Football Blitz — Play Free Online

Football Blitz is a quick browser game with a football theme, filed on this site under endless runners. The idea of that category is simple: you keep moving, the screen keeps asking for fast decisions, and a run ends the moment one of them goes wrong. Rounds are short, so it fits the gap between two longer sessions.

If you came to Doodle Jump for the one-more-try feeling, this is the same kind of game in a different costume. There is no story to follow and no account to create. It loads as an HTML5 page, so there is nothing to install, and you can be playing within a few seconds of opening it.

How to play

On a keyboard, use the arrow keys or WASD to move, and use the mouse to aim and to pick options in the menus. On a phone or tablet, tap and swipe instead. Start from the menu, steer your player, and try to last longer than your previous attempt. Your score is whatever the run gives you at the end, and the only thing to beat is your own best.

Give the first run to learning how the game responds. Notice how quickly your player turns and how much room you get around obstacles, then use that feel to pick your lines on the next try.

Tips

• Look ahead of your player rather than at it. Reading what is coming gives you time to move early and smoothly.
• Small corrections beat big swerves. Over-steering is the usual cause of a lost run in this type of game.
• Pick one control scheme and stay with it. Switching between WASD and the arrows mid-session costs you a run or two.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

If you like the quick-restart pace, Helix Jump has you guiding a ball down a rotating tower, and Bird Jumper is another one-more-try jumper. For something you can share with a friend, Fireboy and Watergirl is a cooperative puzzle platformer, and Bouncy Basketball is a physics-based sports game that two people can play on one keyboard.

Football Blitz suits short breaks on a desktop, laptop or Chromebook, and the tap and swipe controls make it workable on a phone as well.