I grew up in a city the place some folks hated the color inexperienced, as a result of they supported Rangers FC and inexperienced was related to their rivals, Celtic FC. They would smash inexperienced site visitors lights, inexperienced road cupboards, inexperienced store indicators…

I’m wondering what their response can be to Soccer Story, an “journey RPG” about enjoying football-ish sports activities in a lush, inexperienced, virtually Pokémon-like world.

Here’s the announcement trailer. Try to not smash your displays, Rangers followers:

“It’s been a 12 months since The Calamity™ tore aside the very foundations of soccer as we all know it, and since then, Soccer Inc. has made dang properly certain that not a soul has been allowed to even have a look at a soccer ball, not to mention kick it,” says the blurb on the official web site. Enter you, who has been chosen by “a magical soccer ball” to remind everybody why soccer is nice.

Banned or not, the trailer above exhibits the protagonist enjoying in what appear to be soccer matches, with tackles and photographs and all the things. It additionally exhibits wave protection battles fought with a soccer, aiming mini-games, chatting with ghosts, turn-based fight, and quite a bit else.

I like video games which take a sport and use it because the central mechanic for a unique style of sport. The hottest current instance of that’s Golf Story on Switch, whose builders at the moment are engaged on a extra expansive followup referred to as Sports Story. Soccer Story is unrelated to these video games and is developed by Not Tonight creators PanicBarn.

There’s no launch date for Soccer Story but, however you may join a PC beta which is “coming very quickly”, and discover extra screenshots over on Steam.