Subway Surfers

Not to be confused with The Chinese Version of Subway Surfers, only available to the people of the People's Republic of China.

Subway Surfers is an endless runner video game developed & published by Kiloo & SYBO. The player takes on the role of an average teen (or, on rare occasions, a young adult) vandalizing a subway train with spray paint, and is caught by The Guard and his dog. The player must run away from the two, who are chasing them. In the update, keys () were added, which you can use to revive your character if the player should choose to use them for said purpose, you can also use them to unlock outfits. The game is available on iOS and Android platforms.

The game launched in May of 2012, a year later in 2013 "World Tour" became the theme of the game, where the settings are in cities like , , , , , , , and , only a few of the many locations that have been featured up until this point. The game starts with a default character, Jake. However, as players collect more Coins, Event Coins, Keys, Character Tokens, and Season Hunt Tokens they will eventually get the chance to unlock new characters and outfits. As well as coins and keys, they can collect spray cans (), hats (), stereos (), guitars () and UFOs (), in order to unlock Tricky, Fresh, Spike, Yutani, and their outfits respectively. Also, some other characters in this game can be unlocked with Real Money and by collecting other tokens who change every update.

In Marathon Challenge was introduced which is similar to the main game but you get rewarded for how far you run. This mode was expanded to have more variations later on (Tag Team, Mystery Hurdles, Tag Time Attack etc.)

In early 2020, Kiloo stopped developing and publishing the game for unknown reasons (however in SYBO history video it is possible that this happened due to a expired contract). That means that currently, SYBO is developing and publishing the game.

In , was introduced which is similar to the main game but you can’t touch the floor and the vines are spreaded around the floor. In there is also a similar new game mode to which is .

Gameplay

Polish 20230524 005113736 — A example of player getting caught resulting in a game over.

The object of the game is to run as far as possible in a endless subway while avoiding randomly generated obstacles that require the player to either jump (slide finger forward), duck (slide finger backwards) and dodge the oncoming trains in a precise manner. The player can also activate a Hoverboard to take a extra hit (1 when hitting a object, 2 when hitting the sidelines) if the player fails to avoid the obstacles their character is caught by the guard, the player has the chance to revive or go to the high score screen and start the run over.

Power-ups

Coin Magnet: Attracts coins even if the player is not in their path as long as if the coins are in the same plain as the player.
Jetpack: Allows the player to fly in the air, Grants temporary invincibility and allows players to collect many coins.
2X Multiplier: Doubles the player's current multiplier. (x10 = x20)
Super Sneakers: Allows the player to jump higher. Useful for collecting hunt tokens.
Pogo Stick: Makes the player jump high in the air and collect coins and a random power-up.
Headstart: Same power as the Jetpack except there are no coins and you get a free power-up at the end of it can be used 2 times after 1 use.
Score Booster: Boosts the player's multiplier by +5, +6, or +7.
Super Mysterizer: Gives a player an exclusive mystery power-up (These can only be collected on Mondays).
Hourglass: Adds 10s (5s in ) to the timer (exclusive to Tag Time Attack).
Super Bubble: Adds 30s or 90s in (now available in every event).

Playable Characters

The controllable characters are:

Hoverboards

Editions

(May 2012)
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Game Version History

See Version History.

List of Icons, Splash Screens, Logos & City Icons

See List of Icons, Splash Screens, Logos & City Icons.

Music

See Background Music.

Years and countries

See Years and Countries.

Other Media

See The Animated Series of Subway Surfers.

Languages

The game is currently available in 16 languages. These are: English, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Indonesian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Chinese (Hong Kong).

Popularity

As of December 2019, the app had 2.7 billion downloads, according to AppAnnie statics.

As of August 2020, the game had 3 billion downloads worldwide, according to Subway Surfers' official website.

As of May 2023, the game had 4 billion downloads worldwide, according to Subway Surfers' official website.

Gallery

Trivia

Every character from the game (even the new ones) all have the same voice (specifically when they bump into something).
- In this case, they grunt in the same voice but sometime low or high pitched.
- When running into a train or hit by a train they say oops (though in-game it sounds like opss).
The ESRB for this game is rated Everyone 10+ and Apple rating as 9+ due to cartoon/fantasy violence.

Subway Surfers
Editions • Characters • Outfits • Items • Hoverboards • Power-Ups • Extra Challenges • Marathon Challenge