Football Drama is a narrative and managerial game on football. You are Rocco Galliano, the Marseillaise new manager of Calchester Assembled Football Club. After the abrupt ending of your coaching career seven years ago, the hysterical attention of the press quickly faded. But struggling results by Calchester FC convinced Boris Aluminovitch, its billionaire president, to axe the previous beleaguered manager and give you a new chance. Will your raucous shouts from the bench change the fate of the team? Will you find wiseness and karma leadership with the help of the Book of Changes? Will your shady past reach back to you and make you crumble? Chances that you can make it through a full season are slim. Corruption, crime, drugs and romance are all paths that you may take - for better or worse. This is the only football game where you may lose the championship and win the game! Key features: - Interactive narrative with meaningful game-changing choices - Karma or chaos: life choices, game choices - Turn-based match play with live-action animations - 18 dramatic weeks of procedural championship where you can be fired at any time - Deck-building mechanics determined by life choices and game results - Ridiculous cards about the craziest aspects of today's football - Illustrated log of each of your matches - Silly main commentator with his obligatory colourful sidekick - Replayable - every championship is unique, several different endings - Stunning illustrated cards and characters
Different kind of game
Unusual take on Football (Soccer) games. Worth a try, especially for just a few bucks/quid/euro. Instead of directly controlling players, you guide them generally, as a coach, holistically one might say. I found it humorous, interesting & entertaining. And the games can be exciting...you wouldn’t think mere dots on a playing field would be, but they are! Also, a recent update (November 2019) has addressed some of the issues mentioned in other reviews. FYI, the game is also available on Steam for PCs.
Unresolved potential
For a game called football drama, it is sadly boring. Marches are slow and frustrating. I can’t seem to figure out what I am doing and it seems unfairly random. At least it needs a good tutorial (if I am generously assuming that the problem is my lack of understanding) at its worse, it needs an overhaul of game play. It’s a shame. It is stylish, and a card based football game is a great idea. I also like the idea of a football game where you control the abstract ancillary parts of the game as a way to influence performances, but this game has not managed it.
Underwhelming
Really good idea, just not executed well. Games are pretty boring to play. There are a lot of in game stats that are never really explained. The drama outside of the pitch has a good premise, but there isn’t really much to do with it. Wouldn’t recommend for the price tag.
Could have been so much more
New release, I get it. But for $5 the game seems very unfinished. Managing a team, I thought, meant managing people, players trainers, hot dog sales and so on. Instead your players are reduced to dots. You don’t control tactics, instead you’re given cards that work seemingly at random. I was really roooting for this game as I think other football management sims take themselves too seriously. I love the style and feel, I just think there could and should be way more substance without sacrificing any of the feel. Maybe it will get improvements but now the game is more of a depression sim than anything else.
9 matches in
I could go into all the reasons why I regret buying this, but I’ll spare myself the time and just use the most foundational reason: the commentary never changes. If you miss a shot, the sentences said by the commentators are the exact same every time. If you lose the ball, are driven backwards, make a foul, kick a corner, etc., the commentators say the exact same line for each scenario. Given that this game doesn’t have a whole lot going for it action-wise and is mostly a barebones strategy game that lies almost entirely on a simple fatigue meter and coin-toss mechanic about whether you will win versus your opponent in any particular scenario, this is just a bore overall. Wish I’d spent my $5 on something better, like a sandwich or a pound of apples. 2 stars because the game runs smoothly, it references the I Ching, and the color scheme and design are catchy. The rest of it is trash. I’m going to try and finish my season and then delete it.
Expected more
Came into this game with high expectations, after finishing one play through the dialogue is the same after every game with the press and the owner of the club. The games are simple after you figure out the mechanics then it is easy to win the league. I feel that their is a lot of room to improve as the concept is very interesting but overall I was expecting more
Interesting concept/slow gameplay
It looks like this game definitely has some good potential. It is a very drama and storyline focused game and feels very different compared to other sports simulation games like fmm. The biggest problem is a slow gameplay. Everything(dialogue, match engine, intro, etc.) in this game is extremely slow and there is no skip feature or fast forwarding feature. It takes lots of patience to go through a few games because of this inconvenience. Definitely understand what the developer is trying to do in terms of the vibe but I really do not want to see little dots(players) entering the field for 10seconds every time I play a match. It makes the game super slow and boring unfortunately.
- All text appearance and colours have improved. - Several fixes to localization (German, Russian, Chinese). - Less boring press meetings
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