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When Ski Lifts Go Wrong

2019

Should you play it?

Ride into a hilarious construction puzzler; packed with over 100 creative physics-based challenges, sports and bloody disasters! Build contraptions to help every passenger reach their destination. Enjoy the sports by controlling your riders away from (or towards if you feel like it) peril!

What works

  • Creative and challenging physics puzzles
  • Relaxing music and visuals
  • Extensive content with workshop and sandbox modes
  • Friendly competition via leaderboards
  • Engaging and satisfying gameplay loop

Things to keep in mind

  • Sometimes inconsistent physics simulation
  • Clunky controls for character segments
  • Steep difficulty ramp in some levels
  • Limited social interaction and cooperation
  • Some ui and camera quirks

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Poly Bridge 2

  • Turbo Dismount® 2

  • Poly Bridge

  • Lonely Mountains: Downhill

  • Driftwood

  • SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding

Less competitive

Games that feels like When Ski Lifts Go Wrong but with less competition against others

  • Tiny Town VR

  • ShantyTown

  • Toki Tori 2+

  • Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

  • Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation

  • Crazy Machines 3

More fantastical

Games that feels like When Ski Lifts Go Wrong but with more imaginative fiction

  • Rain on Your Parade

  • WHAT THE CAR?

  • Poi

  • OlliOlli World

  • Skill Legends Royale

  • Pool Panic

More story-driven

Games that feels like When Ski Lifts Go Wrong but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Once Upon A KATAMARI

  • World of Goo

  • Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip

  • Lifeslide

  • Duck Life 8: Adventure

  • Just Crow Things

Choose your own criteria ->

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

When Ski Lifts Go Wrong: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition, Status, Violence.

Last update: 03/08/2026