Full Circle / EA confirm again that skate. will not support Linux, Steam Deck or macOS

By Liam Dawe - 16 Sep 2025 at 10:41 am UTC

Last updated: 16 Sep 2025 at 10:42 am UTC

skate. from developer Full Circle and Electronic Arts (EA) is about to enter Early Access, and due to the anti-cheat there's no support for Linux / Steam Deck. And macOS is out too.

This shouldn't be surprising news to regular GamingOnLinux readers as we covered this back in July, since this skating game is using the kernel-level EA Javelin anticheat. One of those anti-cheat systems that likely sends a shiver down the spine of anyone gaming on Linux PCs, Steam Deck or other handhelds running things like Bazzite.

In a fresh announcement on Steam with the specifications, they confirmed again:

MacOS, Linux are not supported.

While skate. will be Steam Native, Steam Deck will not be supported.

By "Steam Native", they mean it doesn't additionally force the EA app.

Don't expect it to ever be supported either, not at least until the day Linux as a platform grows to a point where EA can't ignore it by blocking it like they also do for Apex Legends, Battlefield and more.

See more about anti-cheat compatibility on our dedicated page. And be sure to follow the anti-cheat article tag.

For skating games that do work you can try the likes of Session: Skate Sim and Skater XL.

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Tags: Proton, Steam Deck, Anti-Cheat, Electronic Arts, Sports, Steam, Upcoming | Apps: skate.

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Penguin a day ago

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So I confirm again that I'll skip this game emoji

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Lofty a day ago

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which is why we should support indie devs more. Maybe we should come out with a campaign called 'indie alternatives' which it's aim is to replace all the non compatible AAA titles with Linux/steamOS comparable versions, only better, cheaper, more optimised and not riddled with micro transactions.

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StalePopcorn a day ago

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I take my purchases very seriously. I would like to clarify that I will [still] not be supporting EA financially for the foreseeable future.

Sincerely,
My $50

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Eri a day ago

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The game is built around a premium store anyways, I already tried it because play testers have a couple of weeks of access before everyone else, it's a game completely built around the premium store. Like Liam said, Session and Skater XL are way better options.

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omer666 a day ago

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Looks like EA wants to live the SimCity fiasco over and over again...

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Kimyrielle a day ago

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Can't wait to see them go bankrupt. Unfortunately, too many people are still buying their garbage. Despite they haven't made a great AAA game in decades. Gosh, they're already drooling for BF6 as if there wouldn't be 100 games just like it already out there.

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tfk a day ago

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I have the whole of EA on my ignore list. So I won't see this one anyway.

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Linux_Rocks a day ago

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Again, just play Tony Hawk instead. 🤙

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GoEsr a day ago

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I'm enjoying Session: Skate anyway. They're a few years too late to jump on this bandwagon.

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melkemind 22 hours ago

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It's funny because people weren't asking for a free-to-play, online Skate game. They wanted Skate 4, and the fact that they keep announcing that Linux and Steam Deck aren't supported also shows enough people are asking for Linux support for them to notice.

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ElectricPrism 20 hours ago

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FTFY ;P Linux, SteamDeck & macOS confirm that they will not support EA.

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LoudTechie 7 hours ago

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This is good news for desktop Linux and Valve.
They see the need to address the SteamDeck separately and not push needless extra stores.
EA'll intentionally be one of the latest to allow their software to run on desktop Linux systems.
They're fighting Valve and keeping Linux down means that Microsoft can keep Valve in check.
Yet they've SteamDeck became enough of unit on itself to be addressed separately even though with the same motivations(remember SteamDeck isn't even half of the Linux market share).
Lets hope they'll need a SteamOS and/or an Arch statement next time, because it shows effort on their part.
Every time they need to split the platform it means they're now dealing with two problems instead of one.

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BigRob029 2 hours ago

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straight to the anti-compatibility bin!! pretty nice of them to save you time on having to update it in the future too.

...skate? more like skip.

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