Rocket League

About

As of 2026, it's 11 years old.

Rocket League launched in 2015 with a pitch so dumb it's brilliant: soccer, but every player is a rocket-powered car. It sounds like a joke and plays like a genuine, deep, endlessly skillful esport where the gap between 'flailing wildly' and 'aerial-flip game-winner' is a thousand hours of practice.

It became a phenomenon by being instantly fun and impossibly deep, the rare game your friend can pick up in five minutes and still get destroyed at for years.

Fast, ridiculous, and secretly profound, Rocket League is the game where literal cars play soccer and somehow it's one of the most competitive sports around.