A crowd of individuals
Beginners, intermediates and experts arrive with budgets, patience and terrain preferences. They weigh every lift queue, run and lunch stop before committing — then walk out if you waste their day.
Alpha footage
Watch the hill think out loud
A new promo captured in-engine: skiers pick lines, bunch at choke points, spill out of lifts and expose the problems your resort design created. Details will change, but the simulation-first spine is already there.
What you actually manage
A mountain made of systems
Powder Peaks looks like a cozy toy resort. Under the snow, every guest is an individual agent and every dollar — theirs and yours — lands on a real ledger.
An economy that pushes back
Price above a guest’s willingness to pay and demand fades on a curve. Payroll, energy, repairs, marketing and loan interest hit a live P&L — and debt does not care that the sunset looked pretty.
Reputation is the long game
Word of mouth tracks queues, terrain, comfort, safety and value separately. Stars and lifetime guest counts gate the upgrades that matter — and a pricing mistake today echoes through next week’s arrivals.
Lifts, lodges, payroll
Five lift types queue, wear, break down and go on wind hold. Buildings have margins. Groomers, lift ops, patrol and instructors have measurable effects, not flavor text.
Snow is a resource
Snow wears tile by tile under traffic; scraped pistes turn fast, icy and dangerous. Groom overnight, run guns when the temperature allows, and send patrol out after storms load the slopes.
Runs you draw yourself
No track pieces. Draw corridors over terrain and skiers carve their own lines inside them, so width, pitch and difficulty mix set capacity, congestion and injury risk. Route design is an economic decision.
- 14 hand-built playables — a six-part campaign, five scenarios, three challenge modes
- 22 event cards, from powder days to sponsor offers — eight of them genuine decisions
- 5×4 sandbox mountain archetypes × climates, with a custom goal builder
- 1 seed = 1 world. Fully deterministic — share the number, share the mountain
From the first Reddit preview
Skiers got the pitch immediately
The first public alpha clip landed in r/skiing, and the comments helped sharpen the landing-page voice: nostalgic, simulation-heavy, and hungry for weird mountain management problems.
“Ski RCT, love it!”
“This is what Ski Free would look like on the N64”
“Ski resort tycoon? Loved that game back in the 90s”
“This looks cool. How are the maps generated?”
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