Skate our Souls

Get to Know About Skate our Souls

I still remember the first time I jumped into Skate Our Souls—right away, you can tell it isn’t trying to be anything more elaborate than pure, unfiltered fun. You drop into a world overrun by the undead, strapped to a skateboard, and armed with whatever makeshift weapon you can find. From the moment the rubber meets the pavement, you’re shoved into this glorious whirlwind of grind rails, slammed pickups and hordes of zombies hot on your tail. It’s the kind of chaos that makes you laugh out loud every time you bail spectacularly or nail an impossible trick just as a mutant crawler lunges at you.

What really hooks you, though, is how it layers simple, responsive controls over an addictive risk-reward loop. You’ve got your basic grind mechanic for racking up points, but toss in a scattershot pizza cutter or a jury-rigged harpoon gun and suddenly you’re weighing if a perfect 360 spin is worth leaving yourself open to a face-hugger. And the pickup drops—energy drinks that give you a speed boost, broken skate trucks that slow you to a crawl—force you to react fast or watch your combo meter evaporate. Every run feels different because the game’s little random touches keep you guessing: sometimes there’s a mini-boss popping out of a dumpster, sometimes you stumble across a ramp that sends you flying over dozens of shambling corpses.

By the time you peel yourself away, hands sore from mashed arrow keys and heart still racing, you realize that Skate Our Souls has this rare knack for being fiercely challenging without ever feeling unfair. The pixel-style art has a rough-around-the-edges charm that matches the game’s DIY zombie-skate vibe, and the soundtrack—equal parts punk riffs and pulsing electronica—just keeps the adrenaline flowing. It isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel, but what it does, it does with such merciless glee that you can’t help but dive back in for “just one more” madcap run.