Alpineward: Ski Resort Simulator
Beta
Build your ski resort. Master the mountain.
Design the runs, make the snow, beat the weather and grow your resort from scratch.
What changes everything
Every metre of your mountain has its own snowpack, simulated layer by layer. It falls, melts in the sun, gets blown by the wind and hardens. And your skiers feel it in every turn.
A whole winter
Nov
First snowfalls and cold nights. Snow guns flat out to build the base.
Dec
You open the first runs and the long weekend brings the first full car parks.
Jan
Christmas, queues, powder and groomers out every night.
Feb
Big snowfalls, blizzards and lifts stopped by the wind.
Mar
Sun, wet snow, morning crust and bare patches on the sunny slopes.
Apr
The last lift passes and your season's balance sheet.
Summer
A summer expansion with a bike park and mountain activities.
Mechanics
Everything that keeps a real resort running, simulated with the detail of someone who has lived it from the inside.
01 / 07 · Snowmaking
Reservoir, pumping, compressors, trenches and hydrants, fan guns and lances. Pressure and flow are simulated, and the snow leaves the gun as a plume and lands wherever the wind takes it.
A full network with pressure and flow
02 / 07 · Groomers
Your fleet leaves the garage with its lights on: it covers bare patches, spreads the snow-gun piles and evens out the depth. You give the orders from the control room.
An autonomous fleet of up to 100 machines
03 / 07 · Lifts
T-bars, fixed-grip and detachable chairlifts, gondolas and chondolas. Chairs swing, towers follow the cable and the wind can stop everything with people still on board.
5 lift types, true to the engineering
04 / 07 · Weather
Three-day storms, high pressure, valley fog and blizzards. With a 7-day forecast and the wet-bulb temperature you know when you can make snow.
05 / 07 · Runs and terrain
Generated mountains from any range, up to 4×4 km. Lay out runs, sculpt the terrain and clear the forest, which costs money.
06 / 07 · Skiers
They pick runs by the snow, queue, eat, get cold, fall and get back up. If the day was worth it, they come back.
07 / 07 · Village and economy
Lift passes, rentals, restaurants, hotels and car parks. Every kWh your snow guns burn and every wage comes out of your till.
Sign up and get into the closed beta before anyone else.
Strategy
There's no right answer. There's a mountain, a weather forecast and your bank balance.
The wet-bulb temperature is right on the limit. You spend water and power, but tomorrow you'll have a base.
Do you open the top chairlift and risk stopping it with people on board, or close it and lose lift passes?
There isn't time for all of them: the beginner runs by the village or the red run that makes your name.
The snow turns to spring snow and then to ice. Do you open later so it softens?
A north-facing run keeps its snow; a south-facing one melts sooner. Decide where to build.
Expand it, build another lift or raise the price of the lift pass.
Gallery
Real in-game images, no retouching. Click to enlarge.
For everyone
European Portuguese in preparation.
The whole game can be played with the keyboard and works with a screen reader (NVDA or the system voice). Our goal: that a blind person can run their own resort.
Closed beta
The beta is in preparation. Sign up and you'll be among the first up the mountain, and your feedback will shape the game.
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What already works, what we're building and what comes next. No hype.
FAQ
No. The mountains are generated realistically and the look is inspired by real resorts in the Pyrenees, but you can build your resort on any mountain.
We're preparing a closed beta. Sign up with your email and we'll let you know.
On Steam and directly on this website.
We'll announce the price together with the Steam page. Beta sign-ups will be the first to know.
Yes. After launch, a summer expansion will add a bike park and mountain activities.
It can be played entirely with the keyboard and works with a screen reader.
No. The groomers and skiers use classic game AI, and the music and sounds are our own or in the public domain.
A PC with 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 and a Vulkan-capable GPU. We'll publish the exact requirements before the beta.
Findall Group SL, an independent company.
15 languages: English, Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian, German (also Austrian), Dutch, Polish, Czech, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Join the beta and get ready for your first season.
