Mountain Biker vs PureSkate 1+2
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!
PureSkate 1+2
Experience a realistic skateboarding simulation that combines the best elements of previous titles. Master intuitive fingerboard controls to perform stylish combos and tricks in a 3D world. Earn your way to unlocking new levels and challenges.
- Realistic skateboarding simulation
- Intuitive fingerboard controls
- Dozens of flip, rail, and grab tricks
- Link tricks with manuals for combos
- Dozens of goals to accomplish
- Full 3D skater and world
- Game Center leaderboards
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Get ready to skate your heart out in the most realistic and intuitive skateboarding simulation ever made! 2011: PureSkate 2015: PureSkate 2 2024: PureSkate 1+2 !!! Millions of downloads, and millions of sessions later, it’s time to take the best of the two and mash 'em together. Never heard of it? No surprise, we’re an indy studio. Made by skaters, for skaters, with a focus on mechanics, stylish combos, all in homage to the great console skate games of the 90’s. Enter PureSkate 1 PLUS 2. PureSkate 1 levels, with PureSkate 2 gameplay. And some bonuses thrown in for fun. Free to play. No bucks, no gouging. An optional one-time purchase forever that allows you to unlock all levels. NOTE - it doesn’t unlock em all at once! You gotta earn that. Oh ya, this is no walk in the sketch park either. But it’s worth it. Natural fingerboard control combined with a rich 3D view of your skater's world creates a fun and addictive skateboarding experience that is the first/second/and now third of it's kind. 'Your fingers are your feet' - watch as you control the skater by pushing, ollieing, and performing kicks, turns, grinds, slides, spins, and more! The control you have will blow you away, and will challenge you to think like a skater to combine big tricks and create killer, clean lines. Features: - Fine control over the skaters feet - Full 3D skater and world - Dozens of flip, rail, and grab tricks - Link tricks together with manuals for sick combos (no reverts, those were just silly) - Build your skills accomplishing dozens of goals (including collect the letters P U R E) - One awesome level to explore and master - Bonus points for gaps - Awesome soundtrack, real sound effects - Game Center leaderboards - Bonus points for gaps -------------- PureSkate is written with passion and care by Orbi Labs, a (very) small independent software studio in Ottawa, Canada. We are supremely eager for your feedback or questions or flames, please let us know what you think! contact@orbilabs.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mountain Biker at 4.5 against PureSkate 1+2's 4.2. Mountain Biker also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (46 vs 5). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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 PureSkate 1+2 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 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mountain Biker has 46 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of Mountain Biker's written reviews are positive against 61% of PureSkate 1+2's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Mountain Biker ships an update every 2 weeks, PureSkate 1+2 every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mountain Biker | PureSkate 1+2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (46 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 54.8% of reviews | 61.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| 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 | 278 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ESCAPE VELOCITY LIMITED | Orbi Labs |
Customer experience
Mountain Biker
PureSkate 1+2
Bugs and requests
Mountain Biker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
PureSkate 1+2
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on launch
- Glitches that prevent progression
- Incompatible with certain devices/OS versions
Requested features
4 requests- More skate parks and levels
- Ability to customize character and board
- Better tutorial and control explanations
- Smoother control scheme and responsiveness
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
PureSkate 1+2
- Full Version$8.99
Questions
Is Mountain Biker free?
Is PureSkate 1+2 free?
Which has better reviews, Mountain Biker or PureSkate 1+2?
Do Mountain Biker or PureSkate 1+2 have ads?
Which is updated more often, Mountain Biker or PureSkate 1+2?
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