Session: Skate Sim

Best out the box Skating game on PC at the moment.

Good
- Once you have the controls down you can get tricks looking really clean and stylish.
- Pretty good customisation when it comes to setting up decks.
- I think the base maps are as good as you'll see in any skating games.
- Campaign is pretty bare bones but it's better than nothing and gets you inspired at the least.
- You can mess around with sliders to get the game feeling how you like without having to download any mods.

Bad
- DLCs are hit and miss from what I've played so far.
- Transition skating sucks/ is pretty non-existent.
- Wish there was more options for photos and recording.

Skater XL is good too but once i got to grips with this I've never really been back.

Took a good 10 hours until I felt like I had the hang of it, which is awesome. The progression felt natural even after putting hundreds of hours in SkaterXL (which i also love) but what sets this game a part is the missions and object dropper. The missions are so fun and sometimes pretty damn challenging, and the skill ceiling is nearly infinite with all the custom settings you can play with and progress through.

Best skateboarding game we have today.

I don't understand the negative reviews , a lot of people are comparing this game to skate. And that's the first mistake , they both can be good.
i will say this game isn't complete and you can feel it in times, but either way if you are a skater this is definitely a fun simulator

There's the tony hawk series, skate series, and now session. Each series uses a different controller scheme, and I love all 3. Session is without a doubt the most aligned with skateboarding in that your left / right thumbs align with your left / right feet in game. Switch FEELS like skating switch in a funny way. The biggest initial hurdle for Tony Hawk and Skate players who struggle with session is the triggers being how you lean/turn. I remember Skate's controls feeling weird at first but I quickly learned to love them. As the game has updated it's become easier to play and more forgiving, less buggy glitches. It's in a good spot it just took a while to get there but Session is basically a forever skateboarding game. And I'd expect other skateboarding games to release using the same control scheme. Session joins THPS and Skate as the 3 meta skateboarding control schemes, at least for 3D skateboarding games.

THIS GAME IS NOT LIKE SKATE. ITS NOT CHILL.
It is much more complex with the stick flip controls. stock setting you steer with the shoulder buttons(terrible). one stick for each foot. you can change the steering and set it to the left stick in the settings. You will take several tries and probably hours to get a single mission/line done. It can be very frustrating but makes it that much more satisfying when you finally nail it. I cant recommend this because i personally don't enjoy spending hours to complete one line. I understand its trying to be more realistic but In video game skate land I'm trying to chill have some nice visuals and land stuff i could never do in real life.

amazing game, if anyone says otherwise they ether suck at the game or are too in love with a skate game and cant accept another skating game can be amazing

Game is super fun and once you figure out how to fine tune the advanced settings, the game gets even better.

Fun Game and the most realistic skateboarding game that gives the skate 3 and 2 feel.

The best skate simulator there is
I don´t know how it is for people who never skate, but for those who did it is amazingly fun

Hands Down the best skateboarding Sim out there. I cant get enough of this game. Please keep working on this.

extremely addicting. hard at start but when you get the hand of it its really fun.

Probably the most in depth skating game. It helps to have a general understanding of skating

The control change made the game absolute trash. It is just pretty unplayable, nobody wants the new control schema, its terrible. 0/10 would not play again. This is definitely not my favorite game on the space station.

I have to say this game genuinely looks good the game play is pretty smooth and its quite challenging exactly like irl skateboarding where skate 3 has its challenge in hitting insane gaps this game is challenging in just doing simple tricks which leaves you with a rewarding feeling.

the game itself is an amazing game, some bugs here and there, but all in all? one of my favorite games EVER.
this game in my opinion doesn't deserve the hate it gets.
i really think the bugs are hurting the game that much, and the game itself has a realistic and smooth feel.
great game, and i will recommend it greatly.

One of my fav skating games, it is a bit buggy, with movement and controls but everything seems to flow real smoothly,

a spiritual successor to something like skate 2 without as many arcadey elements as you can find in skate 3. fun to mess around in

Absolute Banger! Best Skate Game I've ever seen. Hardly recommend it. Don't play this without a controller! Not a good game for mouse and keyboard. And it's challenging, it's really not a casual game, please mind that. But if you are into Skateboarding IRL, this is your game, surely!

If you ever had a skateboard IRL, you will immediately recognize what it is that makes this game so special, especially compared to Skate and Tony Hawk and the other knockoffs...and what you are recognizing simultaneously is that there is no button to ollie...and at the same time you realize how hard this is going to be to learn the mechanics of skateboarding and through the brilliant implementation of the UI it becomes apparent why even though you have to learn to ollie, the way you input that move through the controller oddly fits the natural movement you would do with you right and left legs to perform an ollie(i.e. you ollie by popping the left stick down and scooping the board up by moving your right foot forward and up...this is of course for a goofy skater...opposite inputs for regular if you choose the right/left foot setting for your controls which is my recommendation). To do a heel flip you pop the back down and push the right stick to the left just like you would do to do a heel flip in the real. Even the more complex tricks still follow the same pattern ...a 360 flip is done with a back foot counterclockwise half circle followed by a flick to the right which again mirrors how your legs would move to do it. This all means that while this game definitely has a steep learning curve it makes it much more like learning to skate in real life. It took me weeks of practicing in my driveway to overcome the law of gravity using grip tape and friction and pop a good ollie. So dont whine if it takes you a couple sessions to learn how to ollie...the tutorial will literally hold you hand through it all. Side note: if you might want to complete the historical missions on this game and work towards 100% completion do yourself a favor and learn from the very beginning with manual catch on so you don't realize after you complete every mission in the game that you didn't turn on manual catch until like the third challenge and therefore cant get the highest completion achievement without doing all the missions over again with manual catch on. Anyway...if you know what toy machine is/was and agree that Welcome to Hell is one of the best skate videos ever made then you're going to like this game I promise. If the only engagment you've ever had with skateboarding is Tony Hawk's video game you're probably going to cry about how hard this game is to learn like all the losers that gave this anything other than five stars.

Best skate game ever. Owned on console as well. worth it. Great mod community on PC tho. More worth it here. not a ton of support, cus the team is small, but still the best.

Honestly a super fun skate sim, have had it for a week and find myself playing for 2 hours a day. Super chill, love to end my day with some music and some of session. Honestly a 10/10 game to me, and id highly recomend.

I was looking for something more realistic compared to THPS, so I picked this up on sale. The first two hours were great, I had a lot of fun. Some of the objectives were tricky because the game can mis-read tricks sometimes. Other than that I wasn't having many issues at all.

But not long after the two hour mark my skater just couldn't stay on the board. I would stand up, push, and immediately fall over. Sometimes I get a push or two, but then he falls again.

I bought my first skateboard IRL yesterday and spent 45 minutes just pushing back and forth down my driveway and fell less than my character in Session does.

Cool.

I like it, it's fun, and I like that it is a challenge. However there are still a lot of bugs in missions, tricks not registering multiple times etc., which makes it more frustrating in a different way.

for realistic skating hands down.
the game is so tweakable to any liking it take a while but its worth learning.
People dont care about the process they just want it now, but thats not what this is and im glad.
Hope skate doesnt copmpletely ruin this game.
one love

it hurts.
not in a "this is so bad it actually pains me" kind of way.
it hurts in a "seeing the face of a lost loved one in a strangers face" kind of way.
there is a void that i thought could be filled with a technical skateboarding game
but when that game is essentially abandoned by its creators, it just reminds you of games past that have suffered the same fate.
i wish that i could recommend this game, i really do. but it has been in an early access state for almost 3 years.

I hope Skate. does not suffer the same fate, as seemingly all skateboarding games do.

controls are not fun for me, i was thinking it would be more like skate style but i can see it being fun for others! give it a shot

Huge waste of money, refunded it, gameplay is boring and the visuals are bland, pick up tony hawk 1 + 2 or Skate 3 instead of this shit.

Best Skate sim on the market, challenging, fun, tons of realistic spots. great for those that want to enjoy the thrill of skateboarding without the pain of progress, Or for those that had to retire due to old creaky knees and back pain. This game covers all the bases when it comes to simulating skateboarding.

all this game needs is more objectives (Tony Hawk Style), and i would LOVE some more in depth customization. But thats just my opinion!

Game gets street skating right. But apart from that I can barely recommend it, half the time you'll be stuck unable to progress because the game can't register tricks during missions 50% of the time. Having to do the same trick 9-10 times before the game actually realizes, counts it, and allows you to progress. But the game is great as far as the street skating.

good skateing game if u use it with mods
here a vid link for modding (maps. clothes.etc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pGgF-fI73w&t=22s

I think it's pretty good. It achieved what I wanted to get out of the game when I first saw the kickstarter. It took a while to get there, but after checking in a few years later it feels good. The in-game radio is cool and the new tutorial is also very helpful. I kind of wish the game would feel a bit more "alive" with NPCs walking around, birds flying, generally more world noises... or similar. Things that make the game a bit more immersive. You could call it a "distractionless experience". The controls are great. I love the idea of the ingame clip editor but I'm just not patient enough to figure it out.

Definitely worth buying especially when its on sale like i did. When you get in to the game the tutorial
is easy and straight forward. I really like the controls and the game runs very well and looks amazing. You do
need some kind of controller xbox, playstation etc. And the skating in this game itself takes some learning. There is pretty nice customization too for the skateboard and character. Im going to play this game alot when i cant go outside skating :)

This game made me question my existence. either a really good game or I'm just really dog dookie at this game.. still gonna not recommend it. :)

feels good! one huge location nice to skate around. waiting for no-comply tricks with l1 r1. and hoping you can do a session not alone! and wish you can chose stick to represent right or left foot rather then front and back

i think i played through most of it now, its not very good and doesnt feel finished. if youre not violently craving a skate sim, i wouldnt recommend this. but also, i had a TON of fun with this

extremely frustrating, but very satisfying when you finally get the control;s down. Dont come into this thinking its skate.

What sets this game apart from SkaterXL is its story / mission game play while still have the freedom for open world. This alone keeps the life of the game interesting.

A recommended game ... BUT, this game is definitely NOT optimized. Don't trust the min or recommended specs. Recommended specs may be able to run the game on all lowest possible settings. I'm running a 3070ti / i9 Asus ROG Strix laptop and I can't have anything on High settings without thermal crashes. Nothing on Ultra. Everything is in Medium or below and I still get crashes here and there, especially during hot summers in my room. Not to mention I can't have any other apps running in the background.

I can run 4k real time playback editing and rendering in Premiere, Davinci Resolve, and even Blender animations with no crashes, all while still have Spotify and YouTube videos running in the background. DEVs .. please work on optimizing this game. I would love to see how this game is really supposed to look like. By the way, SkaterXL is waayyyy more optimized than Session. I can easily run ultra settings on SkaterXL.

Have had this game since early access.

Un-intuitive controls and generally bland game-play.
Can only recommend if you physically can't go out and actually skate on something and this is the replacement.

I know its a sim but there is just no fun in this game.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! there is a game breaking bug on mission 7 that renders you suck in that mission forever. played 2 hours got the bug and can no longer progress the story. 0/10 would not recommend.

The posted graphics settings are wayyy off...I can't play the game to give an updated review but from my last play session, all of the negative things people have mentioned were true. I DO NOT recommend it...yet another game left to rot in the fields...sad day.

I like both Session and Skater XL. Sure session has a steeper learning curve but I really enjoy it. My only complaint about both Session and XL, camera angle. It is suppose to mimic a filmer's viewpoint but can we also get a regular camera view option for those of us who just want to play the game with out a filmer's viewpoint?

It’s a neat game, but as it stands it doesn’t run the best on steam deck, being plagued with a lot of missing textures after a first installation and some other issues like janky lighting. I might give it a second look if they update it more in the future but I don’t recommend it to steam deck users right now.

pretty sweet once you get the hang of it. would recommend switching to front foot/back foot controls (makes it so your controls aren't reversed while in switch stance) if your struggling. also cranking up the push force to 3/4 makes things feel a bit more familiar.

its not ea skate, it doesn't want to be. if you give it a chance it gets pretty chill. just wish there was more typical skateparks in the vanilla version.

played it at friends house here and there while waiting for a sale, wouldn't necessarily recommend it at full price unless you dont care about money. i paid 13 bucks Canadian and im happy.

This game sucks since they removed the Legacy Control Scheme (the EA Skate style controls for the game), the devs don't care about what the players want. They added this control scheme because the community wanted it, then removed it again... total scam.

I got this game way back when it first launched played it for 30 minutes and got tired cuz it was hard, but i came back to the game and it does a really good job of guiding you to pull off some killer tricks without holding your hand. The controls are some of the best ive ever seen and it has the perfect amount of realism where its fun to just kind of cruise and the difficulty behind the tricks even the simple one like manuals are really satisfying when you hit them. A perfect game for those who enjoy a game that is relaxing and challenging at the same time. On gameplay alone this is the best skating game of all time.

the best skate game out there in terms or realism with its mechanics. well done!

good game. its not EA skate, and takes a bit of getting used to using the R2 and L2 to steer but its fun

This game was fun as heck during the early access, but the devs abandoning actual game updates in favor of DLC maps when the modding scene did a better job makes me sad. There's been zero communication, and the developer blog updates were more superficial than anything. Much like SkaterXL this game too is also just abandonware now.

Definite learning curve for the controls but once you get it, it's pretty good.

To be honest i want to thanks the person which define gamepad controls.... Whatever i do, because very often when doing grinds i click L3 so it is still changes goals during tries when you combine it with respawn on selected point..... i hate it so much i just did destroy my controller....

Any way very good sim, the DLCs could be better, but i like Prague(i know this - place very well it's a pity that you did not try to do also Mystic skatepark because anyone who knows the place that is in DLC went to Prague for the Mystic Sk8 cup - part of World Cup Skateboarding tour), Paris and Abandoned mall and School yard are really good. I was expecting a lot from the Water park, but i don't like it there...