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Painted stadium scene: a blue player with a giant striped boot kicks a purple-striped Popper back beside the ball inside a dashed purple blast circle, while an orange defender in a goose hood recoils and a cone-helmeted keeper waits in goal.
In development

FOUL PLAY!

No ref. No rules. Just goals. Three-on-three arcade soccer where every explosion is a pass, a shot or a clearance.

About the game

Orange rolls a Popper beside your ball with two seconds on its fuse. Instead of running, you kick it back behind the ball. Your teammate taps the ball into the blast circle, the Popper pops, and the ball fires off the side board into the net. Nobody is hurt: the defender who tumbled is back on his feet in under a second.

FOUL PLAY! is played in The Sin Bin, a small walled pitch inside a squeaky inflatable stadium with a googly-eyed scoreboard, balloon arches, floodlights and a crowd that never sits down. There is no referee. Blue plays orange, each team marked by its own shape on the turf, and you play as your own avatar in a team shirt.

Dribble, pass, dash-tackle and shoot under a high camera that shows the whole pitch. Grab a gadget from the pads: the Popper, the Glove Blaster or the Foam Hammer. Bank passes off the inflatable boards and keep one defender in the Keeper Box. Matches run four minutes of play, then a results card with goals, assists, saves and an award, and a one-tap rematch.

The Popper belongs to whoever kicks it last. Use it for a blast shot from behind the ball, a clearance beside an incoming shot, or send it back to its owner before the fuse runs out. However wild the play gets, it still ends on one question: did the whole ball cross the goal line?

The first release has The Sin Bin, three-on-three matches with smaller matches when the server is quiet, three gadgets, a practice pitch with a five-step lesson, and parties of up to three who queue together. Friends can open a private server for their own matches.

Every match earns Whistles for shirt patterns, boots, celebrations and ball patterns. Awards are always positive, goals and teamwork count rather than knockdowns, and nothing you can buy changes how you play.

FOUL PLAY! is in development for Roblox.

Gallery

  • Concept art: The Sin Bin, the launch stadium

  • Concept art: Kitchen Kickoff, a pitch planned after launch

  • Concept art: new pitches, including Crater Dome

  • Concept art: the Boss Round, an approved event not in the first release

  • Concept art: THE WOBBLEKEEPER, the approved event boss

  • Concept art: cosmetic looks

  • Rendered from the game's 3D models: Return to Sender a moment before the pop

  • Rendered from the game's 3D models: the pop: confetti, a tumble and a shot at goal

  • Rendered from the game's 3D models: the stadium

  • Rendered from the game's 3D models: the lobby and practice pitch

  • Concept render: Junkyard United, a pitch planned after launch

  • Concept art: the cast of cosmetic personalities

  • Concept art: Skipper Toe turnaround and poses

  • Design mock-up: the phone screen during a match

  • Concept art: props and gadgets

  • Design mock-up: the shop, paid in Whistles earned in play