Descenders is an extreme downhill freeriding game, marketed as being "Extreme Procedural Freeriding", created by Rage Squid and published by No More Robots. It was released on Steam Early Access on February 9, 2018, on Xbox Game Preview on May 15, 2018, and on the Discord Store on November 15, 2018. The game graduated from Early Access/Game Preview on May 7, 2019, before being released on the PS4 on August 25, 2020, and on the Switch on November 6, 2020. It is going to be released on the Xbox Series X/S in Summer 2021.
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- And Your Reward Is Clothes: Every time you end a Career or Career+ Run, be it by retiring, wiping out, or by clearing the final boss jump, you will unlock a piece of gear depending on how much Rep you earned in that run.
- Character Customization: You can choose between four body types, two hair types, nine skin types, eleven hair colours and a variety of Bikes and Gear, as well as the ability to change the name and number on the back of your jersey.
- Checkpoint Starvation: There are levels that, even with the Extra Checkpoints Crew Member, may have hardly any checkpoints to them.
- Every 10,000 Points: You gain a new Crew Member once you reach a square multiple of 1000 Rep in a Career run, up until 100,000 Rep when you get the 10th and last Crew Member
- Hit Points: In a Career run, you start off with 4HP, and can gain 1HP for each bonus objective you complete, but will lose at least 1HP when you bail (or more if the bail was very hard)
- Last Chance Hit Point: If you would be reduced to 0HP or lower, instead you enter Last Stand mode - one more bail, no matter how light, will end the session.
- Point of No Return: Once you complete a Boss Level, you automatically progress to the next environment, meaning any levels you didn’t take in the map will be inaccessible.
- Procedural Generation: Levels are procedurally generated based on three main factors - Steepness, Curves and Stunts - as well as other factors, like Crew Members and extra modifiers.
- Roguelike: The Rogue Bike update added in Crew Members, which improve the rider's abilities, but only for that run - once the run is over, one way or another, a new fresh run would start from scratch.
- Secret Level: Volcano, the fifth environment of Career mode, can only be reached by completing the Fire Nodes of all four prior environments, then completing the Fire Ring Boss jump of each Boss node unlocked by clearing a Fire Node.
- Timed Mission: Downplayed in that you can take as long as you want to complete the levels, but as you complete levels, time passes. After the seventh level in an environment, it becomes Dusk, and after the ninth level, it becomes Night, where the player only has a flashlight (which dies out after two Night levels) to see where they are going. However, certain levels have a time limit as a bonus objective.
- Unlockable Content: Career+ Mode, featuring four new environments, is locked until you have attained 100,000 Rep amongst all Career mode runs regardless of how they ended.
