Closest thing to SWOS on Switch?

bazzabear · 10 Apr 2023 at 22:57

Is there a retro footie game available on the Switch that is modelled after SWOS? I've got a hankering to play it again, and the Switch seems like a perfect platform for it. But I'm hesitant about buying anything describing itself as retro, because the other top down football game of those years (which I just can't remember the name of currently) I didn't get on with at all.

cheesyboy · 10 Apr 2023 at 23:04

Sociable Soccer, made by SWOS original Jon Hare, is on its way to Switch soon. Though it's supposedly been on its way to Switch 'soon' for about 5 years so...

jennidc · 11 Apr 2023 at 16:41

If you have an xbox the old xbox 360 arcade version of swos runs perfectly on series x

bazzabear · 11 Apr 2023 at 17:54

I do not!

I do wonder though whether I should try to find my old copy of SWOS '99 for the PC and try to get that running again instead.

jennidc · 12 Apr 2023 at 23:56

I always found the pc version to be worse than the amiga version. You could setup winuae on the pc to run the best version of the game.

heman · 26 Apr 2023 at 19:10

SWOS was so fast paced and playable for its time. So simple to pickup and play, like all Amiga games, and IIRC came on only 1 disk so no swapping. Great game

valve90210 · 27 Apr 2023 at 13:21

You should check out SWOS 2020: https://www.sensiblesoccer.de/swos-2020

It's essentially a reverse-engineered version which uses the original data and has added online multiplayer, and all sorts of other things. It's amazing!!!