Free Range Games, a studio founded by former developers of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and other sports action games of the 2000s, has announced Wrekless, a skateboarding game that can be played online with up to 50 players. It will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store in Q3 2024.
The Early Access release is described as a “full-featured skateboarding video game” with online multiplayer for up to 50 players, a park builder, mini games, power-ups, vehicles, signs, foliage, portals, and more. The full game will feature more options for park building, mini games, character customization, and game features based on community feedback. The Early Access period is expected to last for one year.
Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:
About
Wrekless is our love letter to skateboarding culture. Skate. Build. Share. Play with up to 50 skaters online, pull off outlandish tricks, chain combos, and defy gravity. Simultaneously skate, build skateparks and minigames with other skaters in real-time, and share them with the community. Build fishbowls underneath other players, drop speed boosts in front of them or delete their rail mid-grind. Drop into a DIY skater’s paradise with a nearly endless selection of parks made by the developers and players like you. Unleash your creativity with the most powerful park builder in skating games with a massive asset library. Put up a city block and skate on streets and rooftops, a beachside park with halfpipes and rails, or go off the wall with icy floors, launchers, and portals. Customize your skater, grab a board, and… Build. Skate. Share.
Free Range Games was founded by former developers of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and other action sports games in the 2000s. Wrekless is the massively multiplayer collaborative skateboarding game we’ve always wanted to make.
Key Features
- Skate – Master a superabundance of real world and impossible tricks. Chain big trick combos together to build up your boost meter. Use your boost to perform bigger, gravity-defying tricks.
- Build (+Real Time Creation) – Quickly construct a classic warehouse park with halfpipes, laser lights, and mini-games. Or build a city-sized skate dreamscape with bouncy floors, lava pits, and meteor showers. You and your friends can also simultaneously build + ride skateparks together. Drop a speed boost and kicker in front of your friends as they jam down a mega ramp. Or grief ‘em by dropping a giant bus in their path.
- Share – Share your parks with the community. Attract players with your amazing creations to be awarded Most Popular Park. The more your parks are ridden and appreciated, the quicker your build stats skyrocket.
- Express Yourself – Over 500 customizable cosmetic items including boost trail effects, and weather elements for your skate parks. Unlock items by earning in-game points from completing achievements, playing mini-games, and having players skate your parks.
- Line Recording – Record 20 seconds of gameplay to save epic performances. Leave behind a LINE of you hand standing the deck while soaring over a goalpost. Visit parks to check out laid down LINES. Can you pull off what they did? Can you best them? Record it for prosperity.
- Make Friends – In Wrekless, it’s easy to make friends or party up with other skaters. Follow your friends or a party to discover new parks and challenges. Host and compete in mini-games to build up your stats.
Watch the announcement trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.