Soccer simulator. Control one player and kick the ball high or low, hard or lightly, curve, dribble and perform tricks. Play online or with bots. Join over a million players who have already played. Buy now and have fun or wishlist for later.
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Very Positive (63) - 90% of the 63 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive.
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Very Positive (4,041) - 90% of the 4,041 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 recommend 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

Soccer Online: Ball 3D is the first soccer game in a new genre. The player in this game is free to play as they want. Control one player on the virtual field. Kick the ball high, low, hard, lightly, curve, lob, jump, dribble and perform tricks. Create your team and join tournaments. Discover a multi-player football simulator played by over 1 million players.

Gameplay

Ball 3D is an immersive computer game where you have 100% control. The physics is powered by a professional physics engine, which ensures realistic ball behavior. Because this is a physics-driven game, you need to use the geometry of the in-game objects to control them.

Third person camera makes the gameplay very unique in the electronic gaming world. At last a game that lets you perform pixel perfect moves. Open yourself to an atmospheric, magic reality, gain access to a new world where your unreal fantasy of becoming a soccer player will come true.

Not many aaa titles offer what you will find in Ball 3D, one of the best, high rated Steam games with great reviews. This hidden gem may be your best choice. This competitive game is a true marvel for real-life soccer fans, offering endless fun.

Soccer Online

Playing vs bots is so fun, but this is an esport game. It's time to go online in the cross-platform multiplayer and play with other humans over the internet (or local network). Exciting and addictive Co-Op/PvP is the strongest element of this indie game.

More than soccer

Ball 3D has other sports for you to enjoy on-line: Basketball, Handball, Ice Hockey, Racing, Battle Royale and more.

In Battle Royale survival is the key. Carefully overwatch the entire battlefield and avoid your opponents at all cost. It is not a shooter, there is no crosshair, the only weapon you have is you). You win only when all your rivals are "dead". Use your reflex to win this epic war.

The racing mode is like a kart racer, but with discs. During the race you use your mouse and keyboard as a controller. In Hockey mode you play with a puck.

Ball 3D is a multi-sport simulation game available on laptop/desktop PC (Windows), Mac/Macbook (MacOS) and Steam Deck (Linux). Absolutely unique soccer sim action game for casual, hardcore and pro players, where not only your realtime reaction skills matter, but also tactics. It mixes arcade gameplay with strategy. Ball 3D is a fascinating fast-paced, easy to play, hard to master e-sport game with creative mechanics. Great to play in 2025 and even in 2026. It may be a light, relaxing and cozy experience. Unlike many RPG games where you level up your character, here your quest is to improve yourself.

No matter if you prefer golf, tennis, pool, baseball, cricket, volleyball or any other olympic sport, you will still like Ball 3D.

Teams

You can create your own team. Choose a name/tag (FC The Best, AS Best Players, EAS-Vampires, Foot Monsters (FM), Greatest Among Many (GAM) or any other) then invite your friends to join the party and become a real team coach/manager. Be ready to compete in global leagues, cups and tournaments. Wouldn't it be nice to join the elite and win the Ball 3D World Cup Grand Final? Be on top and become a living legend, the undisputed best Ball 3D player on the planet earth (the GOAT). Fulfill your American dream! If you lose, challenge your opponents to a rematch.

You can invite 1 friend or 5 friends, 6, 7, 10. Not enough? How about 25, 26 or even more. Cooperation is the secret formula. Your team may try to play positional attacks or it may defend the goal like a tank, lock the penalty area, turn it into a fortress and try counter attacks. Parking a bus in the goal is a sensible tactic too. Picking the best tactic for your team is like solving a puzzle, use your head and logic. It is your role to decide if you want to play with one striker or with two, with three defenders or with four. You may try accurate short passes or full power flat strikes. Try all possible ideas and alternatives.

Welcome new players!

Simple tutorial will teach you how to move, jump, shoot, curve and sprint (dash). It will help you massively to improve during the humble beginnings of your career. Tutorial is like a sandbox that lets you play and practice your moves and tricks.

Multiplayer

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. If you like multiplayer or mmo games you will love it.

Bots are ready to play

Ball 3D is mainly not a singleplayer offline PvE game, but you may decide that it is too early to play with real people and prefer to try the game solo vs bots (AI).

Man of the match

The name of the best player will be featured and shown on the board 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

Replays will help you craft your soccer skills into an art. You can watch the matches from various cameras, including: TV, Action, Top Down and several others. Remember to record replays and save your "wow" goals for later.

Soccer variations

Try modes like: Darts, Ping Pong and others. Ball 3D is a super fun and deep co-operative game not similar to any other.

Different environments

You can customize the environment, play on the grass, darker grass, dried grass, sand (desert), snow, concrete or rust-colored gravel. 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 stadiums like: Classic, Real, Small, Big, Mega, Huge, a street city stadium called Urban and many others. Ball 3D is a colorful, peaceful, family friendly, non-violent (no violence, no blood) game about soccer with a bit of the old retro vibe. It can be played by players of all age, kids and adults, boys and girls. No matter if you are 18, 24 or 50 years old, boomer or young.

Other features

The game also offers Steam Trading Cards and Achievements among many other features. You can buy and sell in-game items for a very cheap price on the Steam Market (cheapest are for less than 0.99 dollars). 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. Visit the shop, where you can find paid items and some attractive discounted bundles that offer great value (halloween, christmas, valentine and others).

If your computer is bad, you can tweak the graphics and other settings to get more fps. The game will work on all computers including low spec hardware (potato pc).

After you score a goal, you can turn yourself into a rocket, alien, spider, ufo, zombie and many other scary but cartoony monsters, plants and wild animals you may know from horror and sci-fi movies or cartoons. How cool and funny is that?

You can use stylized visual shot effects like: shadow, ghost, black trail, white shuriken, fire ball, dying star, red devil from hell, rainbow cubes, ancient artifact and countless others.

You can show emotions to other players by using special emotion items, the list of them is long. Here are some: cute cat, pumpkin smile, wolf, crazy kiss, laugh, XD, lol, bat.

You can use badges: dog, portal, loops, dwarf, dragon, underground, warrior, hand, heat map, spooky.

Updates

The game physics was improved greatly in 2023-2024. The game has been already updated over 250 times. Many fun things will be added in the upcoming releases.

Support

Ball 3D was created by the company Unusualsoft. You can contact us by email, on the forum, social media or discord. Feel free to ask questions or make suggestions. We will be very happy to reply to you!

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.

PS: It's not difficult, just join and play. I think you should!

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Translation into some (but not all) languages (in the game and on the store page) and some of the store page assets ​​were made with the assistance of AI.

System Requirements

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macOS
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 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:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 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
    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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