Android app
Put uncle in your pocket
SG Bumper Cars is now on Google Play. Same game, same 28 levels, same taxi uncle shouting at you, except now it is on your home screen and it plays with no connection at all. Free, and it stays free.
The browser version is not going anywhere and it is still the fastest way to try the game: no install, no account, open the page and drive. The app is for the people who kept coming back and got tired of digging out the tab.
What the app adds
Nothing about the game itself changes. What changes is everything around it:
- It plays offline. The whole game, including every one of the Singlish voice clips, installs with the app. The campaign and all five bonus modes work in the MRT tunnel, on a plane, or anywhere the signal gives up. Only the leaderboards and Kaki Duels want a connection, and they catch up on their own once you have one.
- It is on your home screen. Its own icon, no browser bar eating the top of the screen, and it opens straight into the game.
- It can remind you. Optional reminders for the Daily Challenge before your streak dies, and for a Kaki Duel sitting unanswered in your inbox. Off until you turn them on, and they respect quiet hours.
- Duel links open in the app. A challenge someone sends you opens the run directly instead of bouncing you through a browser.
Still free, and still free in the way that matters: the entire campaign, every bonus mode and every car are in the app with nothing locked behind a payment. There is an ad between runs now and then, some optional rewarded videos if you want extra coins, and a tip jar that grants you absolutely nothing. That is the whole business model.
It is the same game, literally
This is not a port and not a cut-down version. The app runs the same build the website does, so there is no content that exists in one and not the other, and no mode that arrives on one first. The leaderboards are the same boards, so a score set in a browser and a score set in the app compete against each other directly.
Bringing your progress across
A browser and an app keep their saves in separate places, so installing the app does not find your old progress by itself. The Recovery Licence is how you move it: in the browser, open Settings and save your licence card, then install the app and restore that card. Your levels, coins, cars and leaderboard identity all come with it.
It is worth doing even if you do not care about the app, because that card is also the only way back into your account if you lose the device.
On iPhone
There is no iOS release planned. That is not an oversight: the browser version on an iPhone is the entire game, touch controls and all, and you can add it to your home screen from the share menu, where it opens without the browser chrome. The only things you give up are the offline install and the reminders.
Not sure yet? Play a few levels in your browser first, have a look at all 28 levels or the five bonus modes, and grab the app when you are tired of losing the tab.