(EDIT): After playing for a few months, I don’t think their paywall is as frustrating. I paid for the runners pass once and it was nice—but not necessary! Coins and gems come a bit easier after their new update, which I highly appreciate! I’m also really enjoying the events where you can obtain skins for the animals and extra event points. Also adding animals every so often has kept the game exciting and fresh! Keep it up, DirtyBit! :) I’ve played the original fun run back when I was in middle-highschool. It’s always been a game I’ve loved, but I haven’t played it for years until now. It’s very addicting and fun! I love the fast pace and simplicity of game play. It looks a lot more polished now than it used to. However, there is a paywall for a lot of the content which is very frustrating. You can’t get alot of coins/gems just from playing. Unlike games that reward you for just playing and winning, you only really get EXP and event tokens after playing rounds. You will have to play numerous times before being able to actually unlock anything. I highly suggest they make it where it is easier to get coins and gems. Creating daily chests, winning bonuses, coin bought chests, etc., is a great way to do that. I also suggest they make more features for the clans, because where it’s at right now, they’re kinda useless. Yes, it’s a nice way to gather friends and other players, but there’s no real practical use for it.

Okay, I have to rewrite my review because dirtybit SHOWED improvements. Improvements like not keeping us in the dark with news and actually making a news section. Although I’m still skeptical because this is only the beginning. Let’s see how consistent you guys are with news, let’s see how consistent new animals will drop, let’s see how consistent new power ups are, let’s see how consistent new maps and events drop. Because this content drought was intense. And it leaves the community with a touch of trauma. Thank you for giving a nudge to the right direction though. My only concern is that all my animals are all maxed out at level 10. Meaning my power ups are maxed out at 16 out of 21 power ups. There should be ways were you can get bolts without leveling up animals because I would like to have the other power ups to try new strategies. Please be mindful of this and fix something with in this realm as well.

I’m pretty sure everybody agrees by now that there’s too many micro transactions in this thing. Overall, it just seems like it should’ve been an update to 3, but I actually like the racing in 4 too. It’s, well, fun. The huge glaring issue here though for everybody is that there’s just too many micro transactions. It just makes the game straight up unplayable at times, because you otherwise just get nowhere without spending money. It’s genuinely a dealbreaker that every cosmetic costs actual money, and getting coins is at best difficult and at worst, truthfully exhausting and impossible. Other games like Splatoon will reward you for playing in matches and will allow you to customize your character and unlock cosmetics just by playing the game. I’ve been playing for a while now and I haven’t even unlocked the lion, just because everything goes by so slow. A way to fix this, is simply just adding cosmetics that are rewarded to you for playing the game, and not just a few items. Everything that isn’t an animal is locked behind a paywall, and I’m not sure if that’s going to be fixed, but if i could actually buy things in the shop, then maybe instead of playing, say 1 match I’d play like 3-5 for example, on my way to school or with friends, and honestly I’d probably be more inclined to spend more money just to complete my character. But right now, this isn’t really the case, and it just doesn’t really feel like I’m winning when I get first place in this game.