$4.99 (−75%)Trials Evolution: Gold Edition Physics That Punish and Reward
Race side-view motorbike obstacle courses where every lean and burst of throttle decides whether you roll over the line or fly headfirst into a saw blade.
Is Trials Evolution: Gold Edition worth it?
Trials Evolution: Gold Edition is worth it if…
- you like games that are easy to pick up and brutally hard to master
- you enjoy short, fast sessions where one more run turns into fifty
- you want a deep level editor and a mountain of community-made tracks
- you like competing against your own times as much as against other people
- you can forgive a launcher that asks for your password more often than you'd like
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Physics that make every crash your own fault
You ride a motorbike through short, vicious obstacle courses: ramps, collapsing platforms, explosives, industrial machinery, jumps that land on impossibly narrow strips of track. The controls take seconds to learn. Two inputs, lean and throttle. Mastering them is the whole game.
Every shift of the rider's weight and every landing angle matters. Lean too far back on a jump and the bike flips; hit a spring at the wrong speed and the rider is launched somewhere unfortunate. The physics feel weighty and precise, so when a run goes wrong, you know exactly why.
The upside: restarts are near instant. You fail, you retry, you shave off a second, and suddenly an hour has gone. That loop of tiny, hard-won improvement is what keeps people playing for hundreds of hours.
Two games of tracks, one Gold Edition
That is a long, well-paced set of courses with a fair difficulty curve: early tracks teach the physics gently, later ones demand near-perfect runs.
Each track has medals to chase and a replay system that shows your checkpoint times against your previous attempts, so you can see exactly where a run fell apart. Gold medals often mean sitting on one track for hours, clawing back milliseconds. A hidden tier above that exists for people with unusual patience.
The environments range from indoor warehouses to open outdoor courses, and you can customize your bike and rider along the way.
Can you still play it with friends?
Can you play multiplayer?
The game has local multiplayer, so you can race friends on the same machine and on the couch. Online features, including online multiplayer, track sharing and global leaderboards, have been shut down, so what remains is the single player content, local play and the level editor. Community guides describe ways to download archives of player-made tracks to play offline.
How hard is it really?
The first tracks are genuinely approachable, and the difficulty curve introduces new ideas gradually. But the game does not forgive small mistakes, and the later tiers demand precise timing on narrow landing zones. Chasing gold medals on a single track for a few hours is a normal evening. It suits players who enjoy a challenge, not anyone looking for a relaxed ride.
