Lonely Mountains: Downhill Offers Scenic Experience

A lot of games can get pretty intense sometimes, and playing action-packed titles can leave you feeling like you did a lot more than just sit on the couch and manipulate a controller. Other games, like the nature explorer Lonely Mountains: Downhill provide a chance to take your time and enjoy the scenery while hopefully not crashing into a tree.

Posted on Steam Greenlight on Friday, Lonely Mountains: Downhill is an ultra simplistic game from publisher Megagon Industries. The game puts players in control of a faceless biker clad in his athletic gear and a helmet as they navigate through a lush, polygon-filled environment that's devoid of any other humans besides the lone biker. And it's not just humans that are absent either, it's all their creations as well. Just you, your bike, and nature to guide you through this game.

Players are left to their own devices as they navigate through the trails and hills and trees that the environment offers. Birds chirp, and tiny, square blocks of dirt and grass are kicked up into the air as you pick up speed while hurling yourself down mountains. There's no interruption along the ride either, as one of the main features that the game claims to offer is a lack of loading screens along the journey meaning that you can take yourself from the top of a mountain down to the bottom without breaking the immersion of the game.

Along with some custom bike physics that promise to create a riding experience that feels natural, there are races and challenges that you can push yourself in to attain personal bests when it comes to rushing along the trails. The gameplay aspect that looks most promising though is the open-world feature. Secret canyons, vast lakes, and green forests are just a few of the locations that players can ride to on a whim. Some rag-doll physics hope to make unfortunate crashes be a bit more amusing, but while there's no word yet of the details on in-game options, the ability to turn off crashes to create a more peaceful free-roam experience would certainly be a welcome choice.

Lonely Mountains: Downhill does not yet have an exact release date, but it's shooting for a release in the early-to-mid 2018 period.

[via PC Gamer]