Last updated on December 7th, 2025 at 10:33 pm
X's and O's Football – Entertainment Game Review
X's and O's Football is a Entertainment/Sports/Simulation game from Harden Consulting LLC, first launched in 1st February 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 547+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes X's and O's Football Stand Out
A MUST HAVE Game for iMessage, play College football Overtime rules right in iMessage!
A very unique twist on football! Draw your own routes and plays! All players only move on their routes, creating a very one of a kind football experience, watching if your defenders will cross the same routes as the offense!
Play multiple ways:
•Turn based through iMessage app at your leisure
•Singleplayer
•New Playoff mode!
•Live multiplayer through GameCenter with a friend
**Also play by College Football Overtime rules! No clock, and each user gets the ball at the 25 yard line!
All time stats are saved to leaderboards for single player, view stats after each game and share the results.
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, X's and O's Football is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th April 2025
Recent improvements include:
-Removed ads showing after scoring
Download & Availability
X's and O's Football is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get X's and O's Football on App Store
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:
We really like this version of the game, but we liked it when they had all the players. Like 11 on 11.
Cant stop playing , Im well over 25 years old lol, love it.
-This game needs screen passes -needs to be able to move at all times -orphans. Also wanna move to go get blocks.
This is an interesting game. Unlike so many other football games, this game involves careful thinking, not reflexes. But its ruined by one dumb rule. For some reason, a 15 yard gain is the most you can get on a single play. Thats so unrealistic its silly.
Our little cousin first introduced this game to us and we fell in love with it. Now us and our brother constantly play it. However, the game is very glitchy. The game sometimes ends randomly for no apparent reason, even if the score is tied. Also on defense, its really hard to get a stop. We really love the simple concept, but if you could perfect it it would be top 5 easily.
Game is fun to play with friends when youre getting the hang of it and it has an awesome concept, however you quickly realize how much the defensive side of the ball lacks. They have no ability to make a play so to speak so you have to have your secondary on the exact spot the receiver is at when the ball is thrown, because of this games tend to get stale, Im hoping the devs are still working on the game.
The advertisements affect the size of the screen and many plays one cannot draw the player routes because the screen is truncated/cutoff and we cant draw plays.
We love this game a whole ton but the only thing we dont love is the ability on offense to run out of bounds while the defense cant. Both teams can do this. But other than that this game is amazing and the game we play with our free time and when Im offline. Awesome game.
Good game but the ads on the top of screen get in the way. Is there a way to get rid of them.
Great football game except for a glitch or we don't know if it is a glitch but when we are on defense we can't stop them when they run out of bounds and keep running downfield but other than that great game.
The best game ever but man to man is hard Idont know.
This game is awesome, but maybe you could save plays that work because our end around is perfection. You should let us rename teams perhaps, or you could unlock zone and man to man defense. Overall great game.
Love the core of it, just has more of a proof of concept feel rather than a completeness to it. Would love to see true man-to-man on defense, some options for blocking/delayed routes, also maybe the CPU not running out of bounds on offense :) Super excited to see what this could turn into.
The game is a really good time killer, but it would be so much better if the defensive players dont just follow your route and let the offense burn them. Otherwise the game is good.
This game is really easy.But in defense the opponent gos out of bounds.
Great game, some changes could be made to make gameplay more fun. However the biggest thing for us is no availability for an in app online mode to play someone else live instead of turn based, just an idea.
Really fun but its way to easy first down every play wont more bot levels.
Its a good fun game but the multiplayer doesnt work even a little bit needs to be fixed also maybe add a multiplayer where you can play anybody around the workd but fun game.
We like the game but it says the maximum yards is 15 but we have them third and 18 and the get a first down.
When you are defense, the computer will run its plays so that their ball carrier is out of bounds, therefore unable to be tackled. Infuriating at best.
Idk how you could put less work into a game.
Thats all you need. We just won a game 84-3. There is really no challenge to this game once you find out the computers limitations and strategy. Its not a bad time killer, but there are better options.
We love the game just to easy to score if u could make defense better in some way it would be the best game ever.
Ideally Id like to have 11 players on each side, but at least 7. Has the potential to be really fun.
This game needs some changes 1 be able to throw the ball to whoever we want to instead of the cpu doing it.2 we want to control the player we throw to or control the player we run the ball with.
Lots of them the game pretty cool but we cant get to the second overtime because of all the glitches.
The AIs are just gods. Youll never win against them because theyll either intercept the ball or run OUTSIDE OF THE SIDELINE and gains yards like its nothing. And their field goals are always good, no matter the distance.
Trash Trash Trash Trash Trash Trash Trash Trash Trash Trash Trash Trash Trash Trash Trash Trash.
This App is very innovative by allowing the user to draw up their plays. Hopefully, they keep enhancing the experience over time.
Make a season mode and make an arena version.
We do enjoy this game, but there is one major flaw. Pass plays are simple- just draw your routes. Run plays are more confusing- we can't figure out why they work when they do or why they don't when they don't. Biggest issue for us is defense: the players literally will only follow the line you draw for them they'll literally just stand there with nobody blocking them as an offensive player runs by right next to them. This gets very frustrating, as either your defensive players end up where the ball carrier is at the right timr, or the offense burns you. What would make a huge difference is adding man-man coverage or zone defense options. We realize this would require significant additional programming but it would upgrade this app from a very interesting but flawed time-killer to a legit game that you could actually make money on. Really hope you guys continue to develop this game as its a few steps away from being fantastic.
All we need to understand is: how ONLY THE AI breaks tackles, runs to the sideline and intercepts passes even more insane is the defense cant defend the side line , you cant draw a line all ether way to the sideline, there is ALWAYS room for the AI to run. 108 to 9 yards rushing REALLY!! Fun but bout to erase this ap… Just got it today. We cant stand being cheated.
Great game keep up the good work.
We love the aspect of drawing out plays and making it your own, but there is multiple problems. Here is what we think could make this game better changeable time length and amount of players on field Give center blocking assignments More defense formations extend the field beyond vision so it is easier to get Touchdowns Go for 2 option.
Great app! Tons of fun to play over iMessage. Thank goodness for college overtime rules and not the NFL.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.3
- Size: 32.34 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Harden Consulting LLC]()
Last updated: 5th April 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Sports | Developer: Harden Consulting LLC