Rooftops & Alleys Gets Cross-Platform Mods and Free Switch 2 Upgrade

Rooftops & Alleys: The Parkour Game is expanding in several directions at once. Radical Theory’s parkour and freerunning game is launching on Nintendo Switch 2, while current owners of the base game will receive a free upgrade. Alongside that platform arrival, the game is getting a free modding update powered by Mod.io, plus two new DLC releases: the Ninja Pack and Trail Pack.

The most potentially far-reaching part of the update is the new cross-platform modding support. Players will be able to create and share custom maps, outfits, and pigeon skins across platforms. For a game built around moving through vertical spaces, practicing tricks, and either competing or relaxing with friends, that is a meaningful change: the available places to play and the ways players express themselves no longer have to be limited solely to the game’s default selection.

What the modding update adds

Modding is the practice of players making additions or alterations for a game. In this case, the supported creative categories are clearly defined: custom maps, outfits, and pigeon skins. Maps affect the spaces where parkour and freerunning take place; outfits and pigeon skins provide cosmetic options for players and the game’s avian companion or avatar element.

The important qualifier is cross-platform. In practical terms, it means community-made creations can be shared between players on different versions of the game rather than being confined to a single platform audience. That has an obvious community benefit. A map maker is working for a larger potential group of players, while a player looking for new routes or visual customisation has a broader pool of creations to explore.

For Rooftops & Alleys, custom maps are especially suited to the core premise. The game centres on parkour and freerunning across vertical playgrounds, with players working on spectacular tricks. A new map is more than a new backdrop in that context. Its walls, rooftops, drops, lines, and layout can shape how a route feels and what kinds of movement a player wants to attempt. A cosmetics-focused mod may change the look of a session; a map can change the setting in which every run happens.

That does not mean every community creation will be designed for the same purpose. Some may favour elaborate trick opportunities, others may prioritise a clean route through a compact area, and some may simply offer a different place for friends to hang out. The game’s stated mix of competition and casual play leaves room for all of those approaches. What the update confirms is the ability to create and share content in those supported categories, not the design, scale, quality, or availability of any particular community mod.

Why Mod.io matters here

Mod.io is the service powering the update. The practical headline is not merely that modifications exist, but that the game is using an arrangement intended to support sharing across platforms. Community creations can be one of the strongest ways for a movement game to keep presenting fresh challenges, because players can make spaces around the movement systems they want to explore.

There is also a useful distinction between the official update and the creations it enables. The official part is the free Modding Update: it establishes support for creating and sharing the specified content. Individual maps, outfits, and pigeon skins are community-made material. Players should therefore view the update as a new framework for player creativity rather than a promise that any named map, costume, or skin is included by default.

Cross-platform sharing should also make social sessions easier to organise around a common piece of content. If friends are playing Rooftops & Alleys on different supported platforms, the value is straightforward: a custom map or look can become something the group can access together, rather than an item that only one side of the group can see or use. The announcement does not detail the setup process, moderation, browsing tools, or the full platform list, so those implementation questions remain outside what has been confirmed.

Nintendo Switch 2 version includes a free path for existing owners

Rooftops & Alleys is also launching on Nintendo Switch 2. Existing owners of the base game will get the Switch 2 upgrade for free. That is the key ownership detail confirmed so far: players who already own the base game will not need to purchase that upgrade separately.

The announcement does not specify performance targets, visual changes, control features, save-transfer details, or whether the Switch 2 version has platform-specific additions beyond the upgrade and the wider modding update. It is best not to read those details into the news. The confirmed story is the release on Nintendo’s newer hardware and the free upgrade for base-game owners.

That upgrade arrives at a particularly useful moment for a game built around repeatable movement. Players can move to the Nintendo Switch 2 version while the game simultaneously gains a stream of shareable community content. The two announcements serve different needs: one concerns where people can play, while the other concerns what they may be able to play and personalise once there.

For broader Nintendo Switch platform coverage unrelated to Rooftops & Alleys itself, readers can also follow this update on Switch homebrew components.

The Ninja Pack and Trail Pack arrive alongside the new version

Two DLC packs will launch alongside the Nintendo Switch 2 version: the Ninja Pack and the Trail Pack. DLC, or downloadable content, refers to additional game content released separately from the base game. The pack names establish that two distinct add-ons are coming, but no further details about their contents have been provided.

That absence matters. It would be premature to assume either pack’s exact cosmetics, maps, gameplay features, price, or whether the two have any overlap. “Ninja” and “Trail” are names, not a complete feature list. Players interested in either should wait for specific contents before deciding what the packs mean for their own play.

Still, their arrival alongside the Switch 2 release gives the update a broader shape. The base-game upgrade is free for existing owners, the modding feature is described as free, and the Ninja Pack and Trail Pack are separate new DLCs. Keeping those categories distinct is useful: not every piece of news attached to the launch is being presented as the same kind of addition.

A bigger playground, without losing the game’s focus

Rooftops & Alleys presents parkour and freerunning as both a skill-based and social activity. Players can master tricks, explore vertical environments, compete, or simply chill with friends. The newly confirmed features line up closely with that balance.

Custom maps can give players additional vertical spaces and route ideas to explore.
Outfits and pigeon skins add supported avenues for visual self-expression.
Cross-platform sharing extends the potential audience for those player-made creations.
The Nintendo Switch 2 release gives the game a new platform home.
The free base-game upgrade provides a clear route for existing owners to move to that version.
The Ninja Pack and Trail Pack add two separate DLC releases, with their details still to be outlined.

It is a sensible combination for this type of game. Movement games often invite players to return to a space repeatedly, whether the goal is a cleaner route, a better trick, a friendly competition, or an unhurried session with others. Community-made maps could broaden those reasons to return without changing the basic appeal: finding momentum in a carefully navigated urban playground.

An official Modding Update Trailer is now available, offering the first direct look at the update’s presentation. Until more technical and content-specific details are shared, the clearest takeaway is simple: Rooftops & Alleys is pairing its Nintendo Switch 2 launch with a free upgrade for existing base-game owners, free cross-platform mod support for custom maps and cosmetics, and two newly named DLC packs.