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Welcome back to Unknown Pleasures, our weekly deep dive into the deep, dark waters of Steam new releases. These are the games that we most liked from the past seven days (with the exclusion of those we’ve already wittered about in detail).

On a Roll: A latter-day Tony Hawk Pro Skater but with rollerskates, basically. Well put together, and straddles a line between comforting late 90s/early noughties familiarity and the inherent physicsy differences of boards and skates, though the Max Payneish fixed-expression photo-faces are a little creepy. There’s some real gnarly maps, such as the plummeting drops of an abandoned water park, and plenty of scope to customise both your skater and their skatepark. Rad! It’s Early Access, so hopefully later builds will introduce a much needed pop-rock-rap soundtrack too.

Beautiful O.B - Let’s Play

On A Roll Game - NEW SKATING GAME! - Let’s Play On A Roll Gameplay & Review - First Impressions Welcome to On A Roll Gameplay! On A Roll is a new skating game that focuses on rollerblading! Keep in mind, On A Roll is still in early access, so the gameplay might be a bit off until On A Roll receives more polish and such!

Let’s Play On a Roll - 18 min of game footage by LGTVNL

Let’s Play On a Roll. An Inline Skating Sim on PC. Game is in Early Access so there are some bugs in there.

Pavel (Polish Language) - On a Roll Gameplay

Episode 1: PLAY - Episode 2: PLAY. The videos of Pavel are the most popular for the moment, the first episode had 8x the views of the other Youtubers: 24k views in 3 days for the first and 4.5k views for the second in a few hours.

On a Roll is out! Release on Steam. The game is in early access and will feature DLC (more infos). Console release (PS4, Xbox One) is planned for February 2018 (more infos).

Users reviews are mostly positive (72% of 22 reviews at the time of this post). Don’t forget to write your reviews, positive or negative, as long as it stays constructive ; you can update it later. Also check the Steam forums to report bugs and/or find solutions if you have trouble with your setup.

Steam Charts - An ongoing analysis of Steam’s concurrent players.

If you’re interested by the stats of On a Roll, you can check the dedicated page on Steamcharts.com.

Let’s Play On a Roll - 18 min of game footage by LGTVNL

“Let’s Play On a Roll. An Inline Skating Sim on PC. Game is in Early Access so there are some bugs in there.” - LGTVNL.

Ever wondered what life as a game developer is like?! Check it out!

You can find all the infos about the release of On a Roll in this post. Check On a Roll on Steam, visit Onaroll-studio.com.

Jelle Van den Audenaeren, the creator of On a Roll shows you guys a bit more of what’s going on behind the scenes in what might be the first of a series of “behind the scenes” videos! Enjoy!

Jelle Van den Audenaeren (Belgium) has a long history of working in the movie industry. Over the past 11 years he has worked on several 3D animation movies as a senior lighting artist, shading artist, character modeler, texture artist and pipe line programmer. Jelle also has a lot of experience with rollerblading, almost 20 years!

His skills and passion for rollerblading have set him on a mission to bring you the rollerblading video game everyone has been dreaming of.

You can find all the infos about the release of On a Roll in this post. Check On a Roll on Steam, visit Onaroll-studio.com.

On a Roll will be released in early access on Steam August 30th 2017. This will be an almost final version, at the same time an external company will start the porting process to PS4 and Xbox One.

Since the Quality Assurance process for both platforms can take between 3 to 6 months the possibility exists that it will not be ready before the end of 2017. We really do wish it could be sooner, but we’ll have to settle for a final console release of February 2018.

Based on the results of our recent poll, it turned out that the vast majority of fans wants to play the game on either PC/Mac, PS4 or Xbox One. because there were very few people interested in the other platforms and since some of those platforms are also becoming quite out-dated performance-wise, we unfortunately had to decide not to port the game to these platforms.

I want you to know that while it seems like developing On a Roll is taking forever. We have our reason for it, which is the same as it was when I started developing the very first prototype way back in 2011 all by myself: I want to make the best inline skating game I possibly can given the limited resources I have. Currently there’s still only 2 people developing On a Roll. All I can tell you is: that’s not a lot :). So thank you guys for being so patient with us. I promise we’ll make it worth it!

Robert Guerrero, Richie Eisler and Jelle Van den Audenaeren (the creator of the game) speak about On a Roll. Featuring a short presentation of the custom skatepark builder (not available at release), the replay editor and the character selection. Page on Steam.

The game is in early access and will feature DLC (more infos). Console release (PS4, Xbox One) is planned for February 2018 (more infos).