RACE THE SUN CHALLENGE EDITION
Take the daily challenge!
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
You are a solar-powered craft. The sun is your death timer. Hurtle towards the sunset at breakneck speed in a futile race against time. Delay the inevitable by catching speed boosts which reverse the setting sun - if only for a moment. Race The Sun: Daily Challenge Edition is inspired by arcade games of the past with a focus on high scores, short game sessions, and pure fun mingled with nerve-wracking tension. The rules are simple: don't crash, stay in the light, and don't slow down!
This new edition of the game includes several new features including new alternate ships, colorful new trails, and a new "daily challenge" system that will test the skills of even the most experienced players.
more Improved Eclipse Event
1.35.4 28 Aug
What's New — 1.35.3
New Features/Content:
• Added an instant restart button to the game over screen.
• Advanced Daily challenges are now opt-in. pick which challenge to activate, in any order.
• Premium upgrade now includes 20 quads.
• (You can stop a challenge and start it again later, without losing your progress.)
• Don't like a challenge? Use the 'swap' button to switch to an alternate.
• Redesigned ship customize screen.
• Redesigned options screen.
• App size and load time optimizations.
Other Improvements/Fixes:
• Fixed: 'Only turn left/right' challenges sometimes not counting after a revive.
• Black Holes and Bethemotep no longer follow you into portal worlds.
• Challenge conditions shouldn't repeat two days in a row anymore.
• Made the jump button a bit bigger.
• Tweaked powerup indicator placement on the HUD.
• Mystery boxes no longer give XP rewards when you're already max level.
• Access the options screen from the pause screen.
• Jerk birds are a bit less mean to bird-based ships.
• Changed battery upgrade to 0.5s per upgrade level. Ship doesn't start slowing down until battery depletes completely now.
• Added some new ad networks that are hopefully less annoying. Send feedback!
1.35.3 19 Aug
What's New — 1.34.0
New Features/Content:
• iCloud support for save games! Your progress will now sync across all your iOS devices. Thanks for your patience on this one!
• Added a streak rewards system, Tap the streak icon on the home screen for details.
• Added streak freezes. A streak freeze will pause your streaks for one day. Earn them as streak rewards, or buy them for Quads in the streak status panel.
Other Improvements/Fixes:
• Created new icons for XP boosters
• Added a label to the 'more' screen showing your sign in/sync status.
• Improved readability of 'stats' screen.
• Fixed: Black Bird unlock screen no longer shows black square.
• Fixed: Rare crash related to black holes challenges.
• Fixed: Bug where locked ships would incorrectly stay visible in the home environment.
• Fixed: Bug where challenge rewards screen wouldn't show 'continue' button at times.
• Upgraded Unity engine and ads plugins for better performance.
• Made some buttons in the menus a little bigger.
1.34.1 30 May
New Features/Content:
• Level cap raised to 50!
• New Ship Attachments: Boost Extender, Portal Scout, Multiplier Shield. Unlock by leveling up.
• New purchasable ship: Rubber Ball.
• New unlockable ship: Rainbow bird (level 50)
• New ship customization types: Crash FX and Home Theme
• Crash FX: Black Hole, Nuke, Black Goo.
Other Improvements/Fixes:
• Made some daily challenges a bit easier.
• Improved the lighting at sunset.
• Improved lighting/shadows on home screen.
• Fixed Bug where pickup range, float time, boost time, and battery stats were underperforming.
• Fixed bug where flying into portal reset revive cost.
• Fixed crashes related to black holes challenges.
• Fixed glitch related to challenges when exiting run early.
• Challenges can no longer be toggled on/off during a run. Fixes several bugs.
• Customize button only shows on the equipped ship now.
• Fixed challenge progress sometimes showing your last run's numbers.
• Float Time stat only kicks in when you use the jump button now.
1.33.1 4 Apr
- Challenge UI now stays on screen until dismissed with 'continue' button.
- Challenges give you reward multipliers if you exceed the challenge goal, up to 5x.
- Added a challenge progress indicator to the HUD.
- Tier 1 challenges now gives an XP Booster.
- Tier 2 and 3 challenges give much higher Tri rewards.
- For challenges with ghost ships, ghost ships now spawn in first 5 regions.
- Dense Fog challenges are a bit less dense now.
- World Portals appear more frequently.
- XP Boosters now last 60 minutes instead of 15.
- Improved reward sprite animations.
- Fixed bug where playing Sunrise disabled challenge conditions.
- Fixed bug where 'only turn left' and 'only turn right' challenges were bugged when 'invert controls' condition was also active.
1.32.11 7 Mar
INTRODUCING DAILY CHALLENGES:
Each day, you'll be presented with consecutive challenges, each harder than the last.
These includes lots of fun new gameplay, such as thunderstorms, eclipse mode, and giant eldritch beasts.
Check back every day to see what challenges and unique gameplay await you!
OTHER NEW FEATURES:
- Added a Stats screen with a summary of everything you've unlocked so far, as well as detailed play stats.
- Added a new White Bird and Black Bird ships, unlocked by completing daily challenges.
- Redesigned the "level up" UI, including options for more rewards.
OTHER BUG FIXES/IMPROVEMENTS:
-Fixed crash on start affecting around 10% of new players.
-Renamed "Emergency Portals" to "Emergency Shields".
-Fixed the Fan Club Newsletter signup feature.
-Added \"new\" badges on items that are recently unlocked.
-Increased the XP required per level a bit for later levels.
-Added feedback buttons to various places in the game to make it easy to send feedback or upvote/downvote things.
-Improved the feedback form user interface a lot. Shiny!
-Minor UI adjustments to make some buttons easier to reach.
- Ship customization screen improved for clarity.
- Fixed ship attachments not displaying in the correct order.
- Improved in-game messages.
- Made the tutorial a bit less annoying.
- Added a "tap anywhere to skip" note under the revive popup.
1.32.8 9 Feb
Stability fixes
1.31.0 09/12/2025
- Reduced startup time
- Premium users no longer have to watch ads to open Mystery Boxes
- Misc optimization and stability fixes
1.30.17 02/09/2025
- New 3D home environment! See your ship in 3D!
- Totally new ship customization interface.
- You can now level up your ship in various ways. Let us know what you think!
- Lots of bug fixes and small improvements
1.29.1 22/06/2023
Minor bug fixes and improvements
1.28.2 25/05/2023
- Added new "Mystery Boxes" to the world. Each is worth 5 Tris and instantly increases your multiplier by 1. Additionally, they can be opened on the home screen for a variety of prizes!
- Added a "revive" option in response to your feedback! (with s a separate leaderboard).
- Added a new "Quads" currency (for revives).
- Added a timed XP Boost - open Mystery Boxes to get one!
- Fixed bug in "Might need a hangar" achievement.
- Sunset music now ends if the sun gets high enough in the sky.
1.28.1 15/05/2023
- Some new User Interface design. Oooh, Shiny!
- Fixed a bug where the magnet didn't work in some situations, such as secret portals.
- Added Game Center access point to main menu
1.27.3 20/04/2023
Our biggest update EVER!
- No more "lives" system! Unlimited play for everyone, forever.
-TWO new game modes included with the premium upgrade:
1. Apocalypse: A super hard mode for the most skilled players.
2. Sunrise: A chill zen mode. No sunset, no leaderboards, no tasks. Just fly.
- Premium upgrade now includes 1,000 Tris.
- Fixes for issues with rewarded ads
- A redesigned main menu and "game over" screen. Let us know what you think!
1.27.1 10/04/2023
New in 1.26.2:
- Fixes for crashes and issues with ads.
New in 1.26:
- Fixes for achievement bugs!
- Added level 25!
- Added a new ship: The Arrow, unlocked at level 25. The infamous Whisker Squadron fighter. How did this get here?
- Added a Tri count/link to store screen from home screen.
- Added a rewarded ad opportunity in the store screen.
- Even more ads to fund more development. Thanks for your support!
- Coming soon: Removing the "lives" system, new game modes!
1.26.2 29/03/2023
- Fixes for achievement bugs!
- Added level 25!
- Added a new ship: The Arrow, unlocked at level 25. The infamous Whisker Squadron fighter. How did this get here?
- Added a Tri count/link to store screen from home screen.
- Added a rewarded ad opportunity in the store screen.
- Even more ads to fund more development. Thanks for your support!
- Coming soon: Removing the "lives" system, new game modes!
1.26 17/03/2023
- Redesigned main menu and Game Over screens. Let us know what you think!
- You can now level up just by scoring points, in addition to finishing tasks.
- The "Tri Doubler" now applies to rewarded ad bonuses.
- You can now watch up to 2 rewarded ads after each round.
Coming soon: More game modes, removing the "lives" system
1.24 25/01/2023
Hey Race The Sun fans - we believe we have *finally* fixed the dreaded progress reset bug. Thank you so much for your patience!
We also fixed an issue that made the steering unresponsive on some iOS devices, and a few other minor bug fixes.
Stay tuned for more updates!
1.20 22/08/2022
*New tutorial
*New game over screen
*Lowered the price of objective skips
1.19 07/10/2019
Bug fixes and better bug reporting
1.18 08/09/2019
Minor bug fixes.
1.17 06/08/2019
Thanks for playing! In this update we've added a frequently requested feature: Lives will now regenerate over time.
1.16 03/07/2019
Improved Eclipse Event
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