Out now on iOS and Android
Your finger is a gravity well.
Hold anywhere and the comet bends towards you. Let go and it flies straight on. Dive into the curve, release at the perfect moment, graze the wall by a pixel and shave off hundredths.
No buttons, no joystick. Where you press and how long you hold it is the whole game.
Press anywhere on the screen. That point becomes a gravity well and the comet curves towards it — the closer you press, the harder it pulls.
Drag while holding to move the well and carve the line you want. Holding drains energy, so the perfect line is also the cheapest one.
Let go and the comet keeps the speed it has. Release a frame late and you kiss the wall; a frame early and you drift wide. That frame is the whole sport.
The same physics everywhere. Only what is at stake changes.
You race the recorded run of a real pilot whose rating is close to yours, on the same track. Their ghost runs on screen with you and the gap shows at every checkpoint. One attempt, no pause, leaving counts as a loss.
One track for everyone on the planet, for 24 hours. Unlimited attempts, only your best time counts. The leaderboard shows the pilot right above you — usually two tenths away.
100 hand-checked tracks in 10 stages. Every stage introduces a new hazard: boosters, bumpers, moving blocks, rotating bars, null fields where your gravity well simply stops working.
The season's duel tracks, on your own, against the ghost of your personal best. No rating at risk — this is where you find the half second you are missing.
A rating that means something, because every run is checked.
Seasons last 28 days. You start with five placement matches, then every duel moves your rating by how much you won or lost by. At the end of a season ratings are pulled back towards the middle, so Legend has to be earned again.
The whole game is deterministic: the same inputs always produce the exact same run, on every device.
You do not send us a time — you send the timing of your touches. Our server replays them in the same physics and computes the time itself. If the two disagree, the run does not count.
Computer rivals exist so that you never wait for a match, and they are always shown as BOT. A human ghost is never labelled as anything else.
Characters and trails are unlocked with star dust you earn by racing. The one purchase in the game removes ads. No boosts, no retries, no shortcuts.
Every character handles differently, and all of them are unlocked with star dust you earn by racing — never with money. The spread between the fastest and the slowest is under three percent, so your choice is taste, not power.
Balanced starter. Good at everything, best at nothing.
Turns tighter than anything else, gives up some top speed.
Higher top speed, lazier in tight corners.
Bigger energy tank and slower drain: hold longer.
Much stronger graze bonus, smaller tank. For wall riders.
Fastest on long straights, needs room to turn.
Real frames from the game, not mockups.
Nothing. The game is free and shows ads. There is one optional purchase that removes them, and rewarded videos are never forced — you only watch one if you choose to.
No. Nothing that affects a race is for sale. Characters and trails are earned with star dust from playing, and the handling difference between characters is deliberately tiny.
No. You can play everything without signing in. Linking a Google or Apple account is optional and only exists so your rating survives a reinstall or a new phone.
Career and practice work with no connection at all. Duels and the daily challenge need the internet, because they are played against other people's runs.
You are racing their recorded runs, live on your screen, at the moment you choose. If no suitable human run exists at your rating, you race a bot — clearly marked as one.
The server replays every submitted run in the same deterministic physics and computes the time itself. A time that does not match the touches that produced it never reaches a leaderboard.
Ten: English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.
An iPhone or iPad on iOS 13 or newer, or an Android phone on Android 8 or newer. The game is built for 60 fps on modest hardware.
Slingstar is out on the App Store and Google Play. Free to play, and nothing that affects a race is for sale. See you on the track.
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