Ubisoft’s open-world winter extreme-sports bonanza struggled at launch, but when Sony added the title to PlayStation Plus in 2018, nearly 10 million people hit the slopes. I often say Steep is the best game nobody played, but that isn’t really true. This style will be familiar to fans of Steep, Ubisoft Annecy’s predecessor to Riders Republic.

I presumably broke the land speed record in cycling before jettisoning my rider hundreds of feet off a cliff. A nice person on Twitter recommended that I fiddle with transformation outside of competition, so I strapped on a jetpack and flew at full speed above a highway, then switched to a road bike. In one race, my rider transformed in mid-air from a mountain biker to a skier with rockets for skis. Sick Game,During my six hours in its mountains and valleys, I’ve most enjoyed experimenting with how open-ended the game is.