Session: Skate Sim

Its a hard game, I am still getting use to it. But the challenge is fun

As one of my favorite games and the fact I've clocked in 112 hours on PC and roughly around the same time on xbox. I can honestly say that you won't find a better skateboarding game out there! It can be a bit unforgiving at first and really get you frustrated, but hang in there. Once you get the controls down, understand the physics and how to properly edit the games controls, you will have a blast. I play the vanilla version and have always played the vanilla version with no mods. Since the beta/early access days all the way up until now, the devs have really done a great job and continue to do a great job at addressing issues and pumping out great DLC maps a few times a year. Yeah there isn't really a career mode, but that's not what this game is about. Throw some good tunes on, sit back, and enjoy some skating!

can only recommend bc it's skating. i supported since the very start. you wasted my investment and time by selling out to arguably the worst publisher in existence. look at how they massacred my boy... :( (tl:Dr no updates in at least a year, devs working on new game, session is dead... ggs)

Great sim - horrible devs.
Bet we never see another game from crea-ture.
To the consumer - yes- this is a great skateboard sim.
Don't expect any changes down the line.

games alright wait for a good sale if your thinking about getting it though devs have basically abandoned is except for the occasional 10$ dlc it gets kinda boring but its fun to mess around with for a few hours

you got skrateboard, you got lazer flip ,you got a grind. Overall fun

i had low expectations. but imo, this is the more hardcore version of skate. its not ez, especially when u first start playing. but thats what makes it feel good when u land ur line. i like it, and would highly reccomend

An amazing Skateboarding game with 2 major flaws:

Now lets start with why I do love this game. Lets start with the controls, I find the control amazing. Sure it is a bit of a learning curve and takes some getting used to but once you get used to it, it is intuitive and just makes sense. I say anyone complaining about the control scheme just has a massive skill issue. Also the physics feel alright, there are some weird interactions but no worse then any other game. The graphics are decent and it isn't too hard to run. Now the Camera system for capturing moments and pictures isn't the worst (Need For speed: Unbound, I am talking about you) but is versatile enough. The wear system on the board is amazing and added a depth of immersion and realism I didn't know I was missing. As a long time supporter having this since it's very very early stages of early access through all this there are two major things that leave me wanting more.

First, I really wish this had multiplayer. I constantly find myself wanting to hop in with buddies and shred some spots together or play a game of skate and get really creative with this system of doing tricks. It is really missing that social aspect of skateboarding. The second thing I find really missing is everywhere just feels dead and lifeless even if you turn on the NPCs. No one talks, you don't see other AI skaters out in the world, no cars driving around just dead. When do turn the NPCs on it is almost like they are fully unaware of what is going on and become the worst part of the game. So with how dead it is anyways, I would just keep em off.

Otherwise, an amazing skateboarding game. I would say, if it was still supported better, among the greats of skating for just how everything feels.

I'm not sure why this has a very positive. I couldn't find one proper half pipe in the entire game. The courses and obstacles available are very limited and everything feels repetitive because of it. The skate park that is horribly designed, no real flowing lines.

The mechanics are clunky af, the innovation with the joysticks for tricks is nice but the implementation is not awesome. The tolerances are too narrow, it's too hard to gauge distances and thus doesn't have the flow of earlier skate boarding games. This does add a little bit of realism but the inability to properly steer (because that's the draw back of using the joysticks for anything other than steering) takes all that realism away. Steering with the triggers is just fckng impossibly clunky and dumb and it sucks and this should have been done differently. I get why they did it but it feels like instead of finding a balance the devs just gave up and went with unfinished, clunky control setup.

Then there's a physics... Oh boy.... There's a fckng speed limit, even if you find a way to chain a couple slopes, the second slope won't make your go faster than the first already did. This makes it feel as if you have molasses in your bearings. The sakteboards don't flow because of this and it always feels as if you have less speed then i had with my real skateboards irl. There's a ton of weird clunky things with wall rides and such that are also broken but none of those left as dirty of a taste in my mouth as speed limit did.


If this was a 15eu game, this would be excellent. But for 40? No fckng way, waaaaay too unpolished, way to lazy world building, way too little variation in obstacles, customization etc.

This is a B game with a AAA price. Don't buy unless 80% off.

if you skate irl and played skate 3 on hard difficulty, this the game for you


f skater XL

Controls are stupid. I get why they did it but its lame that you can't change it to something closer to skate 3 style sticks. Also the maps are boring. Each one has about 4 good spots and the rest is filler. Its just not worth the money jmo.

It could be such a good game if it weren't so buggy. I don't want to spend an hour replacing a rail from the object dropper, trying to get it to register the trick.

They removed the legacy controls from the game!! (the old school controls from Skate games.)

I'd love to say this game is worth the money. *when* it works, it is. But more often not, challenges are bugged and regularly doesn't recognize the tricks that you're landing. What's worse is that its not a new issue. Every single bugged challenge I've run into has a post asking about the exact same issue, often a year or two old. Its an absolute shame, this game could've been the next Skate, but the bugs are far too frequent and varied to make this game worth the purchase

This is a genuinely bad game. If it wasn't I'd be seeing clips of it all over YouTube, but ironically despite this attempting to be a clip producing machine; it fails in every regard with an awful control scheme that bears almost no resemblance to the system they based it off of, a pointless progression system, a pointless campaign, a non-user friendly clip editor, and a half-hearted tutorial. I don't even have to mention the overpriced DLC garbage because this game does a well enough job shitting on itself. It also can't determine what flip trick, grind or slide you're doing half the time despite games decades older being able to pull this mechanic off reliably. Oh yeah the soundtrack is straight garbo too with uninspiring music that you'd hear in an elevator. Oh but you can effect the gravity OOOOOHHHH SO COOLLLL....
I get it, I understand what you were aiming for, it's a lazy attempt at it though.

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