Snowman is known for simple games that allow the player to simply relax, chill out, and enjoy the highly stylized landscapes and lo-fi soundscapes, painting the gaming experience as true escapism into somethin surreal yet grounded. These games have been making the move from mobile to console recently, introducing the simple concepts onto the big screen. They made Alto’s Adventure, which is a fantastic snowboarding endless runner with an extremely simply control scheme that’s fun to master on its procedurally generated slopes. Their latest to grace consoles is Skate City, coming down off the mountain and taking to the streets?chill beats to skate to.
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Originally released on Apple Arcade in 2019, Skate City is another relatively simple concept. It’s a side-scroller with a very muted art style. Control wise, it takes some clear inspiration from the Skate series, almost landing in a middle ground between Skate and OlliOlli. Each stick is used to perform tricks, while the shoulder buttons can assist in grinds, spins, and manuals. Holding or mashing X makes your skater move forward. Skate City is grounded in a realism of street skating, so you won’t find any big ramps or vert pipes here. You aren’t about to pull off massive air or endlessly long grinds like in Tony Hawk’s. The combos here are short and sweet, and as such, the multiplier only goes up to a max of four so you don’t have to feel like you need to chain them together. Skate Ci...