Great game, but...it is not designed for the iPad

This game is obviously designed to be played on your phone. It works great on small screens, but I like playing on my iPad and it is terrible for that. So, while I love this game and play it often, I know that I will quit playing in pure frustration after playing it for a while on my iPad. Not only do some swipes not register, but it’s not obvious what trips up the runners and suddenly I’m being chased by a monster and don’t know why. In addition, the game will often assume one thing when I tap something rather than what I meant. All in all, it is a frustrating game for your iPad. Another thing that is a problem are the ads that override Silent Mode on my phone. When I am playing someplace where I want to be quiet (doctor’s waiting room, at night when others are sleeping, etc), an ad that comes on with sound is frustrating. I actually like the ads because I have tried more than a few of the games advertised, but a game that overrides Silent Mode automatically goes on my ‘never buy’ list. Update 10/21 - You have now officially ruined this game on my phone. I hadn’t opened it in a while, so last week I did and the interface is so totally different that I can’t figure out how to play the game anymore. Can’t I get the previous screen back?

Good game, but too much paid content

I’ve been playing this game for a long time (at the very least five years) and although I’ve stopped for periods of time, I always come back. The new maps and characters are always amazing, and the global challenges are great. HOWEVER. There’s always a however. Other people have talked enough about the ads so I’m not going to talk about that. Something that bothers me a lot is that now coins and gems are practically useless besides Head starts and Save mes. Before, you could use coins to buy new characters or outfits and gems to buy new characters and maps. However, now you can only unlock the new characters on special events and you need to purchase the maps with real world money. As I said, I’ve been playing for a long time, so I don’t know if the older characters and maps are still able to be purchased with coins and gems. But Pirate Cove, Volcano Island qnd Enchanted Palace (and its characters) can only be purchased with dollars and I think that’s very unfair. I understand that you guys need to make money, but I would hope that ads, Usain Bolt and people purchasing packages and coin doublers in the store would be enough. There’s no need to block most of your users from obtaining maps and characters, they should be able to be gained by putting hard work into the game and earning coins and gems. Sorry for the long rant, but I wish you would take these comments into account and make these assests achievable for anyone.

READ

Ok. It’s a great app to start with. Very fun, ongoing, time consuming. I love almost everything about except I wish there were more people. There are only Guy Dangerous (with outfits magnum G.u.y, and aviator), Scarlett Fox(with outfit mountaineer, Sunyu Han(No outfits) Sara Banyan( No outfits) Maria Selva (with outfit Brooklyn) Karma Lee(with outfit shadow walker, aka my fav!) Barry Bones(With outfit outrider) Zack Wonder (with outfit Romeo) Rahi Raaja(with outfit Regal) Nidhi Nirmal(with outfit Regal) Francisco Montoya(with outfit castaway) Montana Smith(No outfit) Cleopatra(No outfit) and Imhotep(No outfit). There are also Bruce lee (with outfit tracksuit) and Usain Bolt(With outfit champion), but you have to pay for them which is ugh be cuz I bought it, ain’t worth it. Neither is the lava mountain place or the dessert! The only free places are the enchanted palace, sky summit, pirate cove, and spirits cove. I still really want more people though! And more free places! Also when it comes to performance, it glitches a little here and there, but not bad. Graphics are good. Sound is ok. I like how they added relics and hats. If you unlock a hat you can put it on anyone 😂. Gets a little boring (I’ve had it for 1 year) but I still play it 😂 imma sucker for temple run 2! I want more characters plus costumes, no more little glitches, and more free places, that’s all. Linden B.

My review (and a suggestion)

I have always loved this game, and though the excessive ads can be annoying at times, that’s not what I’m going to talk about. I love the maps in this game, but I have one major issue with them: They’re all the same. Sure, they may look different, be set in a different location, or have different collectibles, but that’s where the differences end. The hazards are all the same, there’s always the land section and the sliding section (and the zipline section on Sky Summit), and everything is ruined and cracked in all of the maps. I understand that this is Temple Run so the ancient ruins aesthetic is an important part of what sets this platformer apart from others. But it would be nice to see a map or two where everything is pristine and modern, possibly even futuristic. How about a map that takes place on a space station, where you’re running from an alien? Or a futuristic laboratory where you’re being pursued by a failed biology experiment? Finally, I just want to reiterate how iconic and enjoyable this game is, and that after 10 years, it’s just as exciting as when I first played it back in ‘11.

Updates ruin your string, and No Ads is a RIP-OFF

Originally this was my favorite game. As time went on they made more and more variations and maps for the game, which was fine. Lately, however, now that they’re on the money grubbing bandwagon, I noticed fewer coins on runs when you needed them. And as if that wasn’t enough with all the money they must make on selling people gems and coins, they’ve added aggravating ads. I must admit that I tried to buy out of the ends and for over two weeks they still kept showing even after I received my notice that payment was received. However I must amend my previous review because they did contact me through email, and the developers gave me directions which did in fact remove the aggravating ads. The developers have since asked me to revise my review, but I had been ill for a while. The review is deserved, and I have brought it back up to a five star. I always did love the game I just hated the ads. And now for a very reasonable price, you can get rid of them too thank you so much for helping me with this problem. I apologize for the delay in correcting my review, but I have had some health issues which thankfully seem to be subsiding. It’s a great game!

Temple run

It’s amazing how much graphics there is I honestly think that temple run could be better it could have better quality and slower rating I mean I get it it’s supposed to be fast but I think like it can be used in so many different ways like creating new characters like we’ve always had the red hair boy or the red hair girl for like years and years and years I bet like if we could like get some more characters but don’t make the game take up so much storage I mean it’s perfect as it is but just like add some more stuff like a giant monster and temple run is great I love that we can just you know add some more I think like I don’t know like get like a super weirdly I don’t know you could unlock like another level like you click it and then it goes to like a different look like a space level but what am I doing I’m just like telling the creators their job just look I feel like you can make the game way more fun if you just really try even though I love it I love the game I Played it since I was six and I’m not gonna stop now so yeah the game is amazing I give it a five out of five because I like the

Latest update RUNNERS SELECTION PROCESS MESSES UP BIG TIME

NOTE: I submitted this post RBI’s week in response to the recent update (November 2025), but it was published on tee App reviews today as being an edited comment end had your response from four years ago ago. That response did not relate to the current screwup to the App which totally messed up the ability to change runners. Change the associated powers, change outfits, and boosting the powers using gems. This is a system problem associated with this latest update, not something I can resolve by contacting your support people. Your developers messed this up and they need to reverse the change. Choosing runner? I can’t find how to customize the runner, the outfit, and the power specifically set up for that runner. Instead, there are a bunch of runners set up with outfits. However, when chosen based upon the runner, the power assigned to that runner seems to be tied to a specific outfit. It also doesn’t always even end up with the power shown in the images. Further, it appears that we can’t use gems to purchase increases to the power, e.g., I did have Guy set up with gems as his power and I could increase the gem power in increments of 5 instead of 1 gem for each use. Please return to the previous way of choosing, outfitting, and powering up the runners. PLEASE CORRECT THIS CRAZY UPDATE!

It was so easy nose lags it was fun

It was so easy no lags end it was fun very good in who created this game a five star I love it well I teach my brother how to play for two years he doesn’t know how to play so I’m trying to help him he’s been playing for three years now he is good at it but I’m trying to help him but he still bad at it so I try to help him for one year and now he’s good he never dies like me I been teaching him so long and I love this game and it needs a little update so I put it in a five star because it was so fun and I can’t believe it it was so fun and no lags that was like one piece of cake my favorite game like one of my favorite game in my life I’ve played this game for about two years already and it was good fun and great I was about to quit but it was good it was better than Minecraft but it needs a little change a new map a Halloween map or a Christmas map they need to lower the price down so I still like it and still play it but it’s good well I’ve been trying to not give up so I kept playing for about two years but it sounds kind of awkward about the lost jungle.....

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