Snowboard Racer

Snowboard Racer is a simple snowboard race with no plot or funny characters: there is a mountain, a slope and a time to improve. The game offers slopes of varying difficulty and gradually increases the requirements. Control is based on tilts and turns: the more carefully you go through the arc, the higher the average speed. On steep sections you have to slow down, otherwise the snowboarder will fly into a snowdrift, losing seconds. Springboards provide an opportunity to shorten the path, but only if you calculate the landing. The difficulty increases due to the terrain: new routes feature narrow passages, trees and areas where you need to move in short zigzags. There are also rivals, but the main opponent is your own past results: you want to complete the descent cleaner and faster. It is also worth noting that the trails open up as you progress, and the snow behaves differently on them: broken slopes slow you down, while fresh slopes cause you to fall through the board. There is a timed competition mode and free races without a goal. You can also take turns playing with friends, competing for the best result on the same slope. Difficulty settings affect both the terrain and your opponents, so the same slope can be tackled as an easy ride or as a test of endurance. There is also time tracking accurate to hundredths, which forces you to replay the race for the sake of a couple of moments. The design is deliberately modest. The Snowboard Racer doesn't try to impress with its visuals, but it delivers on the main promise of the genre: it delivers a pure trigger feel and the thrill of improving your time by a couple of seconds.