Goofballs

Goofballs

SMU Guildhall · February 21, 2020 · Casual, Sports, Indie, Free to Play, Competitive

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About Goofballs

✦ AI summary

Goofballs is a wacky physics-based soccer game where you roll, dash, and ground-pound your way to victory across dozens of wild arena and ball combinations. Play solo or with up to three friends in multiple game modes, from classic matches to chaotic free-for-alls and fully customizable rules.

Goofballs is a goofy physics-based soccer game where players roll, dash, and ground-pound their way to victory. With a variety of ball types, playing surfaces, and arenas there are hundreds of combinations to play!

Play locally against friends or the computer in 1v1 and 4-player free-for-all matches. Choose from the Classic, Chaos, and Competitive game modes or create your own gameplay experience in Custom mode.

Key Features:

  • 6 goofy characters
  • 8 quirky ball types
  • 4 unique playing surfaces
  • 16 unconventional arenas
  • Classic, Chaos, Competitive, and Custom modes
  • 30 Steam achievements

Notes:

  • Goofballs is published by SMU Guildhall and developed a small student team at SMU Guildhall over a development cycle of 16 weeks.
  • Proceeds from your purchase of Goofballs on Steam supports the students. They thank you for your support.
  • Additional development to extend the game is not currently planned beyond its academic completion.
  • Learn more at goofballsgame.com

A special note from SMU Guildhall:


Goofballs is now free to play! The game was made by students at SMU Guildhall who are graduating in May, 2020 during the height of the Covid-19 outbreak. This is a difficult time for everyone. We decided to make Goofballs and our other recent releases free for two reasons: 1) With a challenging job market, we wanted to show off the students' hard work to as wide an audience as possible. 2) Everyone stuck at home could use some fun, free entertainment.

If you are one of the gamers who supported our students and purchased the game, we thank you. Proceeds go directly to the students to help offset some of the extra development costs of making and publishing the game.

Goofballs — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player, Online PvP, Split screen
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Goofballs is a chaotic physics-based game designed for quick multiplayer fun with friends, featuring absurd humor and unpredictable mechanics that can deliver laughs in short bursts. However, players consistently note that the appeal wears thin after just 5-15 minutes, citing repetitive gameplay, limited content variation, awkward controls, and a dead multiplayer population that makes it unplayable as intended. Since it's free, it may be worth a brief try with friends if you enjoy experimental student projects, but most players find little reason to return.

Recommended Mar 7, 2024
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Recommended Apr 12, 2026
chaotic student-made lovechild to play with friends. Great for a quick laugh, but fit only for about 15 minutes
1 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 10, 2025
Игра Goofballs — это безумный и веселый физический паззл! Управляйте шаткими шариками, стройте нелепые конструкции из подручных средств, чтобы провести их до финиша. Непредсказуемая физика и абсурдный юмор гарантируют взрывы смеха. Идеально для коротких игровых сессий и поднятия настроения.
Not recommended Sep 22, 2025
[quote][b]Note: Dead PvP game[/b] This game contains no meaningful single player content. There's no viably populated servers/active player population. This game cannot be played as intended.[/quote] "Goofballs" is one of literally thousands of student projects infesting Steam. It's from SMU Guildhall in the USA. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" made games, we must still question what value such projects have for gamers. As with all student projects, this isn't really a fully fleshed out game, it's just the result of an academic exercise, and as such it has much more limited value as a game than a professionally developed game would have. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments (especially if the students didn't even pass the course). Sure, it helps their marketing and helps the students feel good about themselves, but this is another case of a business putting themselves before the needs of gamers. This is a very mediocre arcadey 3D top down(ish) football game where you bash a ball around to get it into the goal, only with a deliberately bad physics model. And no players, because …
Recommended Apr 23, 2024
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Not recommended Aug 24, 2023
Goofballs Positives: + Ok for about 5 minutes + Ok graphics + Its free Negatives: - Quirky controls (with keyboard) - No mouse support in the menu - Ridiculous achievements - No fun after a few minutes - Can get frustrating - Gets very repetitive and monotonus - Not enough variation - Annoying sounds and music - Bad AI - Extremely limited multiplayer My expectations to this game was not high to begin with, but it was actually worse than I thought. There is nothing here to keep this interesting for more than a few minutes. Absolutely not my cup of tea. Total Score: 2.5/10

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