OlliOlli World Rad Edition (PC)

OlliOlli World is a 2D side-scrolling skateboarding game built almost entirely around the satisfaction of a clean run. You grind rails, launch off ramps, and chain manuals through hand-painted levels that look like a Saturday-morning cartoon swallowed a skate park. The Rad Edition bundles the base game with the Void Riders story expansion, which adds a full new biome, additional levels, new characters, and extra cosmetic unlocks. For anyone coming in fresh, that is the version to get. The core mechanic is deceptively simple: one analog stick handles your tricks, and timing your landing on the right part of the stick determines whether you stomp it cleanly or faceplant. What starts as "press down, flick up, land" gradually opens into layered combos where you are managing air tricks, grabs, grinds, and manual chains all inside a single run. The skill ceiling is steep, and the level design rewards multiple playthroughs because secondary objectives and branching paths are baked into almost every stage. If you are the type who replays a level forty times to squeeze out a cleaner line, this game has a grip on you. Where OlliOlli World genuinely earns attention is in its approachability. The difficulty curve is gentler than older entries in the series, and the game does not punish you for ignoring the leaderboard meta entirely. You can roll through the main story at a casual pace and still feel like you are progressing. That said, anyone wanting to climb global rankings will find the depth is absolutely there. The Steam Leaderboards integration means every level has a competitive layer sitting just underneath the surface. Full controller support is essentially mandatory here since keyboard play never quite captures the analog nuance the trick system was designed around. The weaknesses are real but contained. The story framing, involving a skateboarding utopia and a cast of quirky NPCs, is charming in small doses but gets thin fast if you are not charmed by the aesthetic. The game also does not have a traditional multiplayer mode, so if you were hoping to session with friends in real time, Remote Play on TV is the closest option. The Void Riders expansion is a solid bonus rather than a transformative add-on: good additional content, but it does not dramatically change the formula. From a strategy-and-systems angle, OlliOlli World is leaner than my usual territory, but the combo routing in later levels is genuinely a planning problem. Choosing which trick sequences to commit to before a run, reading the level geometry for the optimal grind chain, deciding whether to sacrifice style points for consistency on a risky gap: these are small decisions that compound into a meaningful skill expression. The Metacritic score of 78 feels about right. It is a polished, focused game that does its thing extremely well without overreaching. Diego, Scout Team