Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders
Fair · Short indie · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $14.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jan 2025. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 3.1h 10.3h to 100%
- Value
- $4.84/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 813 positive
Full price
Today
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.48 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Crash over and over until you master the mountain in the snowy followup to Lonely Mountains: Downhill. Now also including 2-8 person crossplatform multiplayer - work your way down the slopes together as a group, or risk it all in a breakneck race to the base!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
February 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. Across all 17 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Riders Republic ($39.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Golf Gang ($9.99, scores 55).
More about Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders
None of the 363 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 145 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.1 hours; clearing it takes 10, which is 3.3 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
97% 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
- Players online
- 19 when we last checked, on Sep 27, 16:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
really fun single player game and if you can convince your freinds to join it can be really fun with them
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders nails that same meditative-but-tense flow the studio's known for, just swap bikes for boards and dial up the powder. Runs feel simple on paper - get from top to bottom - but the mountain punishes greed and rewards patience, and figuring out your own line down each peak never gets old. Overwhelmingly multi-faceted for a game with such a minimalist look: different routes, hidden...
Good game and graphics. Very buggy with my 2 monitor setup and can't configure controller.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2545360/lonely-mountains-snow-ridersReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.