Touchgrind BMX 2 4+

Had to purchase all the tracks

I was hooked as soon as I started playing. The way you control your customised BMX is genius, like old school finger skating. The simplicity of the controls allows you to pull of some cool looking complex tricks and the satisfaction of landing them is cool. The fact you don’t get bombarded with ads shows the devs were looking to make a game for the love of games not money. You can buy tracks if you want and you will want to. If I had to be picky then I’d say it took me a while to complete the last challenge on the first track highland ruins. When I finally done in I actually fist upped and said “yes”. But then I got nothing for my effort 😅 please add some special parts for my BMX for completing all challenges on a track or something similar for a better sense of achievement. There’s also a vs mode which is cool but Iv not won 10 times yet so I’m yet to see what happens. Great game 10/10

Disappointed

Game plays solid no one plays the duel mode enough to the point I get a high score and they no longer continue with the 3 rounds of matches should implement a AI to duel or something or a daily score to beat because I have 7 duels that are incomplete due to me scoring over 1 mil and everyone giving up. Also the constant bombardment of the in app purchases which to someone older just have plain criminal prices but I can see why they're set like that since kids will pay £7 for in game content no problem personally I'll just hop on ifile and access them for free because I'm not paying for something that I can do without.
Update: I just realised its not due to people not playing it's because you can only do five "duels" a day which means five rounds now vs 5 different people but hey you could always pay £2 to use a feature that rewards you with barely anything. It's a shame to see how every company takes the in app purchases route there's so much content in this game that I'm missing out on and will probably never get to use because I don't feel like paying upwards of £20 to unlock it all pretty disgusting if you ask me especially since a majority of players in your game are kids that make like £5 for pocket money a month pretty harsh when you really look at it all.

Great

Once you’ve got used to the controls it’s pretty easy to operate. You basically have a short course with maybe 11-12 jumps in each corse which takes about 1 minute to complete. You have a number of objectives to complete on each run, so different tricks you have to complete. Each course has 40 challenges.

You start with one course and the more points you win (by completing challenges) the quicker you can win crates (which contain bike parts, or new bikes/scooters etc) and by levelling up you can get access to new courses. Of the free game you have 3 courses, but if you pay you open up everything, so an additional 8 courses.

Frustratingly for me, My game must have a bug (hence 4 stars) because despite me completing the challenge , the game doesn’t register me completing it.

Personally I think they should open the paid for options to the free game, and you simply continue to complete challenges to get to the next part. (But you can pay if you choose) Frustratingly once you’ve finished the 3 runs on the free game, that’s it. It doesn’t allow for character develop, and it only has a number of tricks. It would be great to see you be able to level up your bike or level up your skill level, so parts give you additional speed, or additional spin etc which allows you to do better tricks etc.

I love playing it, but it’s not a game you play for a long time and keep improving, for me I’ll have probably deleted it after a few weeks (once I’ve done the free bits)

Developer Response ,

Hi, and thanks for the review 💛 We appreciate the kind words and also the feedback. As a small studio we do take a fee for some of the content to be able to keep the game fresh. Hopefully there is still many hours of free content to enjoy. Have a nice day!


And regarding the bug, feel free to email a description of the problem to support@illusionlabs.se and we will take a closer look at what may be the cause.