play it offline, host your own lobbies and dedicated servers, and mod it. the launcher, the runtime that loads into the game, and the dedicated server.

ReSkate is a fan project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Electronic Arts or Full Circle. You need your own copy of skate. on Steam.

• Offline play. No EA servers needed. Your skater, outfits, unlocks and progress are saved on your PC, and the game runs even with Steam closed.
• Multiplayer.
  • Host a Steam lobby for up to 32 players: public, or joined with a code, with an optional password. Everyone in a lobby is in one party.
  • Join dedicated servers from the in-game server browser.
  • Proximity voice chat, and text chat with emotes and an optional bad-word filter.
  • Parties on dedicated servers: invite, join, leave, promote.
  • Throwdowns with other players (Jam, Spot Battle and S.K.A.T.E.), and co-op challenges.
• In-game menu and console.
  • Map and fast travel.
  • World: time of day, population, district levels, rotating parks.
  • The Park Editor: place, move and save objects with freecam, snapping and undo.
  • Skater options: first person, movement, boosts, noclip.
  • Progression, controls, graphics and multiplayer settings.
• Mods.
  • Drop a mod in Mods/ and it is merged into the game at launch. Mods can add custom maps, loading screens, cosmetics and scripts.
  • Browse and install mods from the Thunderstore community in the launcher.
  • Most mod changes apply in game without a restart.
• Launcher.
  • Checks that you have the supported game build, and can download exactly that build with your Steam account.
  • Keeps ReSkate itself up to date.

1. Download the latest ReSkate-<version>.zip from Releases.
2. Extract ReSkateLauncher.exe and ReSkate.dll into either folder:
   • your skate. folder, beside Skate.exe (Steam → skate. → Manage → Browse local files); or
   • an empty folder, where the launcher installs the game for you (about 14 GB).
3. Run ReSkateLauncher.exe.
   • It checks for ReSkate updates, then checks the game files against the supported build.
   • If the game is missing, or Steam has updated it past the supported build, sign in when asked. You can scan a QR code with the Steam app, or use your username and password with Steam Guard. It then downloads only the files it needs.
4. Press PLAY.

ReSkate supports one game build at a time (Steam build 25414733).

The menu and console keys can be changed in the launcher's Settings.

• Install mods from the launcher's MODS page: browse Thunderstore, or drag a .zip or folder onto the window.
• In game, the MODS tab of the ReSkate menu (Insert) turns mods on and off and applies the changes.
• Mods are checked against the game build they were made for. Outdated mods, or mods that can't be merged cleanly, are left out with a message naming them, and the rest still load.

Only install mods you trust. Mods change game data, and custom scripts can run code.

ReSkateServer.exe is a headless lobby that needs neither the game nor Steam installed. It is in the ReSkateServer-<version>.zip of each release. See Server/README.txt for setup, ReSkateServer.json, admin commands, votes and the anti-cheat checks.

• Windows 10 or 11, x64.
• Visual Studio 2022 with the Desktop development with C++ workload (MSVC v143 and a Windows SDK).
• CMake 3.24 or newer. Visual Studio's C++ CMake tools for Windows component provides one.

All third-party libraries are in the repository, so the build needs no package manager or network access.

From a Developer PowerShell for VS 2022 in the repository folder:

cmake --preset vs2022-x64
cmake --build --preset release --parallel 4

The files are written to build/vs2022-x64/Release/:

To work in Visual Studio, open build/vs2022-x64/DingoSDK.sln after configuring and select Release | x64.

Close the game. Copy ReSkateLauncher.exe and ReSkate.dll beside Skate.exe, then run the launcher.

Local builds never replace themselves. They only report that an update exists, so a release can't overwrite the DLL you are testing.

Useful launcher flags:

Each module keeps its regression tests in a Test/ folder. Turn them on with any of DINGOSDK_BUILD_MULTIPLAYER_TESTS, DINGOSDK_BUILD_LAUNCHER_TESTS, DINGOSDK_BUILD_PARK_EDITOR_TESTS and DINGOSDK_BUILD_BACKTRACE_TESTS, then run CTest:

cmake --preset vs2022-x64 -DDINGOSDK_BUILD_MULTIPLAYER_TESTS=ON -DDINGOSDK_BUILD_LAUNCHER_TESTS=ON
cmake --build --preset release --parallel 4
ctest --test-dir build/vs2022-x64 -C Release

The project builds with /W4 /WX: warnings are errors.

The source tree loosely follows Frostbite's own layout.

Feature code never contains addresses. Everything tied to one Skate.exe lives in Engine/Game/Build/<build>/ and in the pins of supported_build.h: file hashes, the Steam depot and manifest, and the content cache. A new game build means a new table and new pins. Most hooks and patches check the bytes they expect before touching them, so code from the wrong build is refused rather than patched.

When the launcher or the game crashes, ReSkate uploads a minidump and that session's log to the project's Backtrace account, so crashes can be fixed. The log never contains your Steam password or login name.

To turn it off, untick Send crash reports in the launcher's Settings (ADVANCED), or set the environment variable RESKATE_CRASH_REPORTING=0.

ReSkate uses Dear ImGui, Microsoft Detours, RapidJSON, spdlog, SQLite, LZ4, Zstandard, miniz, bcdec and Valve's networking headers, and the Montserrat and Permanent Marker fonts. Versions, licenses and local patches are in External/README.md. Every release ships their license files in licenses/.

Copyright © 2026 the ReSkate contributors.

ReSkate's source code is free software: you can redistribute it and modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3. If you share a modified ReSkate, share its source code under the same license.

The license covers ReSkate's own code. It does not cover:

• Third-party libraries and fonts in External/, which keep their own licenses (see External/README.md).
• The chat emotes in assets/emotes/, which were made by other people.
• Images of the game (assets/launcher/background.jpg, assets/startup_splash.jpg) and anything else from skate. The game and its content belong to Electronic Arts, and nothing here grants any rights to them.

Parts of ReSkate, including code, reverse-engineering notes and documentation, were written with the help of AI coding assistants. The maintainers direct and test that work, but AI-written code can contain mistakes like any other. If something looks wrong, please open an issue.