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Desktop Halfpipe

A skateable halfpipe that lives on your desktop. Ride, land tricks, choose your rider, and customize an evolving skate scene from the system tray. Optional DLC adds radio stations, fishing, a drive-in, a farm, Pocket: Roast Story, and Pets.

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Fact sheet

Developer / Publisher: Stripey Cat Games
Genre: Desktop companion / casual / indie
Platform: Windows
Status: Demo available. Steam Next Fest in October. Early Access November 2. Demo on itch.io, Rubies, and TiLES.
Players: Single-player (local)
Audio: Base game is silent. Optional free Halfpipe Radio DLC adds Vibehenge music stations.
DLC: Halfpipe Radio, Halfpipe Fishing, Halfpipe Pocket: Roast Story (coming soon), Halfpipe Pets (coming soon).
Languages: 31 UI languages (trick names remain in English)
Online: Offline-first. Local high scores; Steam leaderboards coming soon. Twitch chat can queue tricks.

Boilerplate

Stripey Cat Games builds small, characterful software for the Windows desktop. The studio’s featured title, Desktop Halfpipe, is an interactive overlay toy: ride, land tricks, switch between skate, BMX, snow sports, and more, and customize seasons and weather from the system tray. The base game is silent by design so it fits next to work and streams. Optional DLC expands the companion: Halfpipe Radio (Vibehenge stations), Halfpipe Fishing (cast and reel from the desk), Halfpipe Drive-In (a night lot, carhop orders, and a movie screen), Desktop Halfpipe: Crop Circles (a farm beside the pipe), Halfpipe Pocket: Roast Story (coming soon), and Halfpipe Pets (coming soon). Twitch chat can queue tricks while you ride. High scores currently stay local, with Steam leaderboards on the roadmap. No careers or story modes, just quick sessions and background vibes.

Languages (UI)

31 interface languages on Steam, including English, German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and more. Trick names remain in English.

Coming soon

Steam leaderboards for high scores (local scores ship today).

DLC

Store pages and short copy for coverage. Assets for individual DLC live in the Drive kit and Steam store assets when available.

Steam AppID 5192980
Halfpipe Radio
Free music DLC powered by Vibehenge. Queue chill stations while you ride so the pipe never has to stay silent.
Steam store page
Steam AppID 5195750
Halfpipe Fishing
Cast from the pipe, chat can join in, and turn idle desktop time into a quiet fishing session beside your work.
Steam store page
Steam AppID 5332350
Halfpipe Drive-In
A night lot in front of the pipe. Serve the cars, play a movie on the screen, and pick up tips.
Steam store page
Steam AppID 5332370
Desktop Halfpipe: Crop Circles
A farm beside the pipe. Plant, harvest, keep livestock, and ride the grass.
Steam store page
Halfpipe Pocket: Roast Story
A pocket-sized Halfpipe spin-off with its own story beat — a smaller, self-contained ride beside the desk companion.
Coming soon
Halfpipe Pets
Choose a dog, cat, bird, rabbit, or hamster. Pets sit beside you while you fish or ride vert, and run alongside you in street skating modes.
Coming soon

Halfpipe Radio

Optional free music DLC powered by Vibehenge. Stations play in-game while the base Halfpipe stays silent without ownership. Useful talking points: ambient / lo-fi desk soundtrack, Twitch-friendly mute-by-default base game, album packs coming to itch.

Halfpipe Fishing

Cast from the desktop companion, reel on a rhythm, and fill an encyclopedia. Designed for idle / AFK desk play alongside work, with optional Twitch chat participation where enabled.

Halfpipe Drive-In

Free DLC. A fixed night lot in front of the pipe: diner and canopy, cars in the middle, movie screen on the right. Skate up to a car and type the letter on its order. Upload a local video to play on the screen.

Desktop Halfpipe: Crop Circles

Free DLC. The scene is called Farm in the game. Plant and harvest on the grass, keep livestock, and fish the water at the right edge. The halfpipe stays in frame on the left.

Halfpipe Pocket: Roast Story

Coming soon. Free DLC that adds a pocket-device cart slot. First cart: Roast Story: Origins (HTML5). If Halfpipe Radio is owned, Pocket can share that soundtrack; otherwise Origins BGM applies.

Halfpipe Pets

Coming soon. Choose a dog, cat, bird, rabbit, or hamster. Pets sit beside you while you fish or ride vert, and run alongside you in street skating modes.