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Protoball cover art

Protoball

Studio Z 3D · 2021-09-08

Steam

ActionIndieSportsFree To PlayEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Sep 08, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Protoball is a Movement Arena Sports Shooter, a blend of basketball and soccer crossed with high tech futuristic style. Players athletically jump, slide, run, grind and dash around the arena trying to pass the Protoball through the opponents goal. This is the game you've been waiting for.

Protoball is an Action, Indie, Sports, and Free To Play game released in 2021, priced at free-to-play, with Mostly Positive (70% of 121 reviews) sentiment and an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000.

0
playing now
70%
positive of 121 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (67 reviews).
  • · Top 66% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
494920212026Week of 2021-09-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCross-Platform MultiplayerFull controller supportIn-App PurchasesCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsDualShock Controller SupportStereo Sound

16 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese…

Player tags

3DFPSActionSportsShootere-sportsFast-PacedCompetitiveEarly AccessFirst-Person

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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