The Game Census
Skate Story cover art

Skate Story

by Sam Eng · Devolver Digital · 2025-12-08

SteamGOGPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureIndieRPGSports

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 08, 2025 (Nintendo Switch 2), Dec 08, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 08, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Dec 08, 2025 (Mac)

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 fragile beginner to a hardened skater.

96%
positive of 3.0k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
82/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
7h
to beat · rushed 6h · completionist 12h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)
Skate Story is a skateboarding video game developed by the American indie developer Sam Eng and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released for macOS, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Windows on December 8, 2025. The game follows a demon in the Underworld who, after making a deal with the Devil, has to skate to the moon and swallow it to be freed.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 260 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~33/week).
  • · Review velocity up 66% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (840 reviews).
  • · Top 21% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 60k–135k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,005 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$13.59-20%
GOG$13.99-30%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $13.99 at Newegg (2026-05-07)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 33 of 45 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
82382320252026Week of 2025-12-08: 823 positiveWeek of 2025-12-08: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-12-15: 297 positiveWeek of 2025-12-15: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-12-22: 214 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-12-29: 143 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-01-05: 109 positiveWeek of 2026-01-05: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-01-12: 83 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-19: 72 positiveWeek of 2026-01-19: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-26: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-01-26: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-02: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-02-09: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-02-16: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-02-23: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-03-02: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-03-02: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-09: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-16: 63 positiveWeek of 2026-03-23: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-03-23: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-30: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-04-06: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-04-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-13: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-04-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-20: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-04: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-05-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-11: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-05-18: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-05-25: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-08: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-06-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-15: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-06-15: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-22: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-06-22: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-29: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-06-29: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-06: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-07-06: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-13: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-07-13: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-20: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-07-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-27: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-07-27: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-03: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-08-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-10: 12 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$13.592025-12-082026-08-302025-12-08 — best price $16.992025-12-11 — best price $19.992026-03-09 — best price $15.992026-04-02 — best price $15.992026-04-17 — best price $19.992026-05-06 — best price $15.992026-05-08 — best price $14.232026-05-12 — best price $17.792026-05-18 — best price $16.992026-05-22 — best price $15.992026-05-28 — best price $19.992026-06-05 — best price $13.592026-06-09 — best price $15.992026-06-13 — best price $16.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-07-13 — best price $13.992026-07-24 — best price $15.992026-08-03 — best price $15.992026-08-12 — best price $19.992026-08-14 — best price $15.992026-08-26 — best price $13.992026-08-28 — best price $13.992026-08-30 — best price $13.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

85342026-05-15 — 79 pageviews2026-05-18 — 57 pageviews2026-05-21 — 71 pageviews2026-05-24 — 59 pageviews2026-05-27 — 78 pageviews2026-05-30 — 65 pageviews2026-06-02 — 57 pageviews2026-06-05 — 47 pageviews2026-06-08 — 68 pageviews2026-06-11 — 53 pageviews2026-06-14 — 78 pageviews2026-06-17 — 52 pageviews2026-06-20 — 58 pageviews2026-06-23 — 55 pageviews2026-06-26 — 59 pageviews2026-06-29 — 74 pageviews2026-07-02 — 81 pageviews2026-07-05 — 82 pageviews2026-07-08 — 71 pageviews2026-07-11 — 62 pageviews2026-07-14 — 54 pageviews2026-07-17 — 61 pageviews2026-07-20 — 48 pageviews2026-07-23 — 53 pageviews2026-07-26 — 40 pageviews2026-07-29 — 42 pageviews2026-08-01 — 38 pageviews2026-08-04 — 57 pageviews2026-08-07 — 49 pageviews2026-08-10 — 50 pageviews2026-08-13 — 43 pageviews2026-08-16 — 40 pageviews2026-08-19 — 40 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
80.8%
earned "The Skater performed a trick."
22.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCaptions availableGamepad RecommendedDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)5,65218%27
Steam (Steam)1,4187%26
Switch 2 (Nintendo)940%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

Star Control®: OriginsSavage LandsSurvivalistOmensight: Definitive EditionForgotton AnneForce of NatureGreedFallEternity: The Last Unicorn

Similarity via IGDB.

Discord ↗Reddit ↗Official site ↗Speedruns ↗