your surfboard and add some more characters in the game thanks also make an online mode.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.66
- Size: 158.28 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: TRUE AXIS PTY LTD
Last updated: 18th March 2025 | Genre: Action, Sports | Developer: TRUE AXIS PTY LTD