If you are an avid football fan, there are countless computer football games to choose from. Playing these on your PC or laptop can be a thrilling experience!
For example, there are games that let you compete against others online and even join leagues and tournaments - making them some of the best football games available today.
1. Sensible Soccer
Like all the other titles on this list, you can customize your national, club or custom teams and compete in various cup and league competitions. Plus it has an infectious atmosphere with crowd chants and plenty of audio samples such as acoustic guitar riffs.
Sensible Soccer stood out due to its zoomed-out bird's eye view and physics that allowed quick changes of direction. It was the first computer football game that felt just as natural to play as if it were real football - despite its limitations.
2. Kick Off 2
This model boasts a top-down perspective with multidirectional scrolling pitch and players and markings in correct proportions, plus scanners to show player positions. Different tactics can be implemented based on pace, accuracy, stamina or aggression levels.
The pace of the game is slightly slower, placing more emphasis on player skill - something that takes time and practice to master. Nonetheless, it offers an impressive level of tactical depth with many different shots, including aftertouch, all accessible via a single-button joystick.
3. Championship Manager 97/98
Football Manager Sim was an innovative combination of on-the-field gameplay and team management capabilities. Its bird's eye view, delicate tiki-taka passing mechanics and diving headers were far ahead of their time.
While not as realistic as Actua, this game was still highly addictive and popular with gamers. With its slow match pace, superb attention to detail, and realistic visuals, players were sure to enjoy themselves immensely.
4. FIFA
FIFA, previously known as EA Sports Football Club, is the world's most beloved video game series about football. Released annually, it features licensed leagues and players.
Fifa also features an expansive multiplayer mode called Ultimate Team, where you purchase virtual packs of player cards to build your squad. These are updated regularly so that Fifa owners can exchange swaps and challenge each other in online matches.
The game features a range of realistic animations thanks to motion capture technology. This is achieved using Xsens suits that capture millions of frames from full-match games and training drills with professional teams.
5. Pro Evolution Soccer
Pro Evolution Soccer (PES), developed and published by Konami, is one of the world's most beloved football video games. It is available in various forms on all major consoles such as PlayStation, Xbox and PC.
There are a number of features that make this game great to play. Most notably, its Master League offers players the chance to create their own fictional team from 16 European club teams.
Players in FIFA 18 can customize their teams by importing faces and kits from the game - something not available in FIFA series games.
Another feature that sets it apart from other computer football games is its realistic ball physics, which can often result in some truly awful goals. Furthermore, it offers an extensive variety of gameplays and matches to enjoy, making it a fantastic game to play.
6. Konami’s Pro Evo
From 2001 until today, Konami's Pro Evo has been a beloved football fan favorite. While it often falls short of EA Sports' FIFA, Pro Evo has managed to maintain an enthusiastic following due to its focus on simulation and player interaction.
PES Is Smarter - PES offers more realistic player models and emphasizes ball control over speed, making for a much smarter game of football. Plus, its patient defense style ensures a fair matchup in the sport.
Pro Evo is an impressive computer football game that offers captivating gameplay, and vibrant graphics and rewards players for mastering its mechanics. It also has some fantastic features like the 'Fix' mode which puts you in control of one player throughout the entire match, as well as online 'Legend' which allows you to play against an offline saved profile. Despite these drawbacks, Pro Evo remains a worthwhile computer football title worth playing.
7. Super Arcade Football
Super Arcade Football is an homage to classic isometric footy games like Sensible Soccer with modern technology. It supports local multiplayer and custom tournaments, and renowned composer Barry Leitch (Top Gear SNES, Horizon Chase Turbo, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2) has created a special soundtrack for the game.
Super Arcade Football's controls are straightforward and optimized for touch screens, allowing players to move, shoot, dribble and tackle opponents with satisfying tactile feedback. Plus there's a Story Mode where you play as Martin as he attempts to save Balarm FC from oblivion.
8. Kick Off 3
Kick Off 3 is the sequel to 1992's original Kick Off videogame, released with real player names, teams, and leagues added for enhanced gameplay and enjoyment.
Soccer games such as FIFA would often switch to a side-on view, zooming out six times to display the entire field at once - an innovation other games would take decades to catch up to.
The game also provides a range of other characteristics, such as tournaments, players with distinct personalities, tactics, fouls, yellow cards, and red cards; plus refs that may have differing moods.
However, Kick Off 3 doesn't quite measure up to its superior counterpart: Sensible Soccer. Its controls are sluggish and unresponsive, making it difficult for users to keep the ball under control while in possession.
9. Superstar Soccer
Soccer Super Star is an exhilarating arcade game where players flick their finger across the screen to kick the ball. With various goals and difficulty levels to suit all abilities, Soccer Super Star provides plenty of challenges.
The game offers both offline and online tournaments, along with a weekly update. It's an enjoyable way to pass time without getting bored, making it definitely worth playing.
Although not quite the same as FIFA 95, this simulation football game offers the same frantic goalmouth scrambles and animated crowds. Plus, its sound is more realistic with loud and booming crowd chants.
10. Sensible World of Soccer
Sensible World of Soccer, released for Amiga and PC computers in 1992, remains a beloved football game series to this day. Boasting an expansive bird's-eye view (most other titles such as Kick Off or Matchday used a closer top-down or side view), editable national teams, club rosters, custom teams and an easy-to-use control scheme made it popular among users everywhere.
Other computer football games of the time often included directional controls, but SWOS only required one context-sensitive button to play. This enabled a more intuitive approach to pass, shooting and heading the ball and created an environment in which speed was valued over precision.
The original game featured an expansive database of teams and players from every professional league in existence at that time, along with season and career modes as well as an impressive tactics editor.
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