# RIDGERUNNERS

**A first-person momentum time-attack racer.**

Build speed downhill, launch across vast landscapes, and use gravity and your weapons to carry momentum between checkpoints. Find the fastest route, race ghosts and live players, and climb the global leaderboard.

## Facts

- **Developer:** ultramegasuper games
- **Release:** 2027
- **Platforms:** Windows and Linux; macOS support planned for release
- **Price:** TBA
- **Press contact:** support@ridgerunnersgame.com

## Official links

- **Steam and free demo:** https://store.steampowered.com/app/4970370/RIDGERUNNERS/
- **Website:** https://ridgerunnersgame.com/
- **Press kit:** https://ridgerunnersgame.com/press/
- **Downloadable MP4:** https://ridgerunnersgame.com/press/trailer_demo_v2_4k.mp4 (Google Drive; original 3840 x 2160, 60 fps, 37.013 seconds, H.264/AAC)
- **Watch on YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoOj2sSVAaE

## Free demo

Choose Flow or Rook and learn their movement in New Beginnings. The main journey continues through First Tracks and Danger Zone, then finishes with Hot Stuff. Icebreaker and Dusty Playground are optional extras.

- **New Beginnings:** A guided introduction to your runner's movement and equipment.
- **First Tracks:** Find your fastest line on the training mountain, with enemy encounters and world events switched off.
- **Danger Zone:** Race through seven checkpoints on a rain-soaked mountain, choosing your route around turrets and other hazards.
- **Hot Stuff:** Steal a defended relic and return it to the extraction ship.
- **Icebreaker (optional):** Stay ahead of a huge avalanche chasing you across the mountain.
- **Dusty Playground (optional):** Explore a canyon playground or race its full tour through tunnels, bowls and a natural stone arch.

Flow uses charged jumps and aerial control; Rook brings a jetpack and movement weapons. Replay the timed missions, chase medals and personal-best ghosts, and compare times on separate runner leaderboards.

## The story behind the game

RIDGERUNNERS is being made by Andy, the solo developer behind ultramegasuper games: father of three boys, a web developer by day, and a former Tribes: Ascend fanatic.

When Andy wanted to play Tribes, he couldn’t find anything that scratched the same skiing itch he once had. Tribes’ frictionless movement had stayed with him, but he wanted a way to master the movement and measure his progress without having to survive firefights against players with decades of practice.

The answer was to build the game he wanted to play. RIDGERUNNERS takes that love of skiing and combines it with movement ideas from other favourite games, giving players a toolkit built around control, speed, and maintaining momentum.

The idea spent several years in Andy’s head before he began building it in Godot.