# Backflip Madness 2 — user reviews

> 53 indexed App Store user reviews of Backflip Madness 2 by Hubert Sliwka, rated 4.60/5 from 211 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/backflip-madness-2/id1460431748/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/backflip-madness-2/id1460431748.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 175 · 4★ 13 · 3★ 11 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 10

## What do users think of Backflip Madness 2?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Nostalgic connection to the first game
- 🚀 Improved physics and mechanics
- 💡 New features like running and bigger maps
- ✨ Satisfying physics-based gameplay
- 🤩 Great upgrade from the first game
- 💯 Fun and enjoyable time killer
- 👍 Developers sticking to the roots
- 🎉 Exciting sequel to a beloved game

**Cons**

- 👎 Controls can be complicated/weird
- 🐛 Game feels unpolished/buggy
- 🤔 Physics feel strange/floaty to some
- 📉 Downgrade in jump and landing mechanics for some
- 🤷‍♂️ Objectives can be hard to find
- ⏳ Freeplay mode is timed
- 🤏 Small number of locations/levels
- 🐌 Slow menu transitions

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Retry button not working
- Game not restarting after retry
- First level seems impossible/glitched
- Backpack spawn point feature not working

**Most requested features**

- Add twisting flips (180s, 360s)
- Add female character option
- Allow customization of character colors
- Reintroduce the old replay feature
- Add a marker/teleport feature like Skate 3
- Add more levels/bigger maps
- Improve walking/running mechanics
- Add buttons instead of joystick for controls
- Add community maps
- Add more screaming sound effects
- Add roll animation on landing
- Import stages from the first game
- Add photo customization for characters
- Add double/triple jumps expansion

## Newest reviews (16 of 53)

### 4/5 — Quite good

*2025-09-05*

Improvement on the first game :3 still a bit buggy and unintuitive sometimes but I still love <3

### 4/5 — Need more levels!!!!!!!

*2025-01-14, version 1.2.1*

The game is a great upgrade to the old one I really like it. Could do with some better walking mechanics or maybe add buttons aswell. And please give us bigger levels with higher jumps.🙏🏽🙏🏽

### 4/5 — Fard

*2025-01-04, version 1.2.1*

Hey this game is great but I think there are some thing that could be better. 1 there should be a marker like in skate 3 that you can set in a certain place and teleport to it when you are trying to do a specific trick. Also it would be great if it had the old replay button from the first game came back and if that was the trick you wanted to do you could just record that. Or like a capture the past 30 second thingy that Xbox one has.

### 4/5 — Fast besser als der erste Teil

*2024-12-23*

Ich habe den ersten Teil früher sehr viel gespielt und habe mir den zweiten sofort geholt, als ich ihn im Store gesehen habe. Ich finde es sehr gut, dass hier die Komplexität nun ein wenig gesteigert wurde indem man mehrere Sprünge aneinanderreihen kann. Ich finde aber, dass hier die Steuerung ein bisschen zu kompliziert ist. Ich verstehe nicht ganz warum man den Sprung-Knopf und den linken Joystick halten muss für den nächsten Sprung. Würde es nicht auch reichen nur den Joystick in die richtige Richtung zu halten? Auch nach einiger Spielzeit schaffe ich es nicht konsistent mehr als 2 Sprünge aneinanderzureihen. Außerdem hoffe ich, dass noch ein Level mit hohen Sprüngen kommt, so wie der Canyon im ersten Teil.
Ansonsten ist das Spiel seh spaßig.

### 5/5 — Best

*2024-12-05, version 1.2.1*

Best game

### 5/5 — Fallin Back in Love

*2024-11-29*

You guy never fail to amaze me with your games. First with Backflip Madness and now with the second version. So many upgrades and changes; I thank you for sticking to the roots of gymnast and acrobatic flips and semi realism. Many other flip like games stray away from the root of what makes games like these enjoyable and you guys haven’t left what made the first game great. I can’t wait to see you guys go 3D and possibly include more 360 and 180 flips and tricks, but that’s only a thought of mine. What you guys have done here is very well done and sharp. CRITIQUES: 1. I wish there was still the replay feature to where we can just rewatch a trick that we already did. 2. When landing from higher places or objects I wish there was a roll animation that could also transfer to the running animation while still moving the joystick forward to give a more natural feel and also make it easier to do Parkour combinations. 3. Make more clothing options and if not that then allow us to change the color of our shirts, pants, and shoes, if possible. Besides these till the game goes 3D this is all I think would make the game even better. Thank you and God Bless ✝️

**Developer response:** Thanks for the review, man! I hope that when I create Backflip Madness 3, it will be fully 3D and we can be happy together. I'm the only guy creating this game. I'm working on other projects and also porting BFM2 to Steam now. I'm still learning so that one day I can create the final BFM3 that meets our expectations. Join discord server, BFM2 -> Menu -> Discord Icon. I hope we'll keep in touch, Hubert

### 5/5 — Good game

*2024-10-21*

I wish the game the best, that the developers would make updates more often and I would especially like it to be similar to the first part, it seems to me that the first part was more convenient in control and physics

**Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback. What do you think of the beginner mode? Does it reflect the first game? I wanted the physics to be smoother and less harsh, and the gameplay to be more forgiving. I'm one guy developing this game. I think I might have missed something. Join my Discord server BFM2 -> Menu -> Discord Icon. Hope to meet you there, Hubert

### 4/5 — builds upon the first game, leaves much to be desired

*2024-10-18*

Dear GameSoul Studios,

I enjoy the second game but there was absolutely nothing about the physics that should’ve been changed from the first game in my opinion.

running from point to point is great, front-flipping is great, but flipping feels floaty in all the wrong ways and I miss my character actually having a sense of real weight from the first game.

it would also be fun to import the stages and levels from the first game to play in the second game.

But a crazy idea: 

for both games what if you added a female character

AND

what if you gave the players options to add photos to the body parts and to give players templates to make their own characters. There’s a game called photo dojo for the Nintendo DSi in which there’s a similar concept for reference.

anyway that’s just my opinion, Backflip Madness is a top tier game series and I really appreciate you.

### 5/5 — Eh

*2024-10-01, version 1.2.0*

Eh

### 5/5 — this game is so fun because i love riscing my life

*2024-09-18, version 1.2.0*

so many backflips so cool

### 5/5 — very good

*2024-07-20*

I really like that they added moving normally and bigger maps

**Developer response:** Thanks for your review! I'll try to make this game even better in next updates 😎

### 5/5 — 180 variations and 360 variations

*2024-07-19*

I love the game and it is amazing but please add spinning while you flip for example “arabian flips” “back fulls” ect..

**Developer response:** I love to hear you love the game! I think that spinning tricks are not possible until we go full 3D in the third game 😅

### 5/5 — Love the game but there is one gripe I have.

*2024-07-12*

I loved the original way way back in the day and this is a great follow up. The backpack spawn point feature a la EA skate doesn’t seem to work though. The game says you use the backpack with the left thumb stick. It’s not like you can click it in or anything so I can’t figure out how to activate it.

**Developer response:** Thanks for the review! Try to long press the thumb stick or location pin button.

### 5/5 — an excellent suggestion

*2024-07-04*

I'm having a lot of fun playing this game. I especially like the sound effects being diversified.
I want to listen many kind of screaming sounds from backflip madness when the guy fail to touch down on the ground.
I love the screaming I heard in Backflip madness 1🤣

**Developer response:** Thanks for your review! I appreciate that you noticed such details, it means a lot to me. Expect something special in the next update just for you! 🙂

### 5/5 — .

*2024-07-02*

I’ve been playing the first game for years, and now the second has one added so many more enjoyable features! The only criticism I have (a minor one at that), is that you can’t play as a girl character. I noticed the ability to customize in other ways, but adding a feminine character would be really cool. Other than that, love the game.

**Developer response:** I love hearing that you’ve been playing Backflip Madness for years. Fans like you are my motivation. I’ve thought about adding a female character to the game, but I haven’t had the time to implement it yet. It’s possible and will eventually appear, but it’s not the highest priority

### 5/5 — To developer

*2024-06-30*

Please add twisting to the game like 180s and 360s and backhandsprings also I love this game 10/10

**Developer response:** Thanks for your review!  Back handspring may appear in future updates (I thought about it designing the game), but twisting tricks would be difficult to implement

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — !!!

*2025-06-12*

Wow

**Developer response:** Thank you ❤️

### 1/5 — 過去作を越えられず、、

*2024-06-15*

前回作を楽しんでおり、ふと見たら新作が出ていましたので買ったら、残念でした。。

### 1/5 — Disappointed.

*2024-05-26, version 1.0.2*

Backflip Madness was one of my favorite games to play on my phone as a kid. This new addition is flimsy, weak, and unpolished.

### 1/5 — 11 years of development

*2024-05-12*

Wow, it took 11 years of development to release the 2 part of backflip madness. There should be a Huuuuge upgrade, I thought, buying this game. Ok, you added running, great! Ok, new visuals, new engine, awesome! However, I opened it and I didn't see "madness" at all, it is only in the naming, but not in the game inside. 5 Small locations, seriously!? These are not only small, but also pretty easy and boring, there are no huge gaps and interesting huge leaps as were in the 1 part. You said NO to new physics, ragdoll, animations, locations and creativity. Plain Backflip with no madness!

**Developer response:** I'm sorry to hear that game didn't meet your expectations. I will try to address your opinion in future updates. In the meantime I encourage you to join our Discord (link in game menu), where you can post suggestion etc.

### 2/5 — Retry button needs fixing

*2024-08-10, version 1.2.0*

Fun game, enjoying the gameplay and challenge however more often than not when i press the retry button after failing too many flips, the game does not restart and i have to force exit the app and re open it. If the game was free i would put up with it but i expect a game that works if i have to pay for it

### 2/5 — Glitched or something

*2024-05-15*

It’s fun but I literally can’t beat the first level cause how am i supposed to get on the basketball hoops and I flip over the bar and land in the square and it doesn’t count

**Developer response:** Check out my YouTube channel where you can find Sports Hall playtrough video, Link in game menu. I hope it helps.

### 2/5 — nowhere as good as the old one

*2024-05-08, version 1.0.1*

i mean its great that you can move around and do more things but the jump and the landing are a huge downgrade 
also the game physics overall and smoothness is really bad compared to the old version

### 3/5 — Meh

*2025-09-24, version 1.2.1*

Please give me a refund I don’t really like it the controls are dumb and flip range is way better and cheaper lol

### 3/5 — Okay

*2025-01-15*

I love these games but I feel like theres gotta be one or two trampolines missing or something in the hills level cause it seems impossible.  Big bummer cause I cant move on to other levels 😭

### 3/5 — Amazing sequel!

*2024-05-30*

I played the first game from around 2016 to 2024 and seeing that the sequel was coming out I was hyped. This game has exceeded my expectations.

**Developer response:** Thank you for the review. I'm glad you enjoy the game. It means a lot to me

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Return of the king

*2026-08-08*

Played this for years on my ipad when I was very young. Seeing that there is now a second brings me back to the blissful time of a pre adult world. 10/10 would flip again

### 5/5 — Awesome

*2026-06-30*

I’ve loved backflip madness since i was kid who could only play the demo and find apk’s. It’s amazing to see that they made a second one and improved on many aspects. I’m happy to see these games haven’t been delisted, and am still able to have fun and create memories

### 5/5 — Banger of a game

*2026-06-24*

Grew up with this game on my kindle fire, just now seeing that you’ve blessed us with a another great game, thank you 🙏

### 5/5 — I’m wondering if you can still get ninja skin

*2026-06-02*

Good game just for a few cents

### 5/5 — cool

*2026-04-11, version 1.2.3*

cool

### 5/5 — Must get

*2026-02-23*

Definitely one of the best games I’ve played this year. The physics and tricks are stunning and raw.

### 5/5 — 100

*2025-12-08, version 1.2.2*

i love this game

### 5/5 — Update is great

*2025-12-04, version 1.2.2*

Thank you for update that makes you automatically move to starting positions like in the first game.

### 5/5 — おもしろいが、

*2025-10-10*

面白いから日本語対応して欲しい、

### 5/5 — If you liked the predecessor or Trials game or elastomania get this

*2025-09-27*

What the Title says. If you liked satisfying physics based game get this. Controls are wierd first but give into them an learn.

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