I, Some common information
1. Definition of Subway Surfers
Subway Surfers is endless- run video game developed by Kiloo and SYBO Games, whose headquarters are in Denmark. It is on Android, IOS, Kindle, Windows Phone, Online platforms and uses the Unity game engine. In the game, players will take on the role of naughty teenagers who paint graffiti every day. When running, the player can control the character of gold coins, keys, power-ups, and other rewards on the rails. At the same time, the character helps to avoid obstacles on the way. The game only ends when the character is captured by the inspector or both managed by the wagon. Special events like Weekly Hunt can help players complete missions and get more rewards.
2. What is the gameplay like?
Subway Surfers starts with a touch of the screen when Jake (the game’s default character) or any other character sprays graffiti on the tram and is then chased by the inspector and his dog. While running, the player can swipe up, down, left, or right to avoid hitting oncoming obstacles. Especially moving carriages, traffic light poles, tunnel walls, and barriers. When the game is over, the player can use the Key to save the character and keep running. Players can collect various items such as coins, keys, double points, super high boots, jet bags, magnets, mystery boxes, and bouncy sticks. Powered jumpers provide burning by tossing the character up. While jetpacks can fly, coin magnets attract all coins on the track, super sneakers give higher jumps and point multipliers. There is also an extra skateboard that protects the player for 30 seconds and provides built-in powers.
Daily Challenges and Weekly Hunts are two events that provide multiple rewards throughout the game. Missions – various missions as measured by the accuracy of the game. There are currently 18 default characters in the store that can be unlocked. Most characters have up to 3 different outfits, and also 17 skateboards for sale indefinitely in the store. Some of which have built-in powers that players can use via the skateboard. For 30 seconds When the game updates a new location, new characters and skateboards will be added to the store until the next update.
3, Publishing and downloading
Developers released the game on May 24, 2012, the first versions were mainly based on the holidays according to the year. Since January 2013, updates have been based on the “World Tour” theme, which updates a new city or location every 3-4 weeks. In 2017, the game was the most downloaded globally. After one year it became the first game on the Google Play Store to surpass one billion downloads. In May 2018, the game crossed the two billion download mark. Then in 2019, SYBO Games announced that the game (according to AppAnnie’s statistics) had surpassed 2.7 billion downloads. It was also the most downloaded mobile game of the decade from 2012 to 2019.
4. Feedback
Subway Surfers received a lot of rave reviews. Critics praised the game’s visual style and entertaining gameplay but criticized it for the lack of change in the game environment and the sometimes unresponsive controls. Review aggregator site Metacritic gave the game a 71/100 based on 8 reviews.
Pocket Gamer’s Dan Griliopoulos gave the game a score of 5 out of 10, praising the fun gameplay but criticizing the complicated controls and the game design.
Gamezebo’s Dant Rambo gave the game a 3.5 out of 5, writing, “The game tries a little to make itself stand out from other endless-run titles… The controls are responsive, the way the gameplay is simple. Addictive gameplay and it doesn’t try to force you to spend cash on in-game items.
However, others did not criticize the title as such, 148Apps and TouchArcade gave the game 4/5.
It was nominated for “Action Game” and “Children and Family” at the 2019 Webby Awards, as well as the most downloaded mobile game of the decade.
II, An old but gold video game
With simple gameplay, easy to understand and get used to, along with non-stop action, those two games soon ranked among the most popular mobile products of all time. Even after many years of release, the momentum of success continues to this day, reflected in the overwhelming numbers. The best example has just been demonstrated in the case of Subway Surfers – the game has officially announced the download threshold of “1 billion” on all its platforms, reaching the milestone of being in the “terrorist” category.
This number has even greater value when looking at the common ground on Mobile today. Now, the standard for the popularity of games is only a few million downloads, many tens of millions. All showing the extremely strong influence that the game has. In addition to the announcement, the two co-developers of the game also added extremely interesting numbers in the form of Infographics, allowing gamers to see its success of it in a new way…
Not only reach 1 billion downloads, but it also cost the community… 4 billion hours of gameplay. 4 billion hours is about 450,000 years, which is twice the time that humans (Homo Sapien) exist on Earth. The distance that gamers travel in the game even exceeds the threshold of 162 billion kilometers or about 440 trips from Earth to the Sun. With this extremely impressive achievement, the rewards gamers receive also overwhelmed the community. Accordingly, players in the game have collected a total of 19.8 trillion gold coins, a number that is too large even when compared to any real money unit.
