Skate Story similar games & best alternatives

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Skate Story

Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac • 2025

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Unique artistic vision and surreal visuals
  • Phenomenal soundtrack by blood cultures
  • Tight and satisfying skating mechanics
  • Immersive and poetic narrative
  • Freedom of camera control and exploration

Things to keep in mind

  • Lack of chapter select or free skate mode post-game
  • Some bugs and occasional glitches
  • Short game length
  • Limited trick variety compared to other skate games
  • No multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition

  • Blue Fire

  • Hell is Us

  • Darwin's Paradox!

  • The Last Case of Benedict Fox Definitive Edition

  • Rez Infinite

More violent

Games that feels like Skate Story but with more combat and destruction

  • Dread Templar

  • Gori: Cuddly Carnage

  • Morbid Metal

  • Squirrel with a Gun

  • AMID EVIL

  • ROBOBEAT

Less expressive

Games that feels like Skate Story but with less self-expression and customization

  • Venge

  • Ben and Ed

  • Exo One

  • Astebreed: Definitive Edition

  • Hollowbody

  • The Divine Invasion

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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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).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Skate Story. These titles are not in What to play next.

Skate Story: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Relaxation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Strategy.

Last update: 21/08/2026