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Skate Story
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Skate Story

bySam Eng2025

Ollie, kickflip, and grind your way through the ash and smoke of the Underworld as you take on a seemingly impossible quest. Skate fast to destroy demons and save other tortured souls on your journey from a fragile beginner to a hardened skater.

Release Date

December 7, 2025

Developer

Sam Eng

Publisher

Devolver Digital

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Skate Story Reviews

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Skate Story is a striking game at first glance, but players will see that its true beauty lies deep beneath its protagonist’s glassy veneer. The game masterfully celebrates skater culture, offers a tip of the fedora to counterculture life in metropolises like Manhattan, and puts together a fresh gameplay experience in a time littered with unoriginal annual sports title releases and remakes that fail to innovate.

Dec 8, 2025 Read Review

Can't sleep? Moon too bright? Want to eat it? It's a simple goal for a demon in the underworld, as you'll find in this gorgeous, extraordinary narrative adventure that just so happens to require skateboarding.

Dec 8, 2025 Read Review

Don’t sleep on Skate Story. It's a weird and wonderful journey through the Underworld on a skateboard, with great gameplay, visuals, and music. Highly recommended.

Dec 8, 2025 Read Review

A skateboarding sim which transcends the genre through its dazzling psychedelic presentation, smart design, and comedic lightness of touch.

Dec 8, 2025 Read Review

Skate Story is a brilliant skateboarding game unlike any other. Tight skateboarding, heady narratives, gorgeous graphics, and a banger soundtrack make it one of this year's best experiences.

Dec 8, 2025 Read Review

Skate Story is an allegorical love letter to skateboarding that expertly captures the essence of skating’s humbling mechanical vocabulary like few other games do. Thoughtful and inventive in unexpected ways, Sam Eng’s boundlessly creative dive into an absurdist underworld is as nourishing as it is refreshing.

Nov 25, 2025 Read Review

You wouldn't think a glass being on a quest to eat the moon and finally sleep could be so relatable, but you'd be wrong. Topped off by some fantastic skateboarding and an incredible soundtrack, Skate Story shouldn't be missed.

Dec 11, 2025 Read Review

Ambitiously creative, Skate Story delivers an offbeat and artistically memorable narrative adventure with some excellent technical skating sequences. It’s not without some issues, but its strengths and individuality make it well worth a look.

Jan 1, 2026 Read Review

From beginning to end, Skate Story is a fantastic experience. The great narrative premise, a charming list of characters, beautiful visuals, a brilliant soundtrack, and addictive gameplay strike the right balance between style and substance. While I wish there was more content to experience once the credits roll, I will never forget the time I spent with Sam Eng's near-masterpiece.

Dec 15, 2025 Read Review

We've played many great skateboarding games, but none have ever looked or felt like Skate Story.

Dec 8, 2025 Read Review

One thing I love about Devolver Digital’s curation is that they are always able to procure, support and release games that no one else would have ever given a chance otherwise. It doesn’t matter if it’s an actual marijuana dealing simulator, some ultra psychedelic crap revolving around graffiti, or a re-release of a so-bad-it’s-good FromSoftware cult classic from the 2000s, they almost always come up with something unique to offer to their fanbase. This time around, however, they came...

Jan 21, 2026 Read Review

From its striking wash of chromatic aberration against the glow of the crystaline skater against the forboding hellscape of the skate park, Skate Story is a feast for the eyes and a must-play for skateboarding fans looking for a short but unforgettable indie hit.

Dec 8, 2025 Read Review