Ramp Riot in 30 seconds

You ride a motorbike (or a BMX, or a tricycle) as a wild animal. Build a course, race it against other animals, and pull stunts over jumps and through loops.

1. Pick a Mode, a Bike and who you Ride as in the Race panel on the left.
2. Press the big orange button at the bottom (Ride it).
3. Hold W to go, steer with AD, and reach the finish first.
4. Press Esc to get back to the builder at any time.

Start the hands-on tutorial ›  It walks you through building a course, riding it, stunts and racing, one challenge at a time.

Open this guide again any time with the How to play button or the H key. It pauses the game while it's open.

Keyboard

Gamepad

Plug in any standard controller and press a button. It rumbles on crashes, landings, bumps and boosts (Chrome and Edge).

Touch screens

Pick a scheme under Touch controls in the builder, or switch mid-ride with the round button at the top right.

Buttons: ◀ ▶ steer, GAS, BRK, N₂O nitro, ★ trick, WHL wheelie, and ⇤ ⇥ shove. In the air, tap GAS or BRK to flip.

Tilt to steer: tilt the phone like a steering wheel and use the buttons for the rest. The middle is set when the ride starts; tap the tilt bar to reset it. If your phone or browser blocks the tilt sensor, it falls back to ◀ ▶.

Swipe pad: put a finger anywhere and drag. Up is gas, down is brake, sideways steers. In the air drag up or down again to flip, and tap for a trick. Double tap for nitro, hold a second finger for a wheelie, and flick a second finger sideways to shove.

Android phones buzz on crashes and landings.

Getting air

Jumps, crests and loop exits throw you into the air. Kickers give you a little speed boost on the way up, so you always clear the gap if you're on the gas.

Flips

In the air, press W to rotate forward and S to rotate backward. If you were already holding the key when you took off, let go and press it again. That stops accidental flips.

Signature tricks

Press F in the air. Each animal has its own trick:

Landing

• Land roughly wheels-down and facing forward. Too far over and you crash.
• Don't land in the middle of a trick: that's a bail. Start tricks early on big jumps.
• Coming up short on a landing ramp is a crash too.
• A clean flip or trick refills nitro.

Wheelies

Hold Shift on the ground at speed. You steer less sharply on one wheel, but a long wheelie slowly refills nitro and scores after 2 seconds.

Nitro

The blue bar bottom right. Hold Space to burn it. Refill it by landing flips and tricks, holding wheelies, collecting stars, and riding over boost pads.

Boost pads

The pads with moving chevrons. Riding over one gives a burst of speed. There's always one before a loop, because loops need speed: too slow and you fall off at the top.

Shoving

Press Q or E when a rider is right beside you to push them sideways. Heavy bikes push harder and get pushed less (the cruiser is a bulldozer). Opponents shove back. Getting shoved into a wall at speed means a crash.

Crashing

After a crash you're put back on the track a little way behind and blink for two seconds, which means you can't crash again yet. Obstacles (barrels and crates) and walls are the usual culprits.

Stunt points

Combos add up: a double backflip with a trick and 2 s of air is 300 + 300 + 250 + 200 = 1,050.

Stunt replay

After a race, your three best stunts play back in slow motion. Each one uses a different camera: trackside, chase, low front, helicopter or side-on. Then it slows right down in mid-air and circles around you.

• C or the Camera button switches the angle.
• Esc skips the replay.
• Watch stunt replay on the results card plays it again.

Racing line

A stripe on the road shows a good line: it cuts the inside of bends and weaves through the gaps between obstacles. Green is flat out, blue is a ramp, boost pad or loop where you keep the gas on, amber marks a tight bend ahead and red a very tight one. Turn it off under Show the racing line.

Ghost

Once you've finished a course, a see-through rider replays your best run every time you race it. Beat it and the new run becomes the ghost. Turn it off under Ghost of my best run.

Split times

At a quarter, half and three quarters of the way, the time against your best run flashes up: green when you're ahead, red when you're behind.

Slipstream

Tuck in close behind another rider and you get more top speed. Wind streaks and SLIPSTREAM show it's working. Then pull out and pass.

Rewind

Crashed or missed a jump? Press Z (⟲ Rewind on screen, Y on a gamepad) to go back 3 seconds. The clock keeps running, so a rewind costs you those 3 seconds.

Photo mode

Press O or 📷 Photo to freeze the action. Drag to fly the camera around your rider and scroll or pinch to zoom. Then save the picture or share it.

Medals

Every course has bronze, silver and gold target times. Gold is the time of a flawless computer rider. In a stunt show the targets are points. Your best medal shows under the clock.

High scores

The top 10 runs for each course and mode are kept on this device. Type your name on the results card to sign your entry. You can also see the table under High scores in the builder.

Daily challenge

Each day there's a new generated course with a set bike and animal. It's the same for everyone on that day, so compare times with friends.

Sharing

Share score on the results card, or Share in photo mode, posts to X, Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, Reddit or email, or copies the text. Every share says "Try to beat me at RAMP RIOT" and links to the game.

The arena

A big fenced lot, about 520 m across, where you can go anywhere. The minimap (top right) shows everything around you.

Things to collect and hit

• Stars ★: 28 of them, some on top of things, inside loops or high on banks.
• Fire rings: hang over the big jumps. Fly through the hoop.
• Cones: a slalom line. Bowling pins: at the end of a boost run, so go for a strike. Both pop back up after a while.
• Speed traps: gantries that clock your speed and remember your record.

Riding into the side or back of a ramp is a crash. Ramps only work from the front.

Building a course

1. Click a piece under Add a piece. It goes right after the highlighted piece, or at the end.
2. Pick a piece in the Track list, or click it on the 3D track, to tune it with the sliders.
3. Use Move up / down, Duplicate or Delete to rearrange. Obstacle sections have Shuffle layout.

The 3D view

Drag to orbit, right-drag or Shift-drag to pan, and scroll (or pinch) to zoom. The orange arrow shows where the next piece will attach.

Course settings

Name your course, load a ready-made preset, and choose the Scenery: Desert canyon, Jungle, City at night or Autobahn. Each one has its own soundtrack.

The card under the bike menu shows its power, weight, top speed and bars for speed, grip, tricks and weight. Opponents ride the same bike as you.

Ride as picks your animal, which sets your signature trick. The other animals become your opponents.

Saving

Save course keeps it in this browser under its name. Pick it from the list and press Load to get it back. Your last course, bike, animal, mode and music setting are remembered automatically.

Sharing

Copy share code puts a code starting with RR1. on your clipboard. Send it to a friend, who pastes it in the box and presses Load share code. The scenery travels with it.

Sound

Tick Soundtrack in the Race panel, or press N in game, for music. M mutes everything.

• Stay on the gas up a kicker. Braking on the ramp is the main reason for coming up short.
• A loop needs speed: hit the boost pad and keep the gas on all the way round.
• Start tricks early on big jumps, and finish rotating before you come down.
• Learning flips? Try the Tricycle or the BMX in Stunt show first.
• The "next feature" line under the minimap warns you about jumps, loops and turns ahead.
• In a crowd, the cruiser plus a well-timed shove clears the way.
• In Free ride, follow the minimap's gold dots for stars and orange rings for fire rings.