Skate Story

 PlayStation 5
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. TheGamer
    Dec 8, 2025
    70
    The Skate part of Skate Story is very good, offering variety, pace, and a unique approach to boss battles. But it's less intricate by design than other skating sims, and that's to make room for the Story part. Your mileage may vary on this, and there's clearly a lot of thought gone into every element, but sometimes so much of it comes off as noise. Or maybe you're smarter than me, and you'll just get it.
  2. PSX Brasil
    Dec 8, 2025
    70
    In Skate Story, the journey through the Underworld has contrasting highs and lows: the many segments of intense speed, psychedelic scenarios, contagious music, and surreal poetic narrative are interrupted by alternating moments of monotonous exploration, banal eccentric comedy, and the frequent disruption of the flow due to any little stumble by the fragile glass skater.
  3. GamesRadar+
    Dec 8, 2025
    70
    Skate Story is a beautiful and unique skateboarding game with great, stylized visuals and interesting characters. The movement might make you queasy and the skateboarding element could have been developed further, but it does a lot with its premise and refuses to pander to convention, which is refreshing. A wonderful creation, but not always a great game.
  5. GameSpew
    Dec 8, 2025
    70
    With its ridiculous story, unique visuals and brilliant soundtrack, there's a lot to like about Skate Story. Its gameplay is the weakest link here, though, with fiddly controls and other issues introducing a level of frustration that might push some players away.
  6. Hey Poor Player
    Dec 8, 2025
    70
    Despite its share of rough edges, Skate Story still won me over. It leans more on style than substance, but that style is some of the most striking I’ve seen in years, and it carries the experience far. The problem is that the game rarely finds inventive ways to use its own brilliance, leaving it feeling like a journey that peaks too early.
  7. Critical Hits
    Dec 8, 2025
    65
    With a campaign that takes around six hours to complete, I didn’t enjoy my experience with Skate Story very much due to its weak story, the bugs I encountered, and gameplay that feels like it’s missing “something extra” to actually be fun. The impression it gives is that either the game clicks with you and you find it brilliant, or it doesn’t, and there isn’t much you can do about it.
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  1. Polygon
    Dec 8, 2025
    Regardless of the hit rate, it’s clear Eng is trying to say something with Skate Story. That alone puts it in a class of its own among skating games. Whether Skate or Session or Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater or even the lo-fi arcade hit Skate City, skateboarding games typically stick to one narrow message: Skating is cool. Skate Story fully acknowledges that — and then builds on it. In Skate Story’s vision of the world, the arc of a flawlessly executed kickflip is no different than Rothko’s stroke. Now go grab your brush.
  2. The Verge
    Dec 8, 2025
    For all of its surreal elements, it really understands skateboarding, and it turns out that hell is the ideal skate park.