Skate Space 12+

Skate Space is a wonderful mobile skating game, and I’m surprised it’s free. Though there are a very limited number of tricks and character customization options, Skate Space makes up for it in the infinite park creation and numerous challenges. If the challenges are too hard, or you just can’t get a feel for creation mode, you can still play others’ maps.

The only issue with Skate Space is that it’s very buggy. Coffin into a large decked quarter pipe at a moderate speed and see what happens. You can also ride infinitely on a wall if you Ollie onto it at a low angle, which isn’t necessarily bad, but is annoying when Ollie-ing down a ramp next to a wall. It’s also incredibly difficult to simply ride up a ramp, do a trick in the air, then land back on the same ramp because the air-tricking/flipping physics can be troublesome.

The online competition feature is tricky, especially when getting points to knock someone off his/her board, and flatland-tricking gets so many more points than grinding and flipping over things, that it just seems unfair to whoever tries to compete on the rails/ramps.

The infinite potential for content far outweighs the bugs and unbalanced competition, though, so Skate Space is definitely 5-star in my book.

Fun game to waste time, good enough to try. There are sooo many problems though. Skating feels so clunky and unnatural. The trick stick is a good idea but falls very short of success, sometimes unresponsive and half the time unpredictable. Physics are inconsistent on what will happen while trying to land on a rail to grind, it might work, you might stop, you might fly off into space... who knows. On the flying into space aspect, holy cow the skate comps are terrible and based off of luck and what tricks you’ve been lucky enough to get out of their loot box style system, no skill needed. Randomly drop into the map in various spots where you may lose 15 secs on setup,meaning, you lose. Another skater bumps you... off to space with you! 20 secs lost.... you lose. Tricks ranging from useless 50 points to literally easily chain thousands of points. It’s 100% vicious pay to win since the only way to get tricks is to overcome those horrendously broken competitions over and over in a progressively growing goal to have a loot box chance at a decent trick, with limited try’s allowed per day of course. Or pay $20 for 11 trick chances, which may also just turn out to be duplicates of garbage tricks that will do nothing for you.

I really like the game but I really wish that there could be an offline mode where you could like play offline by yourself sort of like a practice mode. Also maybe add a little more customization. I have my ideas below.

Ideas for Practice Mode
In this mode you could like ride around on the regular default park without other players or CPU. Also during offline mode you won’t be able to do most things like customize levels or the park but you could still customize the character and pick out different boards to ride on.

Customization
The customization is nearly perfect. Customization for the character is great but for the board... well there needs to be more. Also I don’t really get how the “X” currency works and how you get it so maybe just get rid of it and make everything in the game free but like you have to buy the game to play it (maybe like $0.99). Or be extra kind and make everything free including the game. But you to actually make something off the game maybe have some items locked behind an amount of ads you had to watch, for example to get a golden skateboard you would need to watch 30 ads or something. You could do this with outfits too.

In conclusion great game worth playing. Hopefully the devs have read this review and maybe consider adding the changes I’ve talked about. Have a great rest of your day and thanks for easing this review!