XCOM meets Football Manager. Develop your club, earn experience in turn-based matches, learn new skills, achieve new classes, upgrade your facilities, buy and sell footballers, grow your youth academy, make difficult choices. It's a deep strategy game that respects your time.
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Very Positive (3,569) - 88% of the 3,569 user reviews for this game are positive.
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Jun 1, 2018
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Recommended
By Mature Minded Gamers June 21, 2018

“A nice mix of football, strategy, management and simulation. The turn based movement makes it relaxing to play, but you also have the ability to simulate matches if you prefer only management.”

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Reviews

“Football, Tactics and Glory shines because it provides lots of stories, triumphs and disappointments.”
Polygon

“If, like me, you crave the drama and flavour of club football, but don’t have the patience to grapple with full-blown management simulations like Football Manager, or the manual dexterity or even-temper necessary to play games like FIFA, anticipate obsession.”
Rock Paper Shotgun

“A real innovation: deeply addictive”
GameStar

About This Game

Why choose Football, Tactics & Glory when there are other football managers?

If you’ve played traditional football managers, you’re probably familiar with the following feelings:

  • Complex attributes: Footballers have many attributes, and you don’t always understand which ones truly affect the match outcome. Often, the only strategy becomes buying high-level players instead of finding a footballer whose unique attribute perfectly suits your tactics.

  • Unclear results: You never really know why you win or lose. This forces players to search for "winning" formations on forums instead of analysing the opponent and consciously selecting footballers capable of exploiting their weaknesses.

  • Financial complexity: Club funds quickly disappear, and it’s hard to understand how to manage finances and strategically plan expenditures.

Football, Tactics & Glory is a game about full control and a complete understanding of what’s happening on the pitch and in the club:

  • Transparency of attributes: You always know exactly how each footballer’s attribute impacts the encounters, allowing you to customise formations for each opponent, defeating even stronger teams with the right player selection and tactical approach. This also makes transfers much more interesting and exciting.

  • Control over tactics: Feel like a real coach, making smart tactical decisions, not just changing formations hoping for luck.

  • Control over luck: Luck plays a big role, as in real football. But you can minimise its impact by understanding your players’ abilities and building the team around your playstyle.

  • Strategic financial planning: The game’s economy is designed so that you always feel in control of your finances. The game demonstrates the importance of strategies like "developing" footballers for sale and finding promising talents who will become your future stars.

  • No micromanagement: This is a game about strategic planning, not micromanagement. Instead of wasting time on increasing an attribute by 0.01%, you make decisions that significantly affect the club’s fate. Therefore, the game lacks the boring elements of football managers: endless spreadsheets, routine tasks, and unimportant mechanics.

  • Great variety: FTG is so deep that even after hundreds of hours, you’ll continue discovering new and interesting things. The game world develops uniquely each time, creating new challenges and exciting emergent stories. This makes each campaign different from the last one.

  • The game values your time: You can complete one football season in a few real hours instead of days, as in other football managers. At the same time, each season is packed with events and interesting decisions.

  • Comprehensive tutorial: The game explains all elements in detail. And if you still have questions, the active community will answer them on the forum or Discord.

Why does a football manager need a turn-based match mechanic?

Good turn-based mechanics allow complex systems to be simplified, while retaining their essence and emotions. For example, XCOM perfectly conveys the feel of firefights with aliens, and Civilization — the development of a civilisation.

Our turn-based system uses key football concepts to make match outcomes and your tactical decisions clear and transparent. Once you understand how these mechanics work, you’ll feel the emotions inherent in real football.

Additionally, the ability to take your time with each move allows for comfortable gameplay. Especially if you’re over 40 and don’t have the reaction speed you once had.

So, is it a full-fledged football manager?

Yes, it’s a serious football manager that’s easy to start playing due to its apparent simplicity, but hard to stop because of the depth of its features.

Game features:

  • Take your club to the top: Start in the lower league and lead your club to the heights of world football. Or choose any club in the Premier League or another league of your choice.

  • Create your own leagues and clubs: With the built-in editor, you can create real clubs and leagues.

  • Use modifications: Take advantage of numerous mods created by the player community.

  • Dynamic game world: Other clubs buy and sell players, train them, and develop youth — the game world lives and evolves with you.

  • Promotion and relegation system: Each country has a Premier League and several lower leagues. Teams are promoted or relegated between leagues depending on their final position. Top teams from different countries participate in continental tournaments similar to the Champions League and Europa League.

  • Club development: Improve infrastructure, hire coaches, and develop your Youth Academy.

  • Unique players: A powerful face generation system makes each footballer unique. The face editor is also available for you.

  • Online matches: Play a friendly match with a friend online.

  • Co-op play: Create a tournament and play a season with friends on one computer (or online via Remote Play Together). Up to 32 people can participate in the tournament.

  • Twitch integration: Viewers can interact with the game via chat.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: 1 GHz
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Shaders 3.0, minimal resolution 1024 x 768, recommended dedicated graphics card with 512 MB of RAM
    • DirectX: Version 9.0c
    • Storage: 800 MB available space

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