Traffic Rider

Once I got to the main screen, Traffic Rider showed me a blue scooter on a turntable in a showroom, with the skgames logo on the wall behind it and a big green NEXT button in the corner. The counters at the top read 0 Gold and 0 Cash, which is a humble way to start a game about fast motorbikes.

Then I opened the garage and scrolled to the KWS RH2, a black superbike with a padlock over it and a red line underneath that said Requires Level 41. My rider was level 1. That gap is really the whole story here, because you either earn your bikes one ride at a time or you pay to skip ahead.

So I played it through VipMod with the store unlocked, the ads switched off and the game cut off from the internet, and I rode that level 41 bike at level 1. Below is how a ride works, where the game asks for money, and what the mod actually changes.

Handlebars, a throttle on the right and a street full of cars

You ride from the seat, not from behind the bike. The bottom of the screen is the handlebars, a real dashboard with a rev counter and a small digital display, and the rider's gloved hands on the grips. You tilt the phone to steer, press the right side to open the throttle and press the left side to brake.

The traffic is the point of the whole thing. You share the road with other vehicles, and the game pays you for riding close to them, so the safest line is never the one that earns the most. A progress bar across the top shows a little bike crawling toward a checkered flag, while the right side lists your speed in km/h, the distance covered and a countdown.

Every ride ends on a results screen that splits your pay into five lines: total distance, near-misses, high speed, opposite direction and mission accomplished. Going fast, passing cars with almost no gap and riding against the flow of traffic all add to the total, and finishing the mission pays on top of that.

Career, Endless, Time Trial and a two-way road at level 20

Career is the backbone of the game. It's a map of missions spread over four regions, and some rides come with a clock, which is exactly how my test ride ended. Your player level sits in the top corner next to your profile picture, and it matters far more than it looks, as the garage makes clear later.

Endless opens at level 2, and its two-way version, where traffic also comes at you from the other direction, stays locked until level 20. Time Trial and Free Ride round out the list, and the road comes in day, evening and night versions, so the same street can look quite different from one ride to the next.

Around the showroom sit the side menus: a FREE gift box, a Quests board, a Bank, a VIP button and a PREMIUM button with a yellow bike on it. The game started in English on my phone even though the phone was set to another language, and Settings lets you switch if you'd rather play in something else.

About thirty bikes, and most of them carry a level number

The garage lines the bikes up along the bottom of the screen: DCT 8910H, AGS 4F, DCT K4, KWS RH2, FROD X, TOMA, AURA and more, around thirty in all, each with a padlock until you earn it. Every bike shows three bars for Power, Handling and Braking, each with a current value and a ceiling you reach through upgrades.

The KWS RH2, for example, shows 250 out of 290 for Power, 260 out of 300 for Handling and 220 out of 260 for Braking. Along the top of the garage are tabs for upgrades, paint, decals and riding gloves, so once you own a bike you can keep improving it and change how it looks.

Here's the catch, though, and it's the level lock. Under the KWS RH2 the game showed an Unlock button, a price of 700 Gold and that red Requires Level 41 line. You can skip the wait, but the shortcut costs a key on top of the Gold, and the store is where keys are sold.

Seven Cash for one ride, 20,000 in the smallest pack

The store makes the gap obvious. Cash comes in packs of 20,000, 60,000, 250,000, 700,000 and 1,800,000, and Gold in packs of 20, 60, 250, 700 and 1,800. My test ride on the KWS RH2 paid 7 Cash for its distance, so the smallest Cash pack is worth almost three thousand rides like that one.

To be fair, a longer run with a few near-misses pays more than my clumsy one did, but the math still points you to the store. Inside VipMod the price buttons read 0.00, which doesn't mean anything is free, because with the mod switch off a tap just ends in a failed purchase. On Google Play in the US, items run from $1.99 to $99.99 each.

The STORE button in the showroom opens a second shop for the things you only buy once. Double Cash promises twice the cash from every ride, Remove Ads gets rid of the popup ads, Extra Continue adds one more respawn chance, and the Unlock card sells the keys. All three perks say permanently right on the card.

Then there are the offers. A Starter Kit popped up promising 50% off for a limited time, bundling an NJ 350 bike, 25,000 Cash, 25 Gold and Remove Ads. Premium bikes and the game's own VIP pack sit behind their own buttons in the showroom, and they're paid separately from everything above.

And there are ads. Without the mod, a full-screen ad shows up between rides and a banner sits on the results screen. The one I got the moment I switched No ads off was a full-screen install card for TikTok, complete with a big green Install button.

None of this stops you from riding, and the blue scooter is yours from the start. But the bike I wanted was 40 levels away, and the store was the only shortcut the game offered.

Four switches in the MOD menu, and two of them are free

In VipMod, a red VIP badge floats on the left edge of the game screen and opens the MOD menu. It's got four switches. Offline play and No ads are free and already on, while Free Cash & Gold packs and Free Keys & permanent perks need VIP 1. There's also a Restart button at the top for when a switch doesn't seem to take.

I started from a fresh save with 0 Cash and 0 Gold, turned on Free Cash & Gold packs and opened the store from the plus sign next to the counters. I tapped the biggest Cash pack twice and the biggest Gold pack twice, and the counters read 3,600,000 Cash and 3,600 Gold, with no checkout screen in between.

Then I closed the game and opened it again, and both numbers were still there. When I switched the feature off and tapped a pack, the game went straight back to refusing the purchase, so the free packs only work while that switch is on.

Free Keys & permanent perks works the same way in that second shop behind the STORE button. A few taps on Unlock took my keys from 0 to 3, and Double Cash, Remove Ads and Extra Continue each changed to You have purchased this item after a tap.

A level 1 rider on a level 41 superbike

With three keys in my pocket I went back to the KWS RH2 and tapped Unlock. The padlock came off and my Gold dropped from 3,600 to 2,900, which is the 700 Gold the card asked for, and one key went with it. My rider was still level 1.

Then I took it out. You see the green frame of the bike between your hands and a street of old stone buildings rolling past on both sides. The countdown read 5.3 seconds when I'd covered 0.17 km at 20 km/h, and a moment later the ride ended with Time is up! at 0.21 km.

That short ride still turned out to be useful, and here's why: it showed Double Cash at work. The distance line paid 7 Cash and the total at the bottom read 14. The results screen also had no banner on it, since No ads was still on.

A few things to know up front:

• Each tap gives exactly what that pack says, so the 1,800,000 Cash and 1,800 Gold packs are the quickest way to fill up.
• The Gold part of a bike unlock still comes out of your balance, so it's worth topping up Gold before you start unlocking bikes early in the garage.
• Premium bikes and the game's VIP pack aren't covered, so those two buttons work the same as they do without the mod.

What riding it is really like

The best thing about Traffic Rider is how simple it is to pick up. You tilt, you hold the throttle, you squeeze past cars, and the results screen tells you exactly what each risk was worth. Seeing the dashboard and the gloves on the grips sells the speed better than a camera behind the bike would.

The weak spot is the grind wrapped around it. Bikes sit behind player levels, the KWS RH2 a full forty levels up, and the store, the Starter Kit and the ads all lean on you while you climb. If you just want the superbike from the garage row, that's a lot of waiting.

Offline play is worth a word. With it on, the game had no internet at all, and I still rode, took packs from the store and unlocked the KWS RH2. You'll only want it off for reward videos, Google Play sign-in or cloud save, since all three need a connection anyway.

On Google Play the game holds 4.5 stars from about 8.9 million ratings and has passed 500 million downloads, with an Everyone rating. Its last update landed on December 8, 2025, so it's still being looked after.

Who this one is for

If you're into short rides and the small thrill of slipping past cars at speed, this game does that one thing and very little else. There's no story to sit through, just the road, the traffic and a results screen that pays you for the risks you took.

And if you tried it before and stalled in the garage, staring at a bike that needs level 41 long before your own level gets there, the mod fixes exactly that. With the store free you can pick the bike you want on the first day, keep Double Cash on every ride and spend your time riding instead of grinding.