# GPixel - Turn Based Racing — user reviews > 76 indexed App Store user reviews of GPixel by Jacopo Guanziroli, rated 4.60/5 from 491 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gpixel-turn-based-racing/id1613377242/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gpixel-turn-based-racing/id1613377242.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 386 · 4★ 55 · 3★ 18 · 2★ 16 · 1★ 16 ## What do users think of GPixel? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Unique and innovative gameplay - 👍 Simple and intuitive controls - 💡 Interesting blend of racing and strategy - 🎨 Customizable car designs **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and glitches with timed races - 💰 Intrusive ads even after purchase - 🕰️ Frustrating time limits on some levels - 🔒 Inability to restore purchases across devices **Commonly reported bugs** - Timed races not functioning properly - Inability to progress past certain levels - Purchased content not carrying over to new devices **Most requested features** - Offline play mode - Asynchronous multiplayer - Option to disable timed races - Improved leaderboard functionality ## Newest reviews (15 of 76) ### 4/5 — Good *2026-05-08, version 1.2.1* Very good game ### 4/5 — The game is fun *2026-05-03, version 1.2.1* The map are good keep up the work ### 3/5 — Just OK *2024-09-18* It’s irritating you can use spaces in driver’s name. Also I purchased the ad free version, got a new phone, and there is no option to restore the purchase. **Developer response:** Hello! Thank you for your honest review, we are happy to help about your purchase. Please write to info@jesterday.studio with your old and new user name and we will restore it for you! We are a small team and we don't have multi-device login yet, but it's in our plans to add it! ### 5/5 — This is very cool *2024-08-19, version 1.1.1* I enjoyed the gameplay, its very unique! Part board game, part arcade, super fun! ### 5/5 — Unique, chilled and fun! *2024-07-13* Love the gameplay, it’s a unique take on racing, some boardgame vibe but perfect for short sessions! **Developer response:** you nailed it! that is exactly how we want to make GPixel, a unique experience mixing casual and strategy games! ### 5/5 — Innovative game *2024-07-11* Fantastic and innovative blend of racing and strategy. The turn-based mechanics add a fresh twist, making each race a thrilling challenge. GPixel is a must-have for racing fans looking for something different! **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review,it means a lot to us! We are a small team so 5 stars are a great boost to keep working on the game and make it even better! ### 4/5 — Great racing game *2024-06-11, version 1.0.6* If there was a way to play offline, I’d give it five stars! Wanted to play this on the plane. Otherwise, I love the strategy. ### 5/5 — Lots of fun so far. *2024-05-14, version 1.0.6* Nice game. Love the PO Arcade sounds. Maybe add some randomness? Like sometimes the drive goes awry and you need to recover? Or if not randomness maybe add physics? Cars don’t turn 90 degrees on a pin :) Seriously tho. It’s great. Controls are a bit finicky. Maybe enlarge the targets for shifter especially. ### 5/5 — Addictive *2024-05-04, version 1.0.6* So fun and cool! ### 5/5 — A good game *2024-04-27* The game was really good off the bat, when I first started and it was a little bit easy and slowly gets harder throughout the game which is fun. The game has ads which is reasonable for a free game and its only $2 to remove them which is good compared to all the knockoff $5-10 no ad packs in other games. Features: I love the idea of leaderboards, they work well and are very cool to see, I think the score should be more rewarding for faster times because if you get a decent run, the difference in points is only like 20 from the number 1 in the world. I also really enjoy the customizing car feature but i think you should gets coins from racing to CHOSE the decals you buy to make it more personal. Also please make it so that you can change your name more than once 🙏. Thanks for this great game and I look forward to playing it more. **Developer response:** Thank you for your review, the 5 stars are making our day! Also, very interesting to hear your suggestions, we might review the scores algorithm at some point but to be transparent, we are focusing on many other features now! Regarding customization, without a proper economy system in the game, we preferred to keep them as reward to also make the drivers enjoy even more the progression in the World Tour! Thank you again and see you at the racetrack! ### 5/5 — Impressed *2024-04-15, version 1.0.5* Great game, very creative and original. Fits my taste perfectly. ### 5/5 — Einfach, aber nett! *2024-03-30* Das Spielprinzip ist sehr simpel, aber macht trotzdem Spaß für nebenbei. **Developer response:** Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung, wir freuen uns, dass Ihnen unsere einzigartige Sicht auf den Rennsport gefallen hat! Es bedeutet viel und es hält uns für mehr Inhalte und Verbesserungen auf dem Laufenden! Wir sehen uns auf der Rennstrecke! ### 5/5 — Perfect Game *2024-03-28* Free, 2$ to remove ads, and addicting gameplay. Everyone complaining about the timed races should just get good. I’ve beaten the game and now I’m aiming for 3* on every track. The game is perfect as is, but asynchronous turned based multiplayer would fit the game perfectly. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for appreciating the game! We added the time limits mode to have more variety and we agree that with a little practice those circuits (which aren’t many anyway) can be beaten! However we made them even easier now as we try to accommodate as much as we can our players, still it’s sad to receive 1 star just because of that 😔 thank you again and see you at the races!😎 ### 5/5 — O jogo não abre mais *2024-03-25* Após jogar pela primeira vez o jogo não abre mais, fica em loading infinito **Developer response:** Pedimos desculpas pelo inconveniente, mas não dependia do jogo, mas do provedor de back-end que teve problemas por cerca de 2 horas. Seríamos muito gratos se você pudesse tentar o jogo novamente e melhorar sua revisão, somos uma equipe muito pequena e, infelizmente, não pudemos fazer nada para resolver esse problema! Obrigado pela sua compreensão e, mais uma vez, pedimos desculpas pela experiência não positiva, mas esperamos vê-lo novamente na pista em breve! ### 4/5 — Great except the time limit *2024-03-25, version 1.0.3* Time limit on races really ruins the turn-based nature of the game. Excellent execution otherwise. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Disappointment *2024-07-23* I had high hopes for this game and those hopes were immediately proven right and I thought I had found my new favorite game and I purchased the no ads and then fast forward a few weeks and the new update comes out and I was EXCITED until I played it it cancelled out the purchase I made to remove ads and the boosters barely do anything I used brake boosters to AVOID CRASHING and I am in the lowest gear I could be in and I still CRASHED!!!!!!😡😡😡 I finished the race and deleted it’s not worth the seven bucks to remove the ads and get boosters so I am disappointed **Developer response:** Hello! We are really sorry about your experience and definitely the IAP should not disappear. Can you please write to info@jesterday.studio and share your user name and player ID? So we can try to sort it out! 🙏 Thank you and we are here to help and improve your experience! Sorry again, we hope we can fix it! ### 1/5 — Навязчивая реклама *2024-03-13* Первые три уровня интересные, затем без спроса выскакивает реклама, а это значит удаление приложения и одна звезда. **Developer response:** Мы показываем 1 интерстициальную рекламу каждые 2 гонки, но мы также даем возможность остановить доставку на 2 часа, смотря наградное видео! Мы старались быть как можно более справедливыми по сравнению с подавляющим большинством игр в настоящее время. ### 1/5 — Fun game to many adds *2024-01-22, version 1.02* To many adds and to expensive to remove them so one star, sorry but that's what I give everyone for this issue 🤷🏻‍♂️ ### 2/5 — Terrible design *2026-05-08* Although the actual idea is very fun, some maps are designed for the sake of being hard. Some tracks have straight up stupid layouts that don’t make any sense. Plus, the crash detector doesn’t work. It said I wouldn’t crash but randomly it decided halfway that I would. Overall, good concept but poor execution in game design and mechanics. **Developer response:** Hello! Thank you for your feedback! For some players tracks are too hard, for some are too easy! We try to gradually increase the difficulty but everyone will have their preferences of course! About the collision, it sounds indeed a bug. If in the preview it shows no crash, it shouldn't happen then. Please write to info@jesterday.studio so we can investigate further! ### 2/5 — You Thought You Bought *2025-02-05* I was having a good time so I thought, “okay, they earned it. I would like maximum speed. I would like better headlights. I would like any number of details that request that you watch a video.” So I paid. The video requests continue to haunt! I tried restoring. The video requests are still there! I click on better headlights…”would you link to watch a video?!” NO ABSOLUTELY NOT. I want the game to work without stupid purchasing laying around the game like dog turds. Don’t buy the game. You don’t get what you think you’re buying. **Developer response:** Hello! We are sorry about your experience, however we clearly show what is included in the purchases versus what is optional and could be obtained (if you want) by watching a rewarded video. Can you explain what made you think the purchase would include Max Speed or Headlights? So we can improve in case it is not that clear! Feel free to write to: info@jesterday.studio ☺️👍 We are definitely looking into more purchases options to make some upgrades permanent! Thank you again for your feedback and we hope to see you on the racetrack again! We are working to add more content and features! 😎 ### 2/5 — Requires Internet connection to play *2024-06-04* Game is fun and different - I enjoy it a lot as a time killer. However, it requires Internet connection to play, even after paying for the ad-free version. This prevents me from playing it in certain travel situations, and that sinks the ship. There’s no reason this simple game needs the Internet if ads aren’t being loaded… unless it’s farming your data. **Developer response:** Hello! We are happy to hear you enjoyed the game, and equally sorry to feel your frustration! We are a tiny team and technically keeping the game online was the only viable and affordable solution to maintain several features, for example the leaderboards! Not other data is use in any way but to keep the game functioning! In any case thank you for the feedback and we will explore the possibility to make the game available offline under certain conditions! We hope to see you on the racetrack! ### 2/5 — Too easy and therefore boring *2024-03-31* I’m deleting this game now. I’m at season 20 and played about 80-100 rounds. Every round is basically the same. I never had to break, is always “select direction, go”. There is no strategy at all. **Developer response:** Danke für das Teilen Ihrer Meinung, es hilft uns immer, uns zu verbessern! Die Schwierigkeit steigt allmählich an, je weiter Sie im World Tour vorankommen, desto schwieriger werden die Strecken! Wir hoffen, Sie bald wieder auf der Rennstrecke zu sehen! Einen schönen Tag noch! ### 2/5 — Ditch the timer *2024-03-24* I agree with another reviewer who said the timer ruined the game for him. Most people who play this type of game are not looking for a twitch-fest race against the clock. For those who like the timer - great. For the rest, you should allow players to disable it. As for me, I didn’t ditch the timer - I ditched the game. **Developer response:** Hello and thank you for your review! I hear you about the time limits, we will review them! But keep into consideration that there are very few circuits with the time countdown in the whole World Tour, and also we are preparing something to add time once the limit is reached! The idea was to add different game modes and challenges but we hear our players and we will improve the experience! We hope to see you at the racetrack soon 😊 ### 2/5 — Eigentlich gut, aber…. *2024-03-19* …habe die Vollversion gekauft kann aber nicht auf iPad und iPhone spielen, da ich unterschiedliche Benutzernamen verwenden muss. Muss also zweimal kaufen 👎 Wenn man ein Level nicht schafft gibt es keine Chance zu überspringen, d.h. man (ich) stehe bei ca 40% des Spiels und der Rest ist gesperrt 👎👎👎 Ich würde es nicht mehr kaufen **Developer response:** Hallo und es tut uns leid, von Ihrer Erfahrung zu hören! Wir fordern kein E-Mail-Login, daher kann der Fortschritt nicht geräteübergreifend übertragen werden. Es tut uns leid, dass Sie dies erwartet haben, aber wir haben es nicht als mögliche Funktion beworben. Wir sind ein kleines Team und dies ist ziemlich fortgeschritten, wir werden es definitiv für die Zukunft in Betracht ziehen! Lassen Sie uns auch unter info@jesterday.studio wissen, bei welchem Rennkurs Sie nicht weitergekommen sind, damit wir die Schwierigkeit überprüfen können! Vielen Dank und haben Sie einen schönen Tag! ### 2/5 — Adverts ruin the game. *2024-03-13, version 1.02* An ok idea and would have enjoyed playing if there was less ads. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Nice game *2026-07-03, version 1.3.2* Really good game ### 5/5 — Suggestion for the game *2026-06-30* Plz make it so we can create tracks if that isn’t already implemented **Developer response:** Thanks for the suggestion! Track creation isn't live yet, but we're definitely keeping it in mind as we plan ahead — and we've got even bigger features cooking for GPixel soon! We appreciate you enjoying this grand prix racing game that mixes casual fun with puzzle-like strategy! ### 5/5 — Great Game *2026-06-01, version 1.2.1* Simple to learn, hard to master. Exactly what I look for in a game! ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2026-05-02* I have loved this game even as a more action based gamer. One thing I can ask is that there would be an animation at the end of the race that you could watch, which would show you the race in live action. I specifically think of YOMI hustle if you wanted a framework for it. I think it would be sick and make it even more satisfying. **Developer response:** Hello and thanks a lot for your 5 stars! We hear you and we are working to have something like you just said.. But it's a good suggestion and we will keep it in mind! See you at the racetrack! ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-03-07* Fun idea for a race game that I haven’t played before. I also love that there is no subscription model. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your kind words! We are working to bring much more content, polish and features so..stay tuned! We would consider subscriptions only if we will have multiplayer, but never for the single player campaign! See you on the race track! ### 5/5 — Cute game, few ads *2025-09-20, version 1.2.1* Easy to learn, neat concept. ### 5/5 — Fun retro racing *2025-01-08, version 1.1.1* Cool new take on a racing game with a retro feel. I dig it! ### 5/5 — Fun game *2025-01-08, version 1.1.1* Casual car race game but still strategic. Fun game and original concept. Love it! ### 5/5 — Great Game *2024-09-21* Updated Review: Excellent customer service for a small team. Game is a ton of fun… It’s irritating you can use spaces in driver’s name. Also I purchased the ad free version, got a new phone, and there is no option to restore the purchase. **Developer response:** Hello! Thank you for your honest review, we are happy to help about your purchase. Please write to info@jesterday.studio with your old and new user name and we will restore it for you! We are a small team and we don't have multi-device login yet, but it's in our plans to add it! ### 5/5 — Great game *2024-09-18* The concept of this game was unique. The controls are simple, the graphics are not too pixelated nor too hard for my phone to handle. Overall 10/10 game. I liked it. **Developer response:** Hello and thank you for the 5 stars! They mean a lot for a tiny team like ours and with our player's support we are trying to keep improving the game! See you on the racetrack! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*