The game helpfully lets you have a completely unembellished stab at each track before throwing a series of goals and conditions at you. The fundamental aim is simple – get down to the bottom of each course, in the shortest time. It’s not trying to be an accurate depiction of a sport it is essentially a taut racer, that just so happens to also give a fair impression of steering a bike that is careering down a hill.
It’s the Switch conversion of one of the best indie games of recent times, and is a corker.ĭespite sounding like it should be a brand of hipster hiking attire, Lonely Mountains: Downhill plays out like an isometric, downhill spin on Micro Machines, or classic Neo Geo rally arcadester Drift Out.
Thankfully my second bike outing discards the serious portrayal of endurance cycling, instead offering a wonderfully stylised depiction of downhill mountain-biking. The last time I looked at a game involving a bicycle was the staggeringly bad, po-faced 2013 Tour De France sim, which married simplistic button holding tedium to the prospect of watching cyclist arses bob up and down.
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