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Race downhill on a bike across generated trails, balancing speed, tricks, and careful landings through risk-based career runs.
Released 07 May 2019
Ride Randomized Trails
Survive Career Runs
Nail Huge Jumps
Descenders is extreme downhill freeriding for the modern era, with procedurally generated worlds, and where mistakes have real consequences. Will you lead your team to glory and become the next legendary Descender?
Developed by RageSquid · Published by No More Robots
Descenders is a downhill mountain-biking game where you control a rider over steep trails, jumps, and obstacles. Steering, braking, and adjusting your rider in the air shape how you take corners, perform tricks, and land.
Career runs move through several locations with procedurally generated trail sections and challenges. You have a limited number of lives to reach the finish, so a crash can put a run at risk; mutators add abilities that can affect each attempt.
Outside career, you can ride bike parks, take on bonus challenges, and play online, including races against other players' ghosts. Rep and challenges provide progression toward rider and bike cosmetics, while teams and modded maps offer more ways to customize your riding.
In the supplied reviews, players often enjoy the bike handling, sense of speed, big jumps, and the satisfaction of landing tricks. Many appreciate the variety and replayability of generated trails, while some also value the option to relax and cruise. Others find the learning curve or career runs frustrating, and controller input problems are a recurring complaint in this sample.
From the developers of Action Henk, Descenders is a fast-paced extreme downhill biking game that's easy to pick up, but difficult to master.
Procedurally generated worlds: Take on different jumps, slopes and hillbombs every time you play
Freestyle bike controls: Control every subtle movement of your rider, with an in-depth physics system made for slick whips and scrubs
Rogue-Bike: Earn special mutators each time you play, and work out which abilities work best for your riding style
Build your Rep: A fully-featured online Rep system lets you show off your worth, and earn new bikes and threads
Fully licensed soundtrack: We've partnered up with drum & bass label Liquicity to bring you the perfect soundtrack for hitting the mountains
Become the next Descender: Can you survive the game in a single run, and reach the ranks of the legendary Descenders?
In Descenders, your team is your life. When you pick a side -- Enemy, Arboreal or Kinetic -- you'll be bound together with other players who choose the same side as you.
Grab your bike, pick your team, and attempt to live up to the legend of your Descender. Will you join the die-hard, trick-frenzy ranks of Team Enemy, the proficient, off-road stylings of Team Arboreal, or the high-octane, speed-is-everything Team Kinetic?
Wear your team's colors and apparel with pride, and receive exclusive team gear
Exclusive prizes are awarded to the team with the most Rep
Gain access to your team's exclusive channel on the Descenders Discord server
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 42 |
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| Players | From 1 (maximum not specified) |
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| Multiplayer | Descenders supports single-player and online multiplayer. Steam lists Online PvP, and the descriptions and reviews indicate shared online lobbies, public and private/password-protected lobbies, team-based competition via Rep, and the ability to ride with friends or random players. Players appear to be non-colliding ghosts in sessions. Multiplayer exists in freeride, races, and general lobby riding, but several reviews report lobby/joining limitations and some progression limits in multiplayer. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Mod support is present. Reviews conflict on multiplayer use: some say custom/community maps are playable online with friends and strangers, while another says custom maps are solo-only. Multiplayer mod support is therefore unclear. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 78/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
