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Retro Goal – Simulation Game Review
Retro Goal is a Simulation/Sports/Sports game from New Star Games, first launched in 24th June 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 27,984+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Retro Goal Stand Out
RETRO GOAL is a fast and exciting mix of arcade Soccer action and simple team management, from the developers of hit sports games NEW STAR SOCCER and RETRO BOWL.
With graphics inspired by the most beloved football games of 16-bit era and the accuracy of modern touchscreen controls, you'll be slotting away goal after goal with pixel-perfect precision. Choose a team from the world's favourite leagues and recruit the superstars, professionals and hotheads who will lead you to victory – then take full control on the pitch and make every touch count!
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Retro Goal is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 6th December 2023
Recent improvements include:
• Teams, leagues and kits updated for 2023 (new careers only)
• New nation – Argentina! (new careers only)
Download & Availability
Retro Goal is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Add customization we wanna make blue lock.
Game is a 10/10 but it lacks a lot of traits. For example you could add a trait book that has a list of traits that your players could have or earn by training. Traits like flair, speedy, or even a power shot trait(please add power shots to the game in general) but yea thats all, please take this into consideration.
Great Game bought once and never regretted after.
Wish you could play a little defense but other then that and maybe a world cup too.
Its an amazing game legit no problems with it but we have a few quality of life recommendations on the news you should include the winners of individual trophies such as golden ball golden boot and things like that and when celebrating a goal especially a comeback goal the benched players should run off the bench for a more dramatic comeback feeling other than that amazing game.
We absolutely love this game. We love all the leagues to choose from and the great arcade feel it has. With the Argentinian league it is a little weird. Division 1 only has about 5 or 6 teams to choose from if they offer you a manager position. The depth that this game has, the balance of simplicity is flawless. Im about to reach the end of our 100th season and we would like to add some recommendations. More stats for the players like total shots and shots on goal. And with the global challenge mode Id love it even more if you could randomize the group stages. This is so if we want to play as Spain we dont play England, Argentina and Brazil. All great teams but that adds unbalance to other groups. And maybe some other countries to pick from that didnt qualify for the 22 World Cup. Thanks so much for this game it is amazing, but it really has potential to be as good and detailed as retro bowl.
We tried to score goals and we did.
The game is good but there is this really annoying bug where the whole app just glitches and completely vanishes from the screen.
This game has great potential. We dont know why yall developers decide to quit updating it. Probably to focus ok Retro bowl. But this game still has a small community waiting for even a minor update. Please update this soon.
PLEASEEEE ADD GUATEMALA NATIONAL TEAM.
We loved this game especially with our backbone controller.
Its so addicting we cant stop playing bruh we swear.
Holy cow this game is perfect, the game play is really good. The graphics seem bad but its meant to be that way, ALSO! Its annoying how you start out really bad but you get. Also the global championship game mode is fire (you have to pay tho).
We didnt know that there was curve shots in the game. We didnt know there was diving headers, but we did know that there was headers and we did know that there was bicycle kicks. It was really fun testing them all out.
We just got into soccer (big Barcelona fan), and we like how you can actually play as the team you favor. We just like every aspect of this game and want to thank the devs for giving us access to it.
Great game, but in Scotland Sevco Fc is mislabeled as Rangers for some reason.
The game is a really fun game, however, we think it could add some good extra features. A few of those features that we think should be added are: Ballon dOr, better Goalie for Ai, more character traits, a more difficult mode, rivalry games, and just more media stuff on the players.
The game is great, but can you please update this game? Like, you could add custom teams for example.
We have already played 70 seasons of Retro Goal and it is our go-to game to chill out. Love the skill upgrades, multiple non-player factors and extreme difficulty. We would easily pay another $5-10 to add more features as we are nearing 100% completion on the achievements. World Cup feature? Maybe small additional player abilities at max skill levels? More mini games? Please keep adding to this game because we think its fun in the way Super Tecmo Bowl was. Yes, you dominate but its fun to ramp up your team to where they are nearly unbeatable, but then get some tragic upsets in cup games. Make money and then go win the championships in another country. Love the game, but lets add some more and feel free to bump up the charge for the upgrades.
This is our favorite game bad the global championship is so cheap. And. Bad luck that Boca jrs never gets us we won copa Argentina 2 Argentina d2 we played in San Telmo Nueva Chicago twice chacarita restria Chelsea and gulmes.
Can we please get a retro basketball game.
We love this game and have been playing it for a good while now but the only thing we would upgrade or update is putting up buttons on the screen to make the controls easier to understand but other than that the game is very great.
please read this developer we lived this game! One of the best football/soccer games we ever played! We just think you guys should put a career for us to crate a player and play with that player. Anyway its just a opinion but we please hope you guys can do this update please.
This game lacks the ability to control the defense. Please let us control defenders, so we can get the ball more.
Add the World Cup and club World Cup and the euros please that would make the game so much better please.
Why would yall stop updating this game. The soccer community is bigger than football internationally. This game is great please continue to update it.
Bro, this is the most fun we've had in a while.
We first got this game because Id played retro bowl before but we play soccer so we got this! But there 1 thing that yall could add PLAYER CUSTOMIZATION it would be sooooo cool to see a player you made play football or soccer. Idk if yall r gunna see this but overall 10/10 game.
We like the game a ton and feel like it could be way bigger if they added more features like longer shots or simple skill moves.
Aggregate matches for UEFA Champs League would make this game feel better. Feel like Extreme mode could be more difficult and better kit updates, maybe even a custom kit editor would take this game up a notch.
It is an amazing game and we would recommend this game to anyone who plays or watches soccer. Love these retro games, we also have retro bowl and it is also amazing.
We swear the hitbox is wild and it should not do chance missed if you ask us.
We think the game is fun the only thing we dont like is there is no mode where you can play as any team and play against another team.
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We really have nothing bad to say it is a really good job if you are bored or just trying to do something its a good game to get only request make it so you can play with friends.
Retro Goal is a fantastic mix of retro-style gameplay and modern soccer management, making it one of the most enjoyable mobile soccer games out there. The arcade-style matches are smooth and fun, and the team management aspect adds a nice layer of strategy. That said, there are a few areas where the game could improve. Adding more leagues from Central and South America would make it feel more complete and give players more variety. The transfer market also needs some tweakingright now, keeping players long-term is almost impossible because they become too expensive. A draft system for teams could help balance this out and make team-building more rewarding. Overall, Retro Goal is a great game that just needs more updates to reach its full potential. More leagues, better transfers, and improved team management would take it to the next level.
This is the best $1 game you can buy. It's really fun, just wish you could customize teams and players and keep overall career stats across different teams and leagues.
Really fun game to play but the one down side is you can only play we think 3 seasons but then you have to pay $2 to play the unlimited version.
We really love this! We tried Retro Bowl before, and that was fun but we dont really care about American Football. Im happy to see they made a game for real football too! We really like that this game is a lot more interactive too. Compared to Retro Bowl, you are involved with a lot more of the game and it feels like your abilities as the player are more important to the success of your team, as opposed to Retro Bowl where you can just fail because your players didnt have high enough stats.
This game was previously so bad and annoying to play when we didnt really know how to play that much, but when we learned how to play its been really fun.
We have been non stop playing this games for many many months now and we love it currently im on a mission to earn every trophy in the game we are so so close to getting atleast half im on year 22 amazing game highly recommend.
Retro Goal is an incredibly fun and enjoyable game. Its retro style and simple yet addictive gameplay keep us hooked for hours. It's definitely an experience that any soccer game lover should try. (retro goal let us tap).
Actually a realistic and really big game with a nice amount of leagues and trophies and everything great game.
Easy to control and all the names are there! Great effort on the programers.
Okay this is going to be truthful and straightforward this game is great its the perfect amount of detail to the amount of difficulty and NO ads, we love it.
This app is very good but when we draw or lose we wanna kms.
This is masterfully perfect in every detail from head to toe! For a veteran SWOS fan, there's no better game than this. Thank you, gentlemen, for your excellent work of art.
We really want you guys to make RETRO SWISH which is the basketball version. We bet it will be fun and Ive been waiting so long so pls make it.
Good game it would be better if you can change players names and have a bigger transfer market pool and know what the players names are for every team and show former teams that they played for.
The control are a little hard maybe add joysticks.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.3
- Size: 24.22 MB
- iOS: 12.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: [New Star Games]()
Last updated: 6th December 2023 | Genre: Simulation, Sports | Developer: New Star Games