Protoball

Protoball

Studio Z 3D · September 8, 2021 · Sports, Action, Early Access, eSports, FPS

Protoball is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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About Protoball

✦ AI summary

Blast your way through frenetic arena combat that merges Quake's shooter intensity with Rocket League's ball-based gameplay, complete with wall-grinds, curve shots, and shield deflections. Master dynamic movement mechanics across multiple modes—from competitive arena matches to creative golf-style challenges—in this growing indie esport backed by an active community.

Protoball is an arena "shooter" with athletic movement & abilities. If you ever wondered what it's like when you cross Quake and Rocket League this is it. 

Protoball is acombination of an Arena Shooter, Movement Shooter, and Futuristic Sports Game. Players can dash, slide, grind rails, shoot curve shots, and snipe opponents with energy shields or deflect the ball from scoring. 

Protoball is an indie eSport with a growing community. This community organizes games and scrims in the Protoball discord. Play the training modes and alternate game modes to use the same skill sets in a different way. 

Shoot Curve Balls to shape your shots and confuse opponents (and stunt on them).

Golf mode is incredible fun and a change of pace. Use Protoball mechanics but in a unique and clever way. Play along with friends, host your own matches, or play Party mode for a quick 3-hole match. 

Pitball / Lavaball - The floor is lava, so are the walls and ceiling. Use your shield or the ball to BLAST your opponents off platforms and into the walls. More hits = more damage taken, until you're being launched into galactic space. Last person standing wins, best of 5. 

Fight Club (don't talk about it), this is our newest and rawest game mode, but we can tell it's going to be amazing already. Plenty of updates happening, and tons of fun. Host your own server with some friends to test it out. C and Left Click attack in conjunction with WASD and Jump. 

You can host your own servers and play training modes, or play online with friends. Protoball is here and you'll find a dedicated playerbase in our discord. 

GGs

Protoball — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Online PvP, Cross-platform multiplayer
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.

Recommended Nov 14, 2025
Great game, great community. Join the discord to find someone to play with.
5 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 22, 2025
Absolute Gold. This game is amazing, and it's on Linux too! The game is just getting started up it seems, but it has SO MUCH potential. This is the kind of game that has staying power in your regular rotation of games played. It's basically like they say, Arena Shooter (like Quake) meets Rocket League (or Basketball in outerspace with sci-fi ninja movement). It's really a movement shooter, arena shooter, and sports shooter. It's going to be so cool to see the pro scene develop, and I hope with Steam Cube that scene grows on Linux too. This game will definitely help Linux Gaming grow. Players shoot the ball, and an energy shield, around an arena trying to win the game. The amount of clever things I've seen other people do is wild, like self-passing using the shield to knock the ball back to yourself. There are also fun training modes you can grind when there aren't opponents playing, they're hard but fun and help build on your skills. Join the discord and find matches, it's actually cool. Very happy I found Protoball.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 17, 2025
one of the best games ive played and the devs are great at listening to the players about issues
3 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 10, 2025
This is an exceptional multiplayer game! It's so much fun to play with the boys on Discord, and its getting better all the time thanks to the hard work of the indie devs.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 20, 2026
Huge potential. Please add a chat feature! Needs some UI and graphics improvements. All the bones are there.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Oct 4, 2025
most unpolished game anyone has ever made pretty much all the positive reviewers have only 1 review and they don't even mention the name of the game half the time. don't waste your time and especially don't throw your money at ♥♥♥♥♥♥ people who get fake reviews
1 found this helpful

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