StepRace vs Vector Rally
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StepRace
This turn-based racing game challenges players to strategically plan their moves by selecting accelerations. Anticipate momentum, corners, and braking to outmaneuver opponents on handcrafted tracks. Features include move previews, leaderboards, and live online races.
- Turn-based acceleration strategy
- Move previews and velocity display
- 12 handcrafted tracks
- Personal challenges
- Game Center leaderboards
- Live online races
- VoiceOver support
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StepRace brings classic vector racing back: instead of steering directly left or right, every turn changes your racer's acceleration. Speed and direction carry forward, so planning ahead matters more than fast reflexes. Choose one of nine accelerations. Move previews immediately show which options are safe, which cross the finish line and where a crash awaits. Leave the road and your velocity resets. Features: • 12 handcrafted tracks, from flowing starter courses and free endurance runs to demanding mountain and night circuits • Route and circuit rules with visible, ordered checkpoint areas • Move previews, velocity display and an automatic follow camera • Personal challenges to finish in fewer and fewer moves • A Game Center leaderboard for every track • Live online races against a friend with alternating turns and blocking racing lines • Five free tracks plus permanent Challenge and Elite track-pack unlocks • Direct feedback by email and quick access to App Store ratings • English and German interface • VoiceOver support and scalable controls Like the graph-paper classic, the racer who best anticipates momentum, corners and braking distance wins.
Vector Rally
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Race on graph paper. One dot at a time. No reflexes — just nerve, geometry, and momentum. Vector Race revives the classic pen-and-paper game of Racetrack. Each turn you adjust your velocity by one notch in any direction, and your speed carries over. Accelerate too greedily and no amount of steering will save you from the wall. Every corner is a bet you place three turns early. HOW IT PLAYS • Tap one of eight dots each turn — your momentum decides where they are • No coasting: you commit to accelerating, braking, or turning every single turn • Touch a wall and you crash: you stop dead and sit out as many turns as the speed you carried in • First to cross the finish line wins A RIVAL WORTH BEATING The computer doesn't fake difficulty. It calculates the genuinely optimal line and plays it — on Hard it never gives a turn away, and beating it means racing perfectly. Medium and Easy concede the occasional turn like a human running wide, never like a bot driving into walls. 27 TRACKS, HONESTLY RANKED From a four-turn drag strip to a multi-screen marathon: sweeping curves, hairpins, island slaloms, tooth mazes, a five-door labyrinth, and a spiral whose finish sits at the eye of the storm. Every track's difficulty rating comes from its par — the optimal number of turns, computed by the AI itself. BEAT YOUR FRIENDS' GHOSTS Every win records your run. Share any track with your best run attached — your friend races your ghost live on their board, corner for corner, and sends their answer back. No accounts, no servers, no waiting for your turn. BUILD YOUR OWN TRACKS Draw walls, place the finish, and the game instantly tells you whether your track can be raced and what par is. Generate huge multi-screen circuits with one tap when you want something nobody has ever driven. TWO PLAYER Same couch, one screen, alternating turns. The oldest way to play, and still the best trash talk.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: StepRace at none against Vector Rally's shown. StepRace also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
StepRace ships an update every 3 days, Vector Rally fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and August 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StepRace | Vector Rally |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (13 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bernhard Hering | Alexandre Sivera |
In-app purchases
StepRace
No in-app purchases
Vector Rally
No in-app purchases





