Comparison

Forget The Brakes! vs Sumhow

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Forget The Brakes!

Navigate procedurally generated railway puzzles by multi-track drifting a train with no brakes. Avoid crashing to unlock faster trains and master the art of switching rails. Originally released in 2015, this addictive game has been updated and is now free to play.

Highlights
  • Multi-track drifting gameplay
  • Procedurally generated railway puzzles
  • Unlock faster trains
  • No brakes, strategic rail switching
  • Addictive and challenging
Features
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"Forget the Brakes, remember the fun" - IndieGames.com "Forget the Brakes is [..] a brilliant, frustrating, addictive mess." - Pocketgamer.co.uk Forget the Brakes! is a game about driving a train without brakes by multi-track drifting! Through procedurally generated railway-puzzles, you will have to avoid crashing in order to unlock faster trains by driving both the font boogie and the rear boogie of your train! There are no brakes, so you better choose wisely which rail to switch to! Forget The Brakes! Was originally released in 2015. To celebrate it's 10th anniversary, we have updated the game and made it free!

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Sumhow

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Somebody left you a calculator. Most of the keys are gone. Sumhow hands you a target and a handful of surviving keys, and asks you to make the number anyway. Three, plus and times are enough to get started. Then the machine starts changing the rules on you. HOW IT PLAYS • Every unit has a par: the fewest presses it can possibly be done in. Match it for three stars. • The machine resolves left to right, with no order of operations. On this unit, 3 + 4 × 2 is 14. • Undo and Clear are free, so experiment. There are no timers, no lives and no fail state. TEN CHAPTERS, ONE RULE EACH Roots, where √ only lands on whole numbers. Echo, where equals repeats the last operation. Decay, where the × key dies after two uses. Stutter, Memory, Wraparound, The Toll, Below Zero, Blind. And Word Mode: ninety-six trivia questions whose answers you spell by typing the number that reads as the word when the screen is upside down. The first four chapters are free. Each of the ten that follow is a single purchase, or earn it: every unit in a chapter at three stars pays for the next one in gold. HINTS THAT COST SOMETHING A nudge shows your next press. A route shows the whole solution. Both cost gold and cap the stars you can earn on that unit, so a hint is a choice, not a shortcut. SKINS Wear the calculator you want. Forty-three skins in seven packs, from leopard print to a synthwave sunset, tried on before you buy. THE QUIET PART The unit reacts to certain numbers. None of them are listed. Scratch mode is a fully working calculator with no target; that is where you go looking. Find enough and a chapter opens that is not for sale. No ads. No account. No energy meter. Just a calculator with a problem, and you.

Screenshots

Forget The Brakes!4 screens
Sumhow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Forget The Brakes! at none against Sumhow's 10. Forget The Brakes! also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sumhow sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Forget The Brakes! asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Forget The Brakes! versus Sumhow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterForget The Brakes!Sumhow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 58 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFerran Bertomeu CastellsTimothy Palladino

In-app purchases

None

Forget The Brakes!

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Sumhow

One-time10
  • Skins: Café$1.99
  • Desk skin pack$1.99
  • 80s skin pack$1.99
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  • Night Shift skin pack$1.99
  • Seaside skin pack$1.99
  • Wild skin pack$1.99
  • Sweet Shop skin pack$1.99
  • Chapter 8: The Toll$4.99
  • Chapter 7: Word Mode$4.99
  • Chapter 6: Wraparound$4.99

Questions

Is Forget The Brakes! free?
Forget The Brakes! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sumhow free?
Sumhow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Forget The Brakes! or Sumhow have ads?
Neither Forget The Brakes! nor Sumhow shows ads.

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