Traffic Rider
Traffic Rider is a highly addictive and fun motorcycle racing game with great graphics and a wide variety of bikes, but it is frequently criticized for its aggressive monetization, slow progression, and intrusive ads.
Traffic Rider is a popular motorcycle game praised for its engaging gameplay and realistic graphics, offering a wide selection of bikes and an endless mode R7R10R36R37. However, recent reviews highlight significant issues with progression, forcing players to grind extensively or pay for in-game currency to advance, alongside frequent and disruptive advertisements R61R64R77R159.
What users like
What users complain about
- Progression is extremely slow and requires extensive grinding or in-app purchasesR61R64R159R221
- Bikes are too expensive, making it hard to advance in career mode without payingR61R74R118R257
- Frequent and intrusive forced ads disrupt gameplayR77R305R369R418
- Game can freeze or crash, sometimes with persistent audio issuesR73R96R207R320
- Mission objectives are often unrealistic or designed to force purchasesR61R74R145R209
- Traffic AI can be unrealistic and make missions frustratingR155R390R433
Latest update · v2.10
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
- Bug fixes and improvements
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This game is for players who enjoy highly addictive motorcycle racing games with good graphics and a variety of bikes R7R10R36R37. It's suitable for those who don't mind a significant grind to progress or are willing to make in-app purchases to speed up advancement R22R33. It is NOT for players who get easily frustrated by aggressive monetization, frequent forced ads, or extremely challenging missions designed to push purchases R6R77R178R221.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, particularly concerning monetization and ads, which contrasts with the high lifetime rating. This indicates a potential negative trajectory in user satisfaction, possibly due to increased monetization efforts or a lack of updates addressing these concerns.
Frequently asked
Is Traffic Rider a pay-to-win game?
Are there a lot of ads in Traffic Rider?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R7] Best game: Once you start, you can’t stop playing the game. It’s that fun.
- [R10] Amazing: Great chill simple game
- [R36] Super tuff and addicting: Great graphics for a mobile game, there are a wide variety of bikes and a bunch of levels. Plus, the endless mode which is prolly my favorite part.
- [R37] Amazing game when bored: The game has the same graphics in the preview (amazing) and the gameplay is really engaging!
- [R22] Awesome: If you like to rage bait this game is for you. Barely has any ads, lots of motorcycle, great graphic physics, and if you want to feel or sound like your in an actual motorcycle this game is totally worth downloading.
- [R673] Way too many ads!!: Great graphics, and enjoyed playing for about 10 mins.. But come on… The ads are ridiculous!
- [R29] Traffic rider an amazing ride: Let me tell you this amazing so grateful for this motorcycle game really appreciate all bikes really enjoy seeing more updates and added features to game thanks for the amazing game traffic rider!!!
- [R61] Honestly: The game is too hard. To buy a new motorcycle, you have to save for several days because the cheap ones lack power. It's impossible to pass levels with coins; they set unrealistic conditions. Lower motorcycle prices or give more money. · translated
- [R64] one suggestion: i've been playing this game since about 2018. the progression takes forever. i've been trying to get the $850,000 bike for so long. i've played this game consistently for 8 years now. i love this game. i've dedicated hundreds of hiurs. but i've never even came close to the 850k bike.
- [R159] Great until…: Genuinely an amazing and fun game, until a major issue later game. The tilt control is by far the best and incredibly fun. The traffic is awesome and you get a real thrill lane splitting a tough section. My main problem is the dead stand still the game comes to after the 80,000 bike. It’ll take another 3 days of straight endless for me to even play the next level. Just very frustrati
- [R221] Pay to play: This game is fun to play at first but as soon as you get a little further into the missions it’s impossible to earn money to buy a faster bike which keeps you from continuing to play career mode the only other option is to play the other game modes which don’t give you any money
- [R74] game says things are impossible that aren’t impossible: I usually don’t leave reviews but, on mission 35 it says that you can’t go 6km in 75 seconds with the bike i have but then i go to time trials and went over 6km in under 75 seconds, they just want you to spend money on their game, cant go more than 5 levels without needing to buy a new bike. even though that pisses me off i still really like
- [R118] Good. Could be better: Needs more customizations for the bikes. Would be nice to able to change mirrors, fairings, exhaust etc. Takes forever to earn money when the bikes themselves are expensive.
- [R257] This game is fun but: I really like this game but the thing i don’t enjoy that much is how difficult it is to get a bike. Like you get more money when you do the actual challenges. And, in order to do that, i need to spend money on power and stuff to be able to do it. And then i don’t have enough to update or get a new bike to do the challenges again, If that makes sense.? :,)
- [R77] Forced Ads: If your game has forced ads then you’re greedy and you don’t care about your potential customers or fanbase. Get lost
- [R305] Very a lot advertised: Very a lot ads I am so angry when you play and pop up ads
- [R369] NEED TO RESTART THE APP AFTER EVERY AD: You get rewarded by watching the ads. The reward is that you get to restart the app after every ad. Be great-full that this app rewards you for watching an add that they profit from by letting you restart the app every time you help them make money by watching every app. The more you restart this app the more money you help make for this developer. Enjoy you
- [R418] Ads: It has a lot of add after a secon
- [R73] Game: The game is very bad. Even though I play on the most powerful iPad, the game still lags. · translated
- [R96] How to fix the black screen?: Every time I finish a game and it goes to the results screen, it's a black screen. · translated
- [R207] Good I guess: This thing or game or what ever it is called did some something weird when I downloaded it, it got done downloading and i started playing it and i was on the road and all of the sudden it blacked out for about 5 minutes and it wouldn’t let me go back on anything I blacked out my screen and reopen my phone it and it was still on that screen I even turned it completely off and it still
- [R320] It’s good but I almost can’t play.: Hi, I’ve got to say, this is a really fun and a really good game however, when I’m riding peacefully the whole game just randomly freezes and I i can’t press anything I can just hear the stuck motorcycle sound and when I exit the app I still hear it! I don’t know if this is a crash but even when I close my phone I still hear it, it stops after about 40 second. A
- [R145] Difficulty: The game is good but the problem is this game is impossible to complete the mission make me frustrated how am I gonna lanesplit two semi trucks and change to opposing lane that prolly blocked two lanes and cars spawned too many times
- [R209] Be: This game is rubbish. It's statistically impossible to pass levels after 10. The levels could have been made less difficult. · translated
- [R155] Bru: This game is good but it sucks because when your on mission 20 the cars are just big backs that take all the lanes and you go like 40 mph and you crash when there’s 3.3 seconds left to the Finnish line but it’s like a mile away
- [R390] MAKE TRAFFIC REALISTIC: The game is flawed in the first word of the title. Why would 3 cars be parallel to each other on a highway with plenty of space in front of them? The car ai needs to be revamped to be more realistic and depict real life drivers and traffic, why else would anyone play this game.
- [R433] Annoying bugs: This game is so weird it keeps killing me when i don’t even hit the other people or the railings. The cars are just all bunched up with each other and won’t let me past this game has to seriously FIX UP.
- [R396] Average game: This is a really average game because it has a lot of adds and is a bid scam
- [R204] Good but what’s this?: I love this game so much but it keeps saying when I finally got free and making a zombie noise I hope that gets fixed I just can’t concentrate
- [R6] DONT remccond read this if u have angry issue: So when u start u have to do careers and that okay but one thing u have a timer cross two finish line and when u crazy u restart and then I have a litttle time u will, restart and Ocf that oaky but I get angry issues and then I hit tablet so read if u have angry issue.
- [R178] Way to ruin a game that could’ve been fun: Developers have too greasy of fingers wanting a money grab. Make progression way too hard unless you spend money. Way to be the problem!
- [R33] Fun: I still play this game as of 2026, I have just redownloaded it so I can relive my childhood game and: WOW!! I feel like a child again. These developers worked so hard and my cousin is one of the developers and im hoping to make a game like this one day. If your son, cousin, sister, or even parents want a fun game to entertain them on a road trip this is it! Lovely game deserved 5 stars tysm f
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store