Penalty Kick Showdown
Penalty Kick Showdown is a chunky pixel soccer shootout with crowd noise and chiptune music. Both sides get five kicks, and after every attempt you swap roles between the shooter and the goalkeeper. You can face the computer or hand the device to a friend for a head-to-head match.
Carlos and Diogo Sardo, a father and son, made it as their first game, under the name PaDi Shooter 89. It runs in a browser tab on a computer, tablet or phone with no install.
How to play Penalty Kick Showdown
Start on the setup screen. Type up to two player names and choose a team for each side, either a national side or one of the made-up clubs. In single-player mode you also pick a computer level of Easy, Normal or Hard.
When it is your kick, a three-by-three grid of targets lights up across the goal. Choose one, then watch a power bar sweep between 1 and 100 percent. Click, tap or press Space to stop it and strike. Harder shots travel faster and are tougher for a keeper to reach from a neighboring zone.
In goal, you choose a zone to dive toward before the shooter takes aim. Any shot into the zone you picked is saved. After five rounds the higher score wins, and a tie goes to sudden death, one kick each until a side pulls ahead.
Controls
| Action | Keyboard | Mouse | Touch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choose a target or dive zone | — | Click a zone in the goal | Tap a zone |
| Stop the power bar and kick | Space or Enter | Click | Tap |
| Continue after a kick | Space or Enter | Click | Tap |
| Toggle sound | M | Note button, top right | Note button |
| Quit the match | — | Menu, top left | Menu, top left |
Tips
- Stop the power bar as high as you can. Power never makes a shot go wide, and a full-strength kick is much harder to stop.
- The middle target is the safest for accuracy, but the corners are harder to save. Top corners carry the biggest risk of missing the frame.
- Against the computer keeper, try the top row now and then. It guesses high less often than it guesses the middle or low rows.
- If the keeper dives one zone off your target, a weak shot gets stopped about twice as often as a hard one, so never take a soft kick.
- Playing with a friend on one screen, the shooter should look away while the keeper picks a dive zone.
If you like Penalty Kick Showdown, try these
Free Throw FrenzySwap the goal for a sliding hoop and keep the same short, timing-based shooting where one good release earns the point.
Bullseye ArcheryIf timing each kick is your favorite part, this archery game boils that feeling down to one button and a narrow target.
Questions
Is Penalty Kick Showdown two player?
Yes. Two people can play on the same device, taking turns as shooter and keeper. There is also a one-player mode against a computer opponent with three difficulty levels.
What happens if a shootout is tied?
After five kicks each, a tie goes to sudden death. Each side takes one kick per round until one team leads after the same number of attempts.
Does Penalty Kick Showdown save results?
Yes. Finished matches are added to a leaderboard stored in your browser, so it stays on that device until you clear your site data.
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