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.
Skate Story balances laidback hub exploration with intense, high-stakes objectives. Boss battles and key challenges deliver thrilling highs, while poetic narration and quirky characters offer welcomed moments to breathe. Don't expect to fully understand the story because it's more abstract than a David Lynch film. Grinding for collectables or top scores...
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.
An exquisitely fluid game of tricks, grinds and manuals is framed by a story that uncovers the poignancy of the infamously painful pastime
Fusing a solid foundation of satisfyingly grounded skate tricks with a bizarre, abstract world, Skate Story wobbles a little under its weirdness but there’s no doubt it’s one of the most distinctive skateboarding games of the decade.
The result is the most unique and entertaining skateboarding video game ever created, with a perfect balance of challenging gameplay depth, replay value, and a fun story that sticks the landing. Put simply, Skate Story is delicious. 10/10 moons, would go to Hell again.
