Traffic Run Guide: Cheats, Tips and Strategies

Traffic Run is a brand new challenging high score chaser that’s taking the App Store by storm. You have to navigate busy traffic to successfully make it to the end of a series of different levels.

It’s surprisingly simple. With a tap and hold of your finger you’ll speed forward like a maniac. Release at any moment to stop. Using just these two mechanics you’ll try and make your way across treacherous train tracks, across busy motorways, and through traffic jams.

In this guide, we’re going to give you a bunch of tips and tricks to help you progress much faster throughout the game. That way you can show off your high score to your friends.

Traffic Run Tips and Tricks:

• Patience is a virtue: Patience is a key skill in Traffic Run, and will reward those that utilise it. You don’t want to just hold the screen down and hope for the best, just drive to the traffic, release your finger, and wait for an opportunity to pass.
• Don’t get caught on a busy road: Rather than slowly make your way across a busy road, stopping for each individual car, it might be best to wait for an opportunity to cross the entire road in one fell swoop. That’s surely the safest way.
• Fortune favours the bold: Having said that, you do get rewarded for taking risks. If you drive right in front of a vehicle, or nearly hit one, you get a near miss bonus – just like in Burnout.
• Trains can come out of nowhere: You won’t see a train before it smashes through traffic, so be careful. Instead, keep an eye on the lights near the tracks. If these flash, stay the heck away.

• Spend your gold on new cars: You’ll collect gold as you progress through the game, which you can spend on new cars. There’s nothing else to spend it on, so crack on.
• You can watch video ads to get more money: If you want more money but don’t want to have to play for it, watch a video ad. This rewards you with 100 gold coins: enough to get yourself your first new car.
• You don’t need speed to go over ramps: It doesn’t take long to build up to top speed, so don’t worry about getting speed to go over a ramp. This is basically automated.
• If you’re near the end of a difficult level, watch an ad to revive: If you’re really close to the end of a level, it won’t hurt to watch an ad to revive. That way you can just complete it and move on.

Glen Fox

Head of Editorial

Glen has over a decade's worth of experience in gaming journalism, writing for Pocket Gamer, Pocket Tactics, Nintendo Life, and Gfinity. When he's not badgering everyone about the dangers of passive text, you can probably find him playing Wild Rift.