Leave a Review Canabalt
Everyone should have this!
You have to give some serious props to a dev that updates an eight year old game to 64-bit...seriously...thanks!
I play this regularly when I have a couple of minutes to kill and it's great...there's always another try to go further but then you die at the first window and think you can't leave it there...Show lessLordsmiff
Awesome
Thank you for the 64-bit update! This game is great and I still love to play this game every once and a while. 😄lucky1300
Awesome Update
2014: I'm glad to see this game is still supported!
2017: I can't believe this game is still supported!MetalMelchior
Badly needs an update.
Canabalt is a great game that I've been playing for years, but it needs an update. In its current state, it's optimized for iOS8 and it runs at a pitiful amount of frames per second on later versions, even on recent iphones. I will update my review when the game is fixed.Alex Martel
Great game, a quintessential runner
I've been playing this game for years, even back when it was on Kongregate. When I found out there was a portable version I was thrilled. I've had this app for years now, and it never lets me down. Except for those dang windows that is, I always miss those. Anyway, I realized I had never reviewed it, so here we are.
Pros:
• great minimalist graphics
•great music (the main theme is killer)
•unique "story" (not that there's really much to it, but if you can tear your attention away from the runner to look at the background, you'll see all sorts of things)
•new game modes (all falling buildings, no slowdown crates, etc)
•multiplayer mode? (I haven't played it with someone else, so I dunno)
•crates and similar let you slow yourself. Do other infinite runners have this? I don't recall seeing it in any others. It's a great mechanic
•portable
Cons
•WINDOWS!!!!
•procedurally generated, so while it's always POSSIBLE to make the jump if you time it just right, the RNG can mess you up pretty badly
•could maybe spawn crates a bit more frequently
•WINDOWWWWSSS!!!!
All in all, a fantastic game, a pioneer in the genre. A+ 5stars. I can't see the price because I've already purchased it, but whatever it is, it's worth it.Show lessDouglas "Strange Quark" Reed
AMAZING
As someone who loves infinite runners, this game is perfect! I just have a couple things I think should be added: 1.) I think, conceding with the first review to this game, a new map could include wallrunning! Like, when you tap, you just have to tap again in the air and in front of a wall and then you wallrun! And maybe you run out of time eventually, so you have to tap again to jump from the wall and make it to some buildings! 2.) It would be awesome if you could change your character! Again, conceding with the first review, maybe new characters could be unlockables...? 3.) I think it would be pretty awesome if you could do online multiplayer on the maps! And if it could hold up to 4 people, that would be tops! I honestly think these and maybe a different soundtrack for each map location could be cool! As the game is already perfect, these would just make it beyond perfect!Show lessJakeylake
Consistently fun
In the world of pay for play, and level based challenge teasers, remains a game from years that ever increases in difficulty, challenging the user to best themselves. This ultimate in playability combined with low-fi graphics (one of the first that took advantage of this effect) and a thrilling soundtrack is sure to last for many years more.Show lessUnamused Kanye Fan
No sfx after iOS 8 update
Canabalt is a super fun game, and I've rated it as such. However, the iOS 8 update has broken all sfx in the game. Music still works, but no sounds.
Needs an update!.jordNZ
Cannot select a different character
The update dont let you select anoter character like it promise.Twiggx
Still a great game
When I purchased canabalt, it was during its beta phase. I greatly enjoyed its smooth gameplay, immersive experience (Doppler-effect audio, the phone vibrates with crashing buildings, so on) and surprising amount of storyline. Yes, there's a storyline; whoever you are, you're running (not away or towards) through a cataclysmic event in a metropolitan city; massive robots destroy buildings in the distance, ships fly overhead and drop bombs on the ground, massive... Things turn huge structures to rubble. What is the canabalt company, and how is it that they own everything in this city? What are the claw marks on the buildings from?
The game provides you with two advertisements, for their new game. That's all. I haven't played it, but it seems interesting.
The music is very thematic and exciting, and helps maintain the pacing. Danny baranowski is a great composer, and I recommend doing the hour or so of searching to find some of the other pieces he's written.
I'm getting ahead of myself, though...
The point is this: I bought canabalt when it had just been released. A few years later, it is still the great game I chose to play then and now.Show lessThe Aristane
