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Knockout City

Velan Studios · May 21, 2021

PC · PS5 · Series X|S · PS4 · Xbox One · Switch

Everyone10+

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COMING SOON: Team up and duke it out with rival Crews in Knockout City™, where you settle the score with EPIC DODGEBALL BATTLES. Brace yourself for outrageous fun and intense competition in an all-new take on team-based multiplayer games. Customize your character and form a Crew with friends to start your Knockout City takeover. Knock out opponents with trick shots and coordinated teamwork while dodging and catching balls flying across the map. No ball? No problem! You can literally ball up, roll into a teammate’s hands, and become the ultimate weapon! A variety of outlandish ball types, locations, and game modes keep it exciting. Plus, each season introduces new maps, ball types, rewards, events, and challenges! Throw, catch, pass, dodge, and tackle your way to dodgeball dominance!

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Scores by platform

PC

Critic 7.8 (22 critics) · Gamer 7.2

7.5

PlayStation 5

Critic 8.2 (8 critics) · No ratings yet

Xbox Series X|S

Critic 8.2 (10 critics) · Gamer 6.2

7.4

PlayStation 4

Critic 8.0 (22 critics) · Gamer 7.9

7.9

Xbox One

Critic 8.0 (11 critics) · Gamer 6.2

7.3

Nintendo Switch

Critic 8.2 (12 critics) · No ratings yet

Critic reviews

  • Push Square

    Stephen Tailby · Oct 28, 2021

    9.0
    Knockout City is a brilliant multiplayer brawler. Its well-balanced, skill-based gameplay is a joy, providing players with surprising depth just beneath the surface. While the number of maps and modes on day one is fairly small, the fun factor means this doesn't really matter, and updates will bring extra content to the game post-launch anyway.
  • Nexus Hub

    Community Guest Writer · Aug 19, 2021

    8.5
    Knockout City is a fun, wholesome game with a lot of potential in upcoming seasons. Server queues aside, I have a lot of fun with it and highly recommend that you give it a try. It’s a breath of fresh air, so get your squad together and fling some dodgeballs at each other for a good laugh.
  • App Trigger

    Matthew Liebl · Jun 26, 2021

    8.5
    Approachable, but surprisingly deep, Knockout City is one of 2021’s biggest surprises and a refreshing take on the team-based competitive multiplayer genre.
  • XboxEra

    Győző Baki · Jun 22, 2021

    8.0
    Knockout City’s gameplay loop is strong, exciting and it offers a high skill ceiling. If the developers manage to increase the variety and fix the few shortcomings it has, we’re potentially looking at one of the multiplayer hits of the next few years. It’s a bit dangerously low on content for it to last, so they need to act quick to deliver.
  • Comic Book

    Jenna Anderson · Jun 14, 2021

    8.0
    Knockout City feels like the video game equivalent of drinking a new soda — it's sweet, stings ever-so-slightly, and will leave you feeling just satisfied enough. By no means is the game currently perfect in its current state, but it still does an impressive amount of things right out of the gate, while creating a universe that can easily be modified and evolved to fix players' qualms.
  • 3rd-strike.com

    Ibuki · Jun 11, 2021

    7.5
    Knockout City is a very entertaining online experience that plays really smoothly and is very easy to get into. We see a bright future ahead for this title, if the developers can keep the content varied and entertaining for the upcoming seasons. We do regret, however, that a lot of microtransactions are present in the game, and that grinding for new items becomes a chore after a few hours of playtime, making it clear that if you want nice things, you’ll have to pay for them.

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Gamer reviews

  • erik

    Jun 1, 2021 · PC

    8.1

    satisfying pvp dodgeball experience with no P2W, good control. The game needs some improvement like being able to choose server, or text chat.

  • mZtthew⭐

    May 29, 2021 · Xbox One

    6.7

    Gets Very boring after a while of playing, the ball mechanics is Straight up Dumb, it lock to the enemy and the only way to not get hit is to catch it, and catching it is so tedious. It should be Free to Play.

  • Jacob's Gamekanaal (Jacob's Gamekanaal)

    May 25, 2021 · Xbox One

    8.7

    Knockout city is a dodgeball game made by the Velan Studios. It is their first real game (Their first game was Mario Kart Home Circuit) and it is already great. It is fun to play in the well-designed maps like a map where there are tubes that teleport you, a map that always spins and a roundabout full of cars. What is special about the game is that there is an auto aiming system. The graphics and the music are pretty well designed. What i like is that there is no in game purchases, what you will expect of a game like this. My only problem is that there is not that much content. There are only 5 maps and 5 special balls. There is now a free trial until 30 may and i want to tell that you must download it now. Jacob's gamekanaal

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