Steep is an open-world extreme sports video game created by
Ubisoft and released on December 2, 2016. The game is set in the Swiss Alps where the player, in an open-world environment, is able to participate in a few varieties of extreme winter sports such as skiing, snowboarding, as well as paragliding and wingsuit flying. DLC packs released let on added the ability to participate in jetpack flying, BASE jumping, speed riding, and sledding, as well as adding mountains in
Alaska,
Japan, and
South Korea.
Tropes featured in the game:
- Jet Pack: The 2018 DLC introduced the ability to use jetpacks to participate in BASE jumping and simply just flying.
- Our Lawyers Advised This Trope: The game boots to a message warning the player not to try any of the in-game stunts in real life.
- Product Placement: The game features real-life brands of winter sporting equipment as well as real-life product logos being featured on the characters' uniforms. The player also makes use of an actual GoPro as a sort of first-person mode, and can also participate in sport events both in the base game and DLC that revolve around the real-life brands as a sponsor and real world sporting events.
- Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Being that it's a game set around winter sports and set mainly in the Alps, it is given that it would take place in a cold and icy environment. Most of the time, navigating the open world on foot is an absolute chore, as the deep snow and frozen lakes make moving around quite difficult.
- Theme Park Version: The game features scaled-down smaller versions of the European Alps, the Alaska Range, the Japanese Alps and the Pyeongchang County region of the Taebaek Mountains.
- Wide-Open Sandbox: The game's world is fully open and players can roam it freely as they play in each sport.
- Yodel Land: The game's first setting was a scaled-down version of the French, Swiss and Italian Alps.
