Bang Average Football – Play, Manage, Create

I expected much less from the game, but it turned out to be a very pleasant surprise. It features a storyline, various training sessions, player progression and a league system — all of which are huge pluses. Yes, there is admittedly a bit of a lack of content right now, but the game is very engaging, especially when playing Career Mode with a friend. It would be great to see online co-op added (beyond just Remote Play Together), and perhaps make character progression a bit more gradual — right now, the player becomes a superstar a little too quickly :) My rating: ✭✭✭✭✰

Delightfully cozy game with surprising depth to its gameplay and worldbuilding. Plays like Golf Story, old school FIFA Career Mode, and Untitled Goose Game combined. Genuinely hilarious dialogue and art too, with unexpectedly scathing satires of the real-life modern football world. Hard to believe it's a solo dev project really. So impressed. A++

I've now beaten Bang Average Football's story and earned every achievement except for the ones that will require grinding (win 100 games, score 1000 goals, etc.) and I feel qualified to say this game is quite good and deserves far more attention than it's received. If you're a soccer enthusiast, a fan of 90s-era arcade sports games, or you enjoy sports RPGs like Golf Story, then you'll find this delightful. It's not perfect, but it's impressive considering it was made by a single developer, and it does more than enough well to be thoroughly enjoyable and worth its modest asking price. Pros: * Charming and sincere story about restoring a fallen British soccer club to fame and fortune featuring a good sense of humor, with an overall feeling that the game was made by a true fan of the sport * Impressive attention to detail, where little things that could've easily been overlooked or lazily ignored have been attended to. For example: a shot that takes a deflection off an opposing player and scores is correctly counted as an own goal and notated as such in the scoresheet, which for a "cartoon soccer" game is a small detail that makes the whole experience feel more immersive * The soccer gameplay and management is very fun, with a surprising amount of depth including customizable formation control, player acquisitions and engaging practice drills which award skill points to improve one's player-character Neutral: * The game is very accessible even for casual gamers who aren't soccer fans, but consequently it is very easy. On easy difficulty you'll roll the opponents by double digits and they'll never threaten your goal, medium isn't much worse, and hard difficulty is only troublesome early on when your team is chock-full of literally the worst players in the game. Even beating the endgame superteam (every opposing player has perfect 10/10 stats in everything) on hard difficulty is still quite doable - about 1/20 players has done it, which I think speaks to the game's overall ease Cons: * The story is short and some of its ideas feel underdeveloped: for example, a tragic character whose redemption is set up to be a significant plot point is abruptly set aside entirely to only give challenges that award additional skillpoints, and an endgame cutscene showing the character becoming more accepted by the community again doesn't make up for that. By the third in-game season the story has essentially wrapped up entirely, it's a shame something so fun ends so quickly * The player character develops and improves (and can eventually be maxed out as the only 10/10 player available) but no other players change in any way - no injuries, no improvement or regression, which makes the transfer market overly simplistic because a player will only ever be worth one static amount, and buying the best players comes with no variance or risk whatsoever, nor is there any reason to hold onto suboptimal players

Really fun football game made by one person. The story mode is great and definitely good enough to keep you interested so you can finish it. Other than that the teams and players are highly customizable and that adds to the fun because you can play with your own or the communities creations. It's also really fun to play multiplayer.

This was a really fun game, the only critique I could ever possibly have is that it's too short. I did sim a few games, so that's also on me. But the storyline dialogue was so good it had me wishing there was so much more!! Really enjoyed it. Made with care by a clearly very talented team! If you want to relax, have some fun, have a laugh - this is the one. Unironically the most fun football game I've played in 2026

A fun little throw back to sensible soccer. Could do with a few more reactions to winning trophies and maybe a few more teams. A solid football game and a nice alternative to the market leaders.

Okay so, The game is very charming and is a lot of fun at the start of the game. You get drills, some fun football and a nice load of story with the community and such. You get the story of how the team and its supporters are pretty much all run down now and your job is to make it better. Whilst this was a fun game with all of this about 3-4 hours in this is completely lost. The drills last until maybe the 2nd season in which you are then just clicking "next game, end day, next game" etc. This made it very VERY repetitive. The football gameplay itself... Is awful. The arrow on the player is supposedly where the ball is meant to be. However, even with max stats I felt like this was a complete lie and the game would try to make an impossible pass and give away possession. Shooting with the arrow is really damn difficult as its also the way to move. This makes it so you cant just aim the shot and shoot, instead it makes it so you aim whilst running it down towards the keeper. The corners and throw in's are useless along with the slide tackle as im pretty sure majority of the time you give away possession. This becomes even harder if you play on HARD mode (I played on normal however won on hard against the hardest team). The controls make it already a pain to play let alone with super accurate fast pace bots that you have a 80% chance of actually being able to tackle (unless you have a good team which usually requires at least 2 seasons or even more). The changing character is the worst mechanic in the game by far and some how makes fifa's look good. This is because you will not be able to get a character remotely close to the ball. Along with this if you play with default controls you will keep changing and accidently pass the ball since they are on the same control binding for some reason. The story of the game is barely there its mainly told through the NPC's of the town which is nice, however, as mentioned before about half way through the game this is irrelevant. Overall for a casual game on normal or something this can be fun, however, in my opinion there is just so much finicky things along with the repetitive gameplay halfway through, that I have marked this as not recommended. I think if this was like a "My Pro" situation and you only controlled your character, it might have been a lot more fun. Normal is too easy but hard makes it terrible to play due to the controls and lack of being able to control the game (as in the pitch, players, changing players, passing, etc). If you like football and just looking to mess around with a game for an hr here or there then this game might be good for you.

Freddy Roux gets it done

Came across this in the deals for apparently promoting World Cup 2026. I supposed not to buy this because it's look like "for ants" or "for fleas" and personally i am not interested with this year's World Cup unlike what's was. Then i remember "Sensible Soccer" Then i see the Steam Workshop. It's sensible that i buy this. Controls are simple, ran on a potato (like it looks) there's lots of customization, and there's no in app purchases / premium content bull, and even if this is priced almost twice FIFA FC 26 i buy this instead. For other choice (apples and oranges given this one is top-down vertical while the other is side-scrolling), i suggest looking for Pixel Cup Soccer, which i bought 4 years ago, and i was just about dusting it off.