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cheapskate
cheapskate (pre-alpha, in development, early access) is a highly moddable skate sandbox featuring offliine singleplayer, peer to peer multiplayer, easy mod support, Steam Deck compatibility, and one low price forever.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“Incredibly basic but a solid foundation of gameplay mechanics. It seems like the Tony Hawk series now is mismanaged and we haven't had a fully original game in over 10 years, meanwhile the other competitors are all pushing more realistic/in depth control systems that seem…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“I am seriously impressed. It plays like THPS (only obviously in need of further development) but it's stable, it's fun and it has a massive amount of potential. Well worth a go, this is brilliant!”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“A game with a lot of potential!! The gameplay is already great, obviously needs a lot of polishing but considering how early stages the game is at rn it’s already very promising. If you like the thps games you should definitely give this a try!”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Version 0.76.28 notes for 2nd of April update (1 year Steam anniversary)
1 year on Steam Early Access cheapskate first went on Steam Early Access one year ago yesterday on April 1st. cheapskate has been in live development since day 1 sharing on my blog and later YouTube t
Version 0.76.27 notes for 27th of March update
Story Mode Systems & Community Content Adding Story Mode "under the hood" systems to support progression, story missions, cutscene only missions, and level state changes based on story progression The
Version 0.76.26 notes for 24th of March update
some minor content update got a chance to review recent community decal submissions packaged up everything for game format (remember 512x512 .png for all decal submissions, thanks!) added them all to
Version 0.76.25 notes for 23rd of March update
New Skateboard Deck Graphic Modding support refactored the skateboard deck graphic customization pipeline created a modding pipeline for deck graphics made a youtube tutorial for how to mod deck graph
Version 0.76.24 notes for 13th of March (2nd) update
More vert tweaking and level updates adding some speed adjustments to the acceleration on vert transition downhill updating the transition geometry in level 2 (rooftop skateparks) also tweaking the sh
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action, Casual, Indie, Sports, Early Access |
| Player tags | Sports · Action · Skateboarding · Arcade · Simulation · Platformer · 3D Platformer · Precision Platformer · 3D · Sandbox · Exploration · Minimalist (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | https://www.instagram.com/cheapskategame/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i3 Memory: 8 MB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 Storage: 200 MB available space Sound Card: any