Temple Run Reviews

Oddly, I feel like this game ran better on my cracked 4th gen iPod Touch than it does on a relatively new iPhone. Swipes often don’t register and the tilt controls are either over-sensitive or don’t work at all. There’s no new unlockables, no new power-ups, no new anything. Just the same Temple Run from 12 years ago, but it works worse.

Swiping works for all directions, but tilting the device is not working. I tried to restart TempleRun & deleting/reinstalling TempleRun . Still didn’t resolve the issues. I check settings in TempleRun to see if there was any switch, and there wasn’t. I tested a completely different game/app and it worked fine there. Just a bug with TempleRun.

This game itself has been in a long run with getting as much money as possible with ads and purchasing boost / coins most of its life. It’s nice to see the + version remove it but all the money they made hasn’t upgraded this outdated and unappealing game. It’s old and washed out. Still looks like it came from a cony PlayStation. I’m already deleting it after only ran about 6 times.

The game plays ok on the Mac but is clearly not optimised for it. The game does not fill the 16:10 aspect ratio of my MacBook Pro which means that I must play with black bars on the top and sides of my screen. Futhermore, the fact that the turn controls are the same as the tilt controls makes controling the game signifactly worse than it is on iPhone or iPad. Also, the graphics look like that of an early 2000s game with no way to turn them up, which is disaponting considering the fact that the M3 Pro MacBook Pro that I am playing it on has more power than an 8th gen console. I get that it was made as a moble game first and a Mac port 2nd but the fact the an Apple arcade game is so unoptimised for a powerful mondern Apple device is dissaponting, espessally when you the fact that Apple acrade is a paid severce. With all that being said though, it is a fun game to play.

The + version of Temple Run is something I’ve wanted for a while. Pop up ads and micro-transactions have made the original and 2 overall unenjoyable. This version eliminates both of those things, but along the way evidently eliminated the reliability of inputs. Within ten minutes, I died five times because the runner would not jump/turn/etc when I swiped. Overall I still enjoy the game, but the interruptions from unreasonable deaths gets rather aggravating.

When I saw Temple Run available on Apple Arcade games I was very excited. I downloaded it and started playing and to be honest I don’t know how much longer I’m gonna play it. I have so many unregistered swipes. I always love playing this game the pass, but it’s really frustrating when you die so easily when you’re doing the swipe. I hope they can fix this because this has always been a really fun game.

I have played TR and TR2 for many years, and there is just some problem in the “+“ version where a reasonable number of swipes taps, etc. just do not get registered.

I have spent far too much time dying already, in a game that I have much experience with. I can cope with how much more twitchy the tilt controls have become, but there really is some sort of problem with tapping and swiping.

Also, some more detailed instructions on how the resurrection wings utility works would be welcome.

Beyond that, there seems to be some sort of change made such that there are no powers to invoke when your meter fills up? Or will that show up later?

Finally: where are the hats‽

First of all you can’t change your skin ( I think). Also, unlike the original game you can not change the background of the game. I’d also change the way it’s played. For example instead of the same set over and over again you could add hills, and times you go underground and just change the setting a little. Thank you 👋

this game is great—like the original—but, when playing with a controller on the tv (which is how i play almost all of my games), DO NOT press the ‘B’ button as it will exit the game, no matter what screen you’re on.

want to exit a menu by pressing ‘B’… the game closes.

want to exit the pause menu during gameplay… the game closes.

a few of these developers (looking at you HalfBrick Games 👀) make their games available on tv and Mac, but make navigation—which is also not very good on this game—and button presses a complete afterthought.

trying to control the characters is also a bit frustrating, especially when turning corners, as the character will either keep forward or jump directly into a tree when i’m clearly pressing ⬅️ or ➡️ on the D-pad. on top of that, i’m using the original Nimbus controllers (as i’ve had the new versions replaced FOUR times with the same issues), and the menu/pause button does not work at all—expect when i double press it access TempleRun switcher to exit the game—so, i’m not able to access any of the “in-game” power-ups.

i really hope these issues get resolved in the next update so that i can thoroughly enjoy this game to the fullest.

Sometimes when I’m trying to swipe left or right it takes it as a down swipe so messed up my run. So maybe a way to make it more true to what you’re actually swiping.

This game is the perfect example of making a great game better all of the Apple Arcade game’s I’ve played are great in different ways and this is one of the best endless runners I’ve played and it will stay that way until subway surfers+ comes out

I love Temple Run personally and as soon as I find out it has an Apple Arcade, I couldn’t resist. It has been a while since I played Temple Run until 4 weeks ago. As usual, there is an issue in the game. Whenever I tilt my phone it moves the guy that is running BUUUUUT a few minutes ago that control lagged when I had an Invincibility Power Up. As a result I couldn’t turn and died…
This is a short review so there is nothing else to point out. Please fix

You tilt to move it says to move by swiping I’d really appreciate if you fix that otherwise the graphics are decent the rest of the gameplay is smooth this has a better story than a certain kid running from a cop I’ll give it 4 stars

Pros~the classic Temple Run we all know and love but with a weekly challenge system,No annoying ads,Additional life system to avoid watching ads to be revived,Full Screen for latest iPad models!!

Cons~a bit unresponsive sometimes,when I swipe left or right sometimes my character will slide instead of navigating in the right direction.

This game is a lot of fun! (Despite being run over by the monkeys) it has no adds it’s free and it gets challenging as you go on! ( it’s basically the better royal match!) in conclusion I love this game and I would definitely recommend it.

I have been playing this game for a few days now, and I am loving it. For people who love running games, this game is for you. Every day, I break my high score. Check this game out, everyone!

I love running…. And temples. This was the perfect game for me. Although I still don’t understand what chases you in this game.
Like what is that “being” your running from?
But overall it is a great game. I mean the graphics are super bad but I guess they don’t need to be good because the lagging makes up for it. Overall it is a great game.

The game is really fun and no ads just ads on to this already amazing. You should do more, a suggestion is to bring bendy nightmare run back to life. Just an idea to take into consideration if possible keep up the great work

This is a really fun game you have to be quick and turn and jump at the right time or the monkeys get you I also like the jokes when you die✌🏼😎😊👍❤️👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️

Temple run is the best game. But it could use some minor improvement. Like you should be able to pick your own character when u start the game. It could actually be to collect coins more efficiently.