It is set in an alternate universe in which pro skater Tony Hawk had never landed the 900 at X Games V in 1999 and achieved widespread recognition, and thus had never "triggered an explosion of corporate skateboarding", leading to the rise-in-power of an immortal "time wizard" who uses his abilities to prevent anybody from dying.
[1][2][3] The player's overarching goal is to venture through the various islands within the game's dystopian environment and find what is rumored to be the very last bullet to exist on Earth and use it to kill the Time Wizard once and for all.
The concept for Perfect Stride was inspired by developer and co-creator Ben Esposito's early attempts to modify Half-Life 2, in which he mistakenly produced an unorthodox style of control that he felt would be interesting as a game of its own.
[3] An early access alpha version of Perfect Stride was first made available to backers of the Kickstarter campaign for LA Game Space in August 2013.
[7][8] Due to its ambitious nature,[5] the game is still in development and planned for an eventual release via Steam, with intentions to include a level editor and a full-fledged multiplayer feature separate from the story mode.