In Short
- Monkey Post is a free browser game that recreates Nigerian street football: five-a-side, tiny goals and no goalkeeper. It launched on October 6 at monkeypost.xyz.
- Its developer, Dr. Yerins Abraham, says more than 14,000 people played in the first 24 hours, and over 17,700 by midday on October 7.
- You don’t need to download anything. It runs on phones (in landscape) and laptops, and it now supports PS4 and Xbox controllers. A room-code multiplayer mode is on the way.
Nigeria’s run of homegrown browser hits has a football game now. Technext reports that Monkey Post, a street football game built by medical doctor and software engineer Yerins Abraham, went from a launch post on October 6 to more than 14,000 players in a day. By noon on October 7, he said, 17,700+ players had played over 11,600 matches, scored about 44,500 goals and taken more than 16,900 penalties. Those numbers come from the developer and haven’t been independently checked, but the buzz on X is easy to see.
Monkey Post is the football you played on the street, not FIFA
If you grew up in Nigeria, you already know the rules. Two stones or slippers make a goal. It’s five-a-side, there’s no keeper, and the “last man” can’t score from his own half. “Monkey Post is the street football almost every Nigerian kid played,” Abraham told Technext. The game is set on dusty local pitches with danfos parked nearby, and you’ll see neighbourhood names like Surulere and Lekki. In his words, “Monkey Post doesn’t compete with FIFA.”
The matches are short and arcade-style: you dribble, pass, shoot, and when it’s level you go to a penalty shootout. Because the goals are so small, you score by working the ball in close, not by shooting from distance. That’s why the goal tally is so high next to the number of matches played.
How to play Monkey Post free right now
- On a phone: open monkeypost.xyz and turn the phone sideways. Everything, menus included, runs in landscape. If the screen won’t turn, switch off rotation lock. You can also add it to your home screen so it opens like an app.
- On a laptop: it runs in any modern browser with keyboard controls. Abraham says 87% of players are on phones, but the desktop version works too.
- With a controller: PS4 and Xbox pads are supported since the post-launch patches, which also tightened the controls, improved defenders and reworked penalties.
Multiplayer isn’t live yet. Abraham says a mode where you play friends with a room code is close, and he plans free community tournaments after that. One thing to watch for: this isn’t the older Monkey Post mobile game that a different Nigerian studio released in 2016, so stick to monkeypost.xyz rather than app-store lookalikes.
Play free while you wait
Want more quick football while Monkey Post multiplayer is on the way? These play in one tab on Gipcus, with no download:
- Football Stars: pick your star and score in short timed matches
- Football: a quick kickabout that starts straight away in your browser
Why it took off so fast
The tap-a-link format is the whole point. “Data is expensive, storage is full on a lot of phones, and an app store download loses most people before they even play,” Abraham said. It’s the same thing that pushed Lagos Life past 4 million players this month, and it’s why links shared on X and WhatsApp can fill a game’s servers overnight.
For now the core game stays free. Abraham is looking at branded teams and kits, sponsored competitions and cosmetic items, and says he’ll be careful with betting ads. If you want more football you can play in a browser tab, our best free football games online list and our football skill games guide are good places to go next.
