Kick Launches on Steam for 750 Yen With 20 Percent Off Until November 18
Shoreline Games released Kick, a side-scrolling action game by Swiss solo developer nospacelost, on Steam on November 4, 2026. It costs 750 yen, with a 20 percent launch discount to 600 yen through November 18.
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Why it matters
The game's Japanese-town scenery and Captain Tsubasa influence come from a developer who started learning Unreal Engine in 2023, which makes the finished 23-stage release the point of interest rather than the nostalgia alone.
Key Facts
- Shoreline Games released Kick on Steam on November 4, 2026.
- Kick costs 750 yen, with a 20 percent discount to 600 yen through November 18.
- Kick has 23 stages set in Japanese residential areas, shopping streets, beaches, and parks.
- Developer Peter Soerensen, known as nospacelost, began learning Unreal Engine in 2023 with no game development experience.
- The game supports Japanese.
The Kid dribbles a physics-simulated ball through 23 stages modeled on Japanese townscapes. nospacelost, Peter Soerensen, began learning Unreal Engine in 2023 with no prior development experience.
Soerensen built the game self-taught after starting with Unreal Engine in 2023. The original concept was a boy who missed a bus and ran to school, with the influence of the Roach Race minigame in Cyberpunk 2077 behind it. The current system came about when a ball placed as an obstacle happened to roll like a dribble.
The stages cover residential areas, shopping streets, sandy beaches, elevated tracks, and parks. Players jump, slide, keep the ball up, and shoot around obstacles, and they can turn off the timer to explore at their own pace. The hand-drawn 2D characters against 3D backgrounds came from his lack of knowledge of 3D animation. Japanese is supported.
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