Apple Arcade review #89: Charrua Soccer

I was hoping for something quirkier and better tailored to touch devices, but this football game is a rudimentary take on the genre. There’s nothing out of the ordinary here. You can kick, tackle and pass. Control switches automatically to the player closest to the ball. On touch devices, you have to wrestle with a virtual gamepad. Connecting a controller makes it more playable, but playing on the Apple TV’s big screen lays bare the simplicity and crudeness of the cartoony art. It’s curiously charmless. With more work on the characters and animations, the game would have been massively improved.

The music in Charrua Soccer is awful, but aside from that there’s nothing that stands out about the game, either positively or negatively. I’d have a hard time recommending this to football fans, but undiscerning players looking for a kick on the go might find something to like here.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/no/app/charrua-soccer/id1462098662