Lonely Mountains: Downhill

Developer Megagon Industries Publisher Thunderful Publishing Format PC, PS4, Xbox One Release 2019

This was, appropriately, the game that set this’s wheels in motion. We recommended it to an anxious friend who we knew had a Game Pass subscription, and so was minutes away from settling down in front of one of the most relaxing games of the generation. There isn’t much to . It is best explained as sitting somewhere in between the precisely modelled physics of and the immaculately translated controls of : it is a game in which you hare down a mountainside, marvelling at the sumptuous feeling of your bike’s handling, and fall over a lot.