Slopecrashers
Yes! You read right, arcade snowboarding is back! Which means SLOPECRASHERS is crafted with one thing in mind and that is FUN! This starts from the character selection screen and goes down into the core physics of the game. So press START, choose a character, a board and a hangglider, optionally even up to three buddies of yours for SPLITSCREEN MULTIPLAYER and hit the slopes!
STUNTS, STUNTS and more STUNTS. Yes, very important, because the more daring a stunt is, the more speed you will get out of it. Oh and COMBOS! Chain those stunts together with manuals, small tricks and railslides and redeem the combo meter when you are ready for that EXTRA SPEEDBOOST!
Oh, you thought you could go for a chill ride? I mean yeah you can but look out for your opponents causing EXPLOSIONS, MOLES digging up the ground beneath you, ANGRY SNOWMEN trying to stop you and much more. So go collect items and PROTECT yourself or ATTACK the others! (But for those moments when you just want to cruise down the track and explore everything the slopes have to offer you can choose an opponent-free game mode as well)
And btw, these slopes are not just in snow environments. No! Where we’re shredding, WE DON’T NEED SNOW! So don’t wonder if the next race/slalom/stuntshow/… starts in a shopping mall, a hot desert or a tropical jungle area!
Join our DISCORD community and go behind the scenes of the creation process of the game or join me (the developer who is currently writing this (or wrote this because you will read this later than me)) in my LIVE-STREAMS where I am working on the game and chat with me there.
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The Snowboard Game
A great Indie Funsport Sim
The Snowboard Game has the potential to be one of the best snowboard simulations on the market, but in its current state, it’s maybe not for everyone. It is comparable to the newer Infinite Air with Mark McMorris, the older Amped Series or the famous SKATE series, so if you are into such simulation like funsport games, just get it :-)
First of, one important TIP:
If you right-click on the game in steam, go to properties, and then to BETA, you can try out the Beta and also the current internal WIP version. (I Play the Internal Version at the moment) These BETAs have many new trick features (Nose Slide/Press Tail Slide/Press on rails, overall improved rail mechanics, more realistic arials, bails if landings are too hard, nicer UI and many more. It’s maybe good to play through the missions in the official version, because of the more realistic arials and railing some missions are really hard in the BETAs.
– Real player with 47.6 hrs in game
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I LOVE THIS GAME- but before you buy…. You’ll end up catching an edge, getting stuck in powder, take several hours to learn how to flip with any sort of consistency, take 20 minutes to beat a single challenge getting the specific spin/grab combos, and tap the side of your board into a rail and instantly eat it. The controls are clunky and hard to learn, but at the same time are by far the most realistic and best feeling snowboard game on the market. Either that sounds like the snowboard sim you’ve been waiting for, or pure hell, and that gut reaction will be your experience. But if you have the patience to learn it, when you start landing double corks with the hardcore mode on and string together massively difficult lines it’s by far the most rewarding a snowboard game has been for me. And this includes Shaun White Snowboarding, Stoked, Steep, and SSX. If you want an arcade-y game any of those will be objectively more fun, but if you snowboard and miss the feeling of carving into a jump to set up your spin this is 100% worth the money and is clearly the only snowboard game programmed by someone who actually knows what standing sideways feels like and has set up the game physics to be as close as possible.
– Real player with 38.5 hrs in game
Steep™
been nearly a week owning and playing the game every day. Sometimes it feels like your the only one playing the game, rarely seeing other people. Other times you can be doing your own thing and suddenly there’s 4 people along side you. I’ve already met some people that I play with now even though i felt like i wouldn’t have because i thought i had got the game too late and that there wouldn’t be so many people playing, i was wrong.
Otherwise its a pretty fun game, tricks are pretty difficult on mouse and keyboard though. Sometimes even delays in them, and struggles figuring them out.
– Real player with 60.5 hrs in game
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Update: I must admit when I need something fast paced that isn’t about shooting a gun, this game satisfies that desire. And I almost ALWAYS get my games on sale!! I’m waiting on their welcome add on to be discounted more than 30% right now.. It’ll probably be a while. I don’to recommend full price for this game..
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I do get annoyed with the keybindings and resetting them up may confuse me further so I’m unsure atm about that. Hitting shift is instinct for running but it also is for changing your device (board, skis, etc) I don’t like that part and the esc screen very much. The controls for that stuff aren’t up to my standards but the rest of the game is so satisfying ♥
– Real player with 37.4 hrs in game
SNOW - The Ultimate Edition
I can’t believe how many bad reviews this game got. It’s ridiculous. Espescially seeing all the complaints about things like speed and physics when in reality this game has WAY more realistic speed and physics than any other snow games out there like SSX Shaun White Snowboarding etc. All those games have horrible physics and DO NOT replicate real life snow sports what so ever. The funny thing is I have snowboarded all my life and didn’t even care much for skiing, so I was dissappointed that snowboarding isn’t in the game yet, but I went ahead and purchased anyways because I couldn’t wait any longer since there are no other games out there like this one. Long story short this game actually made me like skiing for the first time ever in the 18 years of my life of being a snowboarder. I’ve also been waiting for a game like this forever literally. NO COMPANY has ever made a snow sports game so realistic. I needed a game like this so badly and it’s finally here. So here’s my review:
– Real player with 542.7 hrs in game
For the record, before the M10 update, I would have recommended this game.
But with the new update, the game is so much less enjoyable.
SKI PASSES
I’ll start the with the biggest change: the ski passes. This is a very logical concept and, if it were well executed and well implemented into the game, it would have been great. Basically, if you don’t buy any ski passes, you only have access to the tutorial map and one other map, which cycles between all maps every week. With this change, the game doesn’t feel free-to-play at all, it just feels like you’re playing a trial version of the game. If we had at least one other map permanently unlocked like nine knights or something, it would make it sooo much better. Or cycking two maps at a time instead of only one.
– Real player with 41.6 hrs in game
Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game
this is probably the most accurate skateboarding simulator I have ever played. I would say what also makes this game stand out is the modding capabilities that allows this game to not feel stale. I have played this since its first release and the progression of the game combined with the mods makes this really fun!
– Real player with 1304.0 hrs in game
Pretty fun with mods sucks donkey ass without mods.
– Real player with 69.3 hrs in game