Foosball VR

Foosball VR is a table football simulator set in a pub, where a foosball table stands in the middle of the room. A physical button on the side of the table opens the in-game menu, and two TVs near the ceiling display the match score.

Game modes

The game has ten modes:

• Standard: play with a simulation designed to reproduce the feel of real table football.
• Bomberman: play with a bomb for a ball that explodes at short intervals. Sending it toward your opponent shortly before it goes off can make them lose some players for a few seconds.
• Wiggle-Wiggle: play with elastic, rubber-like footballers.
• Ice Level: play on a frosted field with an ice cube instead of a ball.
• Pong: play a mode inspired by 8-bit microcomputers and early arcade machines.
• Fast and Furious: practise your reflexes as the ball speeds up or slows down with the pace of play, but never stops completely.
• Size Doesn't Matter: the ball grows or shrinks according to the score when a particular player controls it.
• Goalkeeper Wars: two goalkeepers defend against each other's shots.
• Magnetic: play with a metal ball attracted to magnets behind the goalkeepers.
• Portals: the ball can teleport from one side of the table to the other.

Physics and AI

The ball's behavior is tuned to match what happens at a real-world table, with physical material properties set to bring the virtual and real-world experience closer together. You can play against AI at four difficulty levels: easy, medium, hard and terminator. The levels differ in reaction time, reaction speed, execution speed and range of tricks; terminator is designed to be almost unbeatable and is recommended only for experienced, skilled players.

Match helpers

The helpers assist a single player in controlling the table's four rows of footballers:

• Snap handle helper: helps when your hand approaches a handle. In ghost mode, a ghost image previews the footballers' resulting angle when you grab the handle; in interpolate mode, the footballers rotate to that angle before you grab it.
• Axis raise helper: raises the midfield and offence rows when you control the goalkeeper and defence rows, helping with shots from defence.
• Axis centre helper: centres the goalkeeper and defence rows when you move your hands to the midfield and offence rows, helping with defence.

Viewing and position

The spectator view shows a top-down view of the table across most of the monitor, with a smaller frame of the player's VR view in the top-right corner. You can swap the views during a game with a controller button, or trigger a fly-around camera that shows both the gameplay and the surroundings. You can also adjust your position and height in the VR world with a controller button to suit your comfort and room size.