How to play
How to play SG Bumper Cars
Your job is simple: get home in one piece. Here is everything you need for your first night on the road.
The goal
Every level is a drive to somewhere. Reach it before your health bar runs out: bumping into traffic and hazards costs health, slipping past them cleanly earns points. Clear a level to open the next one, and every few levels a new ride rolls into your Garage.
Controls
On a phone or tablet
- The car drives itself forward. You just steer.
- Steer by dragging left and right on the lower half of the screen, or switch on tilt steering in Settings.
- Brake with the BRAKE button, or drag your finger down.
- BOOST for a burst of speed, HORN to scare drivers out of your lane.
On a keyboard
- Steer: A D or the left and right arrows
- Accelerate / brake: W S or up and down
- Boost: Shift
- Horn: Space
- Pause: Esc or P
- Watch for red tail lights. A braker stands on the brake for no reason. Steer round it early, not late.
- Lean on the horn. A car in your lane ahead swerves out of it, which is how you clear a jam in the game.
- Pass close for a near miss. Slip past a car in the next lane at speed and it counts, in here and in the game.
The test drive needs script to run. The controls above are the whole of it: steer, brake, boost and horn.
Scoring and combos
You score for distance and for near-misses: squeezing past traffic without touching it. Keep passing cleanly and a combo multiplier climbs; one crash resets it. The high score is a game of nerve: how long can you thread gaps at speed before you flinch?
On the expressways, watch for speed cameras. In Singapore they stand behind a SPEED CAMERA AHEAD sign and a TRAFFIC POLICE CAMERA ZONE sign, each under the speed limit; across the Causeway, behind three yellow ZON OPERASI KAMERA signs. Your speed reading turns red while you are over the limit and counts down the metres to the camera. Get under the limit before you reach it and nothing happens. Pass it too fast and you lose points: the first time in a drive, uncle's appeal gets the fine waived; after that, it sticks.
Pickups
Drive over them to grab them. You start with four, and more join the road as the campaign goes on:
| Pickup | From | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Kopi-O | Level 1 | Fills your boost meter. Shiok. |
| Spanner | Level 1 | A free workshop visit: +25 health. |
| Kiasu Shield | Level 1 | Nothing can touch you for a few seconds. |
| CashCard | Level 1 | A top-up of bonus points. |
| Chilli Padi Nitro | Level 4 | A spicy burst of boost that costs your meter nothing. |
| Tissue Packet Chope | Level 5 | Reserves your health: heals you slowly over time. |
| EZ-Link Magnet | Level 6 | Pulls nearby pickups straight to you. |
| Durian Bomb | Level 9 | Blasts the car tailing you out of the way. |
| N95 Mask | Level 18 | Lets you see through the haze again. |
| Hiap Joo Banana Cake | Level 25 | Still warm from the oven: +30% health. Worth the queue. |
The five bad drivers
Every car on the road has a personality, and spotting which one you are behind is the whole skill:
| Driver | What they do | How to survive them |
|---|---|---|
| Cruiser | Sits in its lane at a steady speed. | Predictable. Use them as moving cover. |
| Drifter | Wanders over the lane lines. | Give them room, and never aim for a gap they are drifting into. |
| Braker | Slams the brakes for no reason. | Never tailgate one. Leave a gap. |
| Speeder | Comes screaming up from behind. | Check before you change lanes and let them blow past. |
| Rammer | Steers into you on purpose. | Bait their line, then swerve away late. |
Then there are the set pieces: the Jam Wall, a solid rank of cars with exactly one gap; buses and market lorries pulling out without warning; and swarms of PMDs weaving through everything.
Boss fights
Each chapter ends with a boss who fights in three phases, changing tactics every time his health bar drops:
- DEXTER, the ride-hailing driver with 12,047 trips, on the road to the Merlion.
- The Karang Guni King, forty years of collecting, at the Kranji scrapyard.
- The Klon, your own car with a darker soul, in Forest City.
Bosses block the road, so you cannot drive around them. Boost-ram them head on, or bait their lunges into the barriers, and save a repair for the final phase.
The campaign
28 levels in three chapters:
1. The Drive Home
Yishun to the Merlion, one night. CTE jams, a Bukit Timah flash flood, the Orchard downpour and DEXTER at Marina Bay.
Tour chapter 12. The Morning After
Back north by noon, past otters with a police escort, PSI 400 haze, a runaway tank and the Causeway Crawl.
Tour chapter 23. The JB Run
Across the Causeway into Johor, where prices turn to ringgit and the road turns to craters.
Tour chapter 3Bonus modes
Six unlock as you go, each with its own leaderboard. The Bonus Modes guide has the walkthroughs.
- Tailgate Champion (after level 3): dares you to tailgate, then brake-checks you.
- Lane Splitting (after level 7): a delivery rider filtering through traffic against the clock.
- PMD Grand Prix (after level 10): a 2 AM race down a park connector.
- Mabuk Express (after level 14): a private-hire shift where pumping the pedal is a racket.
- Teh Tarik Run (after level 25): deliver a tray of scalding teh tarik without spilling.
- Jaywalk(k)ing (after the whole campaign): no car, and you cross the road on foot.
When the campaign runs out
Daily Challenge
One level, one rule bent, the same for every player. New every Singapore midnight.
How it worksKaki Duels
Send anyone your score on the road you just drove. They need no account, just the link.
Challenge a friendThe Garage
Twelve cars, nine paint jobs, three horns, four underglows and three roof toppers, all earned in the game. None of it is for sale.
See every rideTips for a higher score
- Leave a gap. Most crashes are a braker in front of you.
- Protect your combo. A long clean streak is worth more than a reckless boost that ends it.
- Boost through gaps, not into them. Only hit boost once the hole is already open.
- Respect the weather. Rain and haze cut your grip and your view. Ease off and look further ahead.
- Brake for the camera, not the whole road. You only need to be under the limit as you pass it. Floor it again after.
Free on Google Play
Put uncle in your pocket
- Plays offline. The whole game and every voice line install with it.
- Its own icon on your home screen, and no browser bar.
- Optional reminders before your Daily streak runs out.
On iPhone and iPad
Put it on your home screen
- The browser version is the whole game, touch controls and all.
- Open the game in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
- It gets its own icon and opens full screen, like an app.