All-Star Fruit Racing, a kart racer from 3DClouds and PQube which launched on Switch back in 2018, has zoomed straight to pole position in the UK eShop charts.
It might seem odd to see the game outperforming the likes of Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Minecraft, but its success is down to a mighty sale currently being held by its publisher. At present, you can buy the game at a whopping 95% off, taking the usual £15.49 asking price right down to just 77p.
The 95% discount is also available across North America (making it just $0.99), and at the time of writing, the game sits in 9th place in the US charts. Of course, this isn't the first time we've seen publishers lower prices to such a degree on the eShop - QubicGames once discounted almost its entire library in a very generous sale.
If you're intrigued, we gave the game a 6/10 when we reviewed it a couple of years ago. Here's just a taste of what we had to say, although with an asking price of £0.77 / $0.99, it's hard to say no:
All-Star Fruit Racing takes a unique karting weapon system, throws it into a blender with some cute presentation ideas and an unfortunate series of technical annoyances, and ends up with a pretty mixed bag as a result. This is a competent racer, and there’s just about enough content to make you want to keep playing, but it never realises the potential that it could have had and doesn’t really stand up to the heights that other titles can offer.
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I am waiting for the LRG edition that includes a real apple.
Cream rises to the top.
Mind you, in a swimming pool so does sh- sorry, family site.
It`s not a bad game. Buy it at this price.
Honestly, despite the cheaper than chips price I still wouldn’t get it. I don’t buy these “Uber deals” unless it’s a game I have some interest in trying. Otherwise it sits there doing nothing, like so many past Steam sale purchases. Then once you rack up enough, you notice that those small amounts of cash add up into pretty big piles. So best just not to start.
Of course if you got the time and want to give it a shot, then of course go nuts!
Bought it, what a piece of crap
@Jonasty198460
Thanks! Was just about to bite...
If you have Mario Kart (1 or 8), presumably this is a bit redundant.
For €0,99 it's good enough.
Apart from North America and UK,
this game is also #1 in the EUROPEAN e-shop charts.
The characters are just so boring. I know that's not really the main thing but in a kart racer you do want to have a fun and varied cast to choose from. These all look like alt skins for one character, and that one character is pretty generic cartoon human you might see in any third-party family friendly game with avatars.
It's a fruit themed kart racer, it's worth the extra rigging and animation time to get some weird and wonderful characters mixed in here. Why no giant bugs? A giant grub driving a fruit kart would be fun! A squirrel would be thematic and entertaining. Maybe some racers made of fruit themselves. Feels a real wasted potential.
And this is another reason I don't like digital, makes the games charts stupidly irrelevant.
You bet I'd pull the trigger if not for my video game investments being largely over until autumn (except for a couple bucks to prop up the gold point stash if something high on my priority list comes up within the zone). Not like these discounts don't tend to recur, though.
I will admit I bought it using some of my coins and I still feel ripped off.
The game is pure trash. Extremely long loading times, ugly blurry visuals, over complicated weapons system. The acceleration button is ZR and the brake is R, what?!
Tried one race then deleted it off my SD card.
Live and learn.
@Bunkerneath SAYS "And this is another reason I don't like digital, makes the games charts stupidly irrelevant."
ANSWER: Same thing would happen if there was a physical form chart. What's irrelevant is your incoherent justification about digital games and charts.
I'm surprised Nintendo allows publishers to game the digital charts this way. I've noticed that a lot of games do this thing where they reduce the price to next to nothing for a few days, get high up the chart, then go back to the original price with a high ranking on the sales chart that will inevitably trick a few unsuspecting kids or parents into buying their shovelware games at full price.
@TheFullAndy Thank you for that post, I was almost going to try it for fun, but it seems even trying it is not fun.
I have more games in my backlog with out having to spend time on this.
@dugan
Obviously everyone's mileage may vary but my recommendation would be to give the game a wide berth.
I am glad I only used some of the coins I had built up on it, I would have been annoyed to have actually spent 77p on that rubbish.
@GrailUK shrugs I just assumed you were going to say ‘sherbet’, and who doesn’t like sherbet?
I'm thinking of other things to do with 77p.
@Antraxx777 hee hee
Why spend even 99c for a bad game?
99 cents to much
It got so bad reviews I don't want it even for free.
Used to want try the game, but decided to keep my dollar. Sounds ludicrous. I guess not liking a game is the experience i wanted to avoid. I had interest a long time ago, but not anymore.
It's not a bad game, I have got 2 hours out of it, I will likely get another hour... I have had my 77p worth 😂
@FX102A it is getting that way with me too. I might give this a try bc I like cart games. But I have a ton of games that I can't realistically play. And then there are subscription services like Apple Arcade and Gamepass that I want to try for at least a while. I suppose this is a good problem to have, but there is almost too much content, except with Nintendo.
@Bunkerneath I'm not sure what point you're trying to make but the exact same thing happens just as frequently in the physical charts. Argos sold copies of Bravely Default on the cheap a few weeks ago and it shop back into the UK Top 10.
Surprisingly decent! The loading times are a bit long and the framerate can take a dive in some parts, but there's loads to unlock, the tracks are varied and nice to look at, and the weapon system is an interesting idea. Not bad.
I bought this, like many others because it is $1. I also just want a new Mario Kart and am tired of waiting and use other kart racers to fill the void
It’s a common tactic. Castle of Heart is constantly 90% off. Which makes me think the ambitious studio behind it is no more.
So, should I get it or not, even if it's only $1?
There must be a lot of kids buying these games. Even for a few cents I won't bother with most of these mega discounted games, it's just not worth downloading.
Stylistically, it's really cute! Graphically decent, framerate is unforgivable. They should have made a fruit themed platformer
I would had bought this if the framerate is at least stable. Not only does it run at low framerates but the performance kept on dipping even when there's really not a lot of things going on screen. It turns what would had been a decent indie kart racer into a broken shovelware mess.
I didn't realise do many people on here were framerate snobs. What is this, Push Square?
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