As an extreme sports game, Steep is fine. It's quietly thrilling to leap from the mountainside and the board beneath my feet, up to the overhead view of the entire mountain range, in which my rider is suddenly a dot, lost amongst the rumpled whiteness, and then instantly warp to a distant drop zone.

'Early on, I was told by Steep's intrusive narrator to pretty much ignore the unlockable challenges and carve the mountain up in search of hidden lines and lonely spaces,' he wrote, 'This was good advice. Clearly nobody asked Eurogamer's Christian Donlan or myself, because we both really quite enjoyed it.Īdmittedly, my own positive feelings toward Steep have mostly been directed at the walls and ceiling until now, but Donlan awarded its sometimes uneven, but frequently exhilarating, blend of extreme sports and vast, freeing expanses, a Eurogamer Recommended back in the day. Steep originally released on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC in 2016, to what Wikipedia tells me was a 'mixed to average' critical response. Fans of sports, the cold, and mostly going downward are in for a treat (as long as they own a PC) Ubisoft's enjoyable, open-world extreme winter sports extravaganza Steep is currently free to download and keep via Uplay.

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