Slope Bike

About Slope Bike

Slope Bike is an endless bike game from the hyper casual genre: you control a bike as it drives and accelerates through a series of interconnected slopes, and you steer left or right to keep your run going. The developer calls the gameplay simple, and it is — the run is the whole game.

It uses two keys, which makes it one of the easier games here to pick up for a minute. If you want more of the same, Slope Racing and Slope City are the other two on this shelf.

How to play

Steer with A and D or the left and right arrow keys. Those are the only keys the developer lists, so there is no speed or brake key to manage — your job is to steer the bike as it drives and accelerates through the slopes. On phones and tablets, swipe with your finger to steer.

Controls

• A and D, or Left and Right arrows
• Swipe to steer on mobile
• Single player

Tips to win

• Steer in small taps rather than long holds, so you can correct in either direction.
• Look further down the track, not at your bike — you want to see the next turn before you reach it.
• It is an endless game, so chase a better run than your last one rather than a finish line.

Slope Bike strategy guide

Two keys and nothing else. Steer with A and D, or with the left and right arrow keys. On a phone or tablet, swipe to steer. The developer lists no accelerator or brake key — you control a bike as it drives and accelerates through a series of interconnected slopes, and your job is to decide which way it points. That is the whole control scheme, which is why this is one of the fastest games here to pick up for a single run.

Steer in taps, not holds. A held key keeps turning you long after you meant to stop. Short taps, repeated, keep you centred on the track and let you correct in either direction. If you find yourself holding one direction to fight a drift, you have probably over-corrected.

Look further down the track. Your eyes want to follow the bike, and that is too late — by the time a turn is next to your wheels you have very little time to react to it. Watch further ahead instead and let peripheral vision handle the bike. This feels unnatural for the first few runs and then becomes the habit that makes your runs longer.

An endless run. The developer describes Slope Bike as an endless bike racing game, so there is no finish line to reach. The listing does not spell out what ends a run — the game is tagged Avoid and Platform — so use your first few attempts to learn that, then measure yourself against your previous best run rather than the idea of finishing.

If you like this, the shelf is deeper. Slope Bike sits in the same hyper-casual endless-runner family as Slope Racing and Slope City, both of which are on this site. They share the two-key steering idea and differ in what you are steering and how the track is built, so if the format suits you there are several more runs available without learning a new control scheme.

Slope Bike FAQ