Scarlet Skips Steam — Price, Patch 1.0.1, Deck Performance and Specs

Scarlet Skips arrived on Steam on September 3, 2026 as a $4.99 one-button roguelike, and its store presence is unusually thin in a way that is worth understanding: one achievement, one trailer, and a small patch. This page collects the scarlet skips steam details that actually affect a purchase, from the price and feature list to the 1.0.1 hotfix and the measured Steam Deck performance. Everything here comes from the official store listing and community hub plus one credited handheld review, and the broader claims that only appear in one place are marked as single-source.

This page is compiled from the credited community documentation and the official Steam listing; details that rest on a single source are marked to confirm.

The Steam Release at a Glance

The store listing describes the game as a silly one-button roguelike about skipping rope, with 10 upgrade cards, three random power-ups on level up, and a score chase that runs on a single press. Steam's feature tags document single-player, Steam achievements, full controller support, a keyboard-only option, a mouse-only option, and family sharing, which is a lot of input flexibility for a game with one action. The price is $4.99 as a one-time purchase with no documented microtransactions, and the developer and publisher are both listed as Yerk Games.

Store fact	Value
Release date	September 3, 2026
Price	$4.99, one-time
Developer and publisher	Yerk Games
Achievements	1, named Off to a Great Start
Genres	Action
Input support	Controller, keyboard only, mouse only

The store facts worth noting up front:

• It is a single-purchase game with no documented microtransactions.
• The achievement count is one, not a full list.
• Input options include keyboard-only and mouse-only play.
• Developer and publisher are the same company.

Patch Notes and Updates

The documented post-launch patch is hotfix 1.0.1, announced in the Steam community hub on September 8, 2026. It added FPS limit and VSync options, populated the background with more set-dressing, fixed several bugs with specific attention to Rocket Shoes and Extinguished Ropes not behaving correctly, and shipped what the announcement calls optimisations and quality-of-life improvements. For a game with a single button and a fixed camera, the Rocket Shoes fix is the meaningful one, because those are the upgrade that carries a run into the endgame, and a misbehaving boot upgrade would break the route to the ending rather than just a scoring attempt.

Change	Type	Why it matters
FPS limit and VSync	Options	Control over frame pacing and tearing
More background set-dressing	Visual	Denser park scene behind the rope
Rocket Shoes fixes	Bug fix	Protects the route toward the ending
Extinguished Ropes fixes	Bug fix	Rope states behave as expected
Optimisations and QOL	Performance	General improvements

Steam Deck and System Requirements

Handheld performance is the weak point. A credited Steam Deck review measured the game at roughly 49 frames per second on low settings, about 37 on medium, and around 23 to 24 on high quality, and noted that it never reached 60 even on low despite the camera being fixed on one spot. The reviewer attributes the load to Unreal Engine features being used heavily for the animation work, and recommends running either low with a 40 frame cap or medium with a 30 cap, preferring medium because the visual downgrade on low is more obvious. The verdict is that it is playable but not the ideal way to play.

The desktop minimum is modest by comparison:

• Operating system: Windows 10
• Processor: Intel i7-6700HQ
• Memory: 8 GB of RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060
• DirectX: version 12
• Storage: 2 GB available space

One final community detail is worth knowing before you chase the leaderboards. The global high scores sit at 2,147,483,647, the 32-bit integer limit, because the score overflows past that point and curves negative, which a Steam reviewer notes turns late runs into a question of endurance rather than skill. For the build that produces those numbers, the upgrades page ranks the cards, and the mobile page covers the portable alternatives now that the handheld picture is clear.