Helskate similar games & best alternatives

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Helskate

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Helskate is a skateboarding action roguelite. Grind, perform tricks, and chain combos to power up your attacks to slay the monsters of Vertheim. Combine unique weapons and gear to suit your playstyle as you fight, die, and upgrade your abilities to come back to this labyrinth over and over again!

What works

  • Unique fusion of skating and roguelite combat
  • Addictive gameplay loop with satisfying combos
  • Engaging soundtrack and art style
  • Active developer support and roadmap
  • Good solo progression and customization

Things to keep in mind

  • Numerous bugs and glitches reported
  • Unfinished content and placeholder elements
  • Combat and skating feel somewhat separate
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Some control and camera issues

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • City of Brass

  • DmC: Devil May Cry

  • SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS

  • GROSS

  • Immortal Redneck

  • Vampire Hunters

Less competitive

Games that feels like Helskate but with less competition against others

  • Red Alliance

  • The Divine Invasion

  • Soda Girls

  • Boiling Steel

  • Beyond Citadel

  • Fida Puti Samurai

Less status-driven

Games that feels like Helskate but with less focus on status and recognition

  • Beyond Sunset

  • The Devil Within: Satgat

  • Project Warlock

  • Spark the Electric Jester 2

  • Spark the Electric Jester 3

  • Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation

More intense

Games that feels like Helskate but with a more intense feel

  • Ghostrunner 2

  • 420BLAZEIT 2: GAME OF THE YEAR -=Dank Dreams and Goated Memes=- [#wow/11 Like and Subscribe] Poggerz Edition

  • Deadlink

  • Neckbreak

  • Battle Shapers

  • Devil May Cry 4

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

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Helskate: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Story, Fantasy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Story, Fantasy.

Last update: 21/08/2026