Press Kit
Ready Steady Slope Press
Facts, images and boilerplate for journalists and gift-guide editors. Review copies available — everything on this page may be reproduced.
Fact Sheet
- Game
- Ready Steady Slope — the skiing & snowboarding card game
- Players
- 2–6
- Play time
- 20–30 minutes
- Ages
- 8+
- Cards
- 195 themed cards across six types: Equipment, Resort, Piste, Form, Weather and Special
- Special cards
- Eight Specials drive the chaos — five attacks (Blizzard!, Wipe Out!, Avalanche!, Off Piste! and Global Warming!) and three defences (Nailed It!, Flair! and Snow Patrol!)
- RRP
- £14.99 (GBP)
- Availability
- Amazon.co.uk from October 2026
- Publisher
- Lava Labs B.V., Netherlands (KVK 99143011)
- Socials
- Instagram @ready.steady.slope · X @ReadSteadSlope · TikTok @readysteadyslope · facebook.com/readysteadyslope
- The hook
- All 16 resorts in the game are real, spread over five countries — France, Canada, Switzerland, Austria and Scotland — and every one is a firm favourite of the authors. Players can visit their favourite resorts or explore their bucket list: Chamonix, Val Thorens, Courchevel, Méribel, Tignes, Val d’Isère, La Plagne, Les Arcs, Les Trois Vallées, Alpe d’Huez, Avoriaz, Verbier, St. Anton, Mayrhofen, Aviemore and Whistler.
About the Game
Ready Steady Slope is a fast, fun set-collection card game for skiers, snowboarders and their families — and just as much for casual gamers who have never clicked into a binding. Every player chooses to ride as a skier or a snowboarder, then races to gear up, ride the lifts and complete their pistes at one of 16 real resorts — while blizzards, wipeouts and rivals stealing your runs get in the way. Games take 20–30 minutes, nobody sits out for long, fortunes can quickly change, and it plays as well in a chalet as it does at the kitchen table in July.
Ready Steady Slope has been in the works since 2024 — designed and published by Lava Labs B.V., an independent studio in the Netherlands, and built by lifelong snowheads who set it in the resorts they ride. The full story, from first prototype to print, is in the designer diaries on BoardGameGeek .
Images
Click to download. All images may be used for editorial coverage of Ready Steady Slope with credit “© Lava Labs B.V.”.
Product shot — box in the snow
Review Copies & Enquiries
Review samples are available for journalists, gift-guide editors and reviewers ahead of the October launch. Tell us your outlet and deadline and we’ll get one on its way.
snowheads@readysteadyslope.com