Ultimate Guide to Crossy Road Game on Mobile

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If you’ve played Sega’s Frogger before, then you’re very likely familiar with how Crossy Road works. This quirky mobile game runs on a deceptively simple concept: help your character cross a perilous road. Crossy Road also has a Disney version that featured iconic characters like Aladdin, Stitch, Nemo, and Mickey Mouse.

In this article, we’ll show you how to play the game to maximize your experience from the get-go. We will even show you how to unlock secret characters to mix up your gameplay beyond the OG blocky chicken.

 

What Is Crossy Road?

Crossy Road
© Photo by Amazon

Why did the chicken cross the road?” Why, to get to the other side, of course!

We’ll concede that this is a pretty lame joke, but hey, it worked as the inspiration for Crossy Road back in 2014. When you first start playing the game, you take charge of a white chicken, and your mission is—you guessed it—to help it cross the road. But the road isn’t safe; you’ll have to wend your way through traffic-laden highways and jump across logs—all within the stipulated time limit.

Eventually, you’ll unlock new characters that you can use to replace the chicken in your gameplay.

 

What Device Can You Play Crossy Road On?

crossy road on iphone
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Crossy Road is available across a range of platforms, including Android, iOS, Amazon devices, and Windows smartphones. There is also a web version of the game hosted by Poki, offering you a safer and more intuitive experience than if you play on a mobile device.

Download Crossy Road on iOS

Download Crossy Road on Android

Check it out on Amazon

 

How to Play Crossy Road

Crossy Road isn’t a particularly difficult game to get into. To this end, we recommend playing the web version, as it is much easier to control your character with the spacebar and arrow keys.

The left and right arrow keys are for moving your character from side to side, while the down key moves backward and up key pushes forward. Furthermore, the spacebar lets you start a new session or spin the gumball machine to unlock new characters.

Also, Crossy Road’s environments are well designed, featuring a diverse range of wildlife, trains, trees, logs, and cars. Furthermore, you’ll occasionally come across coins that you can pick up for additional points during your gameplay. You’ll also receive one point for every square you move into.

 

Crossy Road Characters

crossy road characters
© Photo by Crossy Road

As mentioned above, you start Crossy Road with a basic chicken character. As you earn more coins and progress further in the game, you can unlock more characters. While coins are scattered across the levels, these are scarce, so be sure to snag them every time they appear.

When you’ve accumulated enough coins, you can use them on the gacha-style gumball machine to obtain one random character from the pool. Crossy Road features thousands of characters, including holiday-themed, country-themed, Easter-themed, and Halloween-themed ones.

We list down a few of the general and secret Crossy Road characters you can unlock in the game below:

Crossy Road Characters

How to Unlock

Original Crossy Road Characters

Chicken Default
Android Robot (Android Devices only) Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Baby Duck Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Baller Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Big Fat Pig Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Black Sheep Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Brown Bunny Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Capybara Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Celebrity Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Cow Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Crazy Ol’ Ben Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Desert Frog Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Doge Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Emo Goose Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Epoch Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Fast Tortoise Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Flea Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Floppy Fish Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Fluffy Sheep Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Forget-Me-Not Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Frankenstein Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Ghost Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Giddy Goat Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Grave Digger Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Grey Bunny Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Hot Shot Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Jungle Frog Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Kiwi Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Lovely Bunny Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Lucky Cat Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Mad Bull Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Mad Wizard Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Mallard Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Marmalade Dog Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Penguin Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Pew Die Pug Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Poopy Pigeon Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Rusty Robot Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Specimen 115 Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Swamp Frog Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Swift Snail Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Tabby Cat Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
The Dark Lord Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Thoroughbred Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Tree Frog Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Unihorse Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Unlucky Cat Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Vampire Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Wolf Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Zombie Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Hipster Whale Instead of a log, jump on a Hipster Whale until the end of the level

Arctic Crossy Road Characters

Arctic Fox Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Arctic Hare Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Iceberg  Dunk all Artic characters, including the Seal, into the river
Lemming Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Lost Penguin Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Narwhal Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Polar Bear Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $1.99
Puffin Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Seal Play as the Polar Bear and accomplish five missions to collect garbage in the terrain
Slippy Penguin Price Machine for 1000 coins or buy for $1.99
Walrus Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Wolverine Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99

Dinosaur Crossy Road Characters

Archaeopteryx Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Bones Play as the Paleontologist and collect fossils of tail, leg, body, neck, and head
Dilophosaurus Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Dinosaur Chicken Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Flat Eric Free for a limited time only
Pachycephalosaurus Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Paleontologist Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Parasaurolophus Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Stegosaurus Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Thesaurus Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Triceratops Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Tyrannosaurus Rex Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Unexpected Shrew Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99

Space Crossy Road Characters

Astronaut Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Astronomer Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Moon Cheese Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Moon Rock Play as any Space Crossy Road character, preferably Space Dog or Astronaut, and get hit by meteor rocks while standing on special platforms. Repeat multiple times until Moon Rock is unlocked.
Robot Dog Play as any Space Crossy Road character and find a yellow alien duck
Rover Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Space Chicken Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Space Dog Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Space Walker Play as any Space Crossy Road character and jump on Hipster Whale

Ocean Crossy Road Characters

Angler Fish Cross the trench using any Ocean Crossy Road character. Next, go back one to lily pad or two logs, and jump off the side of the lily pad or log.
Diver Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Merlady Play as any Non-Ocean Crossy Road character and successfully cross the river. After that, jump back two logs and fall from the end of the last log.
Nautilus Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Nudibranch Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Ocean Turtle Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Octopus Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Scuba Chicken Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Sea Sponge 100 tokens via the Mystery Box
Seahorse Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Skeleton Pirate Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99
Starfish Price Machine for 100 coins or buy for $0.99

Piffle Crossy Road Characters

Marmalade Play as Piffle and collect as many items, such as balls, socks, dice, donuts, and floppy disks, as you can while progressing on the road
Piffle Free
Piffle Ball Play as Piffle and collect as many random items as you can while progressing on the road
Pineapple Play as Piffle and stay on an empty lane. If a truck carrying pineapples appears, you must get hit from the side moving forward.
Waffles Play as Piffle and find him in the game

 

What Is Disney Crossy Road?

Disney
© Photo by Disney Crossy Road

As its name suggests, Disney Crossy Road was a Disney-themed Crossy Road game that was available on Android, iOS, and Windows devices. Instead of the animals of the original Crossy Road, Disney Crossy Road characters came from Disney movies and TV shows.

Similar to the original Crossy Road, Disney Crossy Road’s objective was to obtain high scores and collect as many coins as you can. As a Disney-themed game, the locations were based on several Disney movies. To add to the Disney-centric experience, there were also new obstacles unique to each level. Toy Story’s location, for example, had rolling blocks in Andy’s house.

Aside from collecting coins, you could also get coins from free gifts. When you’ve already collected 100 coins, you could spin a new character from the gumball machine. Considering how many Disney characters there are, you can never have duplicates with Disney Crossy Road characters. Similar to the old Crossy Road, you can also unlock Disney Crossy Road secret characters by completing specific activities from each level.

 

Is Disney Crossy Road Still Available?

Two years after Hipster Whale released Crossy Road, the company launched Disney Crossy Road. Unfortunately, Disney Crossy Road is no longer available since March 12, 2020. DuckTales is the last update of Disney Crossy Road. Although it’s no longer available for download on the Play Store and App Store, gamers who’ve downloaded the Disney Crossy Road app before its closure can still play with all the epic, rare, and classic characters unlocked.

 

Disney Crossy Road Characters

Disney character
© Photo by Disney Crossy Road FB Page

If you’re still playing the Disney Crossy Road game, you’re in for a real treat. The game has more than 700 characters, which are divided into six categories: Diamond, Enchanted, Legendary, Epic, Rare, and Classic. With the closure of Disney Crossy Road, all classic, rare, and epic characters are unlocked for you to play with.

Here is an overview of the different Disney Crossy Road characters you can unlock:

Classic

Rare

Epic

Aladdin

Aladdin Rajah Abu Genie
Gazeem Genie Jafar Jafar
Jasmine Iago Magic Carpet
Prince Achmed Rajah
Razoul
The Sultan

Alice Through The Looking Glass

Alice Kingsleigh Knight Chess Piece Absolem
Bayard March Hare Mad Hatter
Dormouse Red Queen Time
Frog Delivery Man White Rabbit
Gentleman Fish White Queen
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
Vegetable Executioner

Beauty and the Beast

Belle Chapeau Beast
Chip FrouFrou Cogsworth
Gaston Plumette Lumiere
LeFou The Enchantress
Maurice
Mrs. Potts

Big Hero 6

Go Go Tomago Baymax Baymax Super Suit
Hiro Hamada Go Go Super Suit Hiro Super Suit
Honey Lemon Wasabi Super Suit Honey Lemon Super Suit
Wasabi

Cars

Flo Chick Hicks Cruz Ramirez
Guido Doc Hudson Fillmore
Lizzie Mack Jackson Storm
Luigi Natalie Certain Lightning McQueen
Ramone Shannon Spokes Mater
Sarge Sterling Red
Sally

DuckTales

Burger Beagle Bouncer Beagle Big Time Beagle
Dewey Mrs. Beakley Darkwing Duck
Huey Peghook’s Ghost Donald Duck
Louie Webbigail Vanderquack Falcon Graves
Pixiu Chinese Dragon Gyro

Finding Dory

Dory Crush Bailey
Pearl Gerald Destiny
Nemo Marlin Hank
Rudder Holiday Philip Sherman
Sheldon
Squirt
Tad

Inside Out

Brain Worker Anger Bing Bong
Dave Disgust Imaginary Boyfriend
Joy Fear
Paula
Sadness

Lilo & Stitch

David Kawena Captain Gantu Cobra Bubbles
Lilo Jumba Grand Councilwoman
Mertle Pleakley Scrump
Mrs. Hasagawa Stitch Super Hero Stitch
Nani Ukulele Stitch
The Ugly Duckling

Mickey Mouse & Friends

Clarabelle Blue Dress Minnie Pluto
Goofy Daisy  Steamboat Willie
Holiday Mickey Donald Willie The Giant
Horace Pete
Mickey
Polka Dot Minnie

Moana

Chief Tui Gramma Tala Ghost Matai
Frigatebird Kakamora Chief Heihei
Moana Pua Maui
Sina

Monsters Inc.

Boo Celia Randall
C.D.A. Agent Flint Roz
Needleman George Santa Sulley
Smitty Mike Sulley
Waxford Mr. Waternoose

Mulan

Chien Po Bride Mulan Captain Li Shang
Fa Li Cri-Kee Mushu
Fa Mulan Hayabusa Ping
Fa Zhou Imperial Messenger Mushu Shan Yu
Ling Khan The Emperor
Yao Little Brother

Tangled

Attila Hook Hand Maximus
Flynn Rider Ulf Pascal
Princess Rapunzel
Rapunzel
Stabbington Brother 1
Stabbington Brother 2
Vlad

The Haunted Mansion

Butler Executioner Armor
Caretaker & Dog Sally Slater Madame Leota
Gargoyle Spider
Maid
Prof. Phineas Plump

The Incredibles

Bomb Voyage Dash Frozone
Edna Mode Jack-Jack Mr. Incredible
Gilbert Huph Violet Mrs. Incredible
Kari McKeen
Mirage
Rick Dicker

The Jungle

Baloo in Grass Skirt Akela Bagheera
Crocodile Baloo King Louie
Flying Squirrel Kaa Shere Khan
Mowgli
Peacock
Vulture

The Lion King

Banzai Adult Simba Pumbaa
Grub Rafiki Timon
Nala Zazu
Ostrich Zebra
Shenzi
Simba

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Barrel The Mayor Jack In The Box
Behemoth The Clown Vampire Teddy
Creature Under The Stairs Sally Zombie Toy Duck
Lock Zero
Mr. Hyde
Shock
The Vampires

Toy Story

Buzz Lightyear Bo Peep Babyhead
Green Army Man Emperor Zurg Bullseye
Janey Doll Rex Santa Hat Rex
Slinky Toy Alien Wheezy
Trixie
Woody

Wreck-It-Ralph

Candlehead Calhoun Hero’s Duty Ralph
Gene Felix Princess Vanellope
Mary General Hologram
Surge Protector King Candy
Taffyta Muttonfudge Ralph
Vanellope

Zootopia

Bellwhether Chief Bogo Christmas Clawhauser
Finnick Doug Mr. Big
Jerry Jumbeaux Jr. Flash Officer Clawhauser
Judy Hopps Gazelle
Manchas Kozlov
Mayor Lionheart
Mr. Otterton
Nick Wilde

 

Disney Crossy Road Secret Characters

secret charater
© Photo by Player.One

Several Disney Crossy Road secret characters can be unlocked by getting high scores with one specific character or another. To unlock secret characters, you should aim to get between 80% to 90% of your current high score. You can also break your own record so you can unlock more secret characters. As a tip, keep your scores lower for a specific level if you want to unlock secret characters for a particular quest purpose.

Here are some of the Disney Crossy Road secret characters you can unlock:

 

Crossy Road: A Fun Way to Pass the Time

While Crossy Road is based on a fundamentally simple concept, it does a good job of challenging you to find solutions to help your characters cross the road safely. It is thus a great way to keep your mind active no matter your age—just be sure to put the game away when you’re crossing a busy road in real life!