In March 2013, Natural Soccer has been released as an exclusive OUYA launch title and quickly became one of the most popular titles on our qubic friend.

OUYA's open and quite powerful platform, its snappy feel with 60fps graphics and its support for up to 4 player controllers made it the perfect match for Natural Soccer, granting for countless hours of fun.

Only a month later, I released Natural Soccer for Android phones and tablets. Still in its infancy, missing many features of today's versions, it nevertheless grew to become on of the most downloaded arcade sports titles on both Google Play and Amazon App Store.

My personal highlight however was receiving an e-mail from "The Steam Business Team" in January 2015 that Natural Soccer got greenlit. That meant, my game could reach a much greater audience on my favorite platform, the PC.

The interaction with the community has proven to be great fun and of inestimable value for the continuous improvement of Natural Soccer, based on feedback of players all around the world. Thank you!

To celebrate the 3rd birthday of Natural Soccer, the game will be on sale for 33 days with a 33% discount from March 15th, 2016.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, NATURAL SOCCER!

In March 2013, Natural Soccer has been released as an exclusive OUYA launch title and quickly became one of the most popular titles on our qubic friend.

OUYA's open and quite powerful platform, its snappy feel with 60fps graphics and its support for up to 4 player controllers made it the perfect match for Natural Soccer, granting for countless hours of fun.

Only a month later, I released Natural Soccer for Android phones and tablets. Still in its infancy, missing many features of today's versions, it nevertheless grew to become on of the most downloaded arcade sports titles on both Google Play and Amazon App Store.

My personal highlight however was receiving an e-mail from "The Steam Business Team" in January 2015 that Natural Soccer got greenlit. That meant, my game could reach a much greater audience on my favorite platform, the PC.

The interaction with the community has proven to be great fun and of inestimable value for the continuous improvement of Natural Soccer, based on feedback of players all around the world. Thank you!

To celebrate the 3rd birthday of Natural Soccer, the game will be on sale for 33 days with a 33% discount from March 15th, 2016.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, NATURAL SOCCER!

Dear fans of Natural Soccer,

welcome to the best Natural Soccer ever, with the following new and exciting features:


There is a new dribbling mode with very tight ball control for those who find the "natural" one too "laggy". I strongly recommend to give it a try: "OPTIONS" => "GAMEPLAY" => "DRIBBLING MODE" => "EASY"


Hold right trigger/button to sprint. While giving a slight speed boost, sprinting in possession makes controlling the ball harder. Sprinting is totally optional and can be turned off in the options.

Please note that you might need to setup your controller once anew ("OPTIONS" => "CONTROLLER SETUP") to assign the correct button to sprinting.


Added optional EXTRA TIME & PENALTY SHOOTOUTS available through the "DRAW HANDLING" option.


A simple addition, but hopefully hitting the "sweet spot" for many league players.


Now there is no immediate and perfect ball control anymore when hit by a fast ball but the ball bounces away realistically uncontrollable.


Goalies are smarter than ever before.

I really hope you enjoy the new release - if so, please don't hesitate to leave a positive review on the game's Steam page ;-)

Dear fans of Natural Soccer,

welcome to the best Natural Soccer ever, with the following new and exciting features:


There is a new dribbling mode with very tight ball control for those who find the "natural" one too "laggy". I strongly recommend to give it a try: "OPTIONS" => "GAMEPLAY" => "DRIBBLING MODE" => "EASY"


Hold right trigger/button to sprint. While giving a slight speed boost, sprinting in possession makes controlling the ball harder. Sprinting is totally optional and can be turned off in the options.

Please note that you might need to setup your controller once anew ("OPTIONS" => "CONTROLLER SETUP") to assign the correct button to sprinting.


Added optional EXTRA TIME & PENALTY SHOOTOUTS available through the "DRAW HANDLING" option.


A simple addition, but hopefully hitting the "sweet spot" for many league players.


Now there is no immediate and perfect ball control anymore when hit by a fast ball but the ball bounces away realistically uncontrollable.


Goalies are smarter than ever before.

I really hope you enjoy the new release - if so, please don't hesitate to leave a positive review on the game's Steam page ;-)

Dear Fans of Natural Soccer,

I am very happy to announce the immediate availability of Natural Soccer 1.3.0.


Formations and Tactics' Balance

You can now choose from several different formations and balance your tactics to create your very own style of play. CPU teams all play different formations and adjust their tactics to whatever happens on the pitch.


Offside Rule

You can now choose to play with the Offside Rule enabled. Players will act accordingly, trying to avoid being caught offside, making it harder to create good chances and increase the game's realism.


New and Improved Set Pieces Controls

There is a whole new visual indicator to make taking free kicks and other set pieces easier and more dangerous. Still, you can always opt to ignore the visual indicator keeping the pace high.


Many More Improvements, like:

• More realistic player movement
  
• No more kit clashes
  
• Game is prepared for upcoming Editor
  
• Pre-match screen in leagues, showing the opponent and allowing to choose tactics
  
• Many many more improvments

I really hope you like this release!

Stay tuned for more things to come!

~
Thorsten

Dear Fans of Natural Soccer,

I am very happy to announce the immediate availability of Natural Soccer 1.3.0.


Formations and Tactics' Balance

You can now choose from several different formations and balance your tactics to create your very own style of play. CPU teams all play different formations and adjust their tactics to whatever happens on the pitch.


Offside Rule

You can now choose to play with the Offside Rule enabled. Players will act accordingly, trying to avoid being caught offside, making it harder to create good chances and increase the game's realism.


New and Improved Set Pieces Controls

There is a whole new visual indicator to make taking free kicks and other set pieces easier and more dangerous. Still, you can always opt to ignore the visual indicator keeping the pace high.


Many More Improvements, like:

• More realistic player movement
  
• No more kit clashes
  
• Game is prepared for upcoming Editor
  
• Pre-match screen in leagues, showing the opponent and allowing to choose tactics
  
• Many many more improvments

I really hope you like this release!

Stay tuned for more things to come!

~
Thorsten

Dear Fans of Natural Soccer,

I am very happy to announce the immediate availability of Natural Soccer 1.3.0.


Formations and Tactics' Balance

You can now choose from several different formations and balance your tactics to create your very own style of play. CPU teams all play different formations and adjust their tactics to whatever happens on the pitch.


Offside Rule

You can now choose to play with the Offside Rule enabled. Players will act accordingly, trying to avoid being caught offside, making it harder to create good chances and increase the game's realism.


New and Improved Set Pieces Controls

There is a whole new visual indicator to make taking free kicks and other set pieces easier and more dangerous. Still, you can always opt to ignore the visual indicator keeping the pace high.


Many More Improvements, like:

• More realistic player movement
  
• No more kit clashes
  
• Game is prepared for upcoming Editor
  
• Pre-match screen in leagues, showing the opponent and allowing to choose tactics
  
• Many many more improvments

I really hope you like this major release!

Stay tuned for more things to come!

~
Thorsten

You spoke, I listened!

Thank you all for the many, many great ideas and suggestions!

As of today, there is a „beta“ branch available for those who are interested to try out the latest and greatest features of Natural Soccer. As these features are „cutting edge“ and might contain bugs, they are first only available to those of you who actively select the „beta“ from the game’s properties in the STEAM client.

Your feedback to the beta version is very valuable to me and greatly appreciated.

Please help to find any problems or bugs the new features might have added to the game, so that I can fix them before they become available in the public release version for everyone!

The beta version contains these new features:

Greatly Improved Set Pieces Controls
There is now a visual indicator on set pieces (except penalties), and you generally have options when executing them:

1. Shoot the ball using the indicator. Move the stick to change the direction or height of the trajectory. Once satisfied, start pressing SHOOT and release it once the desired shot power is reached. Remember to apply Aftertouch on free kicks for most dangerous attempts, as it even gets slightly boosted compared to normal play.
   
2. Shoot the ball manually without the help of the indicator. Just ignore the gauge, move the stick in the desired shooting direction and press and hold CHIP to shoot. The longer you hold the button, the stronger and higher the shot will be.
   
3. Pass the ball using the indicator. Adjust the indicator so that it point towards the team mate you want to pass to. Center the stick and push PASS to pass.
   
4. Pass the ball manually. Just ignore the gauge altogether, move and hold the stick in the direction of the team mate to pass to and press PASS.

Set Tactics Balance
You can now change tactics balance in-game. Hold PAUSE button down until „NEUTRAL“ appears in your score display. Move stick in your team's direction to change balance towards attack, or in the opposite direction to change balance towards defense.

Added Offside Rule
You can now optionally play with the offside rule applied.

Greatly Improved Players’ Positional Play on Corner Kicks
Both teams will now setup in a much more realistic way, making corner kicks more realistic and dramatic.

Many Various Gameplay Improvements
I also tweaked the gameplay and AI in various ways to futher improve the game.

What’s Next?
Natural Soccer is in constant development. The - by far - most requested feature is an Editor to change team and player names. As this is a rather heavy task it’s not yet done now, but I am already making good progress.

So stay tuned for more to come - and enjoy Natural Soccer!

You spoke, I listened!

Thank you all for the many, many great ideas and suggestions!

As of today, there is a „beta“ branch available for those who are interested to try out the latest and greatest features of Natural Soccer. As these features are „cutting edge“ and might contain bugs, they are first only available to those of you who actively select the „beta“ from the game’s properties in the STEAM client.

Your feedback to the beta version is very valuable to me and greatly appreciated.

Please help to find any problems or bugs the new features might have added to the game, so that I can fix them before they become available in the public release version for everyone!

The beta version contains these new features:

Greatly Improved Set Pieces Controls
There is now a visual indicator on set pieces (except penalties), and you generally have options when executing them:

1. Shoot the ball using the indicator. Move the stick to change the direction or height of the trajectory. Once satisfied, start pressing SHOOT and release it once the desired shot power is reached. Remember to apply Aftertouch on free kicks for most dangerous attempts, as it even gets slightly boosted compared to normal play.
   
2. Shoot the ball manually without the help of the indicator. Just ignore the gauge, move the stick in the desired shooting direction and press and hold CHIP to shoot. The longer you hold the button, the stronger and higher the shot will be.
   
3. Pass the ball using the indicator. Adjust the indicator so that it point towards the team mate you want to pass to. Center the stick and push PASS to pass.
   
4. Pass the ball manually. Just ignore the gauge altogether, move and hold the stick in the direction of the team mate to pass to and press PASS.

Set Tactics Balance
You can now change tactics balance in-game. Hold PAUSE button down until „NEUTRAL“ appears in your score display. Move stick in your team's direction to change balance towards attack, or in the opposite direction to change balance towards defense.

Added Offside Rule
You can now optionally play with the offside rule applied.

Greatly Improved Players’ Positional Play on Corner Kicks
Both teams will now setup in a much more realistic way, making corner kicks more realistic and dramatic.

Many Various Gameplay Improvements
I also tweaked the gameplay and AI in various ways to futher improve the game.

What’s Next?
Natural Soccer is in constant development. The - by far - most requested feature is an Editor to change team and player names. As this is a rather heavy task it’s not yet done now, but I am already making good progress.

So stay tuned for more to come - and enjoy Natural Soccer!