News & patch notes
What changed in Karoball, newest first. The launcher installs every update by itself, so there's nothing to download again.
Karoball has a new look: soft sun shadows, goals with nets, wooden fences, painted trees and floodlight towers round every pitch, bigger shirts on the players, a new scoreboard and a GOAL! banner across the top of the screen. In town the paths are stone slabs and the pitch fences are solid, so you jump them with your ability button.
The pitches are greener and brighter, on PC and phones alike. On phones you can now slide your thumb from SPRINT to KICK, POWER or your ability without lifting it, the camera is closer and the game runs more smoothly.
Karoball for Android is in closed testing on Google Play. Join the tester group, become a tester and install it from the Play Store. It's three taps and you play with your normal account.
Talk to everyone on the play menu, or just to your party wherever they are. The ball is also calmer and easier to read online, and goal celebrations now show in replays.
Karoball has its own website now, with the download, every update and everything else about the game.
How Karoball got from the first lines of code in July 2022 to the rebuilt game of 2026.
Every match is now recorded, so you can watch it again from the results screen or the new Replays screen. And if your game crashes mid-match, your place is kept so you can jump straight back in.
13 goal celebrations to collect and wear, a shop with new stock every day, rarer kit, better match pay, country flags and pitches that look played on.
Every class has its own ability, you can play bots whenever you like, and the classes are unlocked by beating challenges. The football feels better too: more controlled, easier passing, and pushes and blocks shown the moment they happen.
Karoball is back in open testing, rebuilt from the netcode up: no input delay, Quick Play and ranked queues, cups, parties and friends, trading, and a town that goes dark at night under the floodlights.
The town has a day and a night now: a 40-minute day shared by everyone, lamps that come on at dusk, night matches under the floodlights, and timber buildings with lantern-lit rooms.
Trade kit and gold with other players at the market hall's desk, keep a home, away and third kit in your lockers, and see every piece on a new match-night card. Plus a new launcher that keeps itself up to date.
Cups with knockout brackets and champion titles, a leaderboard and player profiles, parties and friends, a new play menu with the locker, and a ball that rolls like a real one.
The first release of the rebuilt Karoball. Your player moves the moment you press a key, a new play menu finds you a match, and the town has new art. A new launcher keeps the game up to date.
Every release
Each version the launcher has installed since the relaunch, with its date (UTC) and the main changes. Several versions can go out on the same day.
Free to play
Karoball is free. Download it for Windows, make an account in the game and you're in a match in a minute.
