{"id":674835,"date":"2026-04-05T00:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/play-football-and-save-the-world-in-not-tonight-devs-adventure-rpg-soccer-story"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:04:39","slug":"play-football-and-save-the-world-in-not-tonight-devs-adventure-rpg-soccer-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/play-football-and-save-the-world-in-not-tonight-devs-adventure-rpg-soccer-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Play football and save the world in Not Tonight dev&#8217;s adventure RPG Soccer Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/play-football-and-save-the-world-in-not-tonight-devs-adventure-rpg-soccer-story.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nIf plain old football doesn&#8217;t quite do it for you, but your interest is piqued when I say <em>football but melded to a silly, sprawling action-RPG<\/em>, then allow me to introduce you to Soccer Story from publisher No More Robots and Not Tonight developer PanicBarn, coming to <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1912380\/Soccer_Story\/\">Steam<\/a>, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and Game Pass &#8220;soon&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSoccer Story (which, despite the name and similar premise, is unrelated to developer Sidebar Games&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/golf-story-review\">magnificent Golf Story<\/a>) is a single-player &#8220;physics-based&#8221; adventure in which players must quest, puzzle, and sport their way to restoring football &#8211; and, thus, peace and harmony &#8211; in a world where it&#8217;s been banned.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSoccer Story promises an adventure packed with &#8220;quirky characters, quests, rogue refs, and wack soccer-adjacent sports&#8221;, where every problem &#8211; from solving puzzles to finding secrets &#8211; can be overcome with the help of your magic football.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/play-football-and-save-the-world-in-not-tonight-devs-adventure-rpg-soccer-story\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/play-football-and-save-the-world-in-not-tonight-devs-adventure-rpg-soccer-story\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If plain old football doesn&#8217;t quite do it for you, but your interest is piqued when I say football but melded to a silly, sprawling action-RPG, then allow me to introduce you to Soccer Story from publisher No More Robots and Not Tonight developer PanicBarn, coming to Steam, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and Game Pass &#8220;soon&#8221;. Soccer Story (which, despite the name and similar premise, is unrelated to developer Sidebar Games&#8217; magnificent Golf Story) is a single-player &#8220;physics-based&#8221; adventure in which players must quest, puzzle, and sport their way to restoring football &#8211; and, thus, peace and harmony &#8211; in a world where it&#8217;s been banned. 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