Censorship

Subway Surfers is an endless running video game developed and published by Kiloo and SYBO Games. The video game was first released on May 24th, 2012.

Censorship[]

Chinese Censorship[]

  • Mina's belly is covered up in her default and Robo outfit.
  • Coco's stomach is covered in her default outfit.
  • Noon/Paula's midriff is covered up and no longer exposed in her default outfit.
  • Amira's midriff is covered due to her default outfit being too revealing.
  • Shisan Mei/Rin's belly is covered.
  • The skull on Eddy/Eddie's face and hat was removed.
  • Callum's design is altered to look masculine by changing his kilt into shorts and giving him a mohawk and his gender is changed from non-binary to a cisgender male.
  • Nina/Niya's default look is removed and replaced by her second outfit for unknown reasons.
  • The face design on Akira/Takeda is changed for unknown reasons.
  • Phoenix had his gender changed to female and his design changed to look feminine due to him being gay.
  • The pink paint on Charlie is reduced.
  • Pink/Masami's design is changed in the Chinese version, her skin is lightened due to unknown reasons.
  • Dummy is referred to Masked Robot since the word "Dummy" is rude and it is used to call someone who is stupid, his design was even changed.
  • Fantasma/Hallucination has his mask redesigned due to him having a skull mask, the star was changed to an eagle.
  • The face design on Zi Hao/Sweet Potato Boy was changed due to unknown reasons.
  • The skull on Yuto/Lycra's default outfit was changed to a flame.
  • The Korean letter on Ji-Yeong/Ori Sakura's shirt is removed.
  • Pride Frank was renamed to Unicorn Frank due to a LGBTQ+ reference.
  • The Subway Surfers World Tour: Chang'an event had a different theme and the pride crew (Pride Jake, Pride Fresh, Pride Tricky, Pride Yutani, Pridebot, Pride Spike, and Pride Miss Mala) weren't released (except Pride Frank/Unicorn Frank) during the event and update due to LGBTQIA+ not being supported in China.

International Censorship[]

  • The 2024 Winter Wonderland update was originally going to be set in Vienna, Austria, however, it was changed to a nondescript Christmas town after the incident where a Viennese teenager died while attempting to do a subway surfing challenge in real life.
  • Alex and Nicolai were changed from Moscow and Saint Petersburg surfers respectively to Special surfers in the Washington D.C. update due to the ongoing 2022 Russia-Ukraine war.
  • Teddy and Sleigh were changed from Moscow and Saint Petersburg respectively to special boards due to same reasons as above.

Where to find it uncensored[]

The international versions are uncensored