Drifting School Bus review - Not quite Ofsted approved

Drifting School Bus isn't exactly a phrase that fills you with ease, especially once you actually start playing the game.

After all, collecting school children seems like more of a domestic affair, but when your bus is drifting at a solid 60-ish degree angle things get a little more rock 'n roll.

The game quite literally does what it says on the tin. You drive your merry bus through a chosen area and collect children to drop off at school.

While that sounds very 'high school ideal', things take a bit of a different turn when you pick up the children by drifting into them and then pull off a doughnut in the school yard in order to toss them out.

Each time you fling the kids out at a school you progress onto the next stage where things get a bit faster and a bit wilder. Eventually the game has you nervously tapping the screen to avoid trains, cars, and all sorts as you rampage through the city streets.

The mechanics are as basic as they come - you simply tap the screen in order to move your vehicle left or right as roads curve, children await, and cars come flying at you.

Attempting to break the inevitable monotony, Drifting School Bus contain collectibles and unlockables. There are 20 different cars, which can trigger different modes, and five different environments to drive through.

Of course, if you just hate waiting you can buy anything you don't have with a super quick IAP and wash your hands of wasted time.

Though there are a huge variety of high score chasers and endless runners out there, this one's still entertaining. The controls are responsive, the visuals are pretty, and the little details add something extra to an otherwise repetitive experience.

It's a shame that the frame-rates hiccup on occasion and that it feels a little impossible to get past level nine. It could just be a curse to those with over-eager fingers, but the cluster of obstacles and the speed of the cars mean that you'd have to predict the future in order to make it higher in the double digits.

If you dig the simplicity of one-tap gaming and the satisfaction of reacting quickly to things, you needn't look any further.

But despite how easy Drifting School Bus is to pick up and play, it easily slips back into the same old grind that endless runners suffer from.