Games like football, basketball, baseball, tennis… All these sports can be fun and exciting, but what if you’re interested in something less conventional?
What about sports that exist only in games and movies, or exclusively in fantasy settings?
If you’re curious, read on, as down below we’ve prepared a small collection of some of the best weird sports games you can try playing right now.
| Game | Release | Genre | Developer | |
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 | Blood Bowl Legendary Edition | 2010-10-28 | Arcade & Platform | Cyanide Studios |
 | Tape To Tape | 2023-05-03 | Sports | Excellent Rectangle |
 | Mutant Football League | 2017-10-31 | Indie | Digital Dreams Entertainment LLC |
 | Blood Bowl 2 Legendary Edition | 2015-09-22 | Strategy | Cyanide Studio |
 | Blood Bowl 3 | 2023-02-23 | Strategy | Cyanide Studio |
 | Mutant Football League 2 | 2024-05-31 | Spotrs | Digital Dreams Entertainment |
 | Pyre | 2017-07-25 | Indie | Supergiant Games |
 | Monday Night Combat | 2011-01-24 | Indie | Uber Entertainment |
 | Splatoon 3 Nintendo Switch | 2022-09-09 | Sport | Nintendo EPD |
 | Splatoon 2 Nintendo Switch | 2017-07-21 | Action | Nintendo EPD |
 | Rollerdrome | 2022-08-16 | Indie | Roll7 |
Rollerdrome
| Release date: | 2022-08-16 |
| Genre: | Indie |
| Developer: | Roll7 |
Roller skates and guns are a surprisingly fun combination.
Rollerdrome is a simple game but a fun one nonetheless. It focuses on deadly arena combat, where you have to eliminate the opponents and ensure your own survival, but there’s a twist in the form of the roller skates.
Shooting while skating and performing a variety of tricks on the ramps just feels nice and refreshing, and the action never stops; you can’t miss this one.
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Rocket League
| Release date: | 2015-07-07 |
| Genre: | Action |
| Developer: | Psyonix |
When talking about games with strange sports, Rocket League comes to mind almost immediately.
Rocket League is a cool twist on traditional soccer, where instead of real people, you have cars with rocket engines. Two teams of up to 4 players compete against each other inside spacious arenas, where the goal is to make the huge ball land inside the opposing net while preventing the other team from doing the same to you. What makes the game even more fun than it first appears is how you can use your rocket engine to temporarily fly, allowing players to perform various aerial acrobatics and fight for the ball in the air.
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Mutant Football League
| Release date: | 2017-10-31 |
| Genre: | Indie |
| Developer: | Digital Dreams Entertainment LLC |
American football also has its own imaginary version that you may find enjoyable.
Are you fed up with the idea of fair play? Then try MFL which adds a solid dose of violence and brutality to the classic sport.
Play as mutant creatures and break the enemy bones as you chase the opponents running for a touchdown. If you ever wanted to throw an angry punch at the players from the other team, now you can.
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Pyre
| Release date: | 2017-07-25 |
| Genre: | Indie |
| Developer: | Supergiant Games |
A high-fantasy setting also has its representation on the list.
Pyre is a top-down game focused on a purely fictional sport where players have to grab the orb from the middle of the field and use it to destroy a flame pillar, or pyre, on the opponent’s side.
It’s a worthy addition to the list of games with strange sports, and one that will keep you busy for hours to come, thanks to its natural replayability value.
It’s worth noting though that there’s a lot of dialogue in the game’s main campaign, making it feel more like a visual novel with some gameplay thrown between the lines, so keep that in mind, in case it’s not what you’re looking for. There’s a versus mode though, where you can focus on gameplay itself.
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Conclusion
Video games focused on traditional sports can be enjoyable but sometimes you just want something different; something that doesn’t really exist in real life. Thankfully, the imagination of game developers seems to have no bounds, giving us all an opportunity to enjoy some unusual sports video games with weird disciplines.