- Price$2.99
- CategoryGames
- SubgenreArcade
- First releasedOctober 2, 2009
- Versions13 archived
- Installable13 of 13
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerSemi Secret Software
- Bundle IDcom.semisecretsoftware.Canabalt
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Report an issue"Fantastic... Super-simple, pixel-perfect, great music and sound." - daringfireball.net "Canabalt is pure genius." -necessarygames.com Escape the destruction of your city with just one button! The game that popularized the infinite runner genre is back with new game modes and support for every dang phone and tablet thingy!
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"This "daring escape" platformer is simply beautiful and beautifully simple." -Kotaku
"It's going to be quite some time before you find something so simple so thrilling again." -Offworld
"Canabalt is actually much more intense than you'd assume of a game which requires a single finger to play." -GameSpy
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Play any of the 8 new game modes with one or two players, dash across rooftops with four different runners, or just chase that high score in the classic futile race for survival.
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"It's all very lovely and full of poignant subtext. And awesomeness. Canabalt is a prime example of a simple idea executed extremely well." -JayIsGames
"I have never seen a concept so richly and successfully realized in such a simple yet stunningly complete form. Canabalt represents the power and potential of small independent games." -gameinmind.com
"Music is another component that is just perfect - it enhances the strange and unsettling setting of the game and also gives a sense of speed with a hint of hope that quick feet might be the salvation to the horror." -bartsnews.net
Bundle Size Over Time
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 13 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 21, 2010 | 1.3 | — | 1,511 | $2.99 |
| January 11, 2011 | 1.6 | — | 3,863 | $2.99 |
| January 3, 2012 | — | — | 4,106 | $2.99 |
| March 7, 2013 | — | — | 4,232 | $2.99 |
| July 26, 2018 | 2.42 | ★ 4.0 | 4,552 | $2.99 |
| July 27, 2019 | 2.42 | ★ 4.0 | 4,554 | $2.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25Not sure why my last review was deleted. Please, optimize this game for newer phones. Just got an iPhone XR, and the extra width would be quite mice and engaging. Thanks!
Please allow me to turn the music off and play my own music. Even when I silence my phone it will turn off the game music but won’t allow me to play my own. Very disappointed I used to love this game and I bought it to play with my own music from my phone. Please please allow me to play my own music. I’m uninstalling this until they fix it.
Amazing. Simple. Love it. Glad it still exists.
I just accidentally bought this game and I actually like the game but a no music option would be really nice. the soundtrack is good but I want to listen to my own stuff. Please fix this!
The fail screen cracks me up every time
I have written to the developer several times, the high score has been broken for years. I used to play this game every day, I love this game and my high score is still in the top 100 (51,792) of all time. But at some point, my score stopped appearing when I play. It will say I am “New Player” and my daily score will only appear locally - not on the leaderboard. This has functionally ruined the game for me. I have tried everything - different devices, uninstalling, logging out of Game Center, I don’t know what else to do. The game just will not display a high score for me anymore. I would love to have an update that fixes this or at least an explanation of why. Am I shadowbanned for being on the top scores? I’ve never cheated. An explanation would be nice. What is going on here?
Great game. Just got it and love it so far. But it ABSOLUTELY needs to be optimized to be full screen on a iPhone X or newer.
This is a truly great game, but is not optimized for newer phones.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.