Highway Crash Derby vs Hovercraft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Highway Crash Derby
Experience a fast-paced arcade driving game where you navigate busy highways, aim for high scores, and trigger massive chain-reaction crashes. Relive your most spectacular moments in replay mode and play the core game offline. Unlock a variety of vehicles with unique abilities for chaotic fun.
- Navigate busy highway traffic
- Achieve high scores
- Trigger chain-reaction crashes
- Relive crashes in Replay Mode
- Unlock diverse vehicles
- Offline core gameplay
- Compete on leaderboards
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Dodge packed highway traffic, build your score, and choose the perfect moment to unleash a spectacular pileup. Highway Crash Derby is a fast arcade driving game about surviving longer, scoring higher, and causing bigger chain-reaction crashes. When the run ends, Replay Mode lets you relive your wildest moments. Play the core game anywhere—even offline. FEATURES • Swipe to weave through busy highway traffic • Stay on the road longer to push your high score • Trigger huge pileups and chain-reaction destruction • Relive your best crashes in Replay Mode • Drive a wild garage of vehicles with unique abilities • Play the core game offline • Compete on Game Center leaderboards and unlock achievements A GARAGE BUILT FOR CHAOS Boost through traffic in a rocket-powered sports car, patrol in a police car, haul an explosive load in a pickup, blast music from the ice cream truck, skim over the road in a hovercraft, take control of nearby traffic with the hacker van, answer the call in a fire truck, and uncover the TOP SECRET vehicle hidden inside a crate. How far can you drive—and how much damage can you cause—before it all comes crashing down?
Hovercraft
Build and customize a combat hovercraft with a variety of weapons. Evade and destroy pursuing police vehicles and military forces in this action-packed racing game. Upgrade your vehicle and survive as long as possible.
- Build custom hovercrafts
- Arm with guns, lasers, rockets, mines
- Evade and destroy police vehicles
- Equip up to 6 weapons simultaneously
- Upgrade and evolve hovercraft squadron
- Real-time damage models
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The #1 combat racing, custom vehicle building, totally addicting, action game of the year is back, and crazier than ever! You’re on the run! Build your custom Hovercraft. Arm it to the teeth with machine guns, lasers, rockets, and mines. Then evade, attack, and survive as long as you can to make your Getaway! FEATURES * Build a completely custom Hovercraft and arm it with guns, lasers, missiles, mines and more! * The Law is hot on your tail! Evade and obliterate advanced police cruisers, hoverbikes, armored trucks, aerial drones and even military tanks and attack helicopters! * Cause enough destruction and the legendary Crimson Elite Force may even come after you! * Equip up to 6 weapons simultaneously, and customize your loadout from thousands of possible combinations * Long range sniper cannons? Tracking lasers? Triple fire homing rockets? Proximity homing mines? How about all of them, at the same time! * Upgrade & Evolve your Hovercraft squadron and become even more powerful * Endless upgrades! Collect & win tons of rare, epic, and legendary gear! * Real-time damage models affect all of your Hovercraft's systems, from weapons to thrusters * Experience insane physics-based combat racing, like nothing you've played before! FOLLOW US https://www.facebook.com/hovercraftgame https://twitter.com/HovercraftGame http://www.highscorehero.com/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Hovercraft at none against Highway Crash Derby's shown. Hovercraft also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (4.2K vs 1.1K). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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. Highway Crash Derby sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Hovercraft sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Highway Crash Derby against 4.6 for Hovercraft. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.1K and 4.2K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Highway Crash Derby's written reviews are positive against 82% of Hovercraft's.
Highway Crash Derby ships an update every 6 weeks, Hovercraft every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Highway Crash Derby | Hovercraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.1K ratings) | 4.6 (4.2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.1% of reviews | 82.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K | 4.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 221 MB | 176 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Koma Studios UG (haftungsbeschraenkt) | High Score Hero LLC |
Customer experience
Highway Crash Derby
Hovercraft
User reviews
Highway Crash Derby
From 1.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun and addictive
- 👍 Great crash physics
- 🚗 Nostalgic and classic gameplay
- 💰 Lots of content and vehicles to unlock
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional glitches and performance issues
- 🚧 Repetitive gameplay and lack of new content
- 📱 Screen orientation and UI issues on newer devices
- 🚓 Police cars too overpowered
Hovercraft
From 4.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Customizable
- 🚀 Nostalgic
- 👍 Fun gameplay
- 👍 Good graphics
- 👍 Smooth controls
Room to improve
- 🐛 Progression issues
- 🐛 Glitches and crashes
- 🔋 Too many ads
- 🔋 Slow progression
Bugs and requests
Highway Crash Derby
Reported bugs
3 issues- Hovercraft causing major lag
- Achievements not tracking properly
- Crashes when using certain vehicles
Requested features
5 requests- More varied locations and maps
- Improved camera controls and crash cinematics
- Realistic vehicle damage and deformation
- Multiplayer and online features
- Ability to customize and upgrade vehicles
Hovercraft
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashing on startup
- Inability to upgrade hovercrafts
- Losing progress and unlocks
Requested features
5 requests- Multiplayer mode
- More customization options
- Improved progression system
- Reduced ads
- Ability to rotate custom hovercrafts
In-app purchases
Highway Crash Derby
- 4000 Coins$1.99
- Coin Doubler$3.99
- 25000 Coins$4.99
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- 120000 Coins$19.99
- 400000 Coins$49.99
- 1200000 Coins$99.99
Hovercraft
- Traffic Gem Pack$1.99
- Drive Gem Pack$4.99
- Coin Doubler$4.99
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- XP Doubler$4.99
- Epic Starter Pack$4.99
- Chase Gem Pack$9.99
- Survivor Gem Pack$19.99
- Revenge Gem Pack$49.99
- Justice Gem Pack$99.99
Questions
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