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When Ski Lifts Go Wrong

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!

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Developer
Hugecalf Studios
Publisher
Curve Games
Release
January 23, 2019
7 years and 193 days ago
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Very Positive881 reviews86.5%

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About the Game



In When Ski Lifts Go Wrong, you start in the rolling foothills and journey up to the jagged and exposed peaks. Puzzle over carefully designed scenarios to help every passenger reach their destination. Realistic physics means realistic disasters.

Build varied facilities and deal with rope tensions, control your riders across the perilous terrains, whether or not they meet peril is up to you!

OVER 100 CHALLENGING LEVELS

Construct various facilities and infrastructures such as chairlifts, gondolas, jumps, bridges and ramps. Build increasingly impressive structures as you progress through the varied campaign using your materials wisely. Cutting corners will save money, but it may compromise passenger safety with hilarious consequences!


ORIGINAL PHYSICS PUZZLES

Jump into the fabulous role of a mountain resort engineer and master the ropes physics; learn the stresses and strains that will impact all the different types of structures that you’ll build. Change between Build Mode and Simulation Mode whenever you want.

EXTREME SPORTS

After the construction - enjoy some sports! From Winter to Summer activity, try snowboarding, skiing, motorbiking, peddling and more…Take control of your riders and feel the mountain air to give them an extra nudge towards their destination and claim that coveted Number One leaderboard spot.


TOP OF THE ROPES

Keep an eye on your budget and tick off all the bonus objectives to be at the top of the online leaderboards. Grab all the trophies and enjoy puzzles from simple green to extreme black difficulty.

SANDBOX BUILDER MODE

Once you’ve mastered the slopes of When Ski Lifts Go Wrong, create your own in the easy-to-use level builder where your only limit is your imagination.

STEAM WORKSHOP

Test your engineering skills against creations from the rest of the community.

SOCIAL SHARING

Jump in head first and share your proudest or most disastrous replays with the community with the inbuilt gif and mp4 exporter that makes it easy to share your replays and creations online.


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