This morning I meant to play one quick round of Street Rider to wake myself up. Almost an hour later I was still sitting there, staring at my high score and muttering “just one more run.” The game runs straight in your browser with nothing to download, so you click and you’re skating.
It’s a 3D endless skateboarding game. You bomb down traffic-packed streets, grind on rails, land on car roofs and smash everything in your way. The speed climbs the farther you go, and the route never repeats. Every run is a fresh path stitched together at random from two-way streets, crossroads, bridges, forests, suburbs, a garden, underground train tracks, a supermarket and a museum.
What I love most is that the city feels like one giant skatepark. Rails, barriers, car roofs and billboards can all become landing spots. The harder you land, the bigger the reward.
I tried all three. Keyboard feels the most precise, but tilting your phone is much more fun on the bus.
Some runs I don’t care about distance at all. I just want to dive into the supermarket. Shelves explode, bushes, leaves, taxi signs and car lights all burst into points. It’s so satisfying that I sometimes pick my route to hit every breakable thing I can see.
Style points also fill your skill meter. Every trick and clean landing lets you fire your skill sooner. There are 6 skills to choose from:
Your board has durability too. Side hits wear it down, and once it breaks the run is over unless you revive with coins or by watching an ad. The first revive costs 50 coins, and the price doubles with each revive in the same run.
If you love the feeling of speed, check out Snow Rider Neo, Wave Rider, Sled Rider and Summer Rider. Each has its own atmosphere, but all are easy to pick up and play right in your browser.
No. It’s an online game you play directly in your browser, on both desktop and mobile.
Yes. You earn coins by playing, completing missions and unlocking achievements, then spend them on boards and skills.
Create an account to get a Recovery ID, then use it to continue on a different device.
Yes. Your best score goes onto the global leaderboard.
The developers say Hard Mode with its own leaderboard, in-run pickups, new skills and seasonal events are on the way.
Street Rider needs no long tutorial. One finger is enough to start, but climbing the leaderboard takes a bit of nerve and quite a few crashes. I’m still chasing my own record. How about you?
