Snow Rider

Tips for Snow Rider

The first thing to learn in Snow Rider is which obstacles you can jump. Stumps, logs, fences and campfires are low, so a jump clears them. Trees, rocks, snowmen and anything else taller have to be steered round, and hitting one ends the run. A common mistake is jumping at a tall obstacle out of habit, so look ahead and decide early whether to hop or carve.

The slope speeds up the longer you last, so short, controlled steering beats wide swings across the snow. Gifts sit in the lanes between obstacles, and they are worth collecting because they buy new sleds in the shop. Still, do not swerve into trouble for a single gift: a longer run brings more gifts and a higher score anyway, since every 20 metres adds a point. Watch out for rolling snowballs and ramps that throw you into the air, and when a run ends, the result card shows how close you came to your best.

How to play Snow Rider

A run of Snow Rider starts at the top of a mountain at night. Press Space or Enter and your wooden sled sets off down a slope that never ends. The goal is to get as far as you can: every 20 metres is a point, and the slope speeds up the longer you last.

Obstacles come in two kinds. The low ones, stumps, logs, fences and campfires, can be cleared with a jump. The taller ones, such as trees, dead trunks, rocks and snowmen, have to be steered round, because hitting anything taller ends the run. Rolling snowballs cross the slope and ramps throw you into the air. Gifts wait in the lanes between the obstacles. Collect them and spend them in the sled shop, which has twenty sleds on a turning ring. When a run ends, a card shows your score, your best score and the gifts you picked up, and your gifts, sleds and best score are kept on the device.

On a computer, steer with the arrow keys or A and D and jump with Space, W or Up. On a phone, hold the left or right half of the screen to steer and tap the JUMP button to jump. P or Esc pauses the run.

About Snow Rider

Snow Rider is an endless sledding game in 3D, a new browser game made by Kiloo, the Danish games studio in Aarhus that co-created Subway Surfers with SYBO Games. It is set on a moonlit mountain, and the whole game is one long run downhill.

The game suits anyone who wants a quick go: a run lasts a minute or two, the controls are steer and jump, and there is always a reason to try once more. It is easy enough for children to start and fast enough later on to test anyone. The sled shop adds a light-hearted goal, since the twenty sleds range from the Red Racer, the Ice Glider and the Candy Cane to a cardboard box, a snow saucer, a bathtub, a Viking ship, a pizza, a shopping cart and a hover board.

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