Relaxing / rewarding / beautifully built skateboarding game that all skaters need to play!
Thu Aug 06 2020 fenriiiiiiri truly love all aspects of this game ( i have skateboarded for 20 years out of 27 years on this earth ) I truly look forward to see what else gets added to this game. I would love to see more maps / longer maps and more in depth challenges ( the challenges are so much fun ) but would love to see more challenges added to each map. Only thing i could think to add to this game is more camera angles for when your skating, i love the film mode & think it would be cool to be closer to skater while skating / more options in that realm & not just filming, maybe even a angle offset to the right or left of the skater while playing. More camera angles would be cool too!. Would be so rad to add some maps focused more on transition style skating like bowls, quarters etc, & add transition tricks to the game. As person who has worked in the skate & snow industry for most my life, this is the only skateboarding phone game that i would recommend to my homies. You guys created an absolute masterpiece & truly excited to see what comes next for this game. Please continue to push development ideas & creativity towards this game. If you ever need any help with ideas for this game let me know, i have over 100 ideas for this game ! If i could give this game 100 stars i would.
amazing game
Sat Feb 13 2021 flamenco me is bigmani recently got into skateboarding and played a bunch of the tony hawks games and i wanted to see what ios had to offer. i found tons of games, there were good games, like skate party series, but i also check out the linear games, and found tech deck and a few others. i checked most of them out, and the graphics of the game appealed to me so i check it out. turns out it’s better than tech deck. by a lot. the graphics in this game are amazing, the music relaxes me, and everything about it is very good. i just have one issue. when i’m doing challenges, sometimes when i perfectly land a trick, it does not register and says that i failed it even though i did it perfectly. also sometimes the trick slider thingy disappears and i have to relaunch the game. overall great game, scenery is incredible and have never seen a skating game this smooth this game would go into my top 3 skating games list. close battle between THUG pro and this game. but i think they are tied up. also pls add more maps. 4 maps is just not enough and want at least 9 maps. i would also love for a open world mode, where you can skate in the background, like the thps games. if this happens, this game would go number 1 spot on my skating games list.
LOVE IT, VERY WELL MADE!!!
Sun Aug 23 2020 Eye Am HeSkating🛹, Music🎼, Scenery🏞, Challenging♟and Fun🎮 A+
Skate City is a fun skateboarding, side scrolling, arcade style game that legitimately had me hooked instantly. Learning new tricks, and completing each set of new challenges(AND GETTING ALL 3 ⭐️’s) is very satisfying. The games soundtrack consists of Hip-Hop instrumentals that vibe so perfectly, and totally fit this style of gameplay. IMO, Skate City’s artwork/sceneries feel right on point, they’re aesthetically pleasing but nothing over the top. Each level is an individual location with different backgrounds and layouts containing obstacles strategically placed throughout to allow players the ability to complete that set of challenges. As new challenges are unlocked I find the degree of difficulty level to level doesn’t increase too drastically, allowing players to progress somewhat seamlessly before reaching a point of frustration. For a mobile arcade game I’d suggest downloading it, Thanks for reviewing my review.
Matthew R. Johnson
Great game, want more!
Mon Jun 07 2021 jihuiuhiThis game is really fun and the graphics and music are really satisfying. I feel like they have some people on the development team who actually like real-life skateboarding which gives this game a more authentic feel. I just wish there was more! It sounds like new maps are in the works which is great, but the maps and challenges currently are fairly quick to beat. The addition of Pro Skate was exciting because it provided something new and a lot more challenges-but I recently hit level 21 and it seems like that’s as high as it goes? I was thinking it seemed like a type of progression that you could level up through for a whole lotta time, but it’s not showing any new challenges when I start a Pro Skate round. Hopefully more level-up opportunities will be added to pro skate mode, and if not please do! Also, I would love to see pro skate added to the other cities that already exist in the game, as well as any added in the future!
In short, I love the game (best iOS skate game), but am hoping for more maps, pro skate opportunities, and game!
Good game marred by terrible controls
Fri Jan 27 2023 BladeRunner9Well-designed game. The biggest problem is that sometimes it just won’t do the trick that I wanted it to do. Sometimes that even includes just pressing the “kick” button on the bottom right, or even holding it down—and the skater does nothing but stand on his skateboard. Other times I am properly doing the swiping for a particular trick but it simply does not register and the skater just stands still in the middle of a grind and falls. Over time this goes from a minor annoyance to a major irritant, especially as you progress through the game and become better at it.
The “buttons” are supposed to be separated by the quarters of your screen (top right, bottom left, etc) but even that is not enough. Your thumb must be in a particular location in whichever quarter you swipe on, which is ridiculous. I notice that your thumb generally must be located more towards the center of the screen to start a trick properly. Considering we’re swiping on smooth flat screens with zero haptic feedback, it is counterintuitive to needlessly make the controls so stubborn by default.
Supporting an idea.
Thu Jul 23 2020 🍎arcadefanThe person before has already said what I’m going to say, as well as many others, so I won’t make this too long. This is by far the best mobile skating game out there, no question about that. But everyone knows all great things can be made greater and this game is a prime example. As I said, the person before me suggested the idea of adding more city’s, and I support this idea 100%. New York is the addition I agree with most, but if you’re looking to add more city’s across the globe, there’s Tokyo, Rio, London, to name a few. I would like to see at least two more city’s in the next update, or any update if possible. Thank you for your consideration, have a good one.
Edit: It would also be cool if you could add a little more grinds, such as a willy and salad, or possible just one extra grind, a boardslide. I don’t know how exactly you could make different controls for these grinds, so if it doesn’t get added I understand. All I really want is new city’s.
Good game, but can be a lot better
Fri Dec 13 2019 CarlbuddyI believe this game is the best mobile representation of skating. I love how all the in-game locations feature real skating locations. The controls are fairly easy to use, especially if you have played the EA Skate games.
I do believe, however, that this game can be vastly improved. First, having only three locations is fairly annoying. I get pretty bored fairly quickly because I’m so familiar with every location. Furthermore, I believe having a fisheye angle of the game would be a great feature to have. You can do this in the recording feature; however, switching to this mode gets rid of some features and ruins the normal gameplay. Finally, the skaters style is a bit ugly. When I land cool tricks, I’m often not impressed because nearly every trick is hideous in the game. I think the character is a bit too stiff and his hands/arms move a bit too much.
Other than these small details, the game is extremely fun and beautiful. I would recommend this to any skater that needs to fill their EA Skate void.
LOVE IT
Sun Aug 30 2020 D.O.DoubleBest skateboarding game I’ve EVER played (and platform, device, etc.). I actually subscribe to Arcade for this game ALONE. The developers are really cool also, I emailed them a month or so ago and the girl who responded was rad, so thank you for that...
My ONLY two nitpicks (and believe you me, I’m really splitting hairs) are 1. Sometimes your skater will involuntarily perform a special trick (it’s a grab, I want to say “airwalk” but I could be wrong re: the actual name of the trick, I DO KNOW however, when VOLUNTARILY doing it you must–either at the top-left or top-right corner–drag down and to the left. Approximately 7:00 on the special trick wheel) and for the rest of your line your skater’s arms stay up and rarely ever go down, mid-tricks. It’s a small annoyance but an annoyance all the same.
Lastly, I LOVE the new skateboards and with that said, MORE OPTIONS FOR EVERYTHING would be absolutely the best. I’m talking: different glasses, clothes, accessories, wheels, you name it. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, I’ve grown pretty tired of just LA, Olso, and Barca.
Two suggestions re: the environments, EITHER a: extend the playing field significantly, change it (but not entirely), OR (my favorite suggestion) simply add two-three more cities so thrash. Other than that, CONGRATS GUYS. EXCELLENT GAME. (BTW, I NEVER write reviews so that, in-and-of-itself, speaks volumes to how much I enjoy playing it).
THANK YOU GUYS!!
Listen up
Wed Dec 18 2019 Camoe#1So i really really like this game but... it needs some changes. First i would say that you should earn in game credits in higher amounts as the challenges become more difficult and require more upgrades. The challenges should increase in difficulty as you compleat them per map starting with #1 as the easiest and getting harder as you compleat more challenges. When you go to/buy a new map the difficulty needs to reset with the easiest starting at 1 again. As i mentioned before, skate cred (in game currency) needs to have a progression in amount you earn when completing harder challenges. This is especially important seeing as YOU made it necessary to upgrade your stats to compleat harder challenges. This way of getting through the game is fine for a mobile game as long as the amount of skate cred you earn increases alongside the higher cost of upgrades and cosmetics. Good game but i would take these things into consideration. Sorry if it was long and wordy. Thanks.
Disappointing after a while and impossible to upgrade
Fri Mar 13 2020 WaddyflipBeat the game pretty quick and whats the point of putting things that are impossible to acquire? Gold trucks? Clothing ?
Why keep playing for coins if there aren't enough and since there is zero updates from developers its seems clear that there wont be anymore levels. Its just frustrating that the game its impossible to finish so whats the point of the game?? To play till the end to half finish? Cant think of any game that every single mission/challenge its accomplished and not even half of upgrades are open. And going around the level for endless loops its the most boring monotonous challenge i ever had to finish, specially in a game with glitchy controls. Seriously if i knew that finishing challenges would be pointless i wouldn't even had try. Also some people skate goofy and that is something every skate game has the option to customize. Also no way to change the camera angle. In conclusion for something so highlighted and pushed in the AppStore skatecity its an unfinished, repetitive game with zero point to complete the challenges.
