Tony Hawk's™ Pro Skater™ 1 + 2

This game is really fun on my steam deck, and works perfectly. The skating is pretty fluid, with the tons of tricks too.

gud

REMAKE THUG

Chaining tricks is insanely addicting. It's Balatro points scaling basically. Every trick has its own points value, and every trick performed in a chain adds a mult bonus (e.g doing 10 tricks in a chain gives you a 10x mult to your score if you land the combo). Control scheme is very simple compared to Skate 3, but it's way more about using your environment with grind-rails and ramps over doing complex stick motions. Even then it still has a really high skill-ceiling with manual / nose manual timings, optimising trick chains by fitting in quick flip tricks between grinds and grabs, and perfect landing bonuses for turning properly when you land. My complaints are everything else that isn't the skating part. The 2 minute time limit is too low when you have to scout entire levels for required collectables. Any objectives that aren't 'get x amount of points' or 'do x trick in x area' are really frustrating. But you can completely ignore the missions and just do the free-skate mode if you want to get big points and have fun with the main gameplay alone. Custom characters are basically forced to use the face-mask accessory because all of the faces are insanely ugly for some reason, and there's a lack of over-the-top cosmetics. I was one of the people who put on the most fluorescent and loud outfits in Skate 3, and it's a shame you're limited to normal outfits here. Also holy ♥♥♥♥ the soundtrack is fire. I had no clue how many of my favourite songs originally got popular because they were on the original versions of this game. May 16, No Cigar, Afraid of Heights etc. are just phenomenal. Personally I wish there was more skatepunk over hip-hop since it's a 50/50 split between the two, but you can obviously disable the songs you don't like so it's fine.

oldskl

great time