Descenders, an indie sports activities recreation from RageSquid and No Extra Robots, is quietly among the finest video games on Xbox Game Pass due to its partaking bike-riding gameplay and endlessly playable, procedurally generated ranges. Now, it’s getting a sequel known as Descenders Subsequent that trades in biking for snowboarding and mountainboarding.
In Descenders Subsequent, gamers can select from a wide range of handcrafted parks or procedurally generated stage “nodes” throughout a number of totally different biomes. Gamers are then free to snowboard or mountainboard down the mountain, performing tips and increase their fame alongside the best way.
Descenders Subsequent absolutely embraces multiplayer too, so it’s potential to play each stage with mates. With its solely actual competitors being Steep, Descenders Subsequent appears to be like like it can fill a disappointing void that at the moment exists within the excessive sports activities style.
The builders are planning to supply many extra customization choices for riders and their gear, and the sport will function gear from unspecified “actual manufacturers.” Different promised options embody an in-game technique to edit gameplay, a fame system tied to recreation development, and a soundtrack by Monstercat. On X (formerly Twitter), Mike Rose, No Extra Robots firm director, teased that Descenders Subsequent will “begin life with boarding sports activities, earlier than including an increasing number of excessive sports activities over time.”
Descenders Next can be launched on PC through Steam and Xbox Sequence X/S someday in 2025. It will likely be obtainable as a part of the Xbox Recreation Move catalog from day one as properly, constructing off the success its predecessor found on the subscription service.
