Penalty Zone

Penalty Zone is a football striking game built on a real ball-flight simulation. There is no timing bar that decides the result for you and no hidden dice. You drag, the ball flies, and what happens next is worked out from physics. ONE DRAG, THREE INPUTS Where you release sets the aim. How far you drag sets the power. And how much you curve the drag sets the spin. That is the whole control scheme, and all three are read from the same gesture — so a hard flat shot and a floated bender feel completely different in your hand. THE BALL ACTUALLY FLIES Every shot is integrated in small fixed steps: gravity, air drag, and a Magnus force from the spin you put on it. Side spin bends the flight sideways, top spin drags a lifted ball back down. The launch solver corrects for gravity but deliberately does not correct for the bend — so if you want to curl one round the wall, you have to aim off for it yourself, exactly like a real striker does. KEEPERS THAT READ YOU Six named keepers, each with their own reaction time, reach, dive power and reading skill. A keeper watches where your reticle lingers during the wind-up; the sharper ones gamble on that half before the ball has even moved. The rest wait out their real reaction time and then extrapolate the ball in a straight line from what they can see at that instant. Their extrapolation cannot contain a late bend — which is exactly how you beat them. His hands and body are solid volumes: a save only happens when the ball genuinely intersects one of them. THE WOODWORK IS REAL Posts and crossbar are solid cylinders and the ball reflects off them properly. A shot can come back off the post and still go in. OFF THE POST and OFF THE BAR are separate outcomes from OFF TARGET, the frame shakes, and the woodwork flashes. Low driven shots bounce off the turf on the way in. THREE MODES - Shootout: best of five against a rival club. Their kicks are run through the same physics against your own keeper, so their misses are earned too. Ends the moment they can no longer be caught. - Pressure Run: keep scoring. The keeper sharpens every three goals and your reticle shakes harder as the pressure climbs. Two misses and it is over. - Wall Drill: a three-to-five man wall that jumps as you strike, from 17 to 23 metres out. Curl it round, dip it over, or watch it come back off a shin. Three failures and out. WIND A constant crosswind pushes the ball across its whole flight. The corner flag leans by exactly the amount the simulation is using, so you can read the wind before you strike. BUILD YOUR STRIKER Club Credits earned from sessions buy four upgrade lines over five levels each. Strike Power raises maximum ball speed, Curve Control raises maximum spin, Composure steadies the reticle under pressure, and Placement tightens the spread on your strike. Every one of them changes a number the simulation reads — none of them is a cosmetic label. CAREER Five ranks from Trialist to Club Legend, eight achievements with real conditions, a career strip and your last twenty-four sessions, all kept on your device. NO ADS, NO PURCHASES, NO ACCOUNT No network permission, no advertising, no sign-in, nothing to buy. Everything is stored locally on your phone.