Hello Riders,

Today is the day! Please welcome Baifushan, the newest member of our Lonely Mountains family.

Baifushan is a free update to the game, available now on Xbox and Steam. It is inspired by the beauty of Chinese mountainscapes and might be the most gorgeous mountain we ever made - it is definitely the biggest.
Baifushan offers four new trails with two slopes each, new challenges, new achievements, full multiplayer support for racing, team mode, quickmatches, private tours, and leaderboards. We spend a lot of time working on this mountain and we hope you will enjoy it as much as we do.

For everyone who wants to support the ongoing development of Snow Riders we are now offering a supporter customization pack. It doesn’t give you any gameplay advantages but you are getting a whole bunch of awesome gear and accessories together with our eternal gratitude for helping us to keep working on the game!

Supporter Pack DLC

We also set up some new bundles with additional discounts:
Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders - Supporter Bundle
Lonely Mountains - Franchise Bundle

There are also some fixes and improvements that came with today’s bug update.

• Major: Added a new mountain called Baifushan to the game.
  
• Major: Added new tour rewards for racing mode. Players now get additional Exp. and Snowflakes at the end of the tour based on total tour ranking. Rewards for individual trail ranks are now slightly reduced, but overall you'll receive more for the same performance.
  
• Major: Added a Supporter Customization Pack, now available on Steam and Xbox.
  
• Major: Added an option in lobby settings to enable the “race end timer” for private tours.
  
• Minor: Added an option to change the HUD size in the settings.

• Major: Added a loading progress display showing which players have finished loading.
  
• Major: Added gear information display in the lobby showing what other riders are using.
  
• Major: Added a confirmation pop-up when leaving a lobby or tour.
  
• Major: Added a gear display to the trail information section on all finish screens.
  
• Major: Added a display in team mode to show players when a goal has been reached.
  
• Major: Added functionality to hold directional input (buttons, keys, or thumbstick) to continuously navigate through menu entries.
  
• Minor: Added an arrow during the intro sequence to highlight the local player in multiplayer.
  
• Minor: Reduced the size of level files to improve loading times.
  
• Minor: Added ghost selection to the gear selection screen.
  
• Minor: Several small UI improvements throughout the game.

• Major: Fixed spectator mode not working correctly in certain situations.
  
• Major: Fixed a bug where players could appear invisible in the waiting lobby, which could also cause forced disconnections.
  
• Minor: Fixed a rare case of invisible props in low framerate scenarios.
  
• Minor: Fixed spelling mistakes for achievements and made some minor localization adjustments.
  
• Minor: Fixed a bug where the climbing gear display stayed on screen after crashing in the trigger zone.
  
• Minor: Fixed a bug that broke the controls when a controller was unplugged mid-run.

We wish you all a great time on the new mountain and would welcome any feedback you have!

Your Megagons

Hello Riders,

We hope you’re all doing great. We have a bunch of good news for you today!

First, we took some time to develop a roadmap for this year based on your feedback. Please be aware that this doesn’t include everything we are planning, but mainly the things we can commit to and that we can already announce. It might also change over the year based on your feedback and because game development rarely goes as planned.

Spring:

• New Free Mountain: On April 9th we will update the game with a new full-fledged mountain. It will come with 4 trails, blue and black slopes as well as new challenges, multiplayer and leaderboard support. We don’t want to spoil the biome yet but we believe it’s the most beautiful mountain we’ve done yet.
  
• Supporter Pack DLC: A lot of you reached out and asked if there is a way to further support the development of the game, so we created a nice cosmetics pack that will go live together with the new mountain. Of course, the cosmetics have no gameplay influence but you do get our eternal gratitude for helping us to keep the game alive!
  
• New Trick and Free Ride Challenges and Improved Accessibility Update: We don’t have a date yet but we will add two new Solo game modes to the game. One new mode that focuses on doing the most awesome tricks and we will also bring back the classic and beloved Free Ride mode from Downhill. More details on the new modes will follow in the future. We will also add a lot more accessibility options to the game like auto acceleration, button/key mapping, etc.

Summer:

• PS5 Version: We’re working hard on bringing the game to PS5 as well. We don’t have a date yet but we are hopeful that it will happen sometime in summer.
  
• Multiplayer Update: We’re trying to bundle together some of the most asked-for multiplayer features into one big update. You will be able to set your private matches public so that they will also be available in the quick match queue, allowing you to play with your friends against or with the community. We also want to improve the tour system, allowing for tours to feature blue and black slopes together and you will be able to vote together on reshuffling the trails.

Autumn:

• New DLC Mountain: We don’t want to spoil anything yet but we plan to release a new DLC mountain later this year.
  
• Multiplayer Update: We also plan for another big multiplayer update that mainly features improving the friends and social features in the game along with some bigger changes to the matchmaking system.

Winter and Beyond:

• PC In-Game Editor & Community Maps: Saving the best for last! We will release an in-game editor for community maps. When we started the development for LMSR one of the first things we did was to create our own editor that runs in the game and we have been using it ourselves to create all the trails in the game. Unfortunately, it will take us the better part of the year to polish it to a point where we can give it to the public and there is also still a whole bunch of things we need to figure out but we hope we can deliver it next winter.

Of course, we are also constantly working on improving the multiplayer, performance and the UI.

We hope you like our plans. If you have any questions, thoughts, feedback, or ideas the best place for discussions is our Discord[www.discord.gg]. And please remember, just because something is not on the list doesn’t mean it will never happen, it just means that we can’t commit to it or announce it yet.

We also just released a new version for Steam and Xbox. It’s more of a Hotfix actually and most changes are just in the backend (improved analytics and error reporting) and don’t affect the actual games.

But for the record, here is the patch log:

20.03.2025 Version 1.0.6. Hotfix
Fixes

• Minor: Fixed challenge icons in the trail selection not being updated correctly.

Improvements

• Major: Improved automatic renderscaler for more stable performance on Xbox S.
  
• Minor: Improved the settings layout and added options to choose between performance and quality mode in the startup settings on Xbox.

One great news we kept for the end! We are incredibly proud to announce that Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders has been nominated at the German Video Game Awards for Best German Game alongside the amazing Enshrouded from our friends at Keen Games and Thronefall from Grizzly Games. And we are also nominated for Best Studio together with Gentle Troll and Aesir Interactive!

This would never have been possible without all of you and the love you all showed for the game!

Thank you all and if you want to hold your breath together with us you can watch the award show live on the 14th of May.

You can check out this page to see all the great nominees! https://deutscher-computerspielpreis.de/nominierte/

That’s it for now and see you on the mountains!
Your Megagons