A fun arcade idea, wrecked by bugs and unreliable handling on Switch
Reviewed on Nintendo Switch.Score: 3/10
This is our Taxi Chaos 2 Switch review.
Taxi Chaos 2 is built around a simple promise: pick up passengers, drive like a maniac, and turn every run into a messy arcade sprint where speed and risk mean bigger tips. I love that kind of straightforward, score-chasing loop — and it should be a perfect fit for quick sessions on Switch.
But the Switch version constantly breaks the flow with glitches, collision weirdness, and moments where the game simply doesn’t behave like it’s following its own rules. If you want more straight-to-the-point reviews like this, you can find them on Fix Gaming Channel.
Taxi Chaos 2 — Trailer
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What it gets right
When Taxi Chaos 2 is behaving, the appeal is obvious: quick pick-ups, frantic routes, messy traffic moments, and that arcade “one more run” energy. The game wants you to take risks — cut corners, clip curbs, and push your luck — because that’s where the fun lives in this kind of genre.
The problem is that an arcade driving game lives and dies by two things: control and reliability. On Switch, both were constantly undermined.
Handling that feels unreliable
I’m not asking for simulation driving here — arcade is the point — but I need to feel like the game is responding consistently when I correct a slide, thread through traffic, or try to recover after a hit. Too often, the steering and physics felt inconsistent, like I was fighting the game more than the road.
Even if you could accept some rough edges, the bigger issue is what comes next: the bugs.
Taxi Chaos 2
Release: December 23, 2025
Genre: Arcade driving
Developer / Publisher: Focuspoint Studios / Current Games
Platforms: Nintendo Switch (eShop), PC (Steam)
Bugs and glitches that ruined runs
This is the part that pushed my score down. One moment I was being chased by police… except the police vehicles were stuck inside a wall. Not “clipping a little” — fully jammed in place like the world geometry and AI were fighting each other.
Taxi Chaos 2 screenshot: a yellow taxi under pursuit on a city bridge.
Another run ended with the taxi upside down in the water, with the passenger still “active,” just floating there until the meter ran out. If the timer hadn’t ended it, I would’ve been forced into a hard reset just to escape the situation.
Taxi Chaos 2 screenshot: a taxi gliding across water in an industrial area.
That’s the difference between “arcade chaos” and a technical mess: the game stops being about skill or smart routes and starts being about whether the engine decides to behave for the next minute.
Should you buy it on Switch?
Not at full price. If you’re curious, I’d only recommend it after patches (or at a deep sale) — because right now the Switch experience doesn’t feel dependable enough to support the arcade loop it’s going for.
- Buy only if you’re fine gambling on jank and you find it very cheap.
- Wait if you want the concept but need stability and consistent controls.
- Skip if bugs and run-breaking glitches instantly kill your enjoyment.
Taxi Chaos 2 screenshot
Verdict
Taxi Chaos 2 has a solid arcade idea at its core, but on Nintendo Switch it repeatedly fell apart in ways that wasted my time and broke the fun. Between unreliable-feeling handling and glitches that outright ruin runs, this lands at a 3/10 for me.
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Written by Ronny Fiksdahl — Fix Gaming Channel.
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