Online multiplayer soccer game with 100% physics-based gameplay where you control one player.
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Very Positive (34) - 88% of the 34 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive.
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Very Positive (3,561) - 90% of the 3,561 user reviews for this game are positive.
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Mar 31, 2017
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Reviews

“Soccer Online: Ball 3D is one of the most interesting games i've played in probably years.”
Yoshi

“Probably one of the best games of all time. There's more than just soccer!”
Snoobicus

“I Highly reccomend this game with awesome ball physics, great soundtrack, love the curve feature.”
Angel

About This Game

Features

  • Multiplayer
  • 11 Game modes
  • 21 Stadiums
  • Dedicated servers
  • Antilag system
  • Realistic physics
  • Ball editor
  • Customization
  • Bots
  • Tutorial
  • Replays
  • Statistics

Soccer Game

Ball 3D is the first soccer game in a new genre. Control one player on the virtual field and kick the ball high or low, fast or slow, curve, lob, jump, dribble and perform tricks. Create or find your team and join tournaments. Discover a multiplayer soccer game played by over 1 million players.

Gameplay

Soccer Online: Ball 3D is an immersive computer game where you have 100% control over the angle of your kicks. Every awesome goal you score depends only on your skills, but be careful as every mistake you make is also only your fault. The physics is powered by the professional physics engine, which ensures realistic ball behavior like in the real-life soccer. You need to use the geometry of the in-game objects to control them. Third person camera makes the gameplay very dynamic and unique among soccer video games (some call them football games). It's the first time you can play football like this, very unique experience in the online gaming world. At last a game that lets you perform pixel perfect moves and put the ball where you want. It is uniquely satisfying to see how the goal net moves after you score or how the whole goal moves after you hit the goalpost. Open yourself to a magic reality, gain access to a new world where your fantasy of becoming a soccer player will come true. Every competitive gamer will enjoy this.

Welcome new players!

After you enter the game, a short tutorial awaits you. It will teach you how to move, jump, shoot, curve and sprint (dash). New players need just 3 minutes on average to learn the basics of the game. You might feel lost when you start your journey in Ball 3D, but the tutorial will help you understand what the game is about. Feel free to train your aim and other moves in the tutorial for as long as you want, you can also come back to it later. It is recommended to finish the tutorial before going online, but don't worry it is short and simple. It will help you to improve during your humble beginnings. Your skill will rise quickly after finishing it, you will be far better, so it is worth your time.

Bots are ready to play

If you would like to practice the moves you just learned, your next step may be to play against bots. You can choose from 4 difficulty levels and decide if you would like to train being the striker or the goalkeeper. Ball 3D is not a singleplayer game, but you may decide that it is too early to play with real people and prefer to try the game in a calm environment before going online. Say "hello" to the bots, they never answer a single word, but they always listen...

When you are new, bots may be challenging. If you will lose against them, there is no need to cry, you can play with them as many times as you want! Focus and you will eventually deal with this steep challenge after a couple games.

Soccer Online

Playing vs bots is so fun, but this is a multi-player esport game. It's time to go online in the cross-platform multiplayer mode and play with other humans over the internet. We support new players a lot. During the first 14 days you have a beginner status. It lets you play on the special rooms marked as beginners. You can use this time to familiarize yourself with the game by playing with players at your level. If you feel you are too good to play on the rooms for beginners, you can always join the normal rooms available for all players. After 14 days you will turn into an expert and you will be able to play on the 3rd kind of rooms, available only for the experts. Thanks to all this you can always play soccer online with the players at your level. On the expert rooms you will stumble upon highly skilled players, watch them carefully as you can learn a lot from them. Exciting, Co-Op/PvP gameplay is the strongest element of this independent game.

Multiplayer

Speaking of rooms. You can play on dedicated rooms or you can join rooms hosted by other players. You can also create your own room. The game offers very advanced and optimized network code, including client side prediction anti-lag system and great dedicated servers in various regions that offer low ping. Ball 3D is one of the most dynamic coop soccer games, yet the network code is able to handle this in a very smooth way making the online multiplayer experience very enjoyable. Try it yourself. Remember to use sprint to increase your speed and outrun your opponents.

Teams

Sooner or later you will meet some nice people in the world of Ball 3D. You may build a team with them. Choose a name (FC The Best, AS Best Players or any other) and create it in the user panel, then invite your friends to join the party and become a real team manager. Remember to create some nice-looking shirts for your new team. When you do so, you will be ready to compete in leagues, cups and tournaments. Your players can dress in these shirts for the match. Wouldn't it be nice to win the Ball 3D World Cup Final, be on top and become a living legend, the best Ball 3D player on the planet (the Greatest Of All Time - GOAT)? It is your destiny to be the best! To achieve this you will need a skillful squad and some effective strategy that will crush the other teams. But remember that the result of the match is unknown till the last whistle!

Your duty as the manager will be to form a team (hopefully a dream team). The total number of people in your team is up to you, you can invite 1 friend or 5 friends, 6, 7, 10, 18, 24 or even more. You will need players in your team that will play on goalkeeper, defense and attack. Cooperation is the key to success. Your team may try to play positional attacks or it may defend the goal like a tank, turn it into a fortress and try counter attacks. Picking the best tactic for your team is like solving a puzzle, you need to be creative and use logic to fit the pieces. You may decide to play with one striker or with two, with three defenders or with four. You may try short passes in tight spaces and technical shots or full power flat strikes from the middle of the field. Play the first half with one tactic and the second with another. Some tactics are more risky than others. Everything is up to you, this is your empire. Your team is like a kingdom and you are the king.

Man of the match

Every move you make during the match is recorded in the form of statistics. Based on these statistics a ranking of players is formed. By the end of the match, the name of the best player will be featured and shown to others as the man (woman) of the match. Do your best to put your name there and become popular! It tastes really wonderful to reach the apex and become the hero of the match.

Replays

You can record all your matches and watch them later. Replays will help you craft your soccer skills into an art. Watching and analyzing matches will greatly accelerate your skill growth rate. You can watch the matches from various cameras, including: TV, Action, Top Down, Follow Player and several others.

Soccer variations

This indie game contains many different stadiums and modes. If normal soccer is not enough for you, you can try modes like: Darts, Ping Pong and others. Ball 3D is a super fun and deep game not similar to any other.

More than soccer

Ball 3D is not only soccer, but also other sports for you to enjoy on-line with your friends. You will be surprised when you will see the other sports: Basketball, Handball, Hockey, Racing, Battle Royale and more. Each of them has their own stadiums and unique rules. Battle Royale takes place on a circular arena with no escape. Survival is the key to the win. Carefully overwatch the battlefield and avoid your opponents at all cost or turn into a hunter and hunt your enemies. Fight and beat them (by jumping and falling on them, it is not a shooter, so the only weapon you have is you). At the same time you need to dodge the ball that is chasing you, just like in dodgeball. In Battle Royale you win only when all your opponents are "dead" (no one is left on the battleground except you). Use your reflex to win this epic war.

Soccer Online: Ball 3D is a multi-sport simulation game available on PC (Windows), Mac OS and Steam Deck. Absolutely unique soccer sim action game for casual, hardcore and pro players, where not only your realtime reaction skills matter, but also tactics. It mix arcade gameplay with strategy. Great fast-paced, easy to play, hard to master e-sport game to play in 2024. It may be a light, relaxing experience or an intense one. Unlike many RPG games where you level up your character, here your quest is to improve yourself and write your own story.

Different environments

You can customize the environment, play on the grass, darker grass, dried grass, sand, snow, concrete or rust-colored gravel. With the audience or without it. You can change the weather and pick if you want to play during the sunny summer, cold snowy winter, rainy autumn or green spring. Do you prefer the daylight or the dark night? Clean hot sky, clouds or maybe a rain? You can play on the Classic stadium, Real stadium, a street city stadium called Urban and many others. Ball 3D is a colorful, family friendly game about soccer with a bit of the old retro vibe, that will give you a lot of fun. It can be played by players of all age, kids and adults, boys and girls.

Other features

The game also offers Steam Trading Cards and Achievements among many other features not mentioned here. One of the achievements requires you to send some love to other players by sending them a heart. You can buy and sell in-game items for a very cheap price on the Steam Market. Get free items (loot inside the boxes) for playing the game and then put them on sale or go to the market and look for some best-sellers for yourself. You can also gift the items to your friends. Also remember to visit the shop, where you can find more items and some attractive bundles.

In Ball 3D you have a lot of settings, if your computer is bad, you can tweak the graphics and other settings to get more fps. When you change settings in the menu, you will hear music from an excellent soundtrack.

But that's not all! After you score a goal, you can turn yourself into a rocket, horse, dinosaur, fish, alien, pirate, hat guy, iron knight, spider, ufo, werwolf, zombie, evil slime and many other monsters, plants and animals you may know from horror movies, cartoons or from the zoo. The list of possible celebrations is much longer, if staying on the ground after a goal is not enough, you can go into the air and enjoy a plane flight celebration. If this is still not enough, then you can celebrate the goal by turning into a gang of farming farmers or drive a police car. And if you are bored, you may ask the other players to create a tower (just jump on each other). How cool and funny is that?

You can use visual shot effects like: shadow, ghost, black trail, white shuriken, fire ball, mystic beam, dying star, red devil, rainbow cubes, ancient artifact and countless others. They do not affect the gameplay or the power of the shot, but they look really nice and you may always disable them if you want.

You can show some emotions to other players by using special emotion items, the list of them is long. Here are some: cat, pumpkin smile, jaw, mummy, wolf, angel, crazy kiss, laugh, rage, shock, bat and many others.

You can use badges to stand out. Here are some you can use: wizard, dog, cave, storm, candy, portal, toxic river, loops, dwarf, moon surface, dragon, underground, warrior, hand, elf, heat map, spooky and countless others.

The list of items in the game is very long. Many of them you will get just by playing, the rest is available in the shop.

Soccer Online: Ball 3D is great for streams, if you are a streamer try to play it with your viewers.

Updates

It is noteworthy that the game has been already updated over 250 times. The evolution of the game thanks to these updates is huge. We are constantly adding new content and optimizing the existing features. Many fun things will be added in the upcoming releases. Always check the latest news to see what changed in the game.

Support

Ball 3D was created by the company Unusualsoft. You can contact us by email, on the forum, social media or discord. All the links are under the community section in the main menu of the game. Feel free to ask questions or make suggestions.

Become a Ball 3D player

Are you ready to join our community? You are invited, we can't wait to see you in the game. Start playing soccer right away and start a new adventure. It's not difficult, just join and play.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows XP or Newer
    • Processor: 2.0 GHz
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Graphics: DirectX 9.0c and Shader Model 3.0 support (almost all graphics cards)
    • DirectX: Version 9.0c
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS *: Windows 7 or Newer
    • Processor: 2.4 GHz
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 / ATI Radeon 4850 / Intel HD Graphics 4600
    • DirectX: Version 9.0c
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: Mac OS X 10.8
    • Processor: Intel 2.0 GHz (only Intel processors are supported on Mac)
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 / ATI Radeon X1600
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 500 MB available space

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