History VideoGame / CrashOnTheRun

It was released on UsefulNotes/{{iOS|Games}} and UsefulNotes/{{Android|Games}} on March 24th, 2021 with a [[https://crashbandicoot-lp.onelink.me/wXvg/PreRegistration?af_ol_red=true&af_wrt_clk=false&af_tranid=jfvT6kEtUI8KYWRJvOeT0g pre-registration offer]], where you can get the Blue Hyena Crash skin immediately at launch.

As of December 16, 2022, the game is no longer available to download on the iOS or Android stores. Three days later, in-app purchases were disabled and the developers announced that the game would be shut down on February 16, 2023.

* AlternateTimeline: To ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'', following on from the original post-Naughty Dog timeline leading into ''VideoGame/CrashMindOverMutant'' rather than ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped''.

* ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'': As a part of his gangster image, the Warriors of Hope's EvilMentor Kurokuma has a whole mouthful of gold teeth.

* BigBad: Neo Cortex is the main one, as always, but each season has its own BigBad:

''Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!'' (also known as ''Crash: On the Run!'' in certain countries) is a 3D [[PlatformGame platformer]][=/=][[EndlessRunningGame runner]] game in the ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' franchise developed by Creator/{{King}}. In a sort of send-up to ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'''s plot (and taking place sometime after ''VideoGame/CrashMindOverMutant''), the game involves Dr. Neo Cortex opening portals across the multiverse to recruit new evil minions to conquer time and space with. As expected, it’s up to Crash and Coco to catch up with these minions, take them for a spin and send them packing home by cooking up potions and technology to defeat them. You also collect ingredients on collection runs to fuel this fight.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Due to the "Nitro" prefix being used to describe a character's default self, Oxide and Brio are officially listed as "Nitro Nitros Oxide" and "Nitro Nitrus Brio".

* AdaptationalVillainy: The Iron Checkpoint Crate actually acts as one of many minions to defeat here.

As of December 16, 2022, the game is no longer available to download on the iOS or Android stores.

** Mr. Crumb from the ''very'' obscure ''Crash Bandicoot 99X'' mobile game makes an appearance. Also joining him are Thorn Thing and Grumbler, two of his minions from the same game.

** Mr. Crumb from the ''very'' obscure ''Crash Bandicoot 99X'' mobile game makes an appearance. Also joining him is Thorn Thing, one of his minions from the same game.
** The Ant Drones from ''VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity'' show up to mess with Crash and Coco once more.
** The Elementals make their first appearance since ''[[VideoGame/CrashBandicootTheWrathOfCortex Wrath of Cortex]]'' nearly two decades earlier.

* CarFu: One of Oxide's attacks is running over the player with his car.

* GetBackHereBoss: All gang leader battles involve your character chasing the villain while they drop weapons from their hovercraft. Uka Uka, Mr. Crumb, N. Tropy, and Dark Spyro don't use it, as they already can fly, and N. Gin and Oxide use their own personalized vehicles.

* {{BFG}}: The most-expensive Portal Weapon to produce is a single-use bazooka which fire a rocket filled with whatever element was required.
* BadassFingerSnap: Oxide does this to summon his space craft. The moment is spoiled a little when it nearly mows him down, leading him to stagger into it grumbling.

** One of the bosses is a Pink Elephant, which was originally an enemy that was meant to appear in the unused ''Twinsanity'' level Gone a Bit Coco.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: Crash and Coco do their revised dances from the ''[[VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy N. Sane Trilogy]]'', not the one from classic crash games or ''[[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]''.

** Season 3 introduced several ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon'' pieces of content, including several themed skins and boss fights against Gnasty Gnorc and Dark Spyro, the latter of whom seems to be based on his ''WesternAnimation/SkylandersAcademy'' self, while also carrying [[VideoGame/SpyroAHerosTail sinister purple crystals with him.]]
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Prior to an update which destroyed any items you collected without them respawning, dying without watching an ad or spending gems used to result in you just losing all Steps collected, but kept the items.

* MythologyGag: The game is basically a non-stop cavalcade of these, taking notes from nearly every Crash game in the series and even some discarded conceptual ideas.

* GameBreakingBug: The game has a tendency to crash and boot the player out even on current hardware. Trophies in a currently running Survival Run are lost when this occurs.