INDIE SKATEBOARDING ROGUELITE HELSKATE KICKFLIPS OUT OF EARLY ACCESS AND LAUNCHES TODAY ON STEAM
AMSTERDAM (20 January 2025) – Following nearly a year of feature updates and improvements in Early Access, Phantom Coast today announced their skateboarding action roguelite Helskate is now available on Steam.
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.
New to Helskate's 1.0 release are:
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Complete main quest story including playable Memory Tapes
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The world of Grindgard (an enitrely new series of tiles after you exit Verthiem)
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New World 2 enemies
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The Beach!
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A new boss fight with a skating twist
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The reveal of [REDACTED] in the Vault of Wishes
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Bug fixes
Helskate is available to purchase now on Steam. For more information, visit https://www.helskate.com/.
Related links:
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@helskate
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Helskate
About Phantom Coast
Phantom Coast is a team of passionate individuals, working together to turn passion into a memorable playable experience. Co-founded by media personality Jordi van den Bussche, better known as Kwebbelkop, Phantom Coast's members work from their own home studio from all around the world. While headquartered in Amsterdam, they feel their true office would be all of their home workspaces put together. They are hard at work on Helskate, a brand new ambitious project led by veteran designer and author of Game Feel, Steve Swink.
Visit their website: https://www.phantomcoast.games/
