Freekick ’97

Freekick ’97

Hold. Bend. Let go.

A free retro soccer game about one free kick at a time. Bend it past a wall of monkeys, light the FEVER, win the tapes.

Coming free to iPhone, iPad and Mac.

A Mekina game

Gunk, in the orange club kit, curls a free kick round a wall of monkeys into the top corner of the goal.

Every kick is three moves.

  1. Hold to lock your aim. Power rises and falls while you keep holding.
  2. Bend. Slide sideways to curl it round the wall. Swipe up to lift it, down to dip it.
  3. Let go to strike. The aim line runs on the same physics as the kick.

Not penalties. Free kicks.

No penalty spot, no shootout. A real free kick: a wall that jumps and shuffles, defenders who chase, a keeper who reads the flight. 504 setups, 17 to 33 metres out, and no two kicks quite the same.

Goals in a row light the FEVER.

Every goal is worth 100 × your fever, up to ×6. Five bonuses add as much as 150 more: Top bins, Bender, Off the woodwork, Through traffic and Dipper. Miss, and it’s back to ×1.

One goal can be worth 750. Try a few on the scoreboard.

Round points

0

Fever

×1

The keeper learns your side.

He catches, punches, dives, parries and tips it over the bar. He remembers where this round’s kicks went and cheats toward that side before the next one.

Ten grades of keeper, from First Steps to World Class.

  1. First Steps
  2. Grassroots
  3. Youth Club
  4. Development Squad
  5. Academy
  6. Senior Amateur
  7. Semi-pro
  8. Club Professional
  9. International
  10. World Class

From zoo moat to full stadium.

Start in an empty zoo enclosure. Win, and the tourists, the scaffolding, the stands and 311 supporters arrive.

The empty monkey enclosure at dusk: one keeper, one goal, a brick wall. Tourists lean on the enclosure wall to watch the monkeys. Scaffolding and a first stand go up behind the goal. A sign reads: Coming soon, more seats, same monkeys. Full stands, with a banner that reads Do not feed the monkeys. The stadium at night under floodlights.

Beat the boss. Win the tape.

16 chapters, each three levels and a boss. Every boss earns a VHS tape of the story: how Dr. Alan J. Allen fell into a monkey moat at Seabreeze Zoo and turned the monkeys into a football club.

Tape 01 · Before the coffee

Type your name. He calls you Sarkis anyway.

Tap Dr. Allen’s forehead to wake him, type your name on the VCR blue screen, then take three lessons: aim and power, curl, and one from an angle. Skip it any time.

A monkey in gold sunglasses and a black beret, close up in the locker. Gunk tries on an outfit in the locker. Another outfit on the locker stage.

More than 100 looks, all earned on the pitch.

Mullets, The King, gold lamé, a crown, a banana. None of it is for sale: every item unlocks by playing.

Propeller cap
Score 50 dippers
Foam finger
100 goals at fever
3D glasses
Collect 8 tapes
Mixtape headphones
Reach Arcade round 30
Banana
Score 500 goals
Crown
Prestige 5, level 50

Modes and features

Story

16 chapters, 16 bosses, 16 tapes. Rounds last 30 to 60 seconds.

Arcade

A marathon that grows with every boss you beat, up to 168 rounds.

Practice

No clock. Just kicks.

Game Center

Optional leaderboards, 29 achievements and Arcade challenges for friends.

Before you ask

Is it free?

Yes. Freekick ’97 is free to download on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Are there ads?

On iPhone and iPad, an ad can play between chapters, never during a round, and the first chapter has none. The Mac version has no ads.

Does it need the internet?

No. The game plays offline. Game Center is optional.

Do I need an account?

No.

Can I buy outfits?

No. Every look unlocks by playing.

Does my progress carry over to my other devices?

Yes. Your progress is kept in iCloud, so it follows your Apple Account to your iPhone, iPad and Mac, and survives a reinstall.

Can I play with a controller?

Yes. Hold A or the right trigger to aim and charge, steer the curl with the left stick and let go to shoot. Menus work with the pad too.

The squad lines up on the title screen in grey tracksuits, Gunk in orange at the front.

Your kick is waiting.

Coming free to iPhone, iPad and Mac.