Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game
Skip · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 45, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 950 or higher, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $15.99. That was April 2019. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 74 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Driftwood ($19.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Session: Skate Sim ($39.99, scores 42).
The press gave it 56; the people who bought it give it 86 percent. A 30-point gap in the buyer's favour.
22 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 712 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 1,776 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Players
72 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 01:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/962730/skater-xl-the-ultimate-skateboarding-gameReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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