Foxy’s Football Islands is a pretty convincing answer to the question “what if foxes invented football?”While kicking a ball is definitely your main goal in this colourful, beautifully presented hypercasual soccer title from developer Frank’s Football Studios, the game also sees you guarding your territory and, for want of a nicer term, screwing people over. These are the twisted priorities of a fox. For our money, Foxy’s Football Islands is an absolute must-download. But before we tell you why, we’re going to tell you all about the strangest and most addictive game we’ve played all year. Foxy’s Football Islands is a game of many parts. It all begins on a small island, where there are several sites where you can construct and upgrade a range of buildings. fenyeDon’t worry. Tapping on them is all you have to do.
But building islands costs money, and you’ve got several different ways of earning it. Your primary source of income is as a star footballer – or, more precisely, a penalty-taker, in a goal where the goalkeeper has been replaced by a small target that you must hit.
Scoring is as simple as flicking your finger up the screen, but a couple of factors make this trickier. The first is the wind, which drags your ball off course, and the second is the occasional moving target, which forces you to lead your shots like a clay pigeon shooter.
Every time you hit the target, you win a prize. Sometimes this is just a straight payday, giving you gold to spend on renovations. But sometimes you get the chance to steal from a random opponent by playing a pairs-style minigame.
At other times, you get to visit a random friend’s island and hurl a gigantic boulder at one of their buildings, crushing their construction dreams – unless they have a giant goalkeeper’s glove to fend off the attack.
Of course, this can and will happen to you as well. Every time you load up Foxy’s Football Islands you’ll be treated to a rundown of all the punishment your island has taken.fenye- Buildings that are lost need to be rebuilt, because it’s only by building on and upgrading every site on your island to the absolute max that you get to set sail for your next conquest and expand your empire, collecting gold through a casual minigame in the process.
- That’s the Foxy’s Football Islands gameplay loop in a nutshell, and it’s totally unique as far as we can tell. We’ve played football striking games, we’ve played building games, and we’ve played fantasy games, but never all at once.
- But there’s an awful lot more going on, such as a clever betting system that lets you up the ante by doubling or tripling your stake. You’ll spend up to three times as much energy per shot, but potentially earn a whole lot more gold if you hit the bullseye.
- And you can improve your odds of hitting the target by spending gold on upgrades that slow the speed of moving targets and protects your pitch from wind. Or, you can improve your steal and attack rewards, or build a field to protect your island.
- Variety is a huge part of what makes Foxy’s Football Islands such a hot prospect, but the fun doesn’t stop there.
- Despite the adversarial nature of the game, which sees you bombing out and stealing from your opponents, Foxy’s Football Islands is also a fantastic platform for a community, with leagues, tournaments, and leaderboards.
- Plus, it boasts a trading system that lets you trade the rare items you amass through gameplay with your fellow players.
- You can see all this for yourself by downloading Foxy’s Football Islands for free right now on the App Store or the Google Play Store.
