
- 58/100
- Players12 ratings
- 70/100
- Critics5 reviews
More scores
- Metacritic15 critic reviews
- 63/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 41/100
- GameFAQsJust Right
- 2/5
- Player reviews
- 85% positive639 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Price
- US$19.99
Where to get it

2021 · Indie · Racing
Skatebird
Drop in, and be a skateboarding bird. Grind on bendy straws, kickflip over staplers, and carve killer lines through a cardboard and sticky tape world. Skatebird can't fly, but on a board, they soar.
- Released
- 16 September 2021
- Platforms
- LinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4PlayStation 5WindowsXbox OneXbox Series X/SmacOS
- Genres
- IndieRacingSimulationSports
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Third person
- Themes
- FantasyComedySandboxKids
- Country
- United States
- Age ratings
- USK 6ACB MPEGI 12GRAC 12+CLASS_IND 14ESRB TESRB E
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish (Spain)
- Time to beat
- 5hmain story8hcompletionist
About
Skatebird is a skateboarding video game developed by American studio Glass Bottom Games. It was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Amazon Luna on September 16, 2021. Versions for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 were later released in 2023.
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Gameplay
The game plays similarly to the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series of video games, except for the player controlling a small bird on a skateboard instead of a human. Levels take place in a similar setting to the Micro Machines series of video games, with small-scaled "bird-sized skateparks" taking place across play areas of a house across real-life objects such as pencils, erasers, and other desktop type items. Similar to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games, gameplay is a mixture of performing skateboard tricks, exploration, and item collection. Tricks are more simple to perform and lead to over-the-top tricks, unlike games like Skate, which focus on realism in trick performing.
Story
The game follows a small pet bird, who is saddened that their unnamed human owner no longer skateboards or is around much due to their new job that they hate. The bird takes up skateboarding as a means of getting the human's attention, and getting them back into skateboarding in efforts of making them happy again.
Development
The game was first announced in November 2018. The game is being developed by indie developer Glass Bottom Games, who had previously developed the first person roguelite Spartan Fist. An early alpha build demo was released in June 2019 after the Kinda Funny E3, and a Kickstarter was launched to help funding at the same time. The game met its funding goal of $20,000 in a single day, and ended up raising over 67,000 total.
The game was announced for Nintendo Switch and Xbox One platforms in December 2019, with a late 2020 release date. In July 2020, it was announced that the game's release had been delayed into 2021, not because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but because the game was simply taking longer than expected to make, partially due to the decision to include a new story mode to the game. In June 2021, it was announced that the game is scheduled to release on August 12, 2021. In July 2021, it was announced that the game would be delayed to September 16, 2021.
Reception
Skatebird received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
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Collections3 collections
Years
- Games released in 2021List › July–September
- Games released in 2023List › April–June
Platform libraries
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