Trials Evolution: Gold Edition
Skip · Multiplayer · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 10h
- Value
- $0.50/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 10 compliant, 512 Mb video memory, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Trials Evolution: Gold Edition marks the Trials franchise’s triumphant return to the PC gaming platform. RedLynx’s signature franchise, the Trials series first made its mark in gaming with the 2008 release of Trials 2 SE for the PC.
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The value story
February 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. It has been discounted 88 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today's $4.99 at 75 percent off still sits 25 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 26 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SpeedRunners ($2.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Trials Fusion™ ($3.99, scores 20).
85 on Metacritic, 75 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
Of the 507 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 400 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 10 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 72, 7.2 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
6% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
7 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Simply an incredible game: super fun to play around with as a beginner, yet deep enough to reward hours upon hours spent practicing, improving, experimenting. It includes all base-game tracks from both Trials Evolution and from the previous game Trials HD, which makes for a great set of tracks to play through. So I recommend it, but there are glaring issues to be aware of: - The game does not include any of the DLC...
The Ubisoft login is crazy annoying, but the game otherwise is finger licking good! I've played it for hundreds of hours on Xbox 360 and am now completing it on PC. For extra smooth gameplay, "Lossless Scaling" application set to 2x the framerate, makes the gameplay much more pleasant on high refresh rate display.
If you lose your Ubisoft login they will not allow you to play the game. Purchasing this game does not mean you own it.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Trials Evolution: Gold Edition scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/220160/trials-evolution-gold-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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