Ski Rush: Ilgaz is a free endless ski runner for iPhone and iPad. You ski three lanes down Mount Ilgaz in northern Turkey — dodging pines, chairlifts, slalom gates and ice, and chaining flips to raise a score multiplier. The descent climbs through five pistes that follow the mountain's real ski centres: the forest of Kadınçayırı Nature Park, the floodlit Ilgaz 1 night piste, the 5,600 m Yurduntepe run, the Yıldıztepe black piste with its 400 m of vertical, and the 2,587 m Büyükhacet summit. There is no energy timer and no paywall — every piste, character and pair of skis unlocks with coins you earn on the mountain.
Yes. The download and the game are free, and nothing that changes how you play sits behind a purchase. Every piste, every character and every pair of skis or snowboard unlocks with coins you earn on the mountain, and the upgrades that extend your power-ups are bought with the same coins. What money buys is time and quiet: removing the ads, doubling the coins a run pays out, or a coin pack if you would rather not grind for the next character. A player who never spends can reach the summit and own everything in the shop.
Yes. The whole mountain runs offline — chairlift, tunnel, plane, anywhere with no signal. Your runs, coins, missions and unlocks all work with the connection off, and they sync the next time the device is online. A connection is only needed for three optional things: Game Center leaderboards and achievements, the rewarded ads that pay coins or a revive, and iCloud sync when you move to a new device.
It is. Mount Ilgaz rises between Kastamonu and Çankırı in northern Turkey and has been a national park since 1976. Its five ski areas are the five pistes in the game — Kadınçayırı, Ilgaz 1, Yurduntepe, Yıldıztepe and Dikmen — and the climb ends at the real Büyükhacet summit, 2,587 metres. Even the name is not decoration: in Turkish, ılgaz means a charge or a gallop. The mountain is already named after running.
iPhone and iPad running iOS 17 or later. There is no Android, web or console version.
Yes. Coins, unlocked characters and gear, your mission streak and your best descent all sync through iCloud, so a new device picks up where the old one stopped. No account and no sign-up — it rides along with the Apple ID already on the device.
There is. Wipe out and it comes up the slope behind you, leans over your skis and takes you off the mountain. Finish a run clean and you never meet it.