Best iOS Games 2017

Asphalt Xtreme

The latest Asphalt game takes the activity off the road in Asphalt Xtreme, with players racing through canyons and dunes in a multiplicity of game modes. Players will be able to go behind the wheel of a multitude of vehicle classes, from dune buggies to pickups and monster trucks, with licensed automobiles from big names like Jeep, Ford, and Dodge. In addition to the five game modes and hundreds of career events and challenges, Asphalt Xtreme also features a live multiplayer mode with up to eight racers going head to head on the track.

Real Racing Three

Maybe it’s showcasing its age a little bit, but Real Racing three remains an excellent free-to-play driving sim that lets you take the wheel of a host of real-world cars as you drive around gorgeously rendered real-world racetracks. Numerous game modes — including time trials, standard races and the Time Shift multiplayer mode — suggest varied challenges to players, with updates continuously adding fresh content such as fresh cars and racing events.

Asphalt 8: Airborne

Unlike the more realistic mobile racing sims, Asphalt eight takes an action-oriented treatment, delivering stunning graphics and fast-paced, nitro-fueled races. Airborne lives up to its name, with numerous ramps and other gameplay elements encouraging players to take death-defying leaps in order to execute insane aerial stunts. Asphalt eight features fifty six high-performance vehicles from a who’s who of automakers, and offers eight seasons, one hundred eighty events and numerous game modes for solo or multiplayer mayhem.

Need for Speed: No Thresholds

Need For Speed: No Thresholds is a free racing game that supplies brief but intense races as you blast through an underground street racing circuit. Drifting, drafting and clever use of nitro are necessary to win, with victories earning you parts to modify your cars or blueprints that unlock fresh machines. NFS: No Boundaries features a multitude of in-game and premium currency systems, as well as a fuel system, tho’ daily challenges permit players to earn premium currency without resorting to in-app purchases.

Riptide GP: Renegade

Take to the sways in Riptide GP: Renegade, the latest installment of Vector Unit’s Riptide science fiction jetski racers (and one of the top ten games on the App Store in 2016, according to Apple). This game features a single-player career mode as well as online and local multiplayer races. As a disgraced racer, you must make a name for yourself in the illicit racing circuit while leisurely climbing your way back up to the top. Riptide’s stunts mechanic encourages players to take risks on big hops to build up a turbo gauge, and players can collect a multiplicity of different racing craft and unlock fresh abilities, stunts and character models.

Rapid & Furious: Legacy

Swift & Furious: Legacy is the latest of Kabam’s games based on the hit movie franchise, mixing haul racing, lane control and insane drifting to give a satisfying arcade racing practice that’s less about the simulation, and more about the activity. Players race with, and against, familiar faces from the movies in a diversity of game modes, and collect more than fifty customizable cars. Even with timers and free-to-play limiters, Swift & Furious Legacy still provides a joy racing practice.

AG Drive

Dive into a sci-fi future and defy gravity in AG Drive, a sleek arcade racer that supplies fantastic vistas and action-packed races. You’ll take on a rogue’s gallery of the galaxy’s best drivers as you zip through unlikely architecture in your antigravity drive powered vehicle. AG Drive offers a multiplicity of game modes, from time trials to elimination laps, and winning races will unlock more events as well as points to purchase or upgrade your vehicles.

CSR Racing Two

CSR Racing two combines some indeed sweet graphics with some neat urban haul racing gameplay. Since players challenge in flat-out haul races, you don’t steer, so the game is won by precise starts, flawlessly timed gear-shifts, and meticulously tricked-out cars. What could just be a drab series of taps is paired with slick graphics that demonstrate off the high-performance cars and environments. Players can work through a single-player campaign, as well as head-to-head online multiplayer battles against others. It’s not just about the street racing tho’: players can also go all out with car customizations, tweaking the paint job, rims, interior trim and technical elements such as gear ratios and tire pressure.

Asphalt Street Storm

Asphalt Street Storm is the latest entry in Gameloft’s mobile driving games, with this version taking on the urban haul racing genre pioneered by other games like CSR Racing. Players engage in quarter-mile haul races while behind the wheel of a multiplicity of vehicles, from classic muscle machines to sleek supercars, with designs from automakers like Ferrari, Ford and Chevrolet. In addition to the single player mode, you can participate in live multiplayer races with up to four other people.

SBK 16

If lightning-fast pubes rockets are more your style, then attempt out SBK 16, the official game of the Superbike World Championship. Players can take the role of international starlet riders such as Tom Sykes and Sylvain Guintoli and race exceptionally rapid bikes down challenging, real-world racetracks. Players can engage in quick races, a championship mode, time attacks and test rails. Cool additions to the game include a fresh cockpit view that puts you right in the act, mobile controller support, and the capability to upgrade to the ad-free practice either through in-app purchases or by hitting the Test Rail challenge mode.

Hot Wheels Race Off

For something that’s a lot more arcadey in feel, attempt Hot Wheels Race Off, a head-to-head stunts racing game in the vein of the Trials series. Users race their way through the classic orange tracks that the Hot Wheels fucktoys have made famous, zipping past a multiplicity of hops and stunts while attempting to pick up points and stay alive. Users can unlock and upgrade more than thirty different Hot Wheels fucktoys and race them through more than sixty different tracks in the single player mode; players can also challenge their friends to hit their times in competitive multiplayer.

Traffic Rider

For a more arcade-style take on motorcycle driving, check out Traffic Rider, a first-person motorcycle game and entry in Apple’s Best of two thousand sixteen list that has you bobbing and weaving through congested traffic. Traffic Rider is all about hair-raising near-misses, with players scoring extra points or bonus time for dodging past cars and trucks, with thicker bonuses for dodging oncoming traffic. Points earned can be spent to upgrade your rail or purchase newer motorbikes. A career mode lets you play through a multitude of missions and challenges, while Endless, Time Trial and Free Rail mode suggest different ways to play.

Unpossible

Unpossible is a stylish infinite driver that takes you to a neon-lit scifi cityscape where you hurtle down a circular rail while spinning around and dodging obstacles in an attempt to last as long as possible. The Simpleness game mode gives you an effortless introduction, but increasingly difficult Futile and Ultra modes suggest significantly more challenging, downright “masocore” practices.

Horizon Pursue

Taking inspiration from coin-op and console racing games like Rush and Out Run but with a modern mobile gloss, Horizon Pursue takes you on a third-person perspective arcade race through racetracks around the world as you jockey for pole position. The game features seventy three different tracks to race through, across thirty two different cities, with sixteen upgradeable race cars to collect.

Motorsport Manager

Gamers looking for a more strategic treatment to racing might want to check out Motorsport Manager, which puts you in instruction of your own racing team, rather than at the wheel. As team manager, it’s up to you to choose the right drivers, invest in research and development to improve your machines, and determine on the ideal race tactics and pit stop strategy. The game features a slick aesthetic of elementary abstract shapes and tilt-shifting effects to give the races a sleek, board-game feel.

Why we love Racing Games

There’s a reason the Prompt and Furious franchise does as well as it does. Racing is arousing. It’s almost as if the need for speed is ingrained in our DNA. And racing games are a natural extension of that. The best of those games make you feel the wind in your hair and get your adrenaline pumping through awesome graphics and slick gameplay. From hyper-realistic racing simulators to arcade smashfests and everything else in inbetween, here are our beloved mobile racing games for iOS devices.

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