Yeah... no! No challenge, no commentator, no atmosphere, no replay value.
Winter Games 2023 makes a good and promising prototype, but fails as a full-fledged game - especially from a single player's perspective.

Graphically it's okay for what it is, the game is well optimized and the essential animations are absolutely fine. The rest is downright meh!

The gap between the difficulty levels is too high and most of the disciplines are dumbed down to dull QTEs. No need for tactics, no need to get to know the tracks/courses, just press the right button at the right time. In biathlon, for example, a pretty complex sport, here you don't need to balance your energy, you don't need to control your pulse rate, you can't even decide for yourself when to switch from downhill crouch to skating or how to approach the mat. Everything is pre-set, runs on rails and the player just dumbly presses indicated buttons.

I'm well aware that these types of games are heavy on QTE by nature. However, good games of this kind allow the player a minimum of freedom and to get into a rhythm while pressing the buttons. Usually this is achieved through animation, UI/UX "and" sound design. Here it's purely visual in a very clumsy way. Button is displayed, button is pressed, done!
In addition, there are incomprehensible game design decisions. The flight phase in Ski Jumping is strange, the behavior of the bobsled is very arcadey, in Downhill and Super-G time runs before the player trips the sensor, and so on.

In fact, all this wouldn't be so bad if the player wasn't completely disconnected from the competition due to the way it's presented. Nothing is simulated. You make your run and are instantly presented with completely meaningless results from practically non-existent opponents.
This leads to the fact that the atmosphere of the different sports cannot be trasported at all. You can't be excited about your own result or failures of opponents, you can't be angry about your own mistakes or good performances of the opponents, you simply can't follow what your opponents are doing, and you have no advantage or disadvantage, both gameplay-wise and emotionally, no matter if you come first or fourth.
And since you are so emotionally distanced from your player character, after a brief time I got the feeling the game was wantonly wasting my time.

That there are always only four participants means the game is designed solely for local multiplayer. This also explains why there is no element of progression in the game. As there is no tournament structure (e.g. World Cup) of the individual sports and in the individual disciplines the focus is purely on the run of the player, there is basically no reason for a single player, playing a discipline twice, no matter the result achieved.
Due to the poor presentation and the lack of sports atmosphere, I also can't imagine that the game will be fun in local multiplayer more than once.

It seems that the developer concentrated exclusively on the technical implementation of the 10 disciplines and didn't give a thought to how the individual disciplines could function as a whole as an exciting and motivating game. Moreover, rules and procedures of the sports have not really been respected by the developer.
That's a pity. Since the old RTL games don't run on my PC anymore, I was hoping to find a kind of successor here. What I found was a half-baked, shallow and, above all, overpriced game which is just no fun at all.

The only discipline that works reasonably well from a game and gameplay perspective is Curling. But here, too, a totally nonsensical game design desicion of an elimination throw is played in case of a tie, which is simply out of place when playing as a single player.

The most annoying thing though is, that the potential is obviously there, but the game doesn't seem to have been thought through or developed to the end or the only goal was to provide a quick multiplayer fix to the people who really have nothing to do at all and accidentally have two or three friends over who also don't know what to do with their time either.

I recommend this game but it needs work. Especially the rendering of the graphics. It is uneven from one game to another i.e. Short Track skating is fine but downhill skiing is atrocious. I don't have a graphic card still the game functions but has some slow playing. I think you should also offer lower screen resolutions options as it would help computers who do not have a fancy graphic card to be allowed to function. But I love the game and even look forward to buy its ps4 version. But the PC version needs works for graphics rendering. Otherwise, the gameplay itself is fine.

🔵 New Winter Sports (Olympic style)
🔵 10 Events
🔵 3 levels of difficulty

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✔️Decent animations
✔️Semi-challenging even on easy difficulty
✔️Curling is my fav. event by a long way.
✔️The Biathlon is really quite good.

❌Audio is average.
❌Animations are dated (better than Winter Olympics 2011)
❌Not enough events.

⭐Curling
⭐Biathlon
⭐Super-G

💡More events
💡Better audio
💡Better Graphics

---{Graphics}---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{Gameplay}---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{Audio}---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{Audience}---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☐ Adults
☑ All

---{PC Requirements}---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{Difficulity}---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{Grind}---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isnt necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding

---{Story}---
☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It‘ll replace your life

---{Game Time}---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{Price}---
☐ It’s free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{Bugs}---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{?/10}---
☐1
☐2
☐3
☐4
☐5
☐ 6
☑ 7
☐8
☐9
☐ 10

If your frame rate is capped at 30 FPS, forcing Vsync in Nvidia control panel will help!

TO THE DEVELOPERS/URGENT: The game is so good but URGENT: The level of difficoult need to be more!! In the Ski the number 1 is with 2:00 minutes in Hard Level and the player can make 1:30 so easy in the first time!! Just adjust the times of the CPU IA and is Done.... The second thing: The completitions are so simples. In Curling we can play only 1 play (Winner have 1st , Looser have 2nd. DONE, no more!), is needed Quarters/Semi/Final, etc (more quantity). Just with this the game will be incredible.

I like the game pretty much. Multiplayer is the most fun, but it´s also nice to play it alone.

I´m playing the bobsleigh with Jamaica - Cool runnings style ;)

I love wintersports, but the controls in this game aren't any good.
Also, there's no commentary, and creating profile give some early 2000s vibe.
There's potential, but need to be worked on. Hopefully woul improve in the future

I put it on Hard opponents the first downhill skiing race I tried, I won by 10 seconds and that was with many time penalties as well lol, dont waste your time with this.

Good:
- The theme is nice.
- Refreshing.
- Aesthetic.
- The actual product is just as you see in its cover page.

Bad:
- The price is expensive for what it is.
- Way too simple.
- Low replayability.
- Buggy.