Happy Race vs Dreadhead Parkour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Happy Race
Experience thrilling real-time races with over-the-top action. Jump, smash, and defy gravity to survive obstacles and reach the finish line. Compete against random opponents, friends, or progress through single-player levels.
- Real-time multiplayer racing
- Single player mode with 60 levels
- Realistic physics simulation
- Unlockable characters
- Touch and tilt controls
- Game Center leaderboards
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Happy Race is an action packed real-time racing game! Jump off buildings, smash windows, reverse gravity, detonate explosives, and go to the moon all in the comfort of your home! Try to keep your character alive as you avoid obstacles and complete tasks on your way to the finish. You can match up with a random opponent and challenge friends, or unlock new levels in single player mode. Happy Race is the ultimate cure for unhappiness! FEATURES: •Play a random opponent with one tap •Race friends without an account •Single player mode •Realistic Box2D physics simulation •60 levels •7 characters •2 control types (touch and tilt) •Game Center leaderboards and achievements •Stats synced between devices Thanks for playing!
Dreadhead Parkour
Navigate challenging worlds as a dreadhead, using parkour skills to overcome obstacles and complete missions. Run, flip, and vault through diverse terrains, avoiding hazards to become the ultimate parkourist. Collect coins and stars for bonus scores.
- Parkour action gameplay
- Obstacle avoidance
- Coin and star collection
- Intuitive controls
- Multiple worlds and terrains
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Help dreadhead to get to the finish on his way through various worlds. Dreadhead Parkour is an epic running game where you as a dreadhead have to use your parkour experiences to complete all of the imposibble missions. Run, flip, vault, slide, perform stunts, climb to be the best parkourist in the town. Avoid various kind of mechanisms, obstacles, crazy terrains, circular saws and spikes to show off your art. Collect coins and don't forget to find a star to get extra score. Game has intuitive constrols and as you proceed through the levels you will learn how to dodge and avoid new kinds of dangerous obstacles.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Happy Race at none against Dreadhead Parkour's shown. Happy Race also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 24 months) and ratings volume (359 vs 26). 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. Happy Race sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Dreadhead Parkour sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Happy Race against 4.3 for Dreadhead Parkour. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Happy Race has 359 ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of Happy Race's written reviews are positive against 78% of Dreadhead Parkour's.
Happy Race ships an update every 4 months, Dreadhead Parkour every 24 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Happy Race | Dreadhead Parkour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (359 ratings) — better | 4.3 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.2% of reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 359 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 24 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sam Hogan | gametornado |
Customer experience
Happy Race
Dreadhead Parkour
Bugs and requests
Happy Race
Reported bugs
4 issues- Unlock issues for certain characters
- Inconsistent target times in single-player
- Multiplayer connection problems
- Graphical glitches on some devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add more levels and characters
- Implement user-created levels
- Allow character ejection like Happy Wheels
- Improve single-player mode experience
Dreadhead Parkour
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Happy Race
- Scooter Girl$0.99
- Unlock All Levels$0.99
- Remove Ads$0.99
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- Astronaut$11.99
Dreadhead Parkour
- No Ads$1.99
Questions
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