Football (or soccer, depending on taste) is the biggest sport in the world, causing more excitement, heartache, and rocketing blood pressure than any other form of human activity.
Which is odd because the best thing about football hardly ever happens: the goals. It’s not uncommon for an entire 90 minute game (plus added time) to pass without a single successful shot.
Some day out.
Foxy’s Football Islands gets around this problem by serving up a football game consisting of nothing but goals. And building islands.
Developed by Frank’s Football Studios, Foxy’s Football Islands is an ingenious casual mash-up of several different ideas, as we’re about to see. But at its core it’s a game about using your finger to flick a football at a goal, over and over again.
More accurately, it’s about striking a football with surgical precision to hit a target suspended somewhere inside a goal. Sometimes the target is moving. Sometimes the wind carries the ball away en route to its destination.
But you’re always right there in front of the goal, where the real action is.
Here are five reasons we think Foxy’s Football Islands is a must-play.
Gorgeous Presentation
Looks aren’t everything, but in the crowded world of mobile games they can be what distinguishes the serious prospects from the mountains of horse sh…ovelware.
Foxy’s Football Islands has the reassuring polish of a professional production, with clean, colourful cartoon visuals, a huge variety of island backdrops, and even its own personality-filled mascot.
Nothing, in other words, to take the sheen off the addictive arcade gameplay.
Community
As any football fan knows, the sport is nothing without its rivalries.
Foxy’s Football Islands is absolutely packed with these rivalries, fuelled in part by the fact that every new session begins with an update on all the jerks who destroyed your buildings while you were away.
Revenge is the only answer – particularly if you want to stay on top of those leaderboards.
But it’s not all about attacking friends. As you plunge deeper into your campaign you’ll amass a collection of rare items to trade with friends, and you can participate in friendly leagues, tournaments, and other wholesome multiplayer events.
Variety
Foxy’s Football Islands, like football itself, is a game of two halves. Plus a few more.
When you’re not hammering the ball at the target you’re back on your island, spending your hard-earned winnings on upgrading and repairing your buildings until you can graduate to the next island in the archipelago.
Plus, each strike on target gives you the chance of stealing gold from a random opponent, or attacking a random opponent’s island to set their campaign back and improve your relative standing.
There’s even a sailing minigame, which lets you collect even more coins. This is a game that knows how to keep things fresh.
Unique
In case you hadn’t worked it out by now, Foxy’s Football Islands is a totally unique mobile game, seamlessly blending football, building, and player attack mechanics.
The variety can be disorienting at first, as you hurtle at breakneck speeds between taking shots, bombing buildings, conducting pairs-themed heists, and diligently creating an island settlement.
The weird thing is that this all starts to make sense in no time.
Perfect for Mobile
Foxy’s Football Islands is unmistakably a mobile game, and it wouldn’t work in the same way on any other platform.
You can play it with one hand, for as little or as much time as you like, making it ideal for stolen moments in the middle of the day or long sessions on the sofa when you want to unwind with a hypercasual game.
And, because your island is always at risk of being attacked, the game is always with you in spirit – just like your phone.
You can download Foxy’s Football Islands for free right now on the Google Play Store and the App Store.