Planned Release Date: Nov 13, 2026

About This Game

Knuckleball: Free Kick Football is built around the most dramatic moment in football: the dead ball, the wall, the keeper and the one strike that decides everything. Other football games give it two seconds and a canned animation. Here, it is the whole game, and every detail of it is in your hands.

Pick your corner. Choose exactly where your boot meets the ball. Strike the side to bend it around the wall, hit through the top to make it dip under the bar, or catch it dead centre with real power and send it wobbling past a helpless keeper. Charge your strike into the sweet spot, read the wind, and watch the flight you shaped play out: the ball curling, the wall leaping, the net bulging as the stadium erupts.

It takes one shot to learn and a lifetime to master. Every attempt is short and decisive, so one more is always within reach, and every great goal is one you truly scored.

KEY FEATURES

• Shape Every Strike — Choose your contact point, set your power and pick your spot. Curl, topspin dip and the legendary knuckleball each fly with their own physics-driven flight.

• Beat Walls That Fight Back — Defensive walls jump to block you, some shuffle across the line, and goalkeepers get sharper with every step you climb.

• A Career Built on Pressure — Rise through 7 tiers and 35 matches, from the local league to the national team. Every match hands you one decisive moment: the late winner, the equaliser from behind, one shot for the title.

• 48 Challenges to Conquer — Hit target rings, rattle the crossbar, beat moving walls, master the wind and score from distance, then recreate eight legendary free-kick situations.

• Swap Sides and Play in Goal — Goalkeeper mode puts you between the posts. Read the run-up, make the dive and keep it out.

• Earn Your Style, Never Buy It — Unlock 25 cosmetics across balls, trails, kits, boots and goal celebrations, all earned on the pitch. No ads. No microtransactions. Never pay-to-win.

PITCH & GAMEPLAY EXPERIENCE

Every free kick is a duel. Read the distance, the angle, the wall, the wind and the keeper's position, then commit. After every shot you see exactly what you did, with speed, spin, curve and distance, so you always know how to hit the next one better.

Want it fast? Time Attack gives you 60 seconds of random positions, and every goal buys you 5 more. Penalties puts you one-on-one with the keeper, five times. The Daily Free Kick gives everyone the same position each day: one shot, scored on the goal, its speed and its curve, and your streak is on the line. Practice lets you move the ball, toggle the wall and set the keeper to drill any shot you want. When a friend comes over, Two Players turns one PC into a head-to-head: take turns, first to five goals wins. Friend far away? Invite them with Steam Remote Play Together and play the same match online.

Daily and weekly tasks, player levels and three stars on every match always give you a reason to step up again. Fully playable in 26 languages.

STEAM FEATURES

• 48 Steam Achievements — From your first goal to a perfect career, every milestone is tracked, with progress bars on the long ones.

• Steam Leaderboards — Climb the global and friends rankings in Time Attack, Goalkeeper and Longest Goal.

• Steam Cloud — Your career, unlocks and progress follow you to any PC.

• Remote Play Together — Share Two Players mode with a friend online, no second copy needed.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

This game uses pre-generated AI only for certain 2D background images and promotional store visuals. These assets were created before release and remain fixed. The game does not include any live AI generation during gameplay.