Alto's Odyssey

Discover the endless desert

Ratings

Age

9+

Games

Languages

English

Latest Version 1.3.0

Thu Feb 16 2023

Hello explorers! We're happy to let you know that we have updated Alto's Odyssey. This update introduces a handful of UI improvements and minor UI bug fixes that ought to make your journey through the endless desert a smoother one. Catch you on the other side of the dunes!

Just beyond the horizon sits a majestic desert, vast and unexplored. Join Alto and his friends and set off on an endless sandboarding journey to discover its secrets. Soar above windswept dunes, traverse thrilling canyons, and explore long-hidden temple cities in a fantastical place far from home. Along the way, you’ll grind across vines, bounce atop hot air balloons, ride towering rock walls, and escape mischievous lemurs.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

94/100

Alto's Odyssey is the rare sequel that manages to be both familiar and entirely fresh. While the snowy peaks of the first game were iconic, the vast desert dunes, hidden canyons, and temple cities of Odyssey provide a much richer visual palette. The addition of wall-riding adds a layer of verticality that makes the trick system feel more fluid and expressive than ever before.

What truly makes Odyssey special is the atmosphere. The dynamic lighting as the sun sets over the dunes, the sound of the wind, and the serene music create a meditative state. It’s a game that works perfectly in short bursts, but can just as easily suck you in for an hour. Zen Mode remains the best feature for those days when you just want to enjoy the scenery without worrying about scores or crashes. It is mobile gaming at its most refined.

Dinsun reviewed on: Wed Feb 25 2026

Features

Fluid, physics-based gameplay

Biomes like The Dunes, Canyons, and Temples

Zen Mode for pure relaxation

Stunning minimalist visual design

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Tips & Walkthrough

Mastering the Wall Ride

The new wall-riding mechanic is key to keeping your combo alive. Tap and hold when you hit a rock surface to ride up and over obstacles, then backflip off for extra points.

Gameplays

Dynamic Environments

The desert is alive with sandstorms, shooting stars, and swirling wind vortexes. Use these environmental elements to gain massive air and chain together complex tricks.

Screenshot

Q&A

Yes, each of the six unlockable characters has unique attributes, like faster speed, better backflips, or improved wall-riding.

Ratings & Reviews

I love you guys.

Fri Feb 23 2018 Straylock

I would like to start off by saying that I am reviewing this based on Alto’s Adventure, not on any other game on the App Store. First, I would like to say that you guys are on the forefront of phone gaming, like seriously (to all other developers) if you’re gonna make a game that’s visually stunning on 4x2 inch smart phone screen, you do it like this. The game play is as phenomenal as the last and it’s just so feel good that the game actually makes me want to travel to the desert and just embark on a journey with nothing but a board and the sunset... that being said I am going to say the only thing I didn’t like about the game and that’s the lack of the feeling of civilization. What I loved about Alto’s Adventure was that there was a small story for Alto to hop up on his snowboard and ride, and that’s because his Llamas got loose, in this game he seems to just hop on for enjoyment, which is fine because the game is still beautiful to explore, but it didn’t have the feel of preexisting Alto in it, or a goal for him to achieve. He also flew in from somewhere where as in the last game, he lived atop that beautiful mountain side that gets me every time and the Llama’s felt like a reason for him to get up and go. I can’t be to mad because this game stomps out any other game on the App Store except for Alto’s Adventure which I honestly think is the perfect Smartphone game. Anyway keep making games as beautiful as this and you have my money every time. I’m writing this review at a time where I haven’t really played a lot of the game so some of the stuff I wrote about may appear as I continue through the beautiful world the geniuses at Snowman created, but as of right now this is what I think.

would be a perfect game if it ran well

Thu Feb 22 2018 TheEternityCode

Alto’s Adventure is my favorite mobile game of all time, and basically a perfect game in my opinion. Alto’s Odyssey should be an even better game, as it’s essentially just an improved version of the last game. However, there’s a serious problem with this game that I noticed immediately, and it makes me not enjoy playing it at all. While Alto’s Adventure ran perfectly on my iPhone 6s, making it a wonderful, zen-like experience, Alto’s Odyssey does not run well on my phone at all. It hitches constantly, and can’t achieve anything close to a smooth framerate. There’s nothing satisfying about playing the game in this state, which is a shame since it should be just as satisfying as playing Alto’s Adventure is. Needless to say I’m very disappointed by this, and until the game is optimized better or has an optional lower-graphics setting that runs better, I’m probably not going to open the game again. I understand that the creators wanted to improve the graphics for this new game, and that my phone is not the newest model so maybe I shouldn’t expect it to run perfectly. But the game is advertised as being compatible for phones as far back as the iPhone 5s, and my model is just 2 years old, so I should have been able to safely assume that it would run well on my phone. I kind of feel like I wasted my money here, but I’m still rating it 3 stars for now because I’m pretty sure this will be a perfect game if (hopefully when) it is better optimized.

Still worth getting!

Mon Mar 28 2022 LemonPopLord

Hello, I would like to share my story with the game that I believe is a little bit more unique than most other players. As some of you may know, Alto’s Odyssey is the sequel to Alto’s Adventure, which was first published in 2015. I played AA (Alto’s Adventure), and fell in love with it, however I never purchased it or AO (Alto’s Odyssey) until recently. This was because I first played the two on a hacked client which allowed me to play for free. Since it was a hacked client, it meant that my data on the game would be wiped whenever the client had to shift to a new site or whatever they did when they risked being exposed. I played AA and AO over and over and over again but never became bored of either, which made me start to think; “hey, maybe this game is worth buying”. I had never gotten past level 30 on either game because of how often the client had to switch and that frustrated me, to the point where I stopped playing both of them, up until 2022. I decided to buy them on a whim because I had forgotten then remembered AO and had felt quite nostalgic about it. Buying this game and playing for the first time in years was an amazing feeling and I can confidently say I have thoroughly enjoyed every moment, this game is worth the $5 you spend on it, without a doubt. P.S: canyons best biome

Beautiful and Immersive by Design yet Shockingly Simple

Sun Aug 06 2023 lekaiserroll

What a game! Been playing Alto’s Odyssey for over a year now and have loved every second of it. Very rarely do game devs create that is so visually intricate yet easy to learn and worth coming back to over and over again, yet Snowman has checked all the boxes. It’s a nice game to play on long car rides or flights, as I’ve found it’s a great escape from the real world as you are hooked by the serene soundtrack and stunning scenery. As I’ve played Odyssey I’ve come to appreciate the constantly changing weather patterns and daylight cycles that can even affect how well I perform. Though it’s a 5-star game in my books, one suggestion I have is to remove the character Sumatra entirely or replace her with another character that has his/her own unique attribute. Once you’ve unlocked Sumatra the game becomes very easy, and personally I enjoy the challenges presented with each character (Paz’s extremely slow backflips but great momentum, Maya’s low momentum but swift backflips, etc). In addition to this, the challenges could be altered so some are more specific to certain characters, and thus create incentives to use each of them.

Brings back memories...

Sun Apr 18 2021 Random_gameryt226

This game is by far the very best paid infinite run game I’ve ever played, definitely worth the money on this one, there are no problems that I’ve run into thus far, and I just feel so nostalgic when playing this game, it reminds me of living with my mom and how I would play this during the nights me and my siblings were home alone while she (my mom) was working. This might be kinda sappy, but this game makes me feel strangely comforted whilst the world burns outside our window and also because I can’t live with my mom at the moment because of split parent issues, and I miss her very, very much, but knowing I have a piece of her with me on an everyday item of mine is the best I could wish for. But anyway, I just overall feel relaxed and happy with the look, feel, and sound of the entire game. Also, if you feel like you have problems with this game on your phone, then as long as an iPad is signed into your iCloud account (or something else, maybe iTunes) you can download it for free on that iPad. Trust me I bet it’ll be a way greater experience. And for the developer(s) of this game, props to you! Great work 🙂👍

Absorbing, Beautiful, Simple—and Innocent

Sat Mar 03 2018 BARSTL

First, Altos Odyssey works as a game. If you want to forget your troubles for a while and become absorbed in another world, you will find no better escape then this game. (As with other means of escaping one’s troubles, it does tempt one to over-indulge.) Second, it is simply beautiful: both the artwork and the music are first rate. They would capture your attention outside the context of the game. Third, it is a very well-designed computer application. Glitches are few, the interface is simple and intuitive, and one never feels lost. Finally, unlike many games, it does not invite you into an unhealthy fantasy. You don’t shoot, much less kill, anything. You don’t break anything except rock or two, and if you annoy a lemur, well he seems to enjoy chasing you. So instead of letting you escape into an adolescent dream of power and domination, as many games do, Alto’s Odyssey lets you escape into a dream of ever-increasing skill and the joyful experience of flying ever-more confidently. How lovely! I do have reservations about the wingsuit, which doesn’t work as well as the rest of the game or even make sense within the context of the game, but that is about my only quibble.

Worth writing a review for

Tue Feb 27 2018 Gatekeeperlover260

Many months ago I was introduced to the game Altos adventure. I don’t remember how I was introduced to it but after playing it for a while I became addicted to the game’s simple concept, amazing graphics and beautiful soundtrack. So when I swiped to the left for the first time and found out they were making a sequel to the game called Alto’s Odyssey, I was hyped. When I finally saw that the game was up for preorder and bought it I was so excited for it to be released. And when it said that the game was now available I was ready to fly through the roof. Was my excitement worth it? Was my pre order and 5 dollars spent on the game worth it? After turning on the game for the first time and watching the intro, I knew it was all worth it. From the new wall riding ability to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL soundtrack, the game hits all the marks. The game is BREATHTAKING, the visuals are stunning and it fits perfectly with the soundtrack. The controls of the original are still there and work in some cases better with the sequel. The new parts of the game such as the new biomes, lemurs, wall riding and water allow the game to be so much more than just a simple climate change of the original. While I was at first skeptical of the removal of chasing Lammas down the mountainside, without the game just feels more fluid and allows it just now to be a simple fun journey down the endless desert hills and valleys. I have no complaints. I only wish one thing for Team Alto and that is to release the soundtrack. It’s so beautiful and I wish I could just play it over and over again. Sometimes people say that the sequel is always worst than the original. But in this case, the sequel is just as good and may even be better than the original.

A Simple, yet beautiful platformer

Wed Jul 21 2021 The5StarWriterOfReviews

I grew up playing Altos Adventure, so when I heard about the development of its sequel, Altos Odyssey, I was counting down the days until it’s release! Like its predecessor, Odyssey is incredibly immersive and absolutely stunning in every way. It’s extremely easy to play, but offers an ever changing landscape and new challenges to always make the game exciting. As an indie game (and a newer one at that), it does have its flaws and bugs. But the developers are constantly improving the performance. Currently, the game shuts of your background audio as you enter the game (although I’ve heard that the developers are working on this issue). With its catchy music that’s never always the same, I’m fine with that. However, if you prefer listening to your own media whilst tapping away, I would instead download the critically acclaimed Altos Adventure, which offers that feature. Overall, the stunning art, cute characters, and enticing challenges, combined with the simple, easy gameplay, makes this amazing app worth every penny. As a long time Alto addict, I can definitely say that you will adore this game.