Subway Surfers is an endless runner mobile game co-developed by Kiloo and SYBO Games, private companies based in Denmark.

It is available on Android, iOS, Kindle, and Windows Phone platforms and uses the Unity game engine.

Players take the role of teenage hooligans who, upon being caught in the act of applying graffiti to (tagging) a metro railway site, run-down railroad tracks to escape from an inspector and his dog.

As the hooligans run, they grab gold coins out of the air while simultaneously dodging collisions with railway cars and other objects, and can also jump on top of the trains to evade capture.

Special events, such as the Weekly Hunt, can result in in-game rewards and characters.

Subway Surfers was released on 24 May 2012 with updates based on seasonal holidays.

Since January 2013, updates have been based on a “World Tour” theme, which updates the setting of the game every three (or four, usually for seasonal holidays) weeks.

In 2017, Subway Surfers was the most downloaded game across the globe.

In March 2018, Subway Surfers became the first game on the Google Play Store to cross the one billion downloads threshold.

In May 2018, Subway Surfers crossed the two billion download mark. App Annie reported Subway Surfers as the #2 downloaded game of all time in App Store (iOS).

Gameplay

“Subway Surfers” is an endless runner video game whereupon occur in the railway station.

The game starts by tapping the touchscreen while the characters spraying graffiti into the train, and the Inspector and his dog start chasing.

while on running, the player may swipe up, down, left, or right to avoid crashing into oncoming obstacles such as moving trains.

which player can manipulate by swapping rapidly as speed multiplier increases in the process, and surfing above trains.

the result of a crash will game over. As well as, the player can collect various items in different positions such as coins, score multipliers, sprinting sneaker, jetpacks, tokens, and scooters.

A scooter provides combustion by launching up the player, while jetpack has the ability to fly for 10 seconds.

As some endless runner games, Subway Surfers has aesthetic items from shops with best notable “Hoverboard”, in which player wears it for the purpose of avoiding collisions lasting about 30 seconds.

Daily Challenge and Weekly Hunt also added to a game, where player rewarded for unique movement throughout gameplay.

Missions also have various tasks measured by player accuracy. Up to 14 characters are unlocked via in-game purchase and token attribute but the character “Dino” only unblocked with assistance on Facebook.

Characters

Jake is the default Subway Surfers character. All other characters must be “unlocked”, which is done in one of three ways.

some are unlocked via the collection of character attributes. These may be an article of clothing (such as a hat) or a prop (such as a stereo).

Other characters are available by spending coins in-game. Some characters can also be purchased by spending real money.

The Inspector and his Dog chase the characters. The Inspector’s uniform changes according to the location.

During the New Orleans edition, the Inspector was replaced by Frankenstein with a skeleton dog.

During the second London, North Pole and Winter Holiday editions, he was dressed as Santa Claus.

During the second Rome edition and third Paris edition, he was dressed as the Easter Bunny. During the Prague edition, he was dressed as the Knight.