Redline Trials

How to play Redline Trials

A bike trials game. You ride a motorbike along a bumpy track from the start gate to the finish line as fast as you can, over hills, ramps, ice, spring pads and gaps, and you crash if the rider's head touches the ground.

Modes

Twenty-five levels in five worlds of five. Dust Canyon has hills and big jumps, Frost Peak has ice you cannot climb without speed, Haunted Hollow has back-to-back jumps in the dark, Sunny Shore has spring pads that launch you over the water, and Orbit Yard has low gravity, so jumps are long and flips are big. The first level of each world opens when you have finished three levels in the one before, and every other level opens when you finish the one before it.

Controls

Up or W is gas and Down or S is brake and reverse. Left or A leans the rider back and Right or D leans forward. Esc or P pauses, R restarts the level and M turns the sound off and on. On a phone, the buttons are on the screen.

Scoring

Your time is shown with a second taken off for every flip you land. Finish under the gold time for three stars, under the silver time for two, or just finish for one. Each finished level scores a base amount plus extra for stars and for how far under silver you are, and your score on the leaderboard is the total over all levels.

Playing it well

The bike is a pair of wheels on springs, so landing flat is everything. In the air you steer the angle with lean: look at the ground where you will land and tip the bike to match it before you arrive.

Gas on a slope pushes the bike up and back as well as forward, so on a steep climb ease off or lean forward a little to keep the front wheel down. On ice the wheels barely grip, so keep your speed from the flat before it and do not brake.

Boost strips glow blue and give you a burst of speed, and gold spring pads throw you up and forward. Hit them on the straight and with the bike level, and the gaps after them are made for the speed they give you.

Tips

• Lean while you are in the air, not on the ground: leaning back lifts the front wheel and leaning forward drops it.
• Aim to land with both wheels down, tilted the same way as the slope you are landing on.
• Do not hold the brake for a bumpy bit: gas keeps the bike steady, and slowing down loses the run-up you need for the next jump.
• A flip in the air takes a second off your time when you land it, so a safe flip on a long jump is worth doing.

About this game

Your best times are saved to your Shardvolt account when you are signed in, so your stars and progress are there next time. Every level was checked by a bot that holds the gas and steers the bike in the air, so each one can be finished, and the gold times are set just over what it manages.

Playtime only counts while you are actively playing: a hidden or idle tab earns nothing.