Every skate game, and how to mod it
How alive each game's modding scene is, what tools it uses, and where to start.
The skate series
EA Black Box's trilogy, the Wii spin-off and the 2025 revival.
| Year | Game | What modding looks like | Scene |
|---|
| 2010 | Skate 3RenderWare 4 (EA in-house) | EA Black Box's 2010 finale, and the most actively modded skate game in 2026. It now has a native PC port, a custom online server, cross-platform map conversion and a Rust rewrite. | Thriving scene |
| 2009 | skate 2RenderWare 4 (EA in-house) | The 2009 sequel set in New San Vanelona. Its city now runs inside Skate 3 and as a .skate map in the Rust engine. | Active scene |
| 2007 | skate.RenderWare 4 (EA in-house) | The 2007 original, whose flick-it stick controls reinvented skate games. Today it's mostly played and lightly modded on emulators. | Niche scene |
| 2008 | Skate ItEA in-house | The 2008 spin-off for Wii, DS and iOS that put flick-it on a Wii Balance Board and a touchscreen. | Niche scene |
| 2025 | skate. (2025)Frostbite | Full Circle's free-to-play Frostbite revival. It's online-only with kernel anti-cheat, so it can't be modded, but its maps can be studied and recreated elsewhere. | Locked down |
Tony Hawk's
Neversoft classics on PC and the Unreal remakes.
| Year | Game | What modding looks like | Scene |
|---|
| 2000 | Tony Hawk's (classic PC)Neversoft engine (THPS / THUG) | Neversoft's THPS2 through American Wasteland on PC, kept alive by THUG Pro, PARTYMOD, ClownJob'd and OpenSpy online play. | Thriving scene |
| 2020 | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2Unreal Engine 4 | Vicarious Visions' 2020 Unreal Engine remake. THPSPro on Nexus Mods brings in levels from THPS3 through Proving Ground. | Active scene |
| 2025 | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4Unreal Engine | The 2025 remake. It has a deep official Create-A-Park with online sharing, and PC players get Nexus mods including THPSPro. | Active scene |
Skate sims
One stick per foot, community maps everywhere.
| Year | Game | What modding looks like | Scene |
|---|
| 2020 | Skater XLUnity | Easy Day Studios' Unity skate sim, built to be modded. It has thousands of user maps on mod.io, gear mods, and community multiplayer that came years before the official version. | Thriving scene |
| 2022 | Session: Skate SimUnreal Engine 4 | Crea-ture Studios' Unreal Engine sim. Mods aren't officially supported, but there's a big community map scene through Session Mod Manager and the Illusory mod unlocker. | Active scene |
Indie and upcoming
New games built with modding in mind.
| Year | Game | What modding looks like | Scene |
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| 2026 | Skate StyleUnannounced | Zellah Games' upcoming PC skate game, announced in February 2026 with full modding support as a core feature. | Niche scene |