Snow Tails

Racing games always have been feast or famine for me. Either they’re really awesome and I love them like Das Motorsportspiel and Elfenland, or they’re awful and I hate them like RoboRally and Pitchcar. I’m happy to say that Snow Tails falls in the former category. I loved it and it was awesome!

Snow Tails puts you in the role of a dog-sled racer in the Iditarod, maneuvering your sled through the course and trying to get to the finish line without taking enough damage to your sled to end your race. The game actually looks more daunting than it actually is, as the clumsy sleds are actually pretty intuitive to maneuver with the movement mechanics the game offers. Essentially, you turn your sled by having one side of dogs moving faster than the other, and you indicate that by playing different speed cards on your sleds right and left halves. Like all good racing games, the curves have a maximum safe speed, and exceeding that naturally does quite a bit of damage to your sled.

The game is very straight-forward, and doesn’t take long to learn at all. The game also plays great with three players, which is another plus for smaller gaming groups, or larger groups where you need to play a short game in between big, long, meaty games.

That last line had a little too much “sausage-love” in it for my taste, so here’s a video of Christina Hendricks.



Ahhh. Moving on, the game plays smoothly and it one of the better racing games I’ve tried in a while. Well done! 7/10