When Ski Lifts Go Wrong

When Ski Lifts Go Wrong

Worth it · Strategy · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $14.99.

Length
7.7h 38.1h to 100%
Value
$1.95/hr
Reviews
86% of 888 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

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

Raising the score
Replayability~38h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 7.7h main story
Holding it back
Value$1.95/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 189 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

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!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1GB, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

76 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Contraption Maker ($6.49, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Mutilate-a-Doll 2 ($9.00, scores 64).

More about When Ski Lifts Go Wrong

Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 204 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 7.7 hours; clearing it takes 38, which is 4.9 times the campaign.

The drop-off

73% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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
2 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 03:53 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

Cite this score

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When Ski Lifts Go Wrong scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/638000/when-ski-lifts-go-wrong
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Reviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+6
Critics80
Players86
Metacritic critics · 888 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperHugecalf Studios
PublisherCurve Games
GenreStrategy
Released2019
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements40