Goalblins

GOALBLINS

Soccer, but everyone brought a weapon.

Goalblins is an arcade soccer brawler in the spirit of Pigskin Footbrawl and Speedball. Three-a-side, no referee worth the name, and a pitch full of goblins, knights, trolls and pirate fish who would all rather headbutt someone than complete a pass. Score more goals than the other lot. Knock them out along the way. Nobody is checking.

WHAT YOU DO

Dribble, pass, and charge up shots with two context-sensitive buttons — the same two buttons do something different depending on whether you have the ball. Steal it with a sliding tackle. Or skip the football entirely and set someone on fire.

Every character has one of five combat kits: melee, ranged, bomber, fire-dash, or steal-dash. A Torch Goblin charges through the back line trailing flame. An Archer picks off your striker from the halfway mark. A Thief dashes in, takes the ball, and is gone. Knocked-out players stay down until they respawn, so a clean brawl can leave the goal wide open.

MODES

QUICK MATCH — pick a team, draft a 3v3, kick off.

CAMPAIGN: THE GAUNTLET — a roguelike run of six matches. Win gold, spend it between rounds on stat upgrades, deployable traps, hired goons, and relics that bend the rules in your favor. Lose and the run is over.

LOCAL PLAY — couch multiplayer for up to six, across two keyboards and four gamepads. Team up or turn on each other.

ONLINE — host-authoritative LAN and direct-IP play.

TOURNAMENT — the Champions Cup. Eight teams enter. One lifts the cup.

THE ROSTER

23 characters across 8 teams — four color squads (Azure Knights, Crimson Raiders, Violet Vanguard, Gold Stingers) and four enemy factions (The Caveborn, Wild Things, Goblin Raiders, Pirate Fish). 18 of them are draftable; the five heavyweights — Troll, Minotaur, Bear, Turtle, Panda — only ever enter play as Goons you hire in the Campaign, so they stay a treat rather than a wall.

Each has speed, power and technique ratings and a signature kit, so a draft is a real decision: a fast technical squad that can't take a hit, or three bruisers who can't pass.

THE PITCH

15 medieval pitches that don't sit still. Sheep wander into play. Trees block shots. Spike traps fire. Pickups spawn mid-match — health, shields, revives, and a coin that lets you steal. The crowd jumps when you score and confetti rains down, which is more respect than the sport deserves.

SOUNDTRACK

Eight original tracks that rotate through the menu, match and cup slots, so you're not hearing the same jig every game — medieval folk jigs, a calm pre-match breather, and high-energy goblin romps.

CONTROLS

Two context-sensitive buttons — Primary and Secondary — plus Sprint (hold). Move with WASD or the stick. Dribbling is automatic when you carry the ball.

                    WITH THE BALL                 WITHOUT THE BALL

  Primary           tap = Pass, hold = Shoot      Tackle / steal

  Secondary         Through-ball (cross)          Attack (your kit)

  Player    Device            Move           Primary   Secondary   Sprint

  P1        Keyboard          WASD           Space     J           Shift

  P2        Keyboard          Arrow keys     Num 0     Num 1       Num 2

  P3-P6     Gamepads 1-4      Stick / D-pad  A         X           RT

Esc pauses (Resume / Settings / Quit). Settings persist automatically.

Controls, sound and video options are all in Settings.

HOW TO RUN IT

Download, unzip, double-click Goalblins.exe. No installer, no dependencies.

Windows may warn about an unknown publisher — choose "More info" then

"Run anyway".

Windows 64-bit only for now. Built in Godot 4.6 and structured to export to

Linux and macOS later.

CREDITS

Art: Tiny Swords by Pixel Frog (pixelfrog-assets.itch.io/tiny-swords)

Additional art: CraftPix.net

Font: Jersey 25

Engine: Godot 4.6

Version 1.0.0 — the version number is shown in the bottom-right corner of every

menu screen. Please quote it in bug reports.