A 2D bike game with real physics
Elasto Mania Remastered is a colorful 2D motorbike game, first released in 2000 as a successor to Action SuperCross. You ride a bike through enduro-style platformer levels, balancing, accelerating and braking to get through terrain that fights back. The store text calls it a motorbike simulation rather than a simple arcade racer, so expect the bike to behave like a physical object: it leans, flips and lands in ways you have to learn to control. The remastered version is described as bigger and better than the original and as the definitive way to play it.
Playing it with friends
The game carries the Remote Play Together feature, so one person can own it and others can join in from their own machines. The store text also mentions playing together with a friend for a new perspective on old levels, which fits the shared-screen style of a session where you take turns or watch each other tackle the same course. When you have had enough of local play, there are leaderboards to compete on, so a group can keep chasing each other's times on the levels you have all already finished.
What to expect before you start
The game is described as "hard, but casual, but hard" — it is challenging to master, but the text says you will quickly get the hang of it once you start playing. Levels are short and readable in 2D, but finishing them cleanly takes practice, and collecting everything in a level is a separate challenge from simply reaching the end. Content is not a concern: there are more than a hundred additional levels in this version, with even more on the way, on top of the original set. It is a retro game that has kept its old-school feel while running in a modern form, so go in expecting a classic rather than a modernized rework of the controls.