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When Ski Lifts Go Wrong

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When Ski Lifts Go Wrong

Ride into a hilarious construction puzzler; packed with over 100 creative physics-based challenges, sports and bloody disasters! Build contraptions to help every passenger reach their destination. Enjoy the sports by controlling your riders away from (or towards if you feel like it) peril!

Simulation Building Indie Casual Physics
Last tracked players
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86.9% positive
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In When Ski Lifts Go Wrong, you start in the rolling foothills and journey up to the jagged and exposed peaks. Puzzle over carefully designed scenarios to help every passenger reach their destination. Realistic physics means realistic disasters.

Build varied facilities and deal with rope tensions, control your riders across the perilous terrains, whether or not they meet peril is up to you!

OVER 100 CHALLENGING LEVELS

Construct various facilities and infrastructures such as chairlifts, gondolas, jumps, bridges and ramps. Build increasingly impressive structures as you progress through the varied campaign using your materials wisely. Cutting corners will save money, but it may compromise passenger safety with hilarious consequences!


ORIGINAL PHYSICS PUZZLES

Jump into the fabulous role of a mountain resort engineer and master the ropes physics; learn the stresses and strains that will impact all the different types of structures that you’ll build. Change between Build Mode and Simulation Mode whenever you want.

EXTREME SPORTS

After the construction - enjoy some sports! From Winter to Summer activity, try snowboarding, skiing, motorbiking, peddling and more…Take control of your riders and feel the mountain air to give them an extra nudge towards their destination and claim that coveted Number One leaderboard spot.


TOP OF THE ROPES

Keep an eye on your budget and tick off all the bonus objectives to be at the top of the online leaderboards. Grab all the trophies and enjoy puzzles from simple green to extreme black difficulty.

SANDBOX BUILDER MODE

Once you’ve mastered the slopes of When Ski Lifts Go Wrong, create your own in the easy-to-use level builder where your only limit is your imagination.

STEAM WORKSHOP

Test your engineering skills against creations from the rest of the community.

SOCIAL SHARING

Jump in head first and share your proudest or most disastrous replays with the community with the inbuilt gif and mp4 exporter that makes it easy to share your replays and creations online.


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System requirements Windows · macOS

Windows

Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 64bit
  • Processor: 2 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 1GB
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

macOS

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS: OS X 10.10
  • Processor: 2 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 1GB
  • Storage: 500 MB available space

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    Game details Languages, features & support
    Publisher
    Curve Games
    Brazilian rating
    6
    Steam Germany rating
    6
    Achievements
    40
    Metacritic
    80
    Features
    Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Stats, Steam Leaderboards, Includes level editor, Family Sharing
    Languages
    English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean, Polish
    Compatibility & accessibility Steam Deck, controllers & access features

    Can I Play This?

    Steam declarations and Valve's Steam Deck compatibility result. Missing data is shown as unknown, never unsupported.

    Sources fresh
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    Valve compatibility test
    The on-screen keyboard may need to be opened manually.
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    Controller support: unknown
    Structured language support (10)
    LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
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    FrenchYesNoNo
    GermanYesNoNo
    Spanish - SpainYesNoNo
    JapaneseYesNoNo
    RussianYesNoNo
    Simplified ChineseYesNoNo
    Portuguese - BrazilYesNoNo
    KoreanYesNoNo
    PolishYesNoNo
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    Game Insights

    Buy Verdict

    Wait — $14.99.

    Not the best time to buy. Price could improve with future sales.

    ▬ ~27 days until next sale

    Value Score

    Fair Value — 85th percentile.

    Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 85th percentile. Priced as Premium at $14.99.

    ▲ Premium pricing tier

    Genre Benchmarks

    Player Count Top 30%
    Value Ratio Top 15%

    Early Access Active

    Time in EA
    254 days
    Current Players
    2

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    Frequently Asked Questions

    Is When Ski Lifts Go Wrong worth buying right now?
    Wait — $14.99. Not the best time to buy. Price could improve with future sales.
    When does When Ski Lifts Go Wrong go on sale?
    Not the best time to buy. Price could improve with future sales.
    Is When Ski Lifts Go Wrong free to play?
    When Ski Lifts Go Wrong costs $14.99 on Steam.
    What genre is When Ski Lifts Go Wrong ?
    When Ski Lifts Go Wrong is a Casual, Indie, Simulation, Sports game.
    Who developed When Ski Lifts Go Wrong ?
    When Ski Lifts Go Wrong was developed by Hugecalf Studios and published by Curve Games.
    What platforms does When Ski Lifts Go Wrong support?
    Available on Steam for Windows, macOS.

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