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Trials Evolution: Gold Edition marks the Trials franchise’s triumphant return to the PC gaming platform. RedLynx’s signature franchise, the Trials series first made its mark in gaming with the 2008 release of Trials 2 SE for the PC.
Trials Evolution: Gold Edition is a racing, action and level editor game
developed by Redlynx Ltd and Ubisoft Shanghaï
and published by Ubisoft.
Released on March 21st 2013 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine.
It has received 2,302 reviews of which 1,745 were positive and 557 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
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- OS *:Originally released for Windows 7, the game can be played on Windows 10 and Windows 11 OS
- Processor:Intel Core®2 Duo E6700 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ @ 3.0Ghz
- Memory:2 GB RAM
- Graphics:DirectX® 10 compliant, 512 Mb video memory
- DirectX®:11
- Hard Drive:4 GB HD space
- Sound:DirectX 9.0c compatible
- Other Requirements:Broadband Internet connection
Requires a UPlay account
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The Ubisoft login is crazy annoying, but the game otherwise is finger licking good! I've played it for hundreds of hours on Xbox 360 and am now completing it on PC. For extra smooth gameplay, "Lossless Scaling" application set to 2x the framerate, makes the gameplay much more pleasant on high refresh rate display.
Trials HD on X360 will always be the best "arcade game" that ever came out. I earned top 1% in the world on Trials Rising a couple years ago. My time with this one was met with a lot of frustration at first, but the art of the mechanics is too good to pass up. This game has always been one of my favorites. S tier series
Trials Evolution: Gold Edition, developed by RedLynx Ltd and Ubisoft Shanghai and published by Ubisoft, is one of the most addictive and mechanically satisfying physics-based racing games ever made. Combining the full content of Trials Evolution with tracks and challenges from Trials HD, the Gold Edition delivers an enormous collection of obstacle-filled courses built around precision motorcycle control, brutal platforming sequences, and endlessly rewarding skill progression. What initially appears to be a simple side-scrolling bike racer gradually reveals itself as an intense test of balance, timing, patience, and persistence that can consume players for hundreds of hours. The gameplay concept is extremely simple on paper. Players ride motorcycles across dangerous obstacle courses filled with ramps, collapsing platforms, giant jumps, explosives, industrial hazards, and impossible terrain while attempting to reach the finish line without crashing. The controls are easy to understand almost immediately, but mastering them is where the real challenge begins. Every movement of the rider’s weight, every burst of acceleration, and every landing angle matters. Small mistakes can instantly send the rider flying into spectacular crashes, while perfect execution creates an incredible feeling of momentum and control. One of the game’s biggest strengths is its exceptional level design. Every course feels carefully constructed to push players toward improving their mechanical skill. Early tracks introduce the physics gradually, allowing players to become comfortable with the movement system before the game begins introducing increasingly absurd challenges. As progression continues, tracks evolve into brutal obstacle courses requiring near-perfect timing and precision. Massive jumps, rotating machinery, unstable platforms, and incredibly narrow landing zones constantly demand focus and patience. The physics engine is the heart of the experience and remains one of the best ever created for an arcade racing game. The motorcycles feel responsive and weighty, creating a strong connection between player input and movement. Success depends entirely on mastering momentum and balance rather than relying on random luck. Even repeated failures remain entertaining because the physics create hilarious and chaotic crashes that rarely feel unfair. This combination of precision and unpredictability gives Trials Evolution its unique identity and makes every successful run feel earned. The Gold Edition becomes especially valuable because it combines content from both Trials Evolution and Trials HD into a single package. The result is a huge amount of tracks, skill games, and challenges that provide tremendous replay value. The game constantly introduces new obstacles and environmental ideas, preventing the campaign from feeling repetitive despite the simple core structure. The amount of content available makes it one of the strongest entries in the entire Trials series. Visually, the game does an excellent job making every environment feel energetic and alive. Tracks are set across industrial construction zones, ruined cities, forests, military facilities, and explosive stunt arenas filled with environmental destruction and background activity. Even while focusing intensely on surviving the next obstacle, players are constantly surrounded by dynamic scenery that adds excitement and personality to every race. Another major strength is the pacing. Trials Evolution understands that failure is part of the experience, so restarts happen almost instantly after crashes. This keeps frustration from becoming overwhelming and creates an addictive “one more try” mentality where players constantly feel motivated to improve their performance. Completing an especially difficult obstacle after dozens of failed attempts becomes incredibly satisfying because progression always feels tied directly to player skill. Multiplayer systems and online competition add even more longevity. Racing against ghosts, climbing global leaderboards, and competing with friends for faster times transforms the game into a constant battle for optimization and perfection. Even after completing tracks, players remain motivated to reduce mistakes and chase cleaner runs. This competitive structure significantly extends replayability beyond the main progression system. The track editor is another standout feature. Players can create and share their own custom levels, dramatically expanding the amount of available content. Community-created tracks range from highly technical precision challenges to ridiculous stunt-focused courses filled with explosions and impossible jumps. The flexibility of the editor and the creativity of the community give the game near-endless replay potential for dedicated players. The soundtrack complements the gameplay perfectly with energetic rock and electronic music that matches the chaotic and adrenaline-fueled tone of the races. Combined with explosive sound effects and dramatic crash audio, the presentation constantly reinforces the game’s intense pace and arcade atmosphere. However, the game’s difficulty can also become one of its biggest barriers. Later tracks become extremely demanding and often require repeated memorization and mechanical perfection to complete successfully. Players who dislike trial-and-error gameplay or extremely punishing precision challenges may become frustrated quickly once the difficulty spikes begin. Keyboard controls on PC are also noticeably less comfortable than using a controller. Since the physics rely heavily on subtle balance adjustments and analog input, players using keyboards may struggle significantly more during advanced stages. A controller dramatically improves the overall experience and feels almost essential for mastering the harder content. The game also places almost all of its focus on gameplay rather than narrative or progression variety. Players expecting story-driven content or major gameplay changes may eventually find the structure repetitive despite the excellent level design. The experience revolves entirely around mechanical mastery, and enjoyment depends heavily on whether players appreciate that kind of challenge-focused gameplay loop. Despite these shortcomings, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition remains one of the best arcade racing and physics-platforming games ever released. Its combination of responsive controls, brilliant track design, addictive progression, and nearly endless replayability creates an experience that remains incredibly difficult to stop playing once the mechanics finally click. For players who enjoy demanding skill-based games and precision-focused racing experiences, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition offers countless hours of thrilling and rewarding gameplay. Its physics-driven chaos, creative obstacle design, and constant push toward mastery make it a standout title not only within the Trials franchise, but within the entire arcade racing genre. Rating: 8/10
One of the most satisfying arcade games. Unfortunately the online servers have shut down so only singleplayer content is available. Great gameplay! Trials HD is included in this edition and is absolutely amazing as well. The environments are a bit gritty but the gameplay is S tier. Unfortunately the xbox DLC's of Trials HD are not available on steam.
Trials is one of those games that doesn't look like much, isn't built very well, and really overuses gimmicky stuff, but under all that lies the single greatest pure-gameplay 2d platformer you can get. It doesn't show its charms well at first, but as the levels get harder, you have to learn and invest in playing well, using your momentum shifts and springs in nuanced intentional ways, and it becomes all about skillful traversal. It rewards that skill with even more tricky play, and lots more content, in particular due to the genuinely fantastic player community of content builders. Sure, it looks like a goofy motorcycle trick game, but it blooms fantastically with experience. Just take the concept of 2d platforming, make jumping and motion-control deep and rich skill-based actions, and then build the whole thing around that. Trials games offer many avenues to enjoy them, from sightseeing levels and cute gimmicks, to speed clearing (where even easy tracks often have lines that benefit from more advanced skills to get near the best times), to focusing on handling challenging obstacles, to pointlessly extreme levels of challenge that take actual years of practice with the game. I personally don't play too far into that space, as it gets kind of silly. I'm content with how heinously challenging things closer around the "merely" Extreme tier tracks get :) Even so, I consider it positive that the gameplay is good enough to support that, both on core action and player investment. Plus you have level creation, which is a whole other area to experience the games, although players to enjoy your levels are far fewer nowadays (and Evolution makes distributing levels far more challenging). I'd suggest Evolution and Rising as starting places for exploring the Trials series. Rising has the best total package and in-game level quality, if it runs for you (MAKE SURE!) and doesn't get shutdown from its boneheaded online requirement. Rising also uses anti-cheat, further limiting its platform flexibility, and you must disable/block Steam Input, or all in-game button prompts become LS. Evolution has the best pure gameplay, and solid enough levels, but you only get user content from archives players pass around, and you can only find replays from video sites, as servers are long closed, severely limiting your ability to learn from others in-game. Evolution also jankily rolls two different Trials games together (Evolution and HD), drops their DLC expansions entirely (significant losses in both levels and custom level building), and does it poorly, as you are stuck playing through the weakest levels in each game sequentially, dragging out the somewhat poorer early game experience. Fusion has the worst in-game content by far , but the largest and most active community level archive and the technically deepest gameplay. While Fusion's gameplay/feel isn't as good, the extreme depth it can be pushed to is notable, but goes to lengths that I'd personally call excess. Evolution and Rising both offer extreme depth rich with play beyond most games, just Fusion goes even further down those rabbit holes, allowing tests of even more extreme-for-the-sake-of-extreme precision and nuance. For any Trials game, get the complete edition. For Evolution, there's no option, as PC only got the weird HD+Evolution combo and none of the Xbox's DLC (a major loss, those jerks). For Fusion, you need all the DLC for objects used by custom levels. For Rising, you need the DLC to smooth out the poorly designed progression (try to do Trials University levels when they become available and follow the RedLynx contract series that walks you through the game from level to level, and you'll have far fewer unpleasant blockages as you go through content gates). It's also important to note that Ubisoft has tainted all three games not just with their core corporate disability towards quality and good fun, but their clunky "Ubisoft Connect" DRM client, which will relentlessly pester you to re-enter your password for starting Evolution or Fusion (true even if you get the games directly through Ubisoft). It's a real shame Ubisoft still refuses to relent and just let Steam games be Steam games, even if it would breathe fresh life into so many of their products. Speaking of strange support choices, Steam achievements were randomly added well after the whole series was essentially abandoned by devs and players, so the community percentages on all of them are comically skewed to the very few people who have booted up the game after mid-2025. It's important to note though that some achievements are truly annoying, and some outlandishly difficult, so achievement completionists should be wary. Fusion especially should not be played for achievements, as they revel in the worst things about the game (the devs cannot seem to help themselves using their level building tools to construct horrible minigames and other such challenges that just don't feel good ) and will be abusive misery to go through. Again, don't let the jank and the clunky early experience put you off. These have some truly great gaming to offer, if you enjoy skill based 2d action, and the track-building community has contributed outstanding work that ought to be the centerpiece of the game.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Trials Evolution: Gold Edition is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
No, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition received 1,745 positive votes out of a total of 2,302 achieving a rating of 7.33.
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Trials Evolution: Gold Edition was developed by Redlynx Ltd and Ubisoft Shanghaï and published by Ubisoft.
Yes, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition is not playable on MacOS.
No, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition does not support VR.
Trials Evolution: Gold Edition offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Trials Evolution: Gold Edition offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
No, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition does not support Steam Remote Play.
No, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.
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Developer
Redlynx Ltd,
Ubisoft Shanghaï
Publisher
Ubisoft
Release
21 Mar 2013
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