Rocket League is a vehicular soccer video game published and developed by Psyonix and was released in July 2015. The game can be played on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, macOS, Linux, and Nintendo Switch. Rocket League is a sequel of Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, a 2008 video game developed by Psyonix for the PlayStation 3.
The game includes single and multiplayer modes and can be played both online and offline. It also supports cross-platform play between personal computers and multiple consoles. It is played between two teams consisting of one to four players. The players use rocket-powered vehicles to hit a ball that is bigger than the cars, to score goals like in soccer. The cars can jump and hit the ball, the speed of the cars can be boosted, the cars can destroy another players car, perform a quick dodge, do a short jump and spin in another direction. Games are played for five minutes, followed by a sudden death if the game is tied. The game has a competitive ranked online mode, where participants compete in different tiered ranks within game seasons.
By March 2017, Rocket League had sold more than 10.5 million copies across all platforms. It also has over 29 million registered players. By April 2017, Rocket League had sold more than 1 million units of 505 Games physical retail edition, along with the 9.5 million from digital sales.
In 2015, Rocket League won PlayStation Universe's "Best Sports Game of E3" award and Gaming Trend's "Best Multiplayer Game of E3" award, at The Game Awards 2015 the game won "Best Independent Game" and "Best Sports/Racing Game", at National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers (NAVGTR) awards the game won "Control Precision & Game, Original Sports". In 2016, at the D.I.C.E. Awards, Rocket League won the award for "Sports Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement for Online Gameplay" and the "D.I.C.E. Sprite Award", at Game Developers Choice Awards the game won the award for "Best Design", at the SXSW Gaming Awards, the game won the "Excellence in Multiplayer" prize. Rocket League also won three BAFTA Games Awards for Multiplayer, Sports, and Family. In 2017, Rocket League won the Game Informer's award for "Best Post-Launch Support" in "Sports Game of the Year".
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