Sports game

Goal Finger Soccer

Flick your buttons across the felt, pass into space and score through a hundred levels of tabletop football.

Difficulty: Moderate
Compatibility: See device support below

Game overview

Goal Finger Soccer recreates button football, the tabletop game played with flicked discs that people around the world know under a dozen different names. You pick a team, flick your buttons to pass and shoot, and work through a ladder of one hundred levels that each set up a different arrangement on the felt. Positioning your discs for the next flick matters as much as the shot itself.

This title is best suited to fans of tabletop button football puzzles.

How to play Goal Finger Soccer

Choose your team before kick-off
Flick a button to move the disc toward the ball
Line up a passing angle before shooting
Beat the level layout to unlock the next of the hundred stages

Controls

Drag and release: Flick a button disc
Tap: Select which disc to play

Objectives and failure conditions

Objectives

Score in each of the hundred levels
Set up passing angles instead of hopeful shots
Complete the level ladder

The run ends or fails when

Running out of flicks with the ball still out of the net

Gameplay mechanics

Flick physics on a felt playing surface
Positional passing between discs
One hundred fixed level layouts

Device compatibility

Desktop browsers

Mouse or trackpad: Goal Finger Soccer loads straight into the page on desktop Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari with no download or plugin. Controls used: Drag and release, Tap.

Phones and tablets

Touch controls: Goal Finger Soccer is driven by pointer input, which maps to tap and drag on a touch screen.

Tips for Goal Finger Soccer

Move a disc into space before trying to shoot
Use gentle flicks to reposition and firm ones only for shots
Bounce the ball off the side wall when the goal is screened

What worked well and what did not

Pros

Huge level count for a flick game
Faithful to the tabletop original

Cons

Later layouts require a lot of retries
Team selection changes little in play

Player comments

No published comments yet.