Actually snowboarding is obviously better, but insofar as an easily accessible app goes, Alto’s Adventure is the perfect workplace distraction. The dreamlike automatic runner (like Temple Run and all of its iterations) is “an endless snowboarding odyssey, set against a beautiful and ever changing alpine landscape.”
And boy, oh boy, is it a beautiful alpine landscape — not only beautiful, but breathtakingly so…
That is all we have to say about it, as we’re not really in the business of talking video games. Tech site The Verge has a more in-depth review of the game itself, as opposed to my simpler appreciation of its aesthetics, so head over there if you want the details.
