Temple Run 2

The Demon Monkey is still behind you. Temple Run 2 is Imangi's sequel to the game that defined the phone endless runner, and the loop is untouched because it never needed fixing: run, swipe to turn, jump and slide, and keep escaping through jungles, along perilous cliffs, past fiery volcanoes and down snowy mountains until the course collects its due.

What the sequel adds is variety inside the sprint. Runs break into set-pieces — jumping onto mining karts that rattle down train tracks, surfing down an icy mountain, ziplining down cliffs — and the cast widens beyond the original runner: Guy Dangerous, Scarlett Fox and Karma Lee are all playable, with power-ups like shields, coin magnets and speed boosts shaping how a run survives its mistakes.

The friendliest fact on the page deserves its own paragraph: it's free and fully offline. No WiFi, no internet connection — the chase works on a plane, in a tunnel, anywhere. Competition, when you do have a signal, runs through global leaderboards and challenges against friends.

Seasonal events and new locations keep arriving on top of the permanent worlds, and the listing's latest notes claim smoother controls, faster loading and upgraded visuals. The standing is 1B+ downloads and 4.1 stars — the genre's founding family, older than its rivals now, and still the first name anyone says when 'endless runner' comes up.