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Alto's Adventure is an iPhone and Android Games App, made by Snowman. Today, it has gone through many interations by the developers - Snowman, with the latest current version being 1.6.5 which was officially released on 2020-09-17. As a testament to the app's popularity or lack thereof, it has gathered a total of 1834 Reviews on the Apple App Store alone, with an average user rating of 4.6 out of a possible 5 stars.
"A piece of interactive art"
– WIRED
"Best of 2015" and "15 Most Beautiful Games"
– Apple
"Favorite Apps of 2015"
– The New York Times
"One of the best mobile games"
– The Verge
"Alto's Adventure demands your attention"
– IGN
"2015 Game of the Year"
– Product Hunt
"Best 2D Visual Experience"
– 2015 Unity Awards Finalist
"One of the best-looking games on the App Store"
– VICE
“The visuals really are incredible”
– TouchArcade
“Simply stunning”
– Red Bull
"Best Looking Video Games of 2015"
– TIME
"Wonderfully tranquil and beautiful"
– Engadget
"Best iPhone apps of 2015"
– Mashable
"I couldn't let Alto's Adventure slide by me"
– Destructoid
"Alto’s Adventure for iOS may be the most beautiful endless runner you’ve ever played"
– The Next Web
"Pristine and refined"
– LA Times
"An engaging, relaxing, and beautiful experience."
– MacStories
"Satisfies the soul"
– TechCrunch
"Alto's Adventure is the endless runner matured"
– Kotaku
"Alto’s Adventure is remarkably soothing"
– The New York Observer
"Favorite game of the year"
– BuzzFeed
"A joyous experience"
– GameSpot
"One of my favorite games"
– AppAdvice
"Alto is lovely"
– Eurogamer
"It’s seriously stunning"
– Macworld
"Alto's Adventure is a brilliant mobile game"
– PocketGamer
"A beautiful visual experience"
– CNET
"An elegant ride down nature's greatest landmarks"
– Kill Screen
"A compelling game to play"
– The Washington Post
"Every inch of this game is visually impressive and delightfully charming"
– Business Insider
Join Alto and his friends as they embark on an endless snowboarding odyssey. Journey across the beautiful alpine hills of their native wilderness, through neighbouring villages, ancient woodlands, and long-abandoned ruins.
Along the way you'll rescue runaway llamas, grind rooftops, leap over terrifying chasms and outwit the mountain elders – all while braving the ever changing elements and passage of time upon the mountain.
Features:
• Fluid, graceful and exhilarating physics-based gameplay
• Procedurally generated terrain based on real-world snowboarding
• Fully dynamic lighting and weather effects, including thunderstorms, blizzards, fog, rainbows, shooting stars, and more
• Easy to learn, difficult to master one button trick system
• Chain together combos to maximize points and speed
• Test your skills with 180 handcrafted goals
• Discover six unique snowboarders, each with their own special attributes and abilities
• Challenge your friends with Game Center. Compete for best high score, best distance, and best trick combo!
• Acquire the wingsuit from Izel’s workshop for an entirely new gameplay dynamic
• Beautifully minimalist and evocative visual design
• Original music and handcrafted audio for an ambient and immersive experience (headphones recommended!)
• Universal app with iCloud support. Play on your iPhone and iPad and your progress will always be in sync.
Alto’s Adventure is a premium game with no ads or in-app purchases.
Amazing, but...
This game is awesome!! The graphics and the story is amazing! However there’s still a minor detail that has to be a thing. So, in the stickers of Altos Adventure, you can see that there are other characters. But there isn’t any mode to change your character. So why are there those people in the stickers? Maybe you actually can change the character and I’m just being stupid. I don’t honestly know. Also, when you get to the police part, it gets a little intense. He’s so ridiculously fast I always get caught. Please, please maybe lower his speed and make a setting to change your character. (Or don’t make a setting if you already did.) Acknowledge this review. I still love this game.
Perfection
Let me just add my glowing review to all the others. This is the most unique app game I have ever played. It’s just lovely. It’s exciting at times yet always serene. I was already planning on a five star review, and that was before I realized there is a Zen mode. It was also before I realized you can upgrade and buy things with your coins to help you get through the quests a bit easier. The music is absolutely perfect for this game. It’s also easy to play and figure out, but the quests get progressively more difficult without being overwhelming or frustrating. Zen mode is so nice if you just want to zone out peacefully for a few minutes. This is a game that I will come back to again and again!
Alto’s Adventure
Alto’s Adventure is so much fun! I just got the game a couple days ago and I can’t stop playing it. Definitely a 5 star rating. I was once playing this game in the Apple store on the sample phones and then I found it on the App Store and knew I had to get it. Totally worth the 5 bucks. You are trying to catch your run away llamas while riding on a beautiful snowy mountain. The graphics are amazing and don’t even get me started on the music. I love the music! There are missions and power ups and even Zen mode which is like practice mode and you never die. I would definitely recommend this game, but I have not yet tried Alto’s Odyssey. I heard that ones good too. Thank you Snowman for this wonderful game!
Beautiful
This game is very fun and relaxing. Whenever I’m anxious or just want to relax this is my go-to game. The landscape and art in the background fits the mood of everything. The music is just as gorgeous as the background, too. I enjoy the popular zen mode in the game the best. Whenever Alto falls, instead of starting over again, he gets back up. I love doing the challenges. They do get a bit tricky after you start getting into the game! I put beautiful as the title because if I had to say what I said in one word, the word would be beautiful. I can’t wait to try Alto’s Odyssey! I would recommend checking that out too!👍 Person
Alto’s Adventure
I LOVE this game. I wouldn’t say it’s relaxing all the time, especially with that pesky elder, but I can get in a groove. It definitely has a learning curve but the levels remind me of “wax on, wax off” (Karate Kid). I couldn’t get past the first rock when I started but as I’ve worked on the levels I’ve gradually improved with the controls and have been losing the elder, (well half the time), before I knew it...only to find a second one! Well, well worth the money and I think this is something I’ll be playing long after I’ve completed all the levels. Great set up with levels for acclimating players to controls and just a beautiful game.
Amazing App
I wanted to start off by saying that I am addicted to alto’s. It’s very unique, it’s fun, and my dad is obsessed with it! I have friends who say that they do not like biking/car/ Snowboarding games, and love alto’s adventure. It’s a wonderful game to play, and is oddly peaceful and satisfying. I find myself staying up at night to unlock new characters, or buy new skills. I think anyone and everyone will like alto’s adventure if they just give it a try. This game is nothing less than astounding and I recommend it to everyone. Not everyone who, not everyone if, not everyone but, just everyone. You will love playing this game.
A beautiful game.
It takes skill. It takes patience. But it is fun and addictive. This game shows what a develop can do when they think out of the box. The visuals are beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. I love the background and how it changes as the day progresses. Add to that a soothing soundtrack and it’s a game that can actually help you wind down at the end of the day. I’m in my 40s and love this game. I have a teenage boy who enjoys the challenge. My 6 year old daughter loves the infinite mode because she can just keep playing and it is “very pretty to look at”. Please make more games. And definitely make a sequel.
I’m not into games and I’m obsessed with this one
I bought myself an iPad and Apple Pencil and didn’t anticipate I’d use it for much other than reading, annotating, notes, and art. I can’t remember how i stumbled upon this, but my whole family is playing it now! It gets more and more challenging, getting the new characters makes it really fun. I wish there was an option to purchase items from the Workshop without having to save your coins (use your real life coins for them instead). it’s a visually stunning game, easy to learn, and fun to progress through.
Amazed by this game!
You ride your snowboard down an endless path full of obstacles and peace. As you back flip of a mountain, the graceful music takes you away. When the weather changes, this game takes you into a whole new scene. With many objectives and things to work for, it's near impossible to get tired of this game. Though frustrating sometimes, you can't deny the whole experience and view. Just one problem... The only story we have is a child chasing his llamas. Please add something else to put on your mind so you feel more comfortable with the game you're playing. I know chasing llamas isn't the whole point of the game, but it shows a scene of the kid and his llamas before you start snowboarding, so you might as well make it worth a while.
Almost Perfect
Yup this is a gorgeous game with great music. It’s challenging. There are no ads. And it’s pretty addictive to boot. I’d give the game five stars but have noticed a few bugs. The most recent one actually made me laugh. I was boarding along with Tuva and crashed after which Tuva appeared to dive down under the snow and then just hung in space doing a little jig! I actually think this might have something to do with the Llama stampede effect as the game at times will start getting jerky even when there are no llamas stampeding. Only this time the jerkiness was followed by Tuvas dive and jig. Also an improvement would be a way to see your progress towards a goal at the end of a game when you fall short of reaching the goal. You can pause a game to see your progress but one you’ve crashed/or fallen in a chasm and the game has ended there’s no way to see how far you made it towards a goal. There just aren’t enough stats at the end of a game in general. All in all I am enjoying the game and looking forward to updates as I’m at level 60. Stuck for the moment on the 250,000 trick points goal.
One of my FAVORITE games!
Beautiful, relaxing, addictive, just perfect.. Minus one thing.. When purchasing the game you can cross download on iPhone / iPad, and Apple TV. However, the developers as you to purchase the game again at $9.99 for Mac.. It’s not a dealbreaker, just disappointing that I’m unable to play Altos Adventure or Odyssey on my Mac Mini or MacBook Pro without spending more money. I thought maybe the workaround would be selecting the iPhone or iPad version on my M1 Mac but nope.. That’s been blocked by the devs meaning you’re forced to purchase the game again to play on a computer. Hopefully this changes at some point. Other than that, the game itself is incredible and 100% worth purchasing. (At least once)
Enjoyable but not a big leap from Alto’s Adventure
I am mostly enjoying this reboot of Alto’s Adventure, a game I also enjoyed a few years ago but feel that the extent of the changes seem somewhat more hyped than real. I like the new biomes with their distinct features, but there were also different terrains in the old game and I hope that more biomes will be added as we go along. Similarly, it would be nice to have new riders in addition to the ones from AA. The use of balloons and wall grinds is new, clever and fun. My main complaint is that the “tips” that appear at the inevitable end of each run get old very fast (especially to someone already familiar with the general game play) and are now very irritating. There should be a way to say “do not show again”. I’ve taken to switching to various foreign languages to reduce the annoyance of the endless repetition of useless “advice”, but it is an imperfect solution. A minor flaw is that the color of text and of the background sometimes are too similar for legibility - that should be fixed.
Graphics is good but not user experience
Graphics is good, while user experience should be improved. 1. It’s easy for beginner to make mistakes. Jump and Backflip use the same “key”. Whenever you want to jump higher, it results in half of backflip which means game over for beginner. 2. “Hidden” rock. You must look ahead nervously to check if a small piece among other objects in the same color is rock. If you miss any, game over. It turns out this game is not relaxing. 3. No enough vision to do backflip safely. N Backflips are required in many cases. If terrain ahead (out of vision) is not expected, it may result in game over. 4. Hover feather is oops. It prevents you from good things too! You can jump to avoid rocks, but can do nothing to disable hover effect until it’s ended.
Wingsuit
I loved this game until you had to unlock the wingsuit. Once unlocked you have to use it and it activates all by itself. It has caused me to crash so many times while trying to do backflips off of grinds and other big jumps. There really needs to be a way to deactivate it. I barely play the game anymore because of this agitating ability. The previous review was from a year ago and I still feel the same way. I attempted to give the game another try; the wing suit completely ruins the game. The fact that if I have the wingsuit available for use and I am in the middle of trying to do a flip, the wingsuit will simply activate. There is no need for the incessant ability that activates itself. It forces it functionality upon the user, ultimately taking away a user based interaction. The fact that it’s such a fundamental part of the game and that it is embedded into the game without any warning with regard to game play and rider functionality is a joke and ruins this potentially incredible game.
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