Session: Skate Sim
Fair · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.5h
- Value
- $1.54/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 2 GB or AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Made by and for skaters, the dual stick controls faithfully reproduce your feet on the skateboard for an ultra-realistic experience. Try out real-life iconic skate spots, customise your skater and equipment with items from the top brands
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was December 2019. 39 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $9.99 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 42. With it, 60.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wreckfest ($29.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game ($39.99, scores 45).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 34 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 487 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 2,004 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 6.5 hours. Doing everything runs 51, 7.8 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
58% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
262 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
My favourite skate game by far After play Skater XL and then Skate 4 (TERRIBLE) I come to realize that most games lack the understanding of real skateboarding physics and grit Skate 4 was a HORRIBLE, atrocious execution and I think the dev teams deserve the same execution their game will hopefully experience Session genuinely has the neatest and most rewarding playing system. The best art style and graphics and...
its the exact game we all wanted as kids. for the love of god devs, please let me do melons. put in experimental. my airs are too big.
DO NOT BUY SESSION : SKATE SIM I saw this game and thought, "this seems like a fun realistic skating game". I bought and it was fun for 6 hours until I lost all my progress. I spent 4 1\2 hours trying to recover my progress and set my save file to previous version and it had already overwrite the previous version. So, not wanting to waste the 40 bucks i spent on this game i spent 10 more hours playing, got very far...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Session: Skate Sim scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/861650/session-skate-simThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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