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Trials Evolution: Gold Edition
Developer Redlynx Ltd, Ubisoft Shanghaï
Trials Evolution is a racing video game for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows in which each player controls a motorcycle trials rider who traverses an obstacle course. The game was developed by Ubisoft RedLynx and published by Microsoft Studios. It is a follow-up to Trials HD of 2009 and successor to several preceding Trials games by the same developers. The Xbox 360 version was released via Xbox Live Arcade on… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
182 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Oct 25, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
53
Mixed
91 positive · 80 negative
95% range 46–61%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 91 | 80 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 6 | 0 | 4 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
1,185 of 1,666 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
53% recommend · 91 yes, 80 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 171 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (1,829 of 2,442 positive).
Many reviewers criticize the mandatory Ubisoft Connect launcher for requiring repeated logins. [1][2][3] Some players lament the removal of online features and custom tracks due to server shutdowns. [4][5][6]
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Representative posts
- [1]
Well, its Trials. The gameplay is mint, you probably know this already. So why am i leaving a neg? Ubisoft. Ubisoft, in their proud tradition of treating their older products like unwanted orphans,apparently saw fit to update even >10 year old games with their new 'ubisoft connect' launcher thing replacing uplay. Apparently this didnt go so well insofar as uconnect will demand you re-login to ubisoft EVERY SINGLE …
- [6]
As of Jan 2024, Online no longer works. That includes the 1000s of custom tracks made by the community. Campaign is short, without custom tracks this game is trash. Eat sh1t ubisoft
- [15]
People don't stfu about ubisoft, I couldn't give two ♥♥♥♥♥, the game still works and is still a blast.
- [16]
What if we gave physics a Red Bull and told it to hate you personally? Welcome to Trials Evolution. I am absolutely a newbie in Trials Franchise and trials Evolution Gold Edition is where my glorious, bone-crunching love affair with this franchise begins. This game is pure motorized insanity on two wheels. It’s like someone injected an entire circus, a physics textbook, and a sadistic sense of humor into a blender — …
- [4]
Great game, the amount of content has depreciated over the years since servers are shutdown and the community made awesome tracks back in the day. Here's hoping Redlynx would make another good Trials at some point with either Steam Workshop or some other external service that doesn't rely on Ubisoft. They've shown that they will shutdown servers or games regardless and not relying on their servers would future proof …
Summarised from 34 of the 182 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
The crowd is split on Trials Evolution: Gold Edition: 91 recommend it, 80 don't. Which camp are you in?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Trials Evolution received universal acclaim from critics. It holds an aggregate score of 91.58% at GameRankings, and fellow aggregate website Metacritic reports a score of 90/100. The game received five perfect scores: Joystiq's Ben Gilbert, Digital Spy's Liam Martin, Brad Shoemaker of Giant Bomb, Gameblog.fr's reviewer as well as Gamereactor Sweden's Jonas Elfving. The lowest score of an 80% approval rating came from three reviewers: Neil Davey of Guardian.co.uk, Ryan Rigney of Wired magazine, and a staff member from Official Xbox Magazine UK. The game sold an estimated 100,000 units in its first day. It was the highest selling day-one release on Xbox Live Arcade until the release of…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 182 · most liked firstWell, its Trials. The gameplay is mint, you probably know this already. So why am i leaving a neg? Ubisoft. Ubisoft, in their proud tradition of treating their older products like unwanted orphans,apparently saw fit to update even >10 year old games with their new 'ubisoft connect' launcher thing replacing uplay. Apparently this didnt go so well insofar as uconnect will demand you re-login to ubisoft EVERY SINGLE TIME you launch the game. It does not remember the password. Can you even…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, destroyed by Ubiplay. Steam needs to take a hard stance against this kind of anti consumer behaviour.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →absolutely love this game and its great on the deck, but please stop asking me to enter a password every single time i launch it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →REQUIRES ME TO LOGGIN TO A GAME , I ALREADY PAID FOR, I will not be purchasing any more games from UBISOFT dici<
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game but can no longer play without installing Ubisoft launcher I will therefore PIRATE the game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is listed under Steam Deck Compatibility as 'Verified'. This may have been true at some point, but it no longer is. You literally cannot play this game on a steam deck at all any more. For one thing, it requres an ubisoft connect account, which is NOT listed on the store page as it usually is for this sort of anti-consumer crap. And whilst that launcher does work for certain titles on the deck, that is not the case for Trials. I assume it has something to do with them removing the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →redlynx sold their soul to ubisoft and destroyed one of the best game series ever made. i refuse to have anything to do with ubisoft and EA.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As of Jan 2024, Online no longer works. That includes the 1000s of custom tracks made by the community. Campaign is short, without custom tracks this game is trash. Eat sh1t ubisoft
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was a great game back in the days but its not anymore. Just sail the seas if you wanna play this game, just sail the seas and dont give Ublislop any of your money! ♥♥♥♥ em, sail the sea. All the Trials games requires the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Ubislop app and account to work. Even dow if you have the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Ubislop app running in the background, you still need to enter your own password each time you fire up this game.. at this point Ubisoft dont give a ♥♥♥♥ anymore. and even dow I got a Ubislop account…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ubisoft connect and Ubisoft as a whole are cancer to gaming. The games require ubisoft connect in irder to play. My ubitrash account that is linked to steam does not exist anymore, because I haven't logges in like 10 years . Ubisoft support won't respond to my tickets, so I literally can't do anything. Fck ubicrap. There goes another 10+ years without playing trash ubifck games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Requires Uplay 🤡 No one should tolerate this anti-consumer 💩 anymore.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is great but you need Ubisoft Connect that demands you enter the password every time you start the game if Ubisoft Connect is not already running and it keeps wanting to login to Facebook after completing License B for example. Since this game no longer has online features, it should not need Ubisoft Connect.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →People don't stfu about ubisoft, I couldn't give two ♥♥♥♥♥, the game still works and is still a blast.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →have to login to a ubi account to play this game? no thanks
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can't play without login into a ubisoft account and the process for doing that doesn't really work
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game and runs flawlessly on Steam Deck BUT requires Ubisoft's POS launcher, which requires you to enter your password EVERY TIME you start it up, and - just to kick you in the nuts while you're already fuming - will temporarily suspend your account if you enter it incorrectly a couple of times, which is pretty easy to do on a handheld touchscreen. I'm so fed up with publishers putting these completely unnecessary barriers in the way of players who have bought their game and just want to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →UBISOFT CONNECT IS HOT TRASH....REMOVE IT
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A true Xbox 360 arcade classic. Have always loved the Trials games. I'm 1000% here for this!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, the amount of content has depreciated over the years since servers are shutdown and the community made awesome tracks back in the day. Here's hoping Redlynx would make another good Trials at some point with either Steam Workshop or some other external service that doesn't rely on Ubisoft. They've shown that they will shutdown servers or games regardless and not relying on their servers would future proof these sorts of games indefinitely.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The enjoyment of this game is heavily undermined by the Ubisoft launcher. Mainly because it doesn’t remember login credentials, forcing you to enter your password every time you want to play. And keep in mind that this game is limited to 60fps. If you're used to higher frame rates, this may cause nausea.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →why do i need to have uplay for this game. i love this game but this just hurts it so much. i would need to sign in every time like why. then i looked up how to get rid of uplay and all i got was ermmmm too bad you need this trash on your pc. ♥♥♥♥ YOU UBISOFT
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great game but needing to sign in every single time for non-operational leaderboards is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nuts
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game around 10 years ago and loved it. I wanted to replay it, but it says the key is already in use. The complaints about ubisoft are completely valid and it now makes the game unplayable. I paid for this game and have access to the account I bought it with. Ubisoft arbitrarily shoving themselves in the middle AND stopping me from playing my game proves their terrible practices.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wont let me log onto ubisoft, UBISOFT YES. Wasted money on this game and cant get a refund. Dont bother with it!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →feel like playing trials install trials ubisoft login please! uninstall trials
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great game but the death of the leaderboards REALLY hurts the game. It basically destroys the value, I'd recommend a different Trials game that has an operable leaderboard.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You must sign into Ubisuck's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ software every single time you want to play.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ubisoft connect requirement implementation is atrocious. I am forced to enter my password every single time I want to play this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Every track from Trials Evolution and Trials HD in one game on PC. Works on Steam Deck. What more could you want? 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →EW Uplay? Or whatever trash they call it now? Now I'm never playing it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm glad that they integrated Uplay - sorry, Ubisoft Connect - so I could give this game a negative review without feeling bad. Trials Evolution: Gold Edition is a really really good first 60% of a game. I first played it under its initial title of 'Bike Mania 2' on one of those flash game websites. But I'm glad the Trials people looked at the success of those games and made a big proper one out of it. I DO wish that they had improved the controls from a free, floaty flash game, instead of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game way back in 2013. I haven't bought or played any other Ubisoft game since then. Upon going to re-play this game, it is asking me for the password to an account with an email address I no longer own. I now own a brick.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Ubislop Launcher sux dix and cox.. Just let me launch the game from steam you greedy pricks.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Ubisoft login is crazy annoying, but the game otherwise is finger licking good! I've played it for hundreds of hours on Xbox 360 and am now completing it on PC. For extra smooth gameplay, "Lossless Scaling" application set to 2x the framerate, makes the gameplay much more pleasant on high refresh rate display.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game ask to log in to account every single time, game is good but dont recommend because of that.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →requires ubisoft account to play offline wtf
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its good, but ubisoft are ass for not putting the dcls in as well as them turning off online features
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you lose your Ubisoft login they will not allow you to play the game. Purchasing this game does not mean you own it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ubisoft login is broken
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Look, I love this game. I love all the Trials games. But since I have a poor internet connection, I can't play it half the time! Ubisoft Connect hangs, and doesn't let me continue in offline mode. I just want to race. I don't give a $#%@ about Ubisoft online.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LOVE IT BUT FIX ONLINE SERVICES!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →would love to play this game, requires uplay.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Ubisoft launcher pretty much makes this unplayable. A decent game both hampered by and completely ruined by additional needed software which is purely there to mine personal data for money making. What a garbage company Ubisoft are. Stop letting shareholders run gaming companies. This is why the industry is full of boring, repetitive, copycat, remake after remake drivel.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ubisoft required login boooooooooooooooooooooo
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♥♥♥♥ ubisoft this is a wonderful game but ubisofts ♥♥♥♥♥ ass won't remove the login requirment for a 14 year old game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bloody love this game. It has me and my son once again playing together... Something I sorely miss
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A stellar game ruined by GooberSoft's garbage. I purchased this game through the mobile app before I drove home, with the intention to install and play once I arrived. I install the game, hit play, and was greeted with the Ubisoft Connect crap. This was already a red flag. Why does a game from 2012 require that dumpster fire of a f****** launcher? But whatever, If I want to relive the glory days of this game then I have to deal with it so fine. The game gives me a CD Key. Another red flag.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ubisoft is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cancer, ♥♥♥♥ them for ruining another great game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Trials Evolution: Gold Edition, developed by RedLynx Ltd and Ubisoft Shanghai and published by Ubisoft, is one of the most addictive and mechanically satisfying physics-based racing games ever made. Combining the full content of Trials Evolution with tracks and challenges from Trials HD, the Gold Edition delivers an enormous collection of obstacle-filled courses built around precision motorcycle control, brutal platforming sequences, and endlessly rewarding skill progression. What initially…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What if we gave physics a Red Bull and told it to hate you personally? Welcome to Trials Evolution. I am absolutely a newbie in Trials Franchise and trials Evolution Gold Edition is where my glorious, bone-crunching love affair with this franchise begins. This game is pure motorized insanity on two wheels. It’s like someone injected an entire circus, a physics textbook, and a sadistic sense of humor into a blender — then handed me the controller and said, “Go, my beautiful idiot, go!” From…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best of the best Trials!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought it for the achievements, but they didn’t work.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I felt like redoing my review for Trials Evolution, after spending a few days going back and forth with support. It turns out you only get one CD-Key per steam account, meaning I have completely lost access to this game. I own it on Steam but I cannot play it, the game is linked to the Ubisoft account it was activated on. Ubisoft was serious about users not owning games, and their launcher and support team are a joke. I would make an actual review for this game, but I can't without purchasing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, but plagued with the mandatory Ubisoft Launcher. Too bad, i cannot recommend :/
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Twelve years later, I still can't stop thinking about MONDAY NITRO. Hype songs for an event that doesn't exist. Songs that only briefly play while waiting for the game to fully start up, making you wish the loading screens were longer. Trials Evolution was wild. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhFQ...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a great game, but the hoops you have to jump through to play it just isn't worth it. I try to start the game using my ROG Ally, since it's a perfect type of pick up and play game. There's an update through Steam. That's fine. The Ubisoft launcher needs an update. Okay, but make it quick. After it downloads, the Windows dialog box asks me if the launcher can make changes to Windows. Sure. Time passes. The same dialog comes up a second time. Okay. The dialog comes up for a third…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game can't be played nor started anymore. dead. thanks to ubisoft connect. edit: you can apparently play it, but you HAVE TO delete the old ubisoft connect app from the main folder of the game BEFORE launch. also the 2 main dlc arent here.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is my favorite installment in the trials series. It has some of the grittiness of HD and a ton of new things to mess with. With the death of the Xbox 360 store and it's complete lack of presence on newer consoles, this seemed like the most viable option. It was too good to be true. Yes it's gold edition, but it completely lacks both the DLCs and the multiplayer/track central servers. It sucks, the track building and sharing mechanics make up a huge portion of this game. The Ubisoft…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't bother with this sh!tsh0w. No online tracks... short single player ... terrible performance with 14th Gen CPU and RTX 4080 - should be getting 300 fps. And it's Ubicrap. Cancerous mutants.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fire game but some stupid kind of (I'm assuming) DRM isn't letting me play this offline only game offline. It just stays stuck on the launching screen forever or until I connect to WiFi/ethernet. Tried also having Ubis*ft C*nnect open in offline mode while I launch it and that didn't do it either.
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