Trials Rising

Trials Rising is everything you love about "Trials" combined with everything that you hate about where the industry has shifted towards over the last decade.
While this game has a poor reputation for its loot boxes (purely cosmetics) and ghosts (easily disabled) --- the biggest downfall for Rising would have to be the stupid Challenge system.
Previous Trials games were more linear... accumulate 'X' amount of medals and you will unlock the next batch of levels. If you're unfortunate enough to achieve Gold's on your first playthrough, Trials Rising will eventually force you to complete a bunch of mindless "Challenges" to level up. Otherwise, you will literally be stuck. The challenges force you to complete random stipulations, such as completing a track within 90 seconds while performing 10 backflips. The next level might require completing the track with a specific bike, and so forth.
Despite my play time on Steam, I've actually logged 10 hours on the PS5; I love the game and wish I could play MORE levels, but I'm burned out. If you do not purchase the Expansion Pass, you will easily get to a point where you can no longer unlock anything within 2-4 hours --- and the highest track difficulty is MEDIUM. I'm actually up to level 53, and I have still not unlocked a single Hard or Ninja track.
There are several Skill Games, and I believe one "tutorial" track is also locked. I'm literally forced to re-play levels... not because *I* want to shave milliseconds from my PB's, or to beat someone else's PB's in my Friends List. No... I have re-play levels and complete whatever mundane "Challenge" the game has generated... grinding away to slowly level up.
It's a shame, because this is otherwise a great game and would have been my favorite Trials game if it simply had a more traditional, linear progression system that allowed me to unlock more stages. I ended up purchasing the game on Steam to support the developer and I hope another Trials game eventually hits the market.
Also, despite recent reviews, the game absolutely still runs as of the time of this review.
If you're a fan of Trials, check it out... on sale. Be prepared to purchase the Expansion Pass, as well. Otherwise, you're only getting a few hours of gaming and a few dozen Easy and Medium tracks until you're forced to grind out the same levels over... and over... and over... and over... and over... and over....
and over...

I like it and the levels are good but the lootboxes and money grabbing stuff is bad

Hard to believe it has been 5 years since the last Trials game came out. We are really due for a new one
p.s. playtime does not represent total time. Spent countless hours on console

Trials Rising is a masterpiece of a game in and already excellent series. Another perfect combination of platformer and physics, loaded with content and fun ways to compete with friends without having to play at the same time as them (while still having the option to do so). Super high skill ceiling makes the game very challenging but rewarding.
I think the Steam version had a hiccup where it wasn't playable for a while but it's fine now. When I booted it up it crashed, then I booted it again and it was fine, and the exact same thing happened to my friend. I used to play this a lot on PS4 but now that the Steam version has achievements added I'd much prefer to play on here. Still has lots of community content like tracks, player and bike customizations, etc. There's microtransations for some extra tracks and bikes but they don't ask for more than a skin in your average live service game would cost, and there isn't very much of it here anyway. Most of the DLC bikes feel gimmicky and barely usable anyway, Mantis (base game bike) will always be supreme.
Insanely fun and addictive, and Steam version is at it's peak right now since the latest update a few days ago, works fine for my friend and I despite other reviews that mention the game not launching. I assume it was a bug they fixed.

To steam deck users as of today, the hex editor hack does make this playable. I’ve tried it in the past and I did not have luck finding the correct offset mentioned. I was given guidance to try a different hex editor and can confirm that Okteta does show the offset and I was able to get the game running on steam deck. Prior to this it would just crash due to shit Ubisoft Anticheat. Use this guide for disable Anticheat. The only thing of note is the offset appeared as 0178:ACC0 instead of 0178ACC0 using Okteta. HexEdit did not work for me on steam deck. This may also work for other users on other Operating systems, cannot confirm.
Scroll down towards bottom for the Anti Cheat hex edit guide. “For steam”
We should not have to do this crap. Fuuk Ubisoft. I hate supporting them, but love this series.

despite what my hours say on steam I have around 1k hours combined across playstation and steam. seriously such a good game but ubisoft can go fuck themselves. just make sure to buy the game on sale with the dlcs for like A$10 (idk like $7 usd or smth)

Trials Rising is a physics-based motorcycle platformer racing game where you can play alone against other people's times or with friends. The game is only played with four keys, yes its learning curve is extremely steep. I enjoyed it for a while with friends, but multiplayer is pretty dead, so keep that in mind if you are not planning to play it solo. There is a good variety of tracks, and bikes, but the game is full of micro transactions. 7/10 overall.