Skate Story Confirms Day One Launch on PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for PS5

Publisher Devolver Digital and developer Sam Eng person announced their celestial skateboarding game, Skate Story, is launching time 1 for the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog connected PlayStation 5.

News of the bonus for Sony’s gaming subscription work was unveiled successful a PlayStation.Blog station today. It’s a last-minute summation to Skate Story’s motorboat lineup, which includes PC, PS5, and Nintendo Switch 2.

PS Plus Extra and Premium subscribers volition person entree to the trippy skateboarding crippled astatine nary other outgo travel December 8. Sony has yet to uncover the remainder of its upcoming Game Catalog additions for December 2025, with its PS Plus Essential monthly games besides nether wraps for now.

Skate Story, meanwhile, was announced by Devolver Digital and Eng backmost successful 2022 arsenic an enactment skateboarding crippled with a cosmic twist. Its authoritative statement teases that players volition measurement into the shiny shoes of an underworld demon made wholly of “glass and pain.” The escapade begins erstwhile the devil gives this sparkling carnal a skateboard and 1 elemental task: “Skate to the Moon and wallow it – and you shall beryllium freed.”

“Skate accelerated to destruct vicious demons, assistance a forgetful frog, and prevention different tortured souls connected your travel from fragile beginner to hardened skater,” the statement says. “Push done hellhole and observe The Devil’s top weakness: humility, perseverance, and a disgustingly saccharine backside tailslide.”

The hold for Skate Story has been long, but not without updates. Charlie Wacholz went hands-on with it for IGN past twelvemonth and said they were excited astir its “promising story, absorbing vibe, and responsive skating controls.” Skate Story was besides recognized by the 2024 Tribeca Festival.

We’ll cognize much astir the acquisition Devolver Digital and Eng are spinning up erstwhile Skate Story launches for PC, PS5, and Switch 2, arsenic good arsenic PS Plus, successful a fewer weeks. In the meantime, PS Plus subscribers tin spot which games joined the Game Catalog and Essential database for November 2025 and hole for December 2025 with a database of each crippled leaving the service. Sony typically waits to uncover which Essential games it’s adding until person to the extremity of the month, truthful beryllium definite to enactment tuned for updates.

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