Skate Story review – the best skateboard game of the decade

Demon with a glass skateboard (Devolver Digital)Underworld demons and existential nightmares collide in an absurdist skateboarding sim, where you play as a skater demon made of glass. 2025 has been a surprisingly notable year for skateboarding games. After 15 years in the wilderness, EA’s Skate finally returned, albeit in free-to-play form, while Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 proved to be another fan-pleasing remake of the genre’s peak in the early 2000s. If those repre