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Helskate
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 players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-19.
“I'm having just the most amazing time flying across these skatescapes and bouncing, planting, and grinding off everything, and it's sooo sweet slowly unlocking metaprogression upgrades after every run and discovering secrets. I love my axe and warhammer too, as well as poison…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“bought to play on steamdeck, the game harlocks you out of progressing due to the game not ending dialogue with a certain story npc, after the 2nd time talking to him, also the game just doesnt really feel great to play.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“The premise is cool, the soundtrack bangs, and it's barely held together at all. On top of lacking polish nearly everywhere you look, the game is very buggy with clipping through geometry and frame rate drops later on in runs. The skating itself is pretty basic and doesn't…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedLatest official news
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Post Launch Patch - Mar 25, 2025
Hey folks! Thanks for your patience. We had a bit of an issue switching Git servers but are now back up and running. Bug Fixes: Fix for World 1 final boss sometimes not appearing Fix for Shawn walking
HELSKATE IS OUT OF EARLY ACCESS - EXPERIENCE THE FULL STORY NOW
Hey all! Today marks a huge milestone for us. After nearly a year of feature updates and improvements in Early Access, Helskate is now available on Steam! Check out the launch trailer here: What is He
Helskate will be launching on Monday 20th January
We are very excited to let you know that Helskate will be leaving Early Access and fully launching on Monday (in 3 days!) Thank you to the amazing community, the loyal beta testers and everyone involv
Helskate will be kick-flipping out of Early Access very soon...
What a ride Early Access has been. The whole team here wants to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has tried the game, given feedback, and inspired us to make Helskate the best it can be! We’
"Score Attack" Update
Hey all! We’ve reworked the core loop of the game completely. The focus is now on points. Skating/combos, killing enemies, doing goals: everything now feeds into score. And score is now the way to pro
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-19.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Sports |
| Player tags | Skateboarding · Action Roguelike · Hack and Slash · Skating · Combat · Action · Singleplayer · Rogue-lite · Dungeon Crawler · Rogue-like · Score Attack · Replay Value (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.helskate.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 or Higher (64-bit) Processor: 2.8GHz Quad Core CPU Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 25 GB available space