Games like Helskate
If Helskate is your kind of game, the closest matches are Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game, Wizard of Legend 2 and Gone Viral — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its metroidvania style permanent upgrades, atmospheric and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Helskate: Helskate is a skateboarding action roguelite. Grind, perform tricks, and chain combos to power up your attacks to 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!
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Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Helskate.
Top pick for Helskate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with Helskate.
Experience unparalleled board control and responsiveness while you skate iconic real-world skate spots. This is the evolution of skateboarding gameplay. With Independent Foot Control and unique physics-based gameplay, skate gamers finally have the expressive controls they have always dreamed of.
Wizard of Legend 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Helskate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
Face perilous magical trials in the fast-paced rogue-lite follow-up to the acclaimed original, featuring co-op and vibrant new 3D visuals. Master new Arcana and elements, experiment with spell combinations, and become the next Wizard of Legend!
Gone Viral
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Helskate.
Third-strongest match for Helskate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
Gone Viral is an over-the-top action game with heavy roguelite elements where you fight for your life in a prison arena to entertain a blood-thirsty audience. Rack up your kill count, grab mutations and crazy weapons to change gameplay and get what you need to escape and Go Viral.
Super Bit Adventure: Paragons of Life
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Helskate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
Super Bit Adventure: Paragons of Life is a perma death dungeon crawler where you take on the role of a mysterious hero that survived a battle inside of a magical prison. Enter the prison and discover what happened on that fateful day and collect the powers of fallen adventurers along the way.
BELOW
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Helskate.
Ranked #5 for Helskate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
BELOW is a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. Explore. Survive. Discover.
Wizard of Legend
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Helskate.
Ranked #6 for Helskate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
Hades
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Helskate.
Ranked #7 for Helskate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Dreamscaper
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Helskate.
Ranked #8 for Helskate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
By night, delve deep into your subconscious and discover powerful artifacts to conquer your nightmares. By day, explore the city of Redhaven and build relationships to unlock the power of your dreams. DREAM. DIE. WAKE. REPEAT.
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Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Helskate.
Reviewers of Helskate cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Sunset Overdrive
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Helskate cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Helskate.
Sunset Overdrive transforms an open-world apocalypse into your tactical playground. Zip, grind and wall-run across Sunset City with an unconventional arsenal. Hyper-agility, unique weapons, and customizable abilities deliver an explosive and irreverent adventure in the end times.
Hades
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Helskate.
Reviewers of Helskate cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Tony Hawk's™ Pro Skater™ 1 + 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Helskate cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Sports with Helskate.
Play the fully-remastered Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™ & Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™ 2 games in one epic collection, rebuilt from the ground up in incredible HD.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Helskate at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Helskate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Helskate.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Helskate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Helskate on Steam right now. Shares Action with Helskate.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Helskate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Helskate on Steam right now. Shares Action with Helskate.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Helskate.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Helskate.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Sports with Helskate.
Experience unparalleled board control and responsiveness while you skate iconic real-world skate spots. This is the evolution of skateboarding gameplay. With Independent Foot Control and unique physics-based gameplay, skate gamers finally have the expressive controls they have always dreamed of.
Wizard of Legend
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Helskate.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
Hades
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Helskate.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Dreamscaper
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Helskate.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Helskate.
By night, delve deep into your subconscious and discover powerful artifacts to conquer your nightmares. By day, explore the city of Redhaven and build relationships to unlock the power of your dreams. DREAM. DIE. WAKE. REPEAT.
Frequently asked about Helskate
- Does Helskate run on Steam Deck?
- Helskate is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Helskate cost?
- Helskate is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Helskate?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Helskate are Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game, Wizard of Legend 2, Gone Viral.
- Who developed Helskate?
- Helskate was developed by Phantom Coast.
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