Review: When Ski Lifts Go Wrong (Steam)
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!
Pros:
- Nice graphics.
- 601MB Download size.
- Steam achievements.
- Construction puzzler gameplay
- Graphics- Resolution, Windowed, Shadows, Target FPS, AA, AO, Clouds, V-Sync and custom slider.
- Rebind controls.
- Steam trading cards.
- When Ski Lifts Go Wrong has Steam workshop support. Download/create/share creations.
- Colorblind support.
- Four modes-Campaign, Sandbox, Workshop, and gallery.
- Gallery- Collection of everyone’s images and video.
- When Ski Lifts Go Wrong has a tutorial (skippable) in the campaign.
- Easy to use recording feature built in.
- Recording options- Set duration/FPS/Ram usage/Slider.
- A lot of humor throughout.
- Handy help icons- Can flip your view type to show stress levels in structures.
- When Ski Lifts Go Wrong uses a grid screen interface.
- Objects- You can build or adjust parts.
- Snap-on mechanics.
- Full 360-degree camera and a passenger view.
- Two stages to the game- Planning then playing.
- Can take control of the skiers and perform tricks.
- Medals- In each level collect it for rewards.
- Levels have a main objective then 3 optional objectives.
Cons:
- Controls have a learning curve.
- No dedicated test area.
- Skiers are a bit of a pain to control.
- The When Ski Lifts Go Wrong UI is not the best.
- Very difficult and feels unbalanced on how quickly it escalates.
