Descenders Next
As in the original Descenders, players in Descenders Next race down the mountain at high speed. This time, however, they are not on mountain bikes, but on snowboards and mountainboards. The feeling of speed is still intense.
Descenders Next was a shadow drop — and a highly successful one, the extreme sports game attracting 100,000 players within 24 hours of its release and 500,000 players in its first week. For comparison, it took the original Descenders 18 months to reach this number of players, though the mountain bike downhill racing game has since amassed a player base of over 35 million since its launch seven years ago. Building on the success of Descenders, the Netherlands-based developer RageSquid and the UK-based data-driven publishing label No More Robots aim to deliver the same feel and sense of speed but expand beyond mountain biking. This time, the game focuses on snowboarding and mountainboarding, each with their own objectives and challenges - but there's no mountain biking this time (yet). Interestingly, Descenders Next follows the same pattern as Megagon Industries, who first introduced downhill mountain biking in Lonely Mountains: Downhill (2019), followed by Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders (2025), which features skiing in a winter setting. However, Descenders sets itself apart by offering a third-person perspective and a strong sense of speed.