Sportsfriends

Sportsfriends is a collection of four local multiplayer games designed for social play. The package includes BaraBariBall, a competitive fighting game with sports elements; Super Pole Riders, a physics-based…

81 6 May 2014 Free to play

Arcade Fighting Indie Sport Action Party

Sportsfriends is an arcade developed by Die Gute Fabrik, released 6 May 2014 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Linux and Mac. It is free to play.

Verified 21 Aug 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam , Wikipedia

What Sportsfriends is

Sportsfriends is an arcade game developed by Die Gute Fabrik and released in 2014. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sportsfriends is a party video game created by the Danish independent developer collective Die Gute Fabrik. It consists of four games: Johann Sebastian Joust, Super Pole Riders, BaraBariBall, and Hokra. It was released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows, Mac, and Linux. The game was funded through Kickstarter and received over US$150,000 from backers.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and party.

How it was received

Sportsfriends holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 80% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 12 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

A full completion run takes around 2.3 hrs.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2.0+ Ghz and 1 GB RAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Sportsfriends launched on 6 May 2014, within three weeks of Watch Dogs, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor and Child of Light. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Watch Dogs, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor, Child of Light.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sportsfriends yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

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Quick answers

Sportsfriends — frequently asked questions

When did Sportsfriends come out?

Sportsfriends was released on 6 May 2014 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Is Sportsfriends free?

Yes — Sportsfriends is free to play.

What are the minimum PC requirements for Sportsfriends?

At minimum, Sportsfriends needs 2.0+ Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 500 MB available space of storage.

How many GB is Sportsfriends?

The PC version needs about 0.5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("500 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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