Football Drama is out now.
You’re the brand new supervisor of a struggling soccer crew – they’re all fictional, fortunately – and should survive the season. Not the crew (though profitable matches clearly helps), however you. Part of meaning guiding the crew to victory, and a part of it means navigating the politics and interpersonal drama your influential place attracts.
It’s fairly bizarre. I sorta prefer it.
Matches are sandwiched between talky bits wherein you reply to traces from the press, or the shady new (and crooked) cash membership proprietor. It’s all in regards to the mythology and grubby personalities of soccer, so being timid and noncommittal is a big gamble in itself. You must impress the correct individuals, and play the game a bit. That would possibly imply indulging in corruption or encouraging your crew to play a bit soiled. Or having an affair.
The matches are flip primarily based. You select one coaching possibility – endurance, say, or positioning, or shrugging off coaching to go down the pub. Then you choose a handful of playing cards, however the cardphobic needn’t concern. They’re simply one-off skills that you should utilize at any time to yell directions at your crew (and hope they pay attention) – a extra aggressive formation, maybe, or “provoke the opposition’s supporters”. Mostly it’s a case of selecting to be reckless or cautious, with the previous additionally knackering the gamers out. Commentators trade odd, barely parodic quips all through, and that’s actually all there may be to it.
In its personal weird method it’s extra lifelike than the exhaustingly detailed statto simulators, by stripping the play by play all the way down to “bide your time” vs “go for it” so that you simply’re enjoying greater than quantity crunching. It is perhaps the soccer administration game that I all the time wished. One with character and selections and options that received’t upset FIFA. A narrative, not a spreadsheet, y’know?
Football Drama is now out there on Steam, with a 15% launch low cost lowering it to £7.89 / €8.49 / $10.19 till the 25th.
