18 Great Games Like Mario Strikers Charged

Rocket League

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 28/08/2018

Price: Free

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Action and Sports

Accessibility: 33 features

Developer: @PsyonixStudios

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 6 players online

Drive futuristic cars to score goals with an oversized football. It’s another game that sounds ridiculous but is actually a huge amount of fun to play and requires a lot of expertise. What’s not obvious from the start is the level of control that...

Blaseball

Expected Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 20/07/2020

Price: Free

Platforms: Web Browser

Genres: Narrative, Simulation and Sports

Developer: @TheGameBand

Players: You can play this with 100 players online

Blaseball is an online baseball simulation. Unusually though, it blends-in an absurd horror story where players are incinerated and the rules can change -- a little like the board game Blood Bowl. Players compete not so much to get their team to win,...

Knockout City

Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 21/05/2021

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Fighting and Sports

Accessibility: 31 features

Developer: @VelanVentures

Players: You can play this with 8 players online

Knockout City is a futuristic sports game were rival crews take on dodgeball style battles. It combines arena battles with projectile combat. With the focus on the ball as much as the other players, this brings more strategy and a great emphasis on...

FIFA (Series)

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 15/12/1993, updated in 2020

Price: 73% off

Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Stadia, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Action, Simulation and Sports

Accessibility: 28 features

Developer: @EA

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online

FIFA is one of the two main football video games (the other being Pro Evolution). Each year it's released with improved visuals, more realistic physics and enhanced competitive play. For those that follow the game closely and play it a lot, it offers a...

Alpaca Ball: Allstars

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 15/10/2020

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Action and Sports

Developer: @Salt_Castle

Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room

Alpaca Ball: Allstars is a football (soccer) game played with four legged furry animals. Rather than kick the ball you whack it with your head and long neck. You can also block and ram your opponents, or dive-kick them out the way.

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Series)

Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 06/11/2007, updated in 2019

Price: 5% off

Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U

Genres: Action, Physically Active and Sports

Developer: @SEGA

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 8 players online

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is a series of simple competitive sports games featuring characters from Nintendo and Sega. Each game in the series is themed around a different Olympic year and location.

Towerfall

Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 25/06/2013

Price: 80% off

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform and Shooting

Accessibility: 16 features

Developer: @Exok_Games

Players: You can play with 6 players in the same room

Each player selects a pixelated knight and fights to eliminate opponents by shooting them with arrows or jumping on their heads. The arena is a single shared screen. What makes it so competitive is the limited resource of arrows and the ability to dodge...

Captain Tsubasa Dream Team

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 13/06/2017

Price: Free

Platforms: Android and iOS

Genres: Sports and Strategy

Developer: @TsubasaDT_EN

Players: You can play this with 32 players online

Captain Tsubasa Dream Team (Captain Tsubasa Flash Kicker Dream Team on Android) is a game set in the world of a Japanese cartoon about football. It's a tactical rather than action game. You play as the manager rather than players, but then at key...

Videoball

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 12/06/2016

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Action and Sports

Developer: @ActionButton

Players: You can play with 6 players in the same room and up to 6 players online

Videoball is a minimalist sports game for up to six players. The aim is to get one of the balls into the opponent’s goal by shooting it with triangles. It’s highly skilled, frantic and works brilliantly in a competitive family setting.

Kinect Sports (Series)

Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 03/11/2010, updated in 2014

Platforms: Xbox One

Genres: Action, Physically Active, Racing and Sports

Developer: @RareLtd

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online

Kinect Sports and Kinect Sports Rivals are a pair of games offering the Xbox equivalent of Wii Sports. Although these games use the Xbox Kinect camera so you simply move in front of the screen to control the different activities.

Dunk Lords

Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 18/03/2020

Platforms: Mac, PC and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Fighting and Sports

Developer: @StoryFort

Players: This is a single player game

Dunk Lords is an over the top two-on-two basketball fighting game. While themed around the well-known sport, here it takes on a more aggressive and full-contact form. But the result is about the silly competitive dribbling, shooting and dunking rather...

Ear Hockey

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 14/12/2018

Price: Free

Platforms: PC

Genres: Action and Sports

Accessibility: 21 features

Developer: @HacksawUnit

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online

Ear Hockey is a bat and ball competitive game played by listening to the in-game audio alone; no screen required. It uses spatial audio cues to signal to the player where they are in the play-space and where the main game object, the ball, is travelling.

Street Power Football

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 25/08/2020

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Rhythm, Simulation and Sports

Accessibility: 8 features

Developer: @GamajunGames

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online

Street Power Football (Street Power Soccer) is a rhythm and timing game where you compete in a range of competitions that require timing, quick reactions and finesse. Some of these are a pure rhythm action or aiming challenge while others offer a full...

Wreckout

Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Action and Sports

Developer: @huey_games

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online

Wreckout is a competitive sports game where you drive cars that catapult a ball into targets. Drawing on the classic Speedball games with a touch of Breakout, Micro Machines and Rocket League it offers a high octane and...

Grand Slam Tennis (Series)

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 08/06/2009, updated in 2009

Price: 20% off

Platforms: Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U

Genres: Simulation and Sports

Developer: @EA

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room

Grand Slam Tennis is a tennis game. You choose one of the 23 real tennis players or create your own. You can play either singles or doubles. Unlike other tennis games, this focuses on hitting the ball with a gesture via the Wii Remote. This extends the...