Dirt Bike Unchained Reviews

No doubt, Dirt Bike Unlimited is fun game but it’s replay-ability is limited in the long run unless you’re willing to shell out cash for in game materials to upgrade bikes and unlock skills. After a couple of weeks of play, most races – even when played perfectly – are rewarded with a loss because you are outclassed by other players with higher tier, better equipped bikes, and additional boosts. Moreover, progression is slowed not only by the severely diminished rewards from a second, third or fourth place finish, but from the exponential increase in the cost of new bikes and upgrades, which generally provide low value or utility due to their brief usefulness before difficulty scaling begins pitting you, once again, against higher tier, better equipped players. Make no mistake though, this is a design feature, not a bug, designed to encourage players to spend real world cash in an effort to remain competitive… and it’s a shame too because the whale or nothing duality is likely to dramatically reduce the game’s shelf-life for most F2P players – even those would otherwise be willing to put in the effort to progress further if only the developer valued player time as much as they do cash.

If you’ve read all the other reviews, mine will come as no surprise. It’s very fun at first, but becomes a ridiculous quest for nothing. The better you get, the more difficult the challengers. That part I’m fine with. But they obviously match you with people who have much more upgrades, as you’re doing everything right and the other bikes just start leaving you.

Again, I have no problem with things getting harder as you progress. But you grind and grind for money to get an upgrade on a higher paying bike, and you’re automatically put in races with even better bikes. So it does absolutely no good to spend the time and money, just to consistently come in 2nd and 3rd places. With the tier 1 bikes, I consistently win. Tier 2, similar, but not quite as much. Tier 3? Forget it. 3 stars thru a turn, dead even with another player, and he just walks on you. Obviously he’s got a higher ranked bike.

I’ve played this game nearly every day for 3 weeks or so, because it is a fun game. But due to this obviously rigged junk to get me to spend money, I’m pretty much done and going to free up the space on my tablet.

Overall this is a GOOD game that I play everyday, however, it's not GREAT. The graphics are great, the gameplay is easy, and there is a solid fun factor to it. Where it goes off the rails a bit is in the match-making process. The developers say it's base don your past runs and the runs of other players, but won't explain the algorithm. I often wonder when a company is not transparent, are they being shady? It’s not like these are trade secrets. Anyway, you will notice how jerky and non-fluid other racers will appear while playing the game. This seems like they are adjusting to your actions in a emulation of balance of power. The whole jump landing system also makes no sense. I have been racing bikes for years and it is just not realistic. Finally, the Bulldozer is pure hot garbage and needs a major rework. I’m starting to think the developers created that bike with the intention of hating it. It is a pure dumpster fire. There is no fun value with it, and it appears in every team board. I hate playing with it and we are forced to use.

Overall it is a good game. A couple minor tweaks and it could be a home run.

Think about it, you’re not racing live against anyone. I’m not sure if you’re racing bots or if you’re racing the ghost of real players previous runs. Either way, it doesn’t matter. Because the game knows the times of the other 3 racers already. So with that foreknowledge, how does it select the opponents times that you are going to race against? And why does it select race times that are impossible for you to beat even if you play perfect?

So, the entire game is set up for you to lose or win whenever they decide you should. It’s all predetermined. If it wants you to win, it will select slower race times where you can’t lose even if you race horribly. And when it wants you to lose, it will select race times that you can’t possibly beat. And it does this back and forth so you think it’s random, but it’s not. And it makes the game extremely boring and waste of time when you think about it. It takes all the fun out of it. You’re not doing anything but holding you’re finger on the screen and wasting your time accomplishing nothing in the end.

I loved it at first. It’s not pay to win. It’s all about perfect timing of landing/sliding and learning/memorizing the tracks. If you learn the tracks well you’d know where to long jump and where short. It gives you some edges to compete.

But then here come the problems. It doesn’t seem like a real time game. You can wait at the starting line for a long time and you can still race with the opponents together. If you start fast, your opponents never finish late either. So I think the game uses recorded datas of previous players to assign you “opponents”. (Or maybe bots).

And then if you don’t upgrade your bike, at some point you can never progress in trophies anymore, which means the matching algorithm is based on the trophies and the stats of your bike. It makes you feel that your race has been pre-destined.

And when a bike reaches 500 trophies it becomes almost impossible to win anymore, which means the algorithm is assigning you super fast opponents (or maybe bots) to stop you at 500 trophies of each bike. The official webpage of the game also confirms that if a bike reaches 500 trophies it’s considered done. So basically the race is rigged to some extent.

So after you’ve mastered all the tracks and memorized all the moves, the rest is just pure repetition, earn cash, upgrade bikes, buy new bikes, until you reach 500 trophies for all the bikes. There is no real competition.

The game is controlled with one finger, most likely the thumb. The controls are simple but ultimately boring. It’s pretty much holding a finger down and knowing when to lift it up and put it back down. The difficulty is also just a very specific time. For the most part you’re racing against a ‘ghost’, a non interfering time marker that looks like a player. But those ghosts have a set time, and if you don’t do everything perfect when you’re at the standard level for that point, you’ll lose. That means either trying again and again, or spending in-game currency on bikes and upgrades.

The cheapest bikes cost 1000. The first upgrades cost around 1000 for the first round or two. Now if you want to buy in game cash, you need to buy coins. Now, the real currency to in game currency ratio is $2 for 3000. That means for $2 you can buy a starter bike and upgrade two pieces.

This game is great, enjoyable gameplay, little bit of fun casual story and is a blast to grind through, for the most part. It unfortunately suffers from a few, fairy large flaws. One, The fuel pips/race energy don’t stack enough only allowing 7 without some kind of minuscule purchase, and they take 20 minutes to recharge, INDIVIDUALLY. This gets very annoying because you can only race 7 times and if you want to race again once you have to wait 20 minutes. If you want to race all seven times in a row again, you’ll have to wait little over 2 hours. The second issue, challenges. You could use a higher tier bike with 50 more power and the AI will still be faster than you no matter how fast you ride or how proficiently. However the flaws are possible to ignore despite how hard it will be to do so. So have fun and do your best to pay no mind to these flaws. Thank you for reading!

At first the game was fun. I have all the bike except for five of them. They are almost all maxed out. And all ranked up to three. I am almost at 500 trophies on all of them. And can’t seem to win no races. Because I’m at 500 trophies once you hit the 500 mark on trophies you can’t win. I use to spend money on the game and I was spending a lot of money on the game and I’m not no more. I refuse to. Why would I spend money on a game that don’t allow you to advance any more past 500 trophies. I’m the top racer in my team. I was racing all the time and have slowed down. Why face when you can’t advance. And on top of all of this. Now my bike jump and do tricks when they want to I can try to get them to and they just go straight and do nothing and that is bs. I have been wanting to delete the game but haven’t. I’m waiting to see if anything is going to change. I really did like the game a lot. I don’t know if there is a lot of women that do play the game or not but I enjoy racing in real life so I figured I would try this.

The game itself is extremely fun and rewarding. The matchmaking is a pain sometimes because you can have a 100% perfect race (3 stars on every trick) and still get last place solely because you got matched against 3 people’s who bikes are way better than your own. But even when you lose, you don’t really lose anything. You get basically 0 money but only lose 4 trophies, so losing a race isn’t a big deal at all (especially when you have thousands of trophies). The game isn’t that grindy other than getting tier 4 and 5 bikes because their prices are insane, but not that hard to get. The “grind” is literally just playing the game, it’s not some boring task you just do on repeat like some other games. Overall the races themselves are 10/10 but the matchmaking is a 7/10 so this game is definitely worth getting.

This game was fun when I first downloaded it. I managed to get a few bikes unlocked/upgraded within a few days. At some point, the game stopped allowing me to win races. I can be in 1st place the whole race, ahead by a mile, and at the last second, all 3 of the “opponents” go flying past me across the finish line, leaving me to finish in 4th place by .0019 of a second.

Assuming my bikes just weren’t upgraded enough to keep up and win races, I spent real money on the in game currency and gold to upgrade my bikes and my riders. Despite this, I’m still “losing” races at the last second, regardless of what bike I use, even when I’m getting 3 star landings, tricks, power slides, scrubs etc, throughout the whole race. I don’t know if I need to uninstall it and start from the beginning again, but something is wrong with the AI or algorithm.

Also the missions for my “clan”, are the same over and over and over again and the missions are only for tier 1 bikes, which makes it pointless because tier 1 bikes only earn like $100 for wins and the game won’t even let me win so I get the $25 last place earning. The tier 4 bikes earn 1250 per win, BUT since the game won’t allow me a win, I end up getting the $250 last place earnings or whatever they give you for finishing in last place.

Something is wrong with this game, and it’s incredibly frustrating.

I love playing this game. Especially after i broke my wrist on a off road vehicle and can’t ride for a while. But they shouldn’t scam you on the in app purchases. I thought i was buying the “rank tokens” and would be able to apply them to my specific bike but no i bought and then it went to a random bike i don’t even own. there is nothing more frustrating when you finally decide to spend a few bucks or so in a game to end up not getting what you actually want. Be a bit descriptive or actually change this so that we can upgrade the bike we actually want to compete with vs buying things we think will benefit to find out it doesn’t benefit us and then we waste our money with no way of refunding it… otherwise it’s good besides a few lagging issues

I downloaded this game because I was just scrolling through DirtBikeUnchained store and found it. When I first played it I really loved it, the graphics are great for a mobile game and the game play is simple and fun. Later on I started getting more bikes and I could barely every get first anymore even though I was upgrading the bike as soon as I could. Also I was getting upgrade tokens for tier 5 bikes while the best bike I had was tier 3. I don't know if it's the game or me but it will happen sometimes where I'll land perfectly and get absolutely no boost from it. Then everyone passes me and I get 4th. Lastly I think in some future update you should do LIVE multiplayer games, not pre-recorded races your taking part of. Thanks for reading this.

There’s enough simplistic depth to the gameplay to keep someone engaged as a simple time waster but it’s clearly built as a P2W cash factory. It’s been mentioned in other reviews but I had to bring it up as well since I’ve rarely seen a cash grab as poorly disguised as this one. I can outrank an opponent by 50 points and an entire tier of dirt bike and play 100% perfect (literally not a single mistake) and still get easily beaten because the devs want your money so badly but they don’t want to put effort into making a game I’d actually want to spend money on. I’m not even opposed to IAPs when they’re done intelligently but this is so blatant it’s not even funny. I’ll continue to play for a while because it’s a fun enough time just doing the standard races but they’ll never see a dime from me unless they heavily rework the balance so that it can at least make some level of sense.

The game itself is very well done and fun to play, which unfortunately is negated by the awful in-game economy. It can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars to buy bikes and even more to fully upgrade, but the most you can win per race is 500. There are rewards for trophies that happen periodically but the cash rewards are so infrequent that the main source of income is from races, which makes the game EXTREMELY “grindy”.

Additionally, the biggest source of cash in the game comes from the challenges, of which there is only one challenge area. Maybe the developers have plans for more challenges, but as of now that good source of cash rewards is depleted pretty quickly depending on how often you play the game.

Overall, as the title says: fun game, bad economy.

Fun game. Exciting to play. I’ve been play for 3 days now. Paid for a few upgrades. I finally decided to join a team to win bigger prizes. HUGE MISTAKE. After joining the team, the game takes me to the ‘shop’ for a free gift. There are no options to avoid this. There is only one option to click and once you get there the gift is not available and you can do nothing else except quit the game. No options to contact anyone for help to resolve this issue. I’ve restarted my device. I’ve deleted DirtBikeUnchained and reinstalled it. I’ve checked for updates for my OS and for DirtBikeUnchained ; everything is current. If you decide to play, DO NOT JOIN A TEAM else DirtBikeUnchained will stop running on your device. You’ve been warned.

The game is a very fun game with super good graphics and cool dirt bike skins and gear. Although when it comes to the challenges for the other bikes that are not the regular dirt bikes I don’t think you should have to pay gold to do the next level because it is hard enough to get gold and the other option is pay for it. I love the game and the skins but the gear is hard to get with the helmets and suit. I don’t won’t to give the s a five star review and complain the hole time and this game deserves a five star review and that is why I am giving it one. All I ask is give a little bit more fuel and make it easier to get gold and skins and this game would be perfect.

I don’t know how you guys are going on and on about how this game is pay to win, if you’re loosing constantly, you’re not doing something right, it’s not the game or the bikes, when you race other people, they have the same bike level as you, it’s just about how you get perfect landings, a good start, good power slides, you are probably impatient and want everything so quickly, you have to grind your way for things, join a good clan that completes their boards, that gives you a lot of money to upgrade your bike, and you get loot boxes too, just play the game and you’ll find out it isn’t pay to win

Question: How do I unlock new gear??

I’ve had so much fun playing this the first week, grinding hard. I realized after the first week of the red bull challenge race that all the rewards don’t reset. I was confused when I saw that there was a different track and still all the same rewards that I’ve already collected for the last week. So now, I’m realizing that I will be collecting no rewards for the next 7 weeks that this goes on. So without any incentive to race in these next weeks of races it has really taken away half of the game from me. The game is very fun and I enjoy it a lot, but my one recommendation is to reset weekly rewards to keep the older players here longer and having fun refreshing content to strive for! Thank you for the fun game!

So this game is absolutely amazing I actually bought the premium pass and I don’t ever do that with ANY phone games but it seems the connection time is taking longer than usual. I thought it was my wifi so I used my mobile data and it’s still doing it and I’ve also tried playing it in different parts of town and it still does it. Also I’m a supporter and contributor to Redbull favorite energy drink. I’m not gonna stop playing but I can’t play if it doesn’t load so I hope it gets fixed soon. Or else my money is gonna be wasted.

This game is really fun and I don’t mind that it gets harder to win once you reach the challenger series, however i feel like it’s unfair that once you do reach that point 2nd place finishes go from 1 reputation to 0 reputation. It’s really frustrating because I love this game however I find myself constantly rage quitting because it is more challenging to win so I’m not constantly getting first which is now the ONLY way to progress so more often than not I end up right back where I started. To put it into context I’ve done around 40 to 50 races since I reached 1,000 reputation and I currently have 1,015 reputation which is so irritating. To be honest if im unable to start progressing in the game again soon I’m going to delete it.

I love this game and the progression of adding tricks than scrubs was spot on. I do highly recommend maxing out the first bike before moving on in the tiers. And you really have to try to find new menus to open to make sure you get all the good rewards

But my one complaint is I am stuck on a team or clan mission for red bull wins as well as red bull cash winning. And I have no idea how to race a red bull.

I have tried both categories of bikes as well as completed all challenges. Than played in the Red Bull tournament and nothing will give me this Red Bull team wins or cash achievement which is needed to move the team tab to the next level

I’m consistently racing against players ranked significantly higher (for ex: 8000 rep vs 300,000 rep). Makes it difficult/impossible to win. Upgrading a bike can cost anywhere from 200k to over 1,000,000 depending on tier, which takes forever (think years of playing daily) especially when you’re not winning much because they race you against much better players. I paid for about two months of pro (not cheap) and still advanced very slow because I’m having to race ten times just to win 2-3 races (you have to get 1st or 2nd to get any decent cash to get upgrades). It was fun at first because you win more at the lower levels. But once you progress they match you against better players. I’m fine with a challenge but winning should always be possible. It would be like playing a UFC game where you start as a rookie featherweight and they match you up against Brock Lesnor. Losing all the time is no fun. The graphics are awesome and the game can be fun. But in an effort to make it challenging, the developers forgot that people play phone games to waste time and have fun, not to feel like a loser lol.

This game is very average, and it could be great but the developers are extremely stingy on giving out prizes and upgrades to make your progress at a normal pace. The developers have decided to give out minimal money and prizes so turn it takes you playing every day for the full year to acquire enough money to buy a dirtbike that is any fun to play. after winning a crate, a prize crate and opening the prize crate you get $100 that’s it. And to upgrade your bike it takes approximately $500,000 so you do the math. How long will it take you to acquire enough of money to buy any upgrades or advance in this game. A note to the developers stop being so stingy and give some money or lower the price on the upgrades just start giving out prizes that will make me want to keep playing this game as of now I’m done because I can’t get anywhere.

I’ve been playing this game for two years nonstop. I have an amazing team. My one and only suggestion would be this. You can chat with your team. But the only way of seeing if someone left a chat message is by going into chat. Please please please update DirtBikeUnchained so if someone leaves a message in chat we can see a notification. Other than that this is my favorite mobile game of all time. I know many others will agree with me on this issue. Oh and also I can’t remember but I think it may be Out Of Bounds track now has a crazy glitch half way through the race. It was fine all the way up until a couple months ago.

Correction. It’s not Out of Bounds but Pitstop that has the glitch half way through.