What's New

• Pages arrive finished. Game pages, Leaderboards, Rankings, Hall of Fame and the Daily Challenge used to arrive as a loading skeleton and fill in afterwards. They now arrive with their content already in place, which is quicker on a slow connection.
• Release notes on the site. This page now shows the full release notes for every update.
• Blog refreshed. Four new posts: how Dynasty Sevens is built, the two pinball tables, what optional accounts do and don't do, and what it took to make every game work on a phone. Older posts were revised to match the site as it is today, and two that had gone out of date were retired.
• About and Privacy pages brought up to date.
• Play counts are shown on a game once it has at least 100 plays.

• Squad needs: the squad screen now says what your team is short of, and players who would fill a gap are tagged "For you".
• Deals with other clubs: bid for a player or offer one of yours in a swap. The other club has an asking price and its own view of what your player is worth. Prices do not change because you looked at them.
• Fixtures tab: the season's schedule and where you are in it.

Every game that predates the pinball tables was redrawn.

• Graphics overhaul: Bit Wars, Drift Circuit, Glyph Forge, Grid Lock, Hex Defense, Idle Surge, Meteor Dodge, Neon Hockey, Neon Runner, Net Profit, Phase Vault, Pixel Pong, Prism Drop, Pulse Beat, Shadow Grid, Signal Trace, Stack Overflow and Void Blaster all have new artwork. Scenery is painted once and reused rather than redrawn every frame.
• Thumbnails are real: every game's thumbnail is now an actual frame of the game rather than a drawing of it.
• Modes that did not work, now do: Signal Trace's Relay Rush could not be reached; Glyph Forge's Lexicon Collapse did not work; Shadow Grid's Infiltration Protocol generated broken maps. All three are fixed.
• Scoring fixes: Neon Hockey goals count for the right side and zones pay out; Drift Circuit's Grand Prix start, distance score and wall clipping are fixed; Idle Surge's Reclaim Protocol and Overload score are corrected; Pulse Beat's The 100 spreads its notes across each measure.

VoltCade's first game with a career. Take a seven-a-side football club from League Three to the Premier Division across three divisions and a cup.

• Run the club: sign players, raise academy kids, upgrade the ground, and watch careers rise and fade over the seasons.
• Play each match your way: Full Match (you control the team), Key Moments (you step in for the big chances), Manager (you run it from the touchline) or Quick Sim (straight to the result).
• A stadium with a crowd: animated players, a drawn stadium, and crowd noise and match sounds that follow the game.
• Saved games: your career is saved in your browser, so you can play without an account. If you are signed in it is also saved to your account, so you can carry on from another device.

The home page is now the arcade itself: every game in one grid, and nothing else in the way.

• One grid, bigger cards: each game gets a framed card with its artwork, a one-line pitch, a short description, its category, difficulty and play count, and New or Updated badges where they apply.
• Sort your way: switch between Newest and Most played. Your choice is remembered next time you visit.
• Random game: one tap sends you to a game you haven't played lately.
• Less scrolling: the hero banner and the stacked rows (Game of the Day, Trending, Collections, Recent Scores, What's New, stats) are gone from the home page. They all still live in the menu and the footer: Daily, Collections, Leaderboards and the Changelog.

A second pinball table, in a very different style from Paddlewheel Royale: a deep-space star forge lit in cyan and magenta, with a full-colour display and a white-hot star held in spinning gyroscope rings at its centre.

• The Core: the star at the centre is the table's main toy. Light the lock with the drop targets (or three ramp shots), lock two balls inside the Core, and it releases them for Ignition multiball. Its containment field turns shots away until something is lit there, so the game is about setting up the Core rather than shooting the middle.
• Four missions: Solar Flare, Plasma Harvest, Ion Storm and Containment, each started at the Core. Finish all four to forge the star for 5,000,000.
• Three modes: Classic (3 balls), Blitz (a 3-minute clock with endless balls) and Meltdown (every shot feeds the Core clock and heat raises the multiplier). The modes are balanced to score in the same range, so they share one leaderboard fairly.
• Built for every screen: a holographic star chart follows the ball when your phone is held sideways, the menus fit on every screen without scrolling, and the game honours your reduced-motion setting.

VoltCade's first pinball table. It's set on a riverboat casino at midnight, and drawn with realistic materials (wood, brass, chrome, felt and lit plastic inserts) rather than the neon look of the other games.

• A full table: three pop bumpers, slingshots, the A-C-E lanes, a bank of drop targets, four suit targets, a scoop, two orbits and a wooden ramp that feeds a spinning paddle wheel. Locked balls ride in the wheel until multiball releases them.
• Real pinball rules: light the lock with the suit targets, lock two balls on the ramp and start All Aboard multiball for jackpots and a Super Jackpot. Royal Flush lights missions at the scoop. There is also a skill shot, a bonus multiplier, a kickback, an outlane save and extra balls. The Captain's Log beside the table always shows what each shot is worth.
• Three modes: Classic (3 balls), Blitz (3 minutes, unlimited balls, double scoring) and All In (one ball that starts in multiball, where jackpots raise the playfield multiplier).
• Plays on any screen: desktop, phones held upright (lamp columns beside the table) and phones held sideways (the camera follows the ball, with a mini-map of the whole table). Tap either half of the table to flip, and hold the right half to launch.
• Accessibility: event lighting stays within 2 flashes a second, and the game turns off shake, flashing and spinning effects when your system asks for reduced motion.

Every game was played on real phone screen sizes (iPhone SE, iPhone 13, Pixel 7, in portrait and landscape) with touch input, fixed, and then checked again by an independent review. Desktop play is unchanged except where noted.

Playing on phones

• The game fits the screen. Held sideways, the game and its controls fill the screen together, and the page lines the game up for you, including when you rotate mid-game. Held upright, the game sits right under its title, and on small phones the page scrolls just enough to show the controls under it.
• Game controls no longer cover the score. Pause, mute and fullscreen moved from on top of the game into a toolbar underneath it.
• Fullscreen works on iPhone. Safari has no fullscreen support for page elements, so the game now fills the screen with its own layout instead.
• Touch instructions everywhere. Each game shows how to play by touch on phones, and the controls sheet lists touch gestures first. The keyboard controls were also corrected for every game (several listed keys that did nothing).
• The pause button tells the truth. It now follows the game itself, so it no longer says "Resume" over a game that is already running.
• The header stays out of the way. On game pages it no longer stays pinned over the top of the game on phones, and it fits on one row on small phones, signed in or not. The accessibility panel no longer runs off the screen.
• Score entry fits a phone held sideways, with a larger close button and a Go key on the initials keyboard.

Game fixes

All 18 games got touch and small-screen fixes: bigger tap targets, HUD text that no longer overlaps the play area, layouts that fit short screens, and better multi-touch handling. Highlights:

• Neon Hockey: the AI could pin the puck in a corner and freeze the match for good, in every mode. Fixed. In Breakout Blitz, bricks lose 1 hp per hit instead of draining every frame the puck touches them, and pinning the puck against the bricks no longer shreds them.
• Stack Overflow: Architect Mode can now be won on short landscape screens.
• Shadow Grid: the Blackout Run ping cooldown is enforced, and Clockwork Heist's HUD no longer overlaps.
• Prism Drop: a hidden hint no longer swallows your first tap after a restart.
• Meteor Dodge: achievement banners wait until you have picked your upgrade.
• Glyph Forge: short landscape screens get a side HUD, so no text covers the letter tiles.

Site fixes and polish

• Game updates reach everyone. Games saved for offline play were never refreshed, so returning players were stuck on old versions. Games now update in the background and still work offline.
• The loading screen no longer covers a game that has already loaded.
• The first-visit "caching games" overlay no longer blocks the site; it is a small progress pill and skips data-saver connections.
• Fixed page errors on game pages, stale game and category counts, a missing Phase Vault thumbnail, cropped game-card titles, and doubled page titles.
• Fixed daily leaderboard, play-count and stats queries that the standard Postgres driver rejected (they passed raw dates into SQL).