Steep

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6.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 190 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 47 out of 190
  3. Negative: 40 out of 190
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  1. ChaoticEnigma92
    Jan 12, 2017
    3
    Fairly mediocre, buggy beyond tolerance, and contains always online DRM. I maintain that of you cant make a game better than one that came out over a decade ago, maybe you shouldn't bother. Graphics are decent when not bugging out, physics are laughable, and again always on DRM.
  2. DrVarsims
    Mar 11, 2017
    4
    Art / Graphics = 8
    Gameplay = 5
    Controls = 5 UI = 4 Multiplayer = 3 UPlay Server Connection Quality = 2 Price = 3 The game does look quite nice, the animations are fluid and life-like. The environment is large and detailed, but could be better. The gameplay is fun for a few hours, but gets old fast, your mileage may vary. The controls can be rather clunky, mainly when you    Art / Graphics = 8
    Gameplay = 5
    Controls = 5
    UI = 4
    Multiplayer = 3
    UPlay Server Connection Quality = 2
    Price = 3

    The game does look quite nice, the animations are fluid and life-like. The environment is large and detailed, but could be better.

    The gameplay is fun for a few hours, but gets old fast, your mileage may vary.

    The controls can be rather clunky, mainly when you are at a stand still and want to ski / board in a certain direction and the character spins in circles, or when you want to jump off a ledge to wingsuit and the character jumps in the wrong direction.

    The UI is not great, the map view is hard to control and the pause menu is not intuitive.

    Multiplayer is quite weak. In all honesty this is a single player game, you race against other player's ghosts in challenges, so you should be able to play offline by yourself or with bots even, but you can't.

    What really hurts the experience is server connection issues preventing you from loading and playing the game. I'll be kind and assume that since I played during a free weekend the servers could not handle the stress. Late at night I didn't have any issues, but mid-day I could not connect once.

    Ubisoft should not have made this game online only and the game could benefit from a more structured campagin. I value this product at $20, $60 is a far stretch.    … Expand
  3. angrywombat
    Jan 8, 2020
    4
    People argue that it's just a realistic game, but the controls are just bad, and the physics are unpredictable. I don't mind a difficult game, but this just isn't fun.
  4. Rezil18
    Jan 4, 2020
    3
    The graphics are very good looking but when it comes to gameplay it simply just does not work, also the game is running very poorly because of it's DRM, always online protection, witch almost makes it unplayable from a very smooth performance when a new player shows up.
  5. wolverine_
    Feb 18, 2018
    0
    Deeply unsatisfying experience coupled with loads of technical issues (the game won't start, the internet is filled with people complaining about it, it takes ages to try out a list of things to get it fixed, then it drops the server connection and you can't play it if you're off-line). The gameplay is frustrating.
  6. Bronson_DK
    Dec 7, 2016
    3
    This could have been such a great game

    Pro's -Beautiful open world with an enormous back country of snow, "jumps" (if you can figure it out) and clear blue sky -Exploration from the ground and the air. The pure joy of exploring the map is a game in it self -The weather system - There is so much diversity in day and night, visibility and the feeling of being on the mountain. Con's    This could have been such a great game

    Pro's
    -Beautiful open world with an enormous back country of snow, "jumps" (if you can figure it out) and clear blue sky
    -Exploration from the ground and the air. The pure joy of exploring the map is a game in it self
    -The weather system - There is so much diversity in day and night, visibility and the feeling of being on the mountain.

    Con's
    -Horrible handling. The first thing that struck me was the controls. It's near almost impossible to start or land a trick. I all of the beta's the feedback forum was exploding with comment's about the controls. But non of these changes made it into the final game.
    -UI. The interface takes up way too much of the screen and the event icons are way too big.
    -Lack of customization of your character. There are very few options to tweak you character and make it more personal
    -The soundtrack. Even though the music is mostly fine it becomes almost painful after a couple of days of gameplay. And if you have a favorite challenge it will always start with the same song... The result is that you turn of the music entirely.

    For what could have been a great game I end up with a very low score 3/10
    The fine people at Ubisoft needs to stop making big open worlds without quality gameplay.    … Expand
  7. downliner
    Dec 11, 2016
    4
    Sorry Ubisoft i really don't see how you can justify selling this game at a triple A price but also include pointless microtransactions.

    In terms of the game how can you not switch from say the parachute to the wingsuit to the snowboard or skis in one single session like you can in Just Cause 2 and 3? Why instead did you put everything into a category and not just make the whole    Sorry Ubisoft i really don't see how you can justify selling this game at a triple A price but also include pointless microtransactions.

    In terms of the game how can you not switch from say the parachute to the wingsuit to the snowboard or skis in one single session like you can in Just Cause 2 and 3? Why instead did you put everything into a category and not just make the whole experience more streamlined?

    People say its worth it because of the graphics but we all saw how graphics do not decide how good a game is with examples like Ryse: Son of Rome and Battlefront. True, Ubisoft has the graphics thing down but why they would want to destroy a sports fan base they have not even built yet by loading a game with micro transactions is beyond me.

    For example a new costume that only you would be seeing is priced at £7 GBP. Who is going to buy that stuff? Bad enough to charge £59.99 for the game but you have to bleed your customer base even more with this?

    That's why this game gets a 4. Good for an hour or so but chances are you will never touch it again after that and to me that just isn't worth nearly 60 quid.    … Expand
  8. eldumloido
    Jan 2, 2017
    0
    Controls are horrible. You can't do tricks and everything else is too easy. Avoid. Need more characters and have nothing more to say about this piece of crap.
  9. mileafly
    May 10, 2020
    0
    Always Online = Always Negative Review

    I can't recommend a game that is Always Online. There is an option to just free ride if playing Offline, but then all progress and challanges are locked. I guess that is 10% better then just having a brick if you con't have a connection, but it is not good enough.
  10. Xxdaniels751xX
    May 13, 2017
    3
    The game, it seems very bad, I love the landscapes and it stays there. What a disappointment and I think it is very brazen that ubi has not put the batteries. I will not buy it. I'm sorry, on top of that the game is bad, it forces me to have the Internet, it's okay.
  11. NorwaySpruce
    May 21, 2019
    2
    Runs like garbage and the controls are unresponsive for keyboard and mouse. 1080ti getting 51fps with extreme screen tearing. It will detect if you have an xbox controller linked but it wont respond to any button presses or anything. Sometimes it will just stop responding to keyboard input unless you restart whatever activity you're doing. Graphics and sound settings reset every time youRuns like garbage and the controls are unresponsive for keyboard and mouse. 1080ti getting 51fps with extreme screen tearing. It will detect if you have an xbox controller linked but it wont respond to any button presses or anything. Sometimes it will just stop responding to keyboard input unless you restart whatever activity you're doing. Graphics and sound settings reset every time you launch the game and it looks like you're viewing everything through a tinted car window.… Expand
  12. Superkimsanboy
    Dec 24, 2020
    0
    시스템 개 쓰레기같이 만들었네 게임을 할 수가 없잖아 씨발
  13. RomanGor
    Nov 7, 2019
    2
    унылая игрушка, которая завораживает своими видами первые пол часа, потом наскучивает
  14. rojcyk
    Feb 14, 2021
    0
    Always online DRM. Extremely buggy. The riding is totally unpredictable and t he controls are beyond broken. it is allright for a simple riding but that is about it. And to make it worse, it makes all the hard races hard by giving NPCs superpowers and making them ignore the physics.
  15. f1o_o1f
    Mar 27, 2020
    4
    graphics isn't everything

    luckily I got this game for free. Otherwise I'd feel really ripped off. Pros: - really great graphics - It's fun for a while - Every mode has it's strengths and the feeling of speed really delivers - The snow "feels" great. Generally driving physis are very nice - good feeling when landing a "difficult" trick perfectly Cons: - Online required -    graphics isn't everything

    luckily I got this game for free. Otherwise I'd feel really ripped off.

    Pros:
    - really great graphics
    - It's fun for a while
    - Every mode has it's strengths and the feeling of speed really delivers
    - The snow "feels" great. Generally driving physis are very nice
    - good feeling when landing a "difficult" trick perfectly

    Cons:
    - Online required
    - Half the game is behind a DLC-paywall. Very often that only shows when being redirected to the store. BIG NO NO
    - It's fun for a while but doing the same over and over again gets boring after about five hours
    - Controls can be very unresponsive at times. Gets really frustrating when driving down a 5 min course only to be resetted at the end because your character crashes for no reason
    - the g-force stuff seems very random and often doesn't make any sense
    - the game cannot decide whether to be realistic or not. It's trapped in a valley that just isn't right (for me)
    - only very little content for the full price (which dropped quite a bit from release)
    - very bad camera. First-person is even worse and doesn't resemble snowboarding in the slightest (havent tried skiing but can't imagine it being much better)
    - Controls are a pain in the a**. Especially for the wing-suit
    - HUD is not great. Especially when someone is driving in front of you and you can't see sh*t because the "add to party"-button covers the way
    - Map is other-worldy bad. Very very slow with controller and the buttons don't do what they're supposedd to
    - Everything -- and I mean EVERYTHING -- is inconvenient. The menus, the map, the HUD, the controls, online play...... it could've been so much better if anyone just cared at ubisoft...

    all in all just frustrating and not recommended    … Expand
  16. IhateSteep
    Dec 3, 2022
    0
    Yes, i created an account just to show how much i despise this game.

    I wish I could rate this piece of **** game a negative value/100. The controls are absolutely horrendous with the camera zooming around the map when you aren't even trying to. The physics on the mountain make no sense as a snowboarder myself. You get NO speed going across a mountain pitch laterally when in reality you    Yes, i created an account just to show how much i despise this game.

    I wish I could rate this piece of **** game a negative value/100. The controls are absolutely horrendous with the camera zooming around the map when you aren't even trying to. The physics on the mountain make no sense as a snowboarder myself. You get NO speed going across a mountain pitch laterally when in reality you get tons of speed doing this. The landing physics are atrocious. There is absolutely zero redeeming qualities about this game. I'm so glad it was free to try out because I would have taken them to court for a refund even if it meant losing thousands of my own dollars in doing so. I'd rather lose money in a legal battle and get a full refund then to let this developer have one cent from the game purchase.

    **** this game, **** the developer, **** the physics.    … Expand

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72

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. Quarter to Three
    Mar 1, 2017
    100
    The paradoxically relaxing thrill of skiing, without getting cold and wet, without having to travel up into some distant mountains, and without having to do practice a bunch of stunt combos so you can beat this track to unlock the next one. This is the Far Cry 2 of extreme sports games.
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Jan 26, 2017
    73
    Steep has managed to exceed my expectations, and now, after a long break, we finally have a triple-A game where you can shred down an Alpine mountain on a snowboard and fly using a wingsuit.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Jan 25, 2017
    70
    There are so many shortcomings in Steep’s design and gameplay, you can’t help but think it’s still a project, not a full game. The ideas are there, they’re good, they could have been developed into something groundbreaking; problem is – they weren’t. [Issue#216, p.44]
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