ScreamRide Reviews

ScreamRide is ranked in the 51st percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
9.5 / 10.0
Mar 2, 2015

ScreamRide is currently the most fun I have had with a videogame in 2015 so far. I think the idea of this game is brilliant, and it is absolutely addicting to play. With three separate career modes, a beautiful physics based destruction system and the sandbox mode, this should keep you occupied for quite some time.

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Mar 1, 2015

Screamride may not revolutionize the genre in a deep compelling way and it doesn't have strong multiplayer options, but it's pure entertainment and packs in as much content as a world-class amusement park. If you've been wanting a game that makes you scream "WHOO!", Screamride has just the ticket.

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9 / 10.0
Mar 2, 2015

Peers in seemingly disparate genres have assumed mastery over impulsive tests of skill, the strategic obliteration of unreliable architecture, and a judicious regard for practical engineering, but none have been arranged together as uniform and effective as ScreamRide. For a game so persistently engrossed in outlandish destruction, its accompanying structure is surprisingly sound.

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Ken Barnes
Top Critic
9 / 10
Mar 2, 2015

ScreamRide is thrilling, addictive, fun, enjoyable, well-crafted, rewarding, challenging, and has the potential to go on to be a long and successful franchise. It isn't just about holding on to your hat as you fly down a vertical drop, building the biggest coaster you can, or trying to hold on to your lunch as you hit an inversion at 120mph. There's thought, the tools for a community to spring up around it, and lots of longevity here, and at really is only some very minor niggles that stops ScreamRide from picking up perfect marks.

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8.5 / 10.0
Mar 2, 2015

Screamride is actually three games in one – four, if you count the sandbox mode – and none of them are probably what you expect

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8.5 / 10.0
Mar 2, 2015

Developer Frontier Developments calls this new game a "spiritual successor" to Roller Coaster Tycoon, and the game fills its end of the bargain quite admirably.

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IGN
Top Critic
8.2 / 10.0
Mar 2, 2015

Screamride is a destructive roller coaster simulator filled with fun explosives and great creation tools.

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4.1 / 5.0
Mar 3, 2015

Screamride is a very entertaining game on the Xbox One that successfully creates that virtual roller-coaster experience from start to finish. There's some great replay value included in the game and some very good use of real-world physics with some over the top challenges for players to complete.

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Polygon
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Mar 2, 2015

ScreamRide is one of 2015's first great surprises

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USgamer
Top Critic
Mar 18, 2015

An original and addictive puzzle game that includes a terrific roller coaster builder - and plenty of user-generated content.

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8 / 10.0
Mar 3, 2015

Striking and varied, Screamride is a carefree experience with a character of its own.

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Mar 2, 2015

A melting pot of old and new, Screamride provides players with not only classic coaster building, but also the ability to ride upon those tracks and then destroy everything around them across hours of endless fun.

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80 / 100
Mar 2, 2015

ScreamRide offers an experience that is fresh, deep and a blast to play. Despite its lack of multiplayer I kept coming back for more to test my creativity and wreak as much havoc as possible.

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Mar 2, 2015

'ScreamRide' lets player's latent roller coaster fantasies free, indulging every creative and borderline sadistic idea with arcade-style, high score-focused gameplay.

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80 / 100
Mar 4, 2015

I had a lot more fun playing ScreamRide than I thought I would have. For the asking price, you get a solid amount of fun, varied gameplay, and solid audio to top it off. The only thing that can drag this game down is the camera controls at times, and some issues with aiming in Demolition mode, but these issues could well be tweaked later on. So strap yourself in and hang on, because it's going to be a wild ride!

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Ken McKown
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Mar 3, 2015

Screamride is unlike anything else I have played, and certainly packs a ton of fun.

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Mar 12, 2015

There are a few other niggling issues, like occasionally problematic camera controls, the baffling lack of an instant replay feature and some overall rough edges in the presentation. But for that narrow subset of players who like racing, puzzle and construction games – and who have a slightly sadistic streak, to boot – Screamride is not to be missed. It's almost enough to make you forget high school physics. Almost.

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80%
Mar 2, 2015

Free from Kinect, Frontier has been able to deliver a game that revels in split-second timing and precise controls. The result is the studio's best Xbox game in years that's a brilliantly fun coaster-racing, track-building, building destroying experience in its own right. ScreamRide feels like a reaction to the studio's Kinect work. Where Microsoft's motion-detecting device demanded games without precise input, ScreamRide revels in it. The result is a joy.

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GameZone
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Mar 3, 2015

If you love coaster creation, you're going to enjoy ScreamRide. If you love destroying things and watching buildings crumble, well, you'll also enjoy ScreamRide; but, you should probably seek help.

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NZGamer
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Mar 3, 2015

A welcome return for the roller coaster genre

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