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Trials Evolution: Gold Edition

Trials Evolution: Gold Edition marks the Trials franchise's triumphant return to the PC gaming platform. Trials Evolution: Gold Edition will contain all the content of the original Trials Evolution. In addition, all of the single player tracks and skill games from Trials HD will be found in Trials Evolution – effectively doubling the content offering with two complete games, neither of which have ever before been available on PC.

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14 Steam reviews

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Steam User 6003STEAMRecommended

If you have erectile dysfunction, I don't highly recommend going for the Unyielding l and II achievements

I’m serious

Mar 16, 2026·21h·Verified

Steam User 9647STEAMRecommended

this is the best game I have ever played ever ever

Mar 15, 2026·29h·Verified

Steam User 5201STEAMRecommended

masterpice

Mar 12, 2026·15h·Verified

Steam User 9213STEAMRecommended

By far the best Trials game. Nice and clean physics and bike control. Lots of dated quirks, but they add so much charm to the game. I do miss the community maps that I played on xbox, but the game by itself is still nostalgic. Still though, it's overall just a decent game in this era of gaming. 6.7/10

Mar 9, 2026·28h·Verified

Steam User 7533STEAMRecommended

7/10

Note that this requires Ubisoft Connect. It really gets in your way when trying to play it and constantly asks you to login again.

Hey, this includes all the Trials HD levels too! The game overall is great but some of the later levels are insufferable. I also don't like how it forces you to get Silvers and Gold to progress with how annoying some levels are. The skill games also mostly suck too. Creative and fun, huge bonus including the Trials HD levels, but a bit frustrating beyond a certain point. Still a ton of fun with a large amount of good levels.

Mar 9, 2026·3h·Verified

Steam User 1855STEAMRecommended

cool game just need to sign in to Ubisoft connect every time you launch the game after shutting off your PC

Mar 6, 2026·17h·Verified

Steam User 7667STEAMNot recommended

UBISOFT CONNECT IS HOT TRASH....REMOVE IT

Mar 4, 2026·113h·6·Verified

Steam User 4330STEAMNot recommended

Ubisoft connect and Ubisoft as a whole are cancer to gaming.

The games require ubisoft connect in irder to play. My ubitrash account that is linked to steam does not exist anymore, because I haven't logges in like 10 years . Ubisoft support won't respond to my tickets, so I literally can't do anything.

Fck ubicrap.

There goes another 10+ years without playing trash ubifck games.

Mar 4, 2026·1h·7·Verified

Steam User 6904STEAMNot recommended

Ubisoft connect requirement implementation is atrocious. I am forced to enter my password every single time I want to play this game.

Mar 2, 2026·10h·4·Verified

Steam User 6908STEAMRecommended

Holy nostalgia

Mar 1, 2026·8h·Verified

Steam User 5563STEAMNot recommended

Me compre este juego para conseguir todos los logros y sorpresa el primer logro ya esta roto, siempre tengo problemas con los juegos de ubisoft. Si te venden un juego del 2008 en la actualidad podrían tener la decencia de arreglarlo, han tenido 18 años para hacer que el juego funcione bien.

Feb 28, 2026·Verified

Steam User 3012STEAMRecommended

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 [i]lots[/i] 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 [i]years[/i] 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.

[b]Rising[/b] has the best total package and in-game level quality, [i]if it runs for you (MAKE SURE!)[/i] 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.

[b]Evolution[/b] 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.

[b]Fusion[/b] has the worst in-game content [i]by far[/i], but the largest and most active community level archive and the [i]technically[/i] 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 [i]extreme[/i] 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 [i]good[/i]) 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.

Feb 28, 2026·8h·1·Verified

Steam User 2699STEAMNot recommended

ubisoft connect

Feb 26, 2026·6h·4·Verified

Steam User 8826STEAMRecommended

Beyond the annoying Ubisoft Connect ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with launching the game, it's still a blast to play through. Easily my GOAT.

Feb 21, 2026·2h·1·Verified

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