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 Helskate? (For those new to the game)
In Helskate, grind, perform tricks, and chain combos to power up your attacks and 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!
- Skate your way through Vertheim - Traverse Vertheim as you grind, wall ride and manual your way through this hellscape with classic arcade-style skating
- Fight, Die, Upgrade, Repeat - Combine different weapons, gear and tapes to create powerful and unique builds for each run. Get inked up with sick tattoos to permanently upgrade your abilities for a much needed edge over your foes.
- Skateboarding Combat - Chain huge combos, do ollies, kickflips, and other awesome tricks to power up your attacks and gain unique abilities and buffs to slay the monsters that await you in this fast-paced skateboarding action roguelite!
- Take on the Gods of Skating - Use everything in your arsenal to battle against the Gods of Skating. Take on the God of Vert Ramps’ score challenge and grind your way up the Ancient God of Skating to strike at his weak points.
What new content has been since Early Access?
- Complete main quest story including playable Memory Tapes
- The world of Grindgard (an enitrely new series of tiles after you exit Verthiem)
- New World 2 enemies
- The Beach!
- A new boss fight with a skating twist
- The reveal of [REDACTED] in the Vault of Wishes
- Lots of small bug fixes based on Discord feedback
For any players who joined us during Early Access, your save files should work BUT to experience all the new features we strongly recommend creating a new save file.
This content update is BEEFY and as a small team we’ve done our best to iron out all creases but if anything slips through the net, please let us know over in our Discord channel
We will be keeping an eye out in there for any major issues and do our best to jump on them as quickly as we can.
