Extreme sports have a legion of admirers around the world. Practiced on land, water and air, these modalities involve risks and require skill in activities such as skateboarding, surfing, motocross and skydiving.
And this intensity translates perfectly into games that allow you to experience these activities immersively and dynamically. For those who want to feel the emotion without leaving home, we have selected 10 options of extreme sports games for PC and consoles.
10 Radical Sports Games for PC and Consoles
Descenders
If you enjoy cycling, “descenders” is the ideal game. The title is a Mountain Bike Downhill game, a mountain cycling modality focused on steep and technical descents.
With a diversity of environments, descenders levels are generated procedurally. The goal of the game is to go down a path on a dirt trail and perform maneuvers with the bicycle. If you fall many times, you lose in the phase. Each level has random goals to be completed.
The game offers offline and online modes. It is possible to play without constantly connected to the internet.
- Paid to play.
- Platforms: PC (Windows, Linux, MacOS), Mobile (Android and IOS), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch.
Riders Republic
Developed and published by Ubisoft, “Riders Republic” brings a variety of extreme sports in an open world.
The proposal is to explore, with the sports equipment of your choice, an environment aimed at extreme sportsmen. Its open world brings together seven distinct places from western US in a single map.
The game offers four main extreme sports: mountain cycling, skiing, snowboarding and wingsuit.
Although it has a single-power offline mode with limited features, the focus of “Riders Republic” is online gambling, where you need to be connected all the time.
“Riders Republic” calls itself as a massive multiplayer that allows dozens of players to share the same open world and participate in events simultaneously.
- Paid to play.
- Platforms: PC (Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.
Steep
Another Ubisoft title involving extreme sports is “steep”. The game features an open world set in the Alps and includes various winter extreme sports such as skiing, snowboarding, paragliding and wingsuit.
“Steep” is an online game and needs permanent connection to play. The title has single and multiplayer modes and can be played in the first or third person.
- Paid to play.
- Platforms: PC (Windows), PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2
When it comes to skateboards, the series Tony Hawk’s It is one of the best known. Developed by Vicarious Visions and published by Activision, “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2” is a remake of the first two franchise games.
The game is focused on skate maneuvers, and the goal is to achieve a high score or collect specific objects. To score, you need to perform and combine maneuvers. The special bar is filled with hits, allowing special tricks that generate more points. Falls annul the sequence and empty the special bar.
On consoles, it is not necessary to be constantly online to play. Already on the PC, is required connection to the internet.
- Paid to play.
- Platforms: PC (Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch.
Lonely Mountains: Downhill
Mountain Bike Game, “Lonely Mountains: Downhill” aims to complete trails in different mountains.
The gameplay is in third person, with a fixed camera that accompanies the player in the descent. However, cliff falls or hills with obstacles can cause death.
The game is single player and does not require constant connection to the internet.
- Paid to play.
- Platforms: PC (Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.
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Surf World Series
This surfing game prioritizes fun rather than realism. With an emphasis on maneuvers, “Surf World Series” presents five famous sports destinations: Bell’s Beach (Australia), Waimea Bay (Hawaii), SuperTubes (Portugal), Cacimba do Father (Brazil) and Jeffreys Bay (South Africa).
Focused on the Single Player experience, “Surf World Series” does not require constant internet connection.
- Paid to play.
- Platforms: PC (Windows), PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Trials Rising
2.5D motorcycling game, developed and published by Ubisoft, “Trials Rising” puts the player in control of a driver who faces challenges on tracks around the world.
Each route has varied obstacles, requiring balance and accuracy to overcome them. In addition to solo races, the game offers multiplayer mode, allowing both locally and online competition.
- Paid to play
- Platforms: PC (Windows), Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Session: Skate
This game is a skate simulator with physics focused on realism. In “Session: Skate YES”, each control represents one of the feet, being necessary to learn to control them and transfer weight, as in a skate in real life. Therefore, it is necessary to play it with control, and it is not possible to use mouse and keyboard.
The title is an open world game and is presented in the style of a fish eye lens, emulating the 90s and early 2000s skate age. It requires no constant connection to the internet to be played.
- Paid to play
- Platforms: PC (Windows), Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.
Monster Energy Supercross: The Official Video Game
Developed and published by Milestone, “Monster Energy Supercross: The Official VideoGame” is a motocross game full of adrenaline.
Based on the Official Monster Energy Ama Supercross Championship, his gameplay presents physics close to a realistic simulator and brings pilots and official clues. It is not necessary to maintain a constant online connection to play.
- Paid to play
- Platforms: PC (Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch.
Skater xl
With realistic gameplay, “Skater XL” allows full control over skaters movements, without automatic or predefined maneuvers.
Each analog directional of control represents one of the feet. In moving them, the game simulates the real movement of the foot on skateboarding, giving freedom to create their own maneuvers.
Therefore, it takes control to play without keyboard support. It does not require constant online connection to be played.
- Paid to play
- Platforms: PC (Windows), Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.