Mountain Biker vs Cycle Extreme
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mountain Biker
Experience adrenaline-fueled downhill, freeride, and slopestyle mountain biking. Progress from novice to pro, travel the globe, build trails, and compete against friends and pros with intuitive touch controls.
- Global trail exploration
- Progressive rider skill system
- Trail building and sharing
- Bike and component upgrades
- Learn 18+ extreme tricks
- Compete against pros and friends
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Ride, Build, Share and Compete! Experience the heart-pounding, insane and adrenaline-packed thrills of Downhill, Freeride and Slopestyle mountain biking as you progress from Novice to Pro Rider in the ultimate Mountain Biking gaming experience. You’ll travel the globe - from Whistler to the Alps - beating Pro Riders, tackling trail challenges, conquering mountains, building trails, upgrading your bikes & components and competing against friends. You’ll learn to pump for speed, trick for points and "huck steezy senders" like the pros. With 18 progressively audacious tricks to learn, and a practically infinite range of combos to attempt, you’ll be soaring like an eagle while pulling combos the Pros haven't even dreamed of yet..! Built from the ground up for iOS as the ultimate touch-based extreme sports game, Mountain Biker has been made by a small team of ex-Electronic Arts employees who previously helped bring you some of the greatest console games ever, including: SSX, Burnout, Need For Speed, Black, NBA Street and many more. Simple to play, hard to master. Mountain Biker uses intuitive finger controls to let you easily race downhill with a tap and effortlessly pull tricks with the flick of a finger. Building trails is as easy as drag-and-drop, and with seamless integration into Game Centre, you’ll be competing against friends, finding new rivals and rising to infamy with crazy scores no-one in the world can grasp how you managed to pull off. Mountain Biking has never been this much fun! Mountain Biker’s features include: - Beat 14 Pro Riders from across the globe: Sam Pilgrim, Brendan Fairclough, Szymon Godziek, Sam Reynolds, Thomas Genon, Jackson Goldstone, Kelly McGarry, Manon Carpenter, Nicholi Rogatkin, Andrew Neethling, Matt Macduff, Olly Wilkins, Katy Curd & Olivier Cuvet. - 7 Authentic Bike Brands: Buy and ride bikes from top manufacturers including Scott, YT Industries, DMR, Canyon, Banshee & Polygon. - 7 Top Component Manufacturers: Upgrade components for increased performance from Spank, Hope, DMR, X-Fusion, Cane Creek, Maxxis & Schwalbe. - 18 Tricks: Moto-Whip, No-Hands, Table-Top, Two-Star, Whip, Toboggan, Superman, Cannonball, Backflip, Frontflip, Backflip No-Hands, Frontflip No-Hands, Backflip Superman, Frontflip No-Feet, Backflip Ruler, Frontflip Superman, Backflip Tsunami & Frontflip Flatline! - 3 great Locations: British Columbia, Utah & Alps, with more coming soon. - Trail Builder: Create your own perfect, gnarly and / or challenging trails and share them with the world. Set your own challenges and see who can beat your trail! - Seamless Online & Offline Game-Play: Compete with the Pro Riders, your own friends as well as all other Game Centre players with leaderboards for each and every trail in the game - even user-generated trails. - Hours of Game-Play: Conquer 3 Mountains, beat 14 Pro Riders, beat over 50 offline trails, and tons of achievements just to finish the offline game. Online gameplay is practically infinite as new user-generated trails will be appear daily. - Achievements: Some are easy, some are hard and some are secret!
Cycle Extreme
Experience thrilling downhill mountain bike races on steep mountain tracks. Navigate treacherous obstacles and deadly holes to achieve the fastest times and earn three stars on each of the 20 challenging levels.
- Downhill mountain bike racing
- 20 challenging levels
- Obstacle navigation
- Star-based progression
- Mountain free-ride action
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Take part in a mountain bike downhill racing challenge. You control a bicycle rushing down from the mountains. Be careful - the track is very steep, and there are several obstacles and deadly holes ahead. Finish each of 20 levels as fast as you can to gain 3 stars! - 20 fast downhill levels - mountain bicycle free-ride action
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mountain Biker at 4.5 against Cycle Extreme's 1.0. Mountain Biker also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Mountain Biker sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Cycle Extreme sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mountain Biker holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mountain Biker has 46 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Mountain Biker's written reviews are positive against 50% of Cycle Extreme's.
Mountain Biker ships an update every 2 weeks, Cycle Extreme every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mountain Biker | Cycle Extreme |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (46 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 54.8% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 158 MB | 221 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | ESCAPE VELOCITY LIMITED | IriySoft |
Customer experience
Mountain Biker
Cycle Extreme
In-app purchases
Mountain Biker
- Loose Change$0.99
- Handful of Change$1.99
- Banshee Darkside$2.99
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- Scott Voltage$2.99
- YT TUES CF Comp$2.99
- Fistful of Coins$2.99
- Glove full of Coins$4.99
- Scott Gambler$5.99
- YT TUES CF Pro$5.99
- Boot full of Coins$9.99
Cycle Extreme
- No Ads$2.99
Questions
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