Protoball

Protoball

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

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Mostly Positive70% · 122
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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 a Movement Arena Sports Shooter, a blend of basketball and soccer crossed with high tech futuristic style. Players athletically jump, slide, run, grind and dash around the arena trying to pass the Protoball through the opponents goal. This is the game you've been waiting for.

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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