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Rocket League Sideswipe

The Ultimate Car Soccer Game

Ratings

Age

4+

Category

Sports

Languages

English

Rocket League Sideswipe brings the high-flying action of car soccer to your mobile device. Compete in 2-minute matches that are easy to pick up but hard to master. Use a new 2.5D perspective to perform epic aerial maneuvers and goals. With ranked seasons, massive customization, and a robust online community, it’s the ultimate competitive experience on the go.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

93/100

Rocket League Sideswipe is a masterclass in how to port a massive PC/console hit to mobile. Psyonix didn't just try to squeeze the 3D game onto a tiny screen; they reimagined it as a 2.5D side-scroller. This one change makes the 'aerial' mechanics that define Rocket League actually accessible on a touchscreen. It feels familiar yet entirely built for the platform.

The games are shorter (two minutes), the fields are smaller, but the skill ceiling is still incredibly high. You can perform 'flip resets' and 'pinch shots' with surprisingly intuitive touch gestures. The progression system is generous, and the lack of aggressive monetization is a breath of fresh air. It is, quite simply, the best competitive sports game on the App Store. Whether you're a Grand Champion on PC or a total newcomer, Sideswipe is addictive, polished, and endlessly fun.

Dinsun reviewed on: Thu Feb 26 2026

Features

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Intuitive mobile-first touch controls

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Fast 2-minute competitive matches

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Deep car customization and items

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Global ranked leaderboards

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

Yes, Sideswipe features a completely free Rocket Pass where you unlock items just by playing.

Ratings & Reviews

Great game, but would like to see some updates
Sun Jun 05 2022 Zheazyy

Great game, but there are a few things I would like to see in the future. The first being the ability to customize an orange and a blue team car. It’s hard to make a load out I like because the skin, wheels, boost, and goal explosion can only match for one team. Secondly, I’ve noticed you can’t scrap multiples of original cars. You can scrap the color variations, but I literally have 2 plain octanes, 2 plain aftershocks, and 2 plain takumis that are just taking up space. Also I would love to be able to change the order of my customized cars. I have over 10 cars, and I have to scroll all the way to the end to get to my most recent cars, and again, I can’t scrap the multiple plain cars I don’t want. Lastly, I dislike that instead of being able to play the extra modes when I want they’re seasonal. You can’t give us a taste and then take it away completely, with no announcements of bringing it back. Cuz let’s be honest. 3v3s can never replace hoops or volleyball. They should all be available year round. Bonus: I was able to figure out how to make the color of the car black. Shortly after that it was taken away as well, and all my black cars were then red. Really wish I could use white and black in my car as I please. I can understand why black/white aren’t available for a primary color, but I’m not sure why those colors are not available for a secondary at least. But overall a great game and I will definitely continue playing👍🏾

Great game but some bugs
Tue Aug 08 2023 Migueldaw

I play the game literally everyday, it’s an awesome game, simple yet hard, with practice anyone could become really good, but there are just some problems I’ve encountered, after the new update to the rocket pass it’s much harder to obtain items and boring to level up since there’s nothing new, at level 130 the creates given by leveling up glitched and didn’t let me open any until level 150 which took a while but then I was able to open 20 boxes all at once, but it created another issue, the badge border that I was trying to prestige glitched and took me back to Gold I was at Onyx XI and now back at Gold I and it won’t go up, kinda lame. A lot of items that I’m missing are only in the leveling up crates, I have all the items on the token crates and daily mystery item, now it’s much harder to obtain colored items or items I’m missing to complete the sets. Awesome game, just wish they would fix these bugs and make it more accessible to obtain items by playing the game, new items would be awesome, maybe tournaments by ranks, trade items with other players, they should make the tokens accesible to buy with real money so at least they get revenue to keep updating and making the game better. I will still play the game but it’s slowly losing popularity because new seasons just don’t bring any excitement to the game, just give you a title for the rank you reached and maybe a banner but that’s it, should bring new items PLEASE!

Fix game mechanics and bugs and remove bot put us in actual player servers
Thu Feb 19 2026 DJSIKDSEVEIKENIRINR

Not a bad game it is pretty fun. It’s easy to play. It’s easy to go pro as well, but please update the game. Add more maps. Add more cars make it hard harder to get cosmetics and stop putting bots. Don’t put any more bots. Give us real players. AGAIN REMOVE ALL THE BOTS AND ACTUALLY UPDATE THE GAME. MAKE IT LIKE THE ACTUAL ROCKET LEAGUE GAME BUT JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE SIMPLE. Another thing is make more act about this game. Focus on this game. If you want it to spread, you can probably promote my videos cause I’ll probably be making videos about this on TikTok so just replied to me if you want me to promote your video games, but you guys will have to sponsor my video. I guess you guys don’t have to if you don’t want to. I will try to promote the game because the game is very underrated. It’s a fun game, but it has so much and also another thing is make the quality a little bit better just a little bit but yeah, the game is solid. Very underrated game. You guys just need some work and need to promote the game more and and make it harder to get like coins and stuff cause the game is so easy to like get stuff try to make it more challenge and add more game mode to make it more fun, but yeah that’s it very underrated but yeah, it’s a good game and I know, but you have to look another thing is bring back tournaments

It’s exactly what I expected
Tue Nov 30 2021 Ryan_Melka

This game is great. There are only 3 game modes right now, being ones, twos, and hoops, but the game delivers. I know a lot of people were upset that NA and EU were released later, but the servers so far are extremely stable and I am happy we did not get a rushed product. This is a polished game that takes inspiration from the original rocket league while still being its own experience. Some things I would like to see would be some sort of club system like how rocket league has, maybe a new game mode, and some custom training packs. Other than that, which psionix has already said they are considering adding, this game is perfect. It’s one of the only mobile games that actually takes mechanics to learn and to master which is something interesting. Now, I think the biggest thing people might complain about, but I think is actually good, is the lack of in-app purchases. I am sure that from a business standpoint it would be good to add this in, but honestly I hope they keep it this way. Yes, I want to support the company with my money, but this games currency system is just so intuitive that there is no need to buy the currency. Basically, you get points by opening crates, but you can also sell your items for more credits. I think being able to buy bundles with just real world money like rl and not buying the currency would be a better way of going about iap, but I digress. This game is good. If you don’t like rocket league, get it. If you do like rocket league, you will love it. Seriously, I’m shocked this game is free. Love you psionix, you’ve done it again.

Feels familiar, yet it’s refreshing and unique.
Tue Dec 21 2021 AdmiralThrawn38

I’ve always loved Rocket League ever since my younger brother first showed it to me. But as the years passed after playing it so much, the community has sadly grown more toxic, the items and cosmetics system became too much of a cash cow and didn’t make the game fun anymore. Regardless I still play a match or two or twenty once in a while either with friends or just against bots. When I first heard the official news about a mobile version of Rocket League will be releasing I thought, “Oh great, just another mobile game as an excuse to have micro transactions and take more money from people.” At the same time the idea of being able to play Rocket League whenever I wanted excited me. I almost never play mobile games anymore, but after downloading this I became hooked almost immediately. The controls definitely take some getting used to so tutorials and free play training are recommended, as well as some matches against bots while raising the difficulty levels once you start getting the hang of it. I’ve only had this game for a few days and I’m already in silver rankings on 2v2’s and a tier level that I never thought I would reach in such short a time. I’m so glad that I’m this excited about Rocket League again and I can’t wait to play more!

Good! With some downsides…
Wed Jun 15 2022 lojitiv

So sometimes when I am just playing rocket league i get like these weird spasms and I have one of them recorded. If you would like to see this recording psyonix, then just respond to this and tell me that you do. I feel like this game is really good but I have some ideas for it. I think you should be able to go into a free play with your friends and just mess around becuase the other day, we were both thinking that it could be really fun. Another thing, I think that instead of getting xp when you do season rewards, maybe half of those should give you cars, hats, boosts ect. I also feel like you should be able to demolish people (demo) like in the actual rocket league game. Though when you get demo’d after one second you spawn in your goal. Last but no least, i think there should be different maps by this I mean like that the layout of the mao is the same it is just that the background looks different sometimes. There should also be maps that have weird aspects to them for fun. These should be unranked becuase the map could mess people up sometimes. Thanks for your time Psyonix! -Juan Edit: I was about to go to champion, and I expected my opponent to be a champ or a diamond like me, but no, I go against a grand champion and I could not win he was also being extremely toxic for no reason. His name was Vydals V2 please do something to fix this

Good Game Absolutely Ruined
Tue Sep 03 2024 AFG929

Great game, fun to play, minor issues in the game itself but overall well done. The ruin of this game is if you are playing like a normal touch mobile game, you will hit a ceiling. This is because people use controllers to play a mobile game. At a certain point, no matter what you do you cannot keep up with controller players, the mechanics are way faster and easier to do. If you’re good you can beat them here and there, but the margin for error is so small because you make one mistake and they can easily change position and do everything you can faster and easier. The worst is that you can tell most controller people aren’t that good, their decision making isn’t amazing, and they are normal players you should be able to compete with, but with a controller it’s like they are playing a different game. Situations that are impossible to come back from as a touch screen player are possible for controller players. Baffles me that people don’t just stick to regular rocket league with a controller, but no we have to deal with people who can’t treat a mobile game like a mobile game. Once you get to the point where you’re only playing against controller players, you have to be absolutely perfect, and the game loses its taste. I loved this game, but not being able to separate controller vs touch screen players ruins the competitive aspect of it.

No
Fri Dec 19 2025 An honest opinion.

Don’t play it’s not worth the time and effort to get good at this game while you could just play the real version which is honestly better and also you will experience a lot of very mean and rude players that have no care for your personal feelings and as well as you basically having to pay for everything you unlock and the rewards that are free are not the most appealing to rocket league players such as myself I only got to silver 2 on this account because I was fed up with all the people mocking me for the car I’m using and as well as if I mess up a single time also you will have mean teammates mean opponents and you will make no real friends if you try and get good at this game newsflash you cannot because every single time you start to play better you get put down by a person who is most of the time worse than you and if people say to ignore them you can’t cause they’re still spamming what a save in the chat so many times they get banned from chat and if you say anything back then you will probably get reported for harassment and then banned for life and half of the player base is actually just grown men who probably trash talk the most because the don’t have anything better to do and as well for the non versatility of the controls for mobile you need to have actual spider fingers to even drive forward and also why are the goals bigger in ranked they should be smaller just like the player base all in all this is why you shouldn’t play this game

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