Football Strike 4+

This is great game that seems to get the balance between skill and luck just right. It can be frustrating when you feel like you guessed right and should have saved it or when your shot comes off the inside of the post when you’re sure you swiped well (but maybe have a low accuracy ball). The win rates of the better players with normal stats are around 60% which is a good indication that the balance is good. Unlike others, I understand why bags take so long to open. The developers want you to play for a long time, so they need to slow progress or your stats would be maxed out within a few weeks - instead loyalty and long term gameplay is rewarded (although you don’t have to play it non stop - just get a win every 3h and open an 8-12h bag overnight). If you want to speed up progress, you have to pay game “cash” for it, which the developers are equally happy with as that is earned either through paying money or by intensive play to finish near the top of your league.

I LOVE THIS GAME SOOOOOO MUCH. There is just one thing that annoys me. Occasionally like maybe 1 or 2 times a day I’ll be in a match with someone and I would score and the game would say GOAL, then when we swapped places so I would be in goal it took out my green point and put a red point and it said 1 in the score bar when I score but when it’s the other persons turn it takes out the 1 and replaces it with a 0. Then I score again and it does the same thing, so I would have won the game but it’s like it lagged so then the other player won bcs the game just took away my points, and it isn’t just on 1 of the levels it’s on any level I’ve been doing it just randomly does that, and it’s just annoying and confusing especially when you’ve used 260,000 coins and trying to win 500,000 ( I know it’s not real money but it’s still really annoying losing your coins from a match that you actually won).

This really is a good little game to waste away some time. Unlike others of a similar nature, this game can be played multiple times in a short space of time - with each match only lasting a minute or two! That’s really good, and adds to the addictive and enjoyable nature of the game. The downside of that, and hence why I don’t think it’s great, is that the available bag slots fill up in minutes, but with each bag taking a minimum of 3 hours to open, you have to wait 12 hours for every 5 minutes you play the game. Sure, you can play and win and receive no new bag, but if the point is to progress and upgrade, that seems pointless. To make the game even more enjoyable, either the number of bag slots need increasing, or perhaps the length of time it takes for each bag to open needs reducing. This isn’t a game you play for an hour each evening, it’s a game you pick up and play for brief moments throughout that day, and that’s a strength! But the rewards system needs to reflect that! So, good but not yet great!