SNOW MERCY

LONELY MOUNTAINS: SNOW RIDERS combines tense downhill skiing with icy cosiness

- By Shaun Prescott

For the first couple of hours spent playing Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders, I really wished I was playing its bike-centric predecessor, Lonely Mountains: Downhill, instead. Skis are clumsier than bikes and they don’t get fast quite as quickly. But I gradually learned the orthodoxies of going fast down technical hills on skis, and once I figured out how to go faster quicker, Snow Riders started to click gloriously into place, to the extent that now I think I love skis more than bikes.