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Never a Penalty

NEVER A PENALTY is a satirical decision game in pixel art about football's least thankful job: the person who watches the replay. You referee from the review room, judging every play with cameras, a magnifier…

29 October 2026 PEGI 3

Never a Penalty is an indie developed by Pigeon-G, released 29 October 2026 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Never a Penalty is

Never a Penalty is an indie game developed by Pigeon-G and released in 2026. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine. It carries an PEGI 3 age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

NEVER A PENALTY is a satirical decision game in pixel art about football's least thankful job: the person who watches the replay. You referee from the review room, judging every play with cameras, a magnifier and offside lines, while your phone buzzes with offers of envelopes. Every call costs something, and there are eight endings, from the Copa Orbe to prison.
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How it plays

Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Never a Penalty launched on 29 October 2026, within three weeks of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Castlevania: Belmont's Curse, Valor Mortis and Silver Pines.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Castlevania: Belmont's Curse, Valor Mortis, Silver Pines.

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When did Never a Penalty come out?
Never a Penalty was released on 29 October 2026 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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