Trials Frontier Reviews

by Xzamplez

This is probably the most disappointing game I’ve ever played. I remember playing the beta and being so annoyed that Redlynx allowed to change the formula for a fundamental part of the game by having upgradeable bikes. Little did I know, that was the tip of the iceberg once they fully released it and continued to ‘update’ it. Literally every sleazy tactic to get people to spend money that you would expect to see on TrialsFrontier Store these days, but so much more as well.

This has the foundation of being a great mobile game and it has been completely ruined by the developer’s excessive, unrelenting greed. I uninstalled the game years ago, and I will never play it again. They should be ashamed to have gone from passion-products like Trials HD to this. This embarrassment. This display of how low they are willing to go. Sometimes it’s very difficult to consider myself a Trials fan, and this game is the main reason why.

by Pgoat06

I absolutely love this game when it comes to gameplay. However, this game has cheated me out of at least 1000 gems as I have completed numerous “get gems” actions and I never get the reward. It’s pretty obvious this is intended so you will get frustrated with it and just purchase the gems. Please fix this issue and provide the gems that I should have obtained.

UPDATE: I do not appreciate the canned response of "Hello, We assure you we'll be working on the issue faced by you. Your support is highly appreciated. Thank you!" that doesn’t address my issue or anyone’s issue that received this as a response. OBVIOUSLY, you care nothing about customer service as you offered no solution to my problem. There is an intentional “bug” in the system to ensure that you will have to make a purchase during the gameplay instead of using the free (time consuming and sometimes tedious) offer methods to get through the game. I will no longer use this on iOS and will ensure I do not install any other applications from this developer.

by Intillect

The game is awesome and I really enjoy the physics but with the amount of ads it shows after races it ruins the experience. It was okay for awhile but now half the time I am even getting stuck on the ad screen and have to close the game out and reload to play. Wonderful potential of a game but very poor execution in how the company has decided to make money. 2 stars only because I really do like the physics of the game but the ads ruin it

Update: downgrading my review to a single star. I am getting ads after every other race, the showdowns have only put me against people with significantly faster bikes, and it has become next to impossible to get enough coins to upgrade anything. This game truly does have potential but in its current configuration it has become pointless to play. If you need a few weeks of fun go for it but honestly don’t download it and waste your time.

by Crispben

Update# I deleted this game once they introduced new bikes that were more powerful than the stock bikes (like the KTM and recently the BMW) and allowed them to compete on the same leaderboard...which essentially nullifies all the hard work and precision you put into certain maps. At one point I was one of the top 300 players in the world (iOS), and even held a short lived world record on an established map. It was very disappointing to see an already extremely hard grind-fest, pay to win, type of game to further destroy their community and leaderboards. I’m probably not going to return to this game. Aside from that...it’s a good physics game...once you are able to level up your bikes.

Original review: Would be great, if it weren't plagued with In-app purchases. Pay to win model is a huge turn off. I would gladly purchase the game outright ($5-10)', but do not want countless in-app purchases to progress. I love the previous console trials games (HD, Evolution, Fusion), and play this more than any other app but the in-app purchases kill it (as well as a few other bugs....like audio, and upgrade/fuel wait time).

by RRRSSSD

This could be an amazing game. But it is absolutely suffocated by advertisements.

Worse yet, there no in app purchase option that will remove the ads. No matter how much money you spend in the game (I have spent over $50!), you still have to see ads. That’s a horrible user experience!

But perhaps worst of all, when you do sit through one of these horrible ads that distract you from the game, TrialsFrontier freezes up about half the time, and does not give you the reward you are supposed to get!

Add to all of that the fact that they only give you enough gas to race on about 5-6 tracks, means they are forcing their customers to either pay even more money just to keep playing, or quit TrialsFrontier and wait hours for their gas tank to refill.

Are you kidding me? They actually think it’s a good idea to force their customers to quit playing the game or pay more money?

There are hundreds of other great games out there that don’t put their customers through this kind of inconvenience.

If they fix these problems, I will come back and change my review, but until then, I’m done and moving on to other games that actually encourage their customers and don’t hold them hostage with suffocating ads.

by Bigcoop111111111111

I have 2 issues, the came first off matched you with people that are way higher ranking then you on the season so it’s about impossible to reach level 1, I have tried over and over again it is aggravating. I feel that after you get a star you should keep it because you won on a recent game, no other game makes you back step that I have played, I’m so close to deleting it that it’s not even funny. Second off, it takes way to long to get upgrades. Every time to upgrade a part on your bike it literally takes 24 hours, like that’s insane. Then earning coins and collecting parts for upgrades is crazy. You almost have to make in game purchases to get anywhere in this game. Please get the concerns fixed, then I will think about re-downloading it. Thank you.

by Dtsdig

I’ve been playing this game since it came out and have been fairly successful with it. Over time, the number of pop-ups and advertising has increased by several times. Every time you go into the map, you have to x-out at least one pop-up trying to sell you something for the game. Additionally, you have to click through multiple notifications every week directing you to check out their Twitter page or whatever. The game itself is great, but the rest of these issues get frustrating.
My biggest wish right now is for iPhone X support. The phone has been out for months now and TrialsFrontier is one of the very few (out of 100+ on my phone) that has not been optimized to fit the iPhone X screen. This game is severely cropped on the screen making the gameplay similar to what it would be on the iPhone 6 sized screen or possibly smaller.

by Mojotown

Lost countless dollars and Ubisoft does NOTHING about it. Worst customer support and borderline fraud since they never make amends for blatant issues. Furthermore the gameplay on new iPhones blows. Geometry is all screwed up, bike rotates on its own out of control. Don’t bother trying to compete against anyone because your bike will randomly flip no matter how you set the controls. I give Ubisoft 👍🏻for the original game before they began ripping you off and creating a frustrating experience so for that I give them 5 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

Seems that they change the rules for the bunker on the fly, the. Change the slot machine how it works, 1/4 tank seems to take 20 times longer to fill up. Bait and switch gameplay. Hey ubisoft, don’t bother trying to explain yourself or post a fake “we care” response. If you did you would have made this right 20 unanswered emails ago. To bad, it was a great game, you’ve lost vision and another customer. #sad #poorcustomerservice #playanythingbutthis

by SShotgunWillyY

At its core this is a great Trials game for mobile. However - progression in the game is often dictated by collecting parts at the end of a run. This is a roulette wheel where you could easily not get the part you need for an entire gas tank (how they limit how much you can play before paying). I’m currently stuck trying to upgrade the saloon so I need level 3 bolts. The highest bolt I can get is level 2. Need 3 of those to fuse a level 3 bolt. You get the idea. Its been days and I havent been able to progress. Same level over and over again. Its awful but I do love the gameplay. Also - get ready for tons of ads. Just about every time you get done with a track you gotta watch an unskippable ad.

by Nikki_tanner07

First of all this is an amazing game i love the fact that there are so many things to do at the beginning like do quests compete in the bunker discover new tracks and upgrade your bike just to name a few. But after finishing all the quests besides a.n.b.a it gets so boring. The grind for gems to get donkey and berserker blueprints is so boring. Either try and get lucky in the bunker, spin the wheel, or waste my money on getting some gems. Theres nothing more to do other than waste my time only to hope for gems or blueprints. I just want hard quests with good rewards or a long quest line that gives large rewards. Im just getting very bored without anything to really do.

by Gamlagubben

This game is fantastic. I have been playing it for years. Fairly regular updates with new courses and challenges. Lots of bikes and tracks.

Issues: I will occasionally watch ads to get extra tickets etc and 90% of the time the ad plays and no reward is given. 90% is not an exaggeration either. The rewards have only been paid out in about 1 in 10 ads that I have sat through.

Also, and I realize this is counter to the business model, but I would pay $5 to get an ad free version of this game. I never pay for any of the skins etc, preferring to try to earn them in game, but I would happily pay to have the game if I didn’t have to sit through the ever increasing amount of ads.

by Whitechaple

This game is easy to learn, but incredibly difficult to perfect. The upgrading of the bikes can be tedious, but I finished upgrading the 9 main bikes over a year ago, and still enjoy playing this game every day.

If you must binge play a game, don't play Trials. If you are like me, and can play a bit and then continue with your life, I highly recommend it.

A couple tips:
1. Be patient - upgrades can take multiple days to finish, and you can run out of fuel quick.
2. Don't use diamonds for anything but fuel tank upgrades. Want to use diamonds to speed up an upgrade? See #1.
3. It is possible to beat the game and unlock all tracks without spending a dime. That being said, I recommend spending a couple bucks to get rid of ads.
4. Play the slot machine often - it has some great prizes and they get better as it levels up.
5. (This is the most important) Add some friends! Racing against other people's ghosts is always more exciting, and much more challenging. I can't tell you how many shortcuts and speed techniques I've discovered by racing other players.

I love Trials because of how easy it is to learn the controls, but how difficult it is to master them. I'm constantly learning how to overcome different obstacles and improve my score.

With the addition of the Bunker, the Donkey, Agent, Stallion and now KTM bikes there's always new content to keep things interesting. I look forward to what they add next.

by Is0chronous

I love this game. It's by far my favorite mobile game ever. It requires skill, patience, and an intuitive grasp of physics to excel, and it's fun as heck... but there are ALWAYS issues, and the game frequently seems intent on making absolutely everything take FOREVER. Collecting bike blueprints, finding track pieces, and performing bike upgrades all take way longer than good game design calls for, simply so they'll have as much chance as possible to get you to spend money.

Right now I'm experiencing an incredibly annoying bug, where the game just loses track of the fact that my finger is on the screen and/or ignores my frantic tapping for a couple of seconds. In a game where a single tiny tap can be the difference between Platinum and a fault, this is unacceptable.

Also, PLEASE MAKE ALL OF THE NEW TRACKS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE. Tracks are EVERYTHING in this game. Giving me two track pieces on the prize wheel during an event and then not having any way to get the other 8 pieces afterwards is not only annoying, but stupid as heck on the developer's part. I WILL PAY MONEY/GEMS FOR TRACKS!

by TDroNH

These mobile games are all the same and just want money, money and more money. They capitalize on everyone’s laziness in playing games on their mobile devices by teasing you with a game that has an unlimited coin slot to feed just to progress. I too have given up on mobile apps entirely for games because they are nothing but frustrating to play with too many ads or constantly needing you to pay to play. Save your money and buy a console or gaming PC and enjoy many hours of immersive gameplay without feeling like cattle being raked over the coals for cash and forced to see ridiculous ads. What is sad is all the children who get hooked these games and get hold of their parents credit card.

by Ainyawaynyawa

“LOG INTO YOUR UBISOFT ACCOUNT” it says… I log into my Ubisoft account and it still won’t let me continue because it still says I’m not connected even though I’m obviously connected. Please for the love of god and all gamers in general, DO NOT make logging in a requirement and then after someone goes through all the trouble of making an account etc etc, STILL won’t let you continue. I’m trying to complete a “challenge” to gain access to the rest of the game, but I’m at the point to where it won’t let me do anything else without logging in. I’m logged in. It still just tells me it “can’t connect”. I’ve ruled out everything, and ues, I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling. I’ve tried everything. Please fix this as I will soon grow too frustrated with this issue and will delete the game altogether and stop giving you idiots a dollar every time I run out of fuel. FIX THE CONNECTION ISSUES. GEEEEZ

by Land_filll

The game itself is well built and fun to play. However, hang ups occur. Needing map pieces to progress but unable to obtain them. Mastered all courses available but once they were beaten no new content was available. Hoped getting gold stars on very track would help but it didn’t. The only tracks available were for Tier 3 bikes but I could not get one due to no content to play. New maps pieces were next to impossible to obtain and eventually left me with no races to play. It’s a shame, the game is very fun but between those issues and not being able to connect my Ubisoft account made it pretty much worthless.

by Franken Berry69

From Trials HD to Trials Fusion. From Frontier to Rising. Red Lynx and Ubisoft have this series dialed in AND theyre still cranking the knob! Trials Frontier takes skill and you cannot bypass that criteria with your purse or wallet. I downloaded this title right after it released, seeing the difference now, as a long-time fan, purely phenomenal. Collectables and Trials aplenty. The Trials type humor even shows in Frontier. Dont forget to make an account for Ubisoft, linking your owned (Ubisoft) games enables the Uplay currency system with Missions and Quests for your profile...even console titles. Ubisoft titles will then have items/packs/crates etc. that can be purchased with the Uplay points you accrue by being a "Donkey riding, Cave racing Division Agent Assassin" ;)
Happy Trials and remember the two "Bs"..."Blink and Breathe"
Kudos :)

by TomaxTube

This is such a great game! But there’s 1 thing I’d like you to change: When you’re in the Outfit Shack and you’re looking at “The Scarf” outfit, you see how it looks like a kid wearing a T-Shirt with a cool scarf, when you’re actually riding on your motorcycle, the character looks like a hunchback. This was not what I was expecting to see when I bought the shirt for about 20 gems. I wish that you could make the outfits that you see the rider wearing while on the bike look the way it should, as in the way it looks in the outfit shack. Please change this on the next update! I really want it to be just done so that I don’t have to wear something in place of the shirt for the “The Scarf” outfit so it doesn’t look ugly when I’m on my motorcycle. Thank You so much and please consider what I asked.

by Cø$mø1

i mean.... lol what a joke, where do i start???! i keep pressing the gas and my engine just dies and dies... even on flat surfaces. can you guys at least TRY to hide the fact that ur scamming everyone???! My God. EVERYONE PLEASE STOP GOVING MONEY TO MOBILE GAMES, THEY ARE NEW-AGE PONSI SCHEMES. If you cant see all of the things these crooked companies are doing to screw you, you are BLIND. i guess the mobile gaming industry is just like the vitamin and supplement market now... THEY CAN CLAIM WHATEVER THEY WANT AND NOBODY SUPERVISES THEM. stop being sheep, people. i want the trials mobile developers to know that i am walking out the door right now, to buy a brand new gaming console, just bc of them. im gonna spend hundreds, i might even buy two... just bc of how disgustingly crooked this crap is. get off the mobile games and get back to regular xbox and playstation, stop supporting these games.

by Aesjedi

I hope they come out with a sequel! The bikes look cool, racing ghosts of people is so much fun, the pvp Showdowns are so challenging, and the tracks are so varied it’s amazing!!! The controls are difficult to get used to, but that’s part of the challenge. I think this phone spinoff game is superior to Trials Rising!

I love how they have a separate leaderboard for the ‘crazy bikes,’ but it makes me wonder if they should have a separate leaderboard for each bike. I’d love to race the ghost of whoever got the best time on each course with the Armadillo! I think that would be so interesting. The reward system is weird with the ‘spin the wheel’ thing, I could get behind a big change there. But overall this game is SO worth a try! Too bad it’s no longer doing events, but STILL, it’s the most fun I’ve had on a phone game!

by Chill Dude Who Hates Scumbags

I’m not afraid to pay money for a good game but these micro-transactions are ridiculous. I love Trials and just want to play it. I don’t want to be worrying about only getting 5 attempts at different maps before I’m out of fuel and can’t play anymore. Sadly, a lot of games, this one included, don’t offer one-and-done purchases. You can’t just pay 4.99 or something and enjoy the game. You’ll get to a point where it feels like everything is locked behind pay walls, and the things that aren’t feel like one big ultimatum. Am I going to be able to get gold or beat this guy this instance with my current bike upgrades or not? Because if not, I don’t want to waste my fuel here. Further into the game you just become tentative with what you want to try to complete which eliminates any entertainment value. To developers, this model apparently works in that it lines their pockets, but for customers it’s scummy. It’s not like they’ll change any of this even if they read it. They couldn’t care less even with their little responses to low reviews on here, but it’d sure be nice to have a dev surprise me for once. Wishful thinking...

Summary: Great game mechanics in classic Trials style....Locked away in a model designed for a blatant cash grab

Prospective Players: Enjoy it for as long as you can early on. The dev’s greed only sends it downhill from there.

by CptHoofyFoots

This game is amazing and trials was one of the first games I’ve ever played so when another trials game came out I was dying to play it. But there are some bugs with the ad watching, after I watch an ad to take off an hour of my bike upgrade the game freezes and sometime when I watch an ad it won’t give me the reward I would get from watching in. Try to fix these but if not it’s still a great game. Thx and goodbye!