Soccer Kids

Release Date: June 27, 2023 Early Access

Sports, FPP, turn-based, football, tactics, for 2 players, Polish, top-down, indie games, 90s, multiplayer, singleplayer, hot seat, internet

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A tactical soccer sports game developed by an indie Acid Wizard Studio, none of whom can allegedly play soccer. Soccer Kids tasks the player with shaping a group of young nerds into a proper sports team.

Plot
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Technical aspects

Soccer Kids is a tactical sports game focused on soccer, developed by an indie Acid Wizard Studio - a Polish team known for the survival horror game Darkwood. The game's Early Access version - Soccer Kids Alpha - came out on Steam on June 27, 2023.

Plot

The game is set in the 1990s Poland. It was a period of significant political change and a sudden influx of foreign culture, gradually shaping young Poles. The game's protagonist is a teenager named Michal, fascinated by the Captain Tsubasa anime emitted on TV. Together with his friends, he decides to participate in a soccer tournament.

Mechanics

The game revolves around training a group of kids into a proper team able to emerge victorious in a soccer tournament. It is a turn-based strategy, requiring tactical sense from the player.

The game's free alpha version features a series of short sequences, thanks to which we can learn the basics of the gameplay, practicing different strategies on gridless maps (a gym or a school playing field). Each match is divided into turns, during which the controller characters have a limited number of moves. After running out of actions, we can end our turn and let the opponents proceed. In case we're second-guessing our course of action, we can undo our moves and redo them.

Game modes

The game supports singleplayer, in which we face off against the AI, or local and online multiplayer, the latter being available through Remote Play Together.