Football is how this world settles its arguments. Build a team, call the plays, and win your way from a small island toward the First Yard.
Clash Yard is American football, flag football and an RPG in one — quick to pick up, with a great deal to dig into.
A Slinger throws, a Crusher tackles, a Vanguard runs things down — each type is good at different things. Choose them, grow them, and decide which position each one plays. That decision is how your side plays.
Five on five. Call the play in the huddle and the rest is one finger — a flick and a drag. Catching, blocking and tackling take care of themselves, and the rules are plain enough to enjoy without ever having followed American or flag football.
The players are not simply playing matches. Every player, every coach and every side across from you has a reason for standing there. Their stories cross against a much larger world — and the one you make as you go is your own. This is where the RPG lives.
Stamina drains and performance drops with it, and players get hurt. Use an item, or rest them. That makes who you put on the bench matter as much as who you start — and sometimes the best move is to close the game and give them time. Your call decides the next match.
Your team and your players each carry a level. Levelling a player raises their stats; levelling the team earns rare items and unlocks new features. But XP is not simply handed over for playing another match.
A type is the closest thing this world has to a lineage — it is what you are born as. Each one comes into Clash Yard suited to some parts of it and not others, so play them where they belong.
6 types to begin with, and the road may yet introduce you to others.
All-rounder
Fighter is a dependable all-rounder on either side of the ball. Steady in any position but quarterback (#2), and a good snapper besides — which makes center (#1) an easy call.
Two-way pick — offense or defense. Best at #3, the RB/TE.
These are level 1. Each level-up raises any one ability by two points — size excluded, with abilities capped at 99 and level at 50.
Passer
Slinger is a born passer. From inside the pocket he reads the field calmly and throws a hard, accurate ball on a flat trajectory. Usually trusted with quarterback (#2), the hinge of the offense.
Fits offense. Best at #2, the QB.
These are level 1. Each level-up raises any one ability by two points — size excluded, with abilities capped at 99 and level at 50.
Mobile passer
Hurler is a playmaker who runs as well as she throws. Her ball climbs — a high, arcing pass that drops in over the defense — and she is at her most dangerous throwing it on the move, out from under the pressure.
Fits offense. Best at #2, the QB.
These are level 1. Each level-up raises any one ability by two points — size excluded, with abilities capped at 99 and level at 50.
Receiver
Valkyrie's gifts are speed and a sure catch. She pulls clear of her defender in a moment and brings the ball down. This is a type that shines on offense.
Fits offense. Best at #4 or #5, the receivers.
These are level 1. Each level-up raises any one ability by two points — size excluded, with abilities capped at 99 and level at 50.
Tackler
Crusher is a merciless tackler. He runs the ball carrier down and finishes the play with a heavy hit that puts his whole size behind it. Steady defending like that is what the rest of the defense is anchored on.
Fits defense. Best at #2, the linebacker.
These are level 1. Each level-up raises any one ability by two points — size excluded, with abilities capped at 99 and level at 50.
Hunter
What defines Vanguard is speed put to work as tackling. However far off the carrier is — far enough that most would let him go — she keeps after him and brings him down. The last line of your defense.
Fits defense. Best at #3, the safety.
These are level 1. Each level-up raises any one ability by two points — size excluded, with abilities capped at 99 and level at 50.
Clash Yard takes its elements from American football and flag football, then tunes them to a phone screen and a match you can finish in a few minutes.
From the players you own, you pick eight as the active roster for a match. You can hold ten players, and buy your way up to fifty.
Anyone left outside the eight earns no XP from the match.
Only five take the field at a time, so you choose five starters for offense and five for defense — the same player can start on both, at the cost of far more stamina.
The rest wait on the bench for a team-mate who tires or gets hurt. A player who never comes on still earns a little XP when the match is won — quests aside.
Choose your starters
Pick a play call from your playbook
Before the ball crosses the scrimmage line, drag anywhere outside the green ring and the throwing guide appears. Take your aim, lift your finger, and the ball is away
Flick the ball carrier to change where they run. Once the ball has crossed the scrimmage line — or once you have already thrown — a flick anywhere on screen steers them
Catching, run-after-catch, blocking and the scramble happen on their own
Choose your starters
Pick a defensive call from your playbook
Pursuit, tackling, interceptions and the return happen on their own
Tap a defender and you take direct control of them
Man coverage, zone, blitz, rush — the more defense you learn, the better the game gets
In a world that settles its quarrels at the Clash Yard, nobody carries a weapon, no blood is spilled, and nobody dies over a difference of opinion.
There are no ads either. There are things to buy, but we try never to push them on you, and we steer clear of gacha-style mechanics that play on the urge to gamble.
Clash Yard aims to be a game that anyone can play with peace of mind.
Clash Yard plays wherever you happen to be.
Somewhere with a poor connection, or in airplane mode — it plays just the same.
Progress backs itself up whenever you are online, and is waiting for you on your next device.
A tablet's larger screen is supported too.
Clash Yard
