Virtual Skate

Virtual Skate

Early access since Aug 2025

Experience next level board control, skate with friends, and film insane tricks in the most immersive skateboarding game ever made.

97% positive · 107 reviews
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Evaluation

Virtual Skate entered Early Access on August 21, 2025 after roughly two years of development. Since launch, Flip Axis Studios has delivered a consistent rhythm of updates. Two named major content drops have shipped post-launch: the Winter Update on December 28, 2025 (adding a new map, player legs, a pumping mechanic, mod gear support, and multiplayer improvements) and the Spring Update on April 8, 2026 (overhauling the netcode, adding a climbing system enabling handplants and inverts, upgrading voice chat, and raising the player session cap from 4 to 6). Feature patches and bug fixes have continued in between, with the most recent developer communication arriving on May 10, 2026. In their November 2025 post, the developer explicitly stated they are aiming for a major update every 3 months. In a December 2025 development post, the developer confirmed the next major update will introduce darkslides, catches, late flips, and primos — none of which have shipped yet. The game is in active Early Access development with specific new content explicitly planned.
Evidence
Spring Update shipped: new climbing system enabling handplants and inverts, new clothing, overhauled netcode with host migration, upgraded voice chat, and 6-player sessions
news post · Apr 8, 2026 source content shipped
high
Developer confirmed next major update will include darkslides, catches, late flips, and primos at minimum, with progress updates expected mid-January to early February 2026
news post · Dec 30, 2025 source content planned
high

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Details

Publisher
Flip Axis Studios
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer

About this game

The closest to actual skateboarding you can get. Virtual Skate is the newest evolution of skateboarding games. Your hands control your feet giving you intuitive and next level board control. Skate with friends, customize your skater with mod gear, grab a camera and film your tricks, or test your skills with challenging obstacle courses. Pump to go faster on ramps by throwing your hands down.


The evolution of skate game controls... First we had button presses, then single stick controls, next we had dual stick controls. Virtual Skate let's you control the board in all new dimensions. Each hand controls a foot directly, like hand boarding. Instead of having a 2D axis to control each foot, you now have full 3D control over your feet. Not only does this open up a whole new world of board control, it also let's you style your tricks in ways that aren't possible with canned animations. 

Grab a camera and actually film your tricks. The fully interactive replay mode allows you to follow skaters to film lines with ease, zoom in and out, ramp slow mo, and play back your favorite clips. Not only is the replay system immersive and nostalgic for those of us who skate, it brings a whole new skill to filming. Every skate crew has a filmer friend, someone who can actually hold a camera steady... Well now they can skate with you, rewind time in replay mode, and film the whole crew including themselves. The camera also sports a little fisheye when you zoom out enough.


Skate with up to 5 of your friends online! Hang out or get some clips with the homies. Voice chat, lip sync animations, and hand gestures let you express yourself naturally. Join a Quick Skate game to skate and socialize with new people or find your friends via the Sessions browser.

Express your style with potentially unlimited amount of customization options for both your skater and your board with new gear mod support. Make your look stand out just as much as your skating. 

Looking to challenge yourself? Test your skills on a variety of obstacle courses, get medals for beating time limits, or push yourself to beat your own time record.

Customize your gameplay using the stats menu and make your experience comfortable with options like board offset, snap rotation, or a custom vignette.

Virtual Skate puts you on the board and lets you feel every pop, grind, and impact, without the broken bones and rolled ankles. Perfect for the old heads who can't huck it down big stair sets like they used to, or for rainy days that ruin a good session. Link up with friends, shred all day, and keep stacking clips.

Last evaluated Aug 17, 2026
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