Career & scenarios

Career levels and what they unlock, the goal chapters, the six scenarios and the Resort of the Year report.

#Career or Sandbox?

Career (the default for new games) gives your resort a level from 1 to 6. A short list of big items unlocks as you level up. Sandbox unlocks everything from the start and tracks no level. The goal chain works in both.

#Levels

A level is reached when all of its requirements hold. Levels are latched: once reached, never lost, even after a bad winter.

On the level-up card, Show me opens the drawer that holds a new unlock and points at its card with a highlight, so you do not have to hunt for it.

#What unlocks when

Everything not listed is available from the start (including the Landscape drawer apart from digging ponds, and the starter chain of lifts, lodge, ticket office, parking, ski school, patrol hub, first-aid hut and the ranger station).

#Goals

The goals card walks you through four chapters and twenty goals (for example Paint an easy run, Green, blue and red runs, Open a black run): Season 1: Open for business, Local favourite, Regional name and Alpine destination. Three goals are active at a time; finishing a chapter opens the next. Each goal pays a small grant. Click Show me to jump the camera to the relevant spot, and the card can be collapsed.

#Ranger Rudi's advice

Rudi is the friendly ranger in the bottom-left corner. Every in-game hour he checks the state of your resort, such as long queues, missing patrol, unused lifts, an icy piste, a bear without a ranger station, low cash and a price far from fair, and shows up to three pieces of advice, most urgent first. Show me points at the place; Dismiss snoozes an item for 30 days. Advice goes away as soon as the problem does.

#Scenarios

Scenarios are handcrafted challenges with a fixed map, season, starting situation and objectives. Reach the required objectives to win; bonus objectives raise your score and earn a medal (bronze, silver or gold). Pick them under Scenarios on the main menu or in the New Game dialog.

#First Tracks ★☆☆☆☆

A small valley, a big first impression. A quiet little valley with room for one lift and plenty of enthusiasm. Welcome your first 500 guests and earn a three-star rating within a year.

Map: Small (64), start in winter.

• Welcome 500 guests (required)
• Reach a 3-star rating (required)
• Open a ski school (bonus)
• Close a month with $20,000 profit (bonus)
• Welcome 3,000 guests (bonus)
• Close a month with $30,000 profit (bonus)

#Family Valley ★★☆☆☆

Snowsuits, hot chocolate and a lot of mittens. Families are coming in numbers. Give the little ones a ski school, a kids' area and a playground, and keep the grown-ups smiling too.

Map: Medium (128), start in winter.

• Welcome 1,500 family guests (required)
• Open a ski school (required)
• Build a kids' ground (required)
• Build a playground (required)
• Reach a 3.5-star rating (required)
• Reach 4 stars (bonus)
• Keep family happiness at 85% for a month (bonus)
• Welcome 6,000 family guests (bonus)
• Earn $120,000 over 12 months (bonus)

#Powder Dreams ★★★☆☆

The forecast says snow. The forecast is optimistic. A warm, dry winter. Natural snow is scarce, so cannons, a reservoir and night grooming decide whether the lifts keep turning.

Map: Medium (128), start in winter.

• Keep the lifts open for 45 days (required)
• Build 6 snow cannons (required)
• Welcome 1,200 guests (required)
• Groom 15 nights (bonus)
• Reach a 3.5-star rating (bonus)
• Keep the lifts open for 100 days (bonus)
• Welcome 4,000 guests (bonus)

#Summer Escape ★★★☆☆

Sandals optional, boots recommended. It is summer and the mountain is green. Cut hiking and biking trails, reach the high meadows and show the farm to the visitors.

Map: Medium (128), start in summer.

• Open 25 tiles of hiking and biking trails (required)
• Open an Alpine Farm (required)
• Welcome 400 guests in summer (required)
• Open 20 tiles of mountain-bike trail (bonus)
• Reach a 4-star rating (bonus)
• Reach the high meadows: 20 trail tiles in the top third (bonus)
• Welcome 800 guests in summer (bonus)

#Alpine Giant ★★★★★

Large map, larger loan, no pressure. A huge valley and a bank that believes in you. Build a destination resort, repay the bank and be profitable by the third year.

Map: Large (256), start in winter.

• Welcome 10,000 guests (required)
• Earn $40,000 over 12 months (required)
• Repay the bank completely (bonus)
• Reach 4 stars (bonus)
• Welcome 18,000 guests (bonus)
• Earn $100,000 over 12 months (bonus)

#Safe Slopes ★★★★☆

Everyone goes home. That is the whole brief. Storms, slab avalanches and curious bears. Keep guests safe with patrols, first aid and rangers, and finish the winter with nobody in hospital.

Map: Medium (128), start in winter.

• Staff a Ski Patrol Hub (required)
• Build 2 First-Aid Huts (required)
• Station a ranger team (required)
• Welcome 1,000 guests (required)
• Keep incidents under 60 (required)
• Fewer than 3 guests in hospital (bonus)
• Nobody in hospital (bonus)
• Reach a 3.5-star rating (bonus)

#Resort of the Year

At the end of every in-game year (180 days) the game shows a report card: guests, income, rating, best moments and awards, with charts. It pauses the game while open and you can switch it off in Settings; past reports stay under Finance → Reports. The report can be saved as a PNG on your device. Nothing is ever uploaded.