Разработчик: Open Lab Games
Описание
После внезапного окончания твоей тренерской карьеры семь лет назад, истеричное внимание прессы скоро увяло. Но трудности возникшие у ФК Кальчестер вынудили ее председателя, миллиардера Бориса Алюминовича, уволить неудачного предыдущего менеджера и дать тебе новый шанс.
Удастся ли тебе твоими резкими окриками со скамьи изменить судьбу команды? Обретешь ли ты мудрость и кармическое руководство с помощью Книги Изменений? Застигнет ли тебя твое темное прошлое, которое тебя разобьет?
У тебя мало шансов продержаться весь сезон. Коррупция, преступность, наркотики и романтика – вот те пути, по которым ты так или иначе сможешь пройти.
Это единственная футбольная игра, в которой можно проиграть чемпионат но выиграть игру!
Ключевые особенности
- Интерактивный рассказ cо значимыми выборами изменяющими игру
- Карма или хаос: жизненные выборы, игровые выборы
- Игра в очередные матчи с игровыми анимациями
- 18 драматических недель процедурного чемпионата, когда вас могут уволить в любой момент
- Механизмы карт: строение игры обусловленное жизненными выборами и результатами игры
- Нелепые карты о самых сумасшедших аспектах сегодняшнего футбола
- Полная иллюстрированная хроника каждого твоего матча
- Тупой главный комментатор со своим обязательным колоритным сообщником
- Возможность играть повторно: каждый чемпионат - уникальный, с несколькими разными исходами
- Крутой интерфейс пользователя созданный Пино Панцарелла
- Потрясающие иллюстрированные карты и персонажи работы Даниеле Джардини «Демиджаиант»
- Поделись своими победами с друзьями и врагами
Почему еще одна футбольная игра?
Football Drama была начата после того как мы открыли и исследовали богатую и качество литератуу о футболе. О футболе и о его поэтической силе и выразительности писали такие поэты и авторы романов, как Пазолини, Галеано, Сориано, Хорнби, Саба, Хандке, Вендерс. То же самое в кино, с прекрасными и маргинальными произведениями как Забытый Мундиаль или фильм Вендерса Страх вратаря перед одиннадцатиметровым . Нас также вдохновила книга Адама Херрея, Футбольные клише.Это естественно приводит к вопросу: почему люди так любят футбол?
Вот почему мы стали создавать новую, уникальную игру вокруг футбола, потому что мы считаем, что игры могут быть замечательным способом рассказывать истории.
Совсем небольшая команда?
Если вы собираетесь купить Football Drama, имейте в виду, что мы полны энергии но наша команда – три человека и мы самофинансируемся полностью через параллельную работу над играми для клиентов. Это вам не блокбастер с многочасовым содержанием. Если вас беспокоит разница цены между Steam и мобильным, мы считаем, что у версии Steam правильная цена, но, увы, мы слабее рыночных сил, и это нас обязывает. Однако, версия Steam предлагает больше информации, все детальные части (дополненные достижениями) и иллюстрации в полный экран.Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, italian, german, spanish - spain, russian, portuguese - brazil, simplified chinese
Системные требования
Windows
- ОС *: Windows 7/8/8.1/10 32-bit and 64-bit
- Процессор: Intel Core2 Duo T5600 (2 * 1830)
- Оперативная память: 2 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: GeForce Go 7600 (128 MB)
- Место на диске: 500 MB
Mac
- ОС: Mac OS X 10.9 or later
- Процессор: Intel Core2 Duo T5600 (2 * 1830)
- Оперативная память: 1 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: GeForce Go 7600 (128 MB)
- Место на диске: 500 MB
Отзывы пользователей
What an utterly boring, slow game. It sells itself as being all about drama, but there is none and you spend 95% of your time clicking to attack or defend in-match, none of which is anything other than random. A total waste of money.
This game is a vibe. A sort of coffeehouse neo-noir, moody warm colors and couched philosophical fragments. The gameplay is alternating visual novel with sports game, which is a hybrid I'm a big proponent of. But the narrative choices are enigmatic, and the match mechanics (abstracted turn-based with ultra-lite deckbuilding) are puzzling.
Really easy to drop into football sim. None of the complexity or in depth nature of a "proper" football manager game but the humour and art style make this a really fun time killer. Also, it costs next to nothing on Steam.
This is pure football satire... nothing to do with the actual sport though. Don't expect a Football Simulator, not even a decent strategy experience that makes sense. You mainly deal with mafia-style caricatures that manage the underground stuff... you're given the option to make absurd decisions, play dirty or honest, but all those systems feel random. I'm really not sure whether I got better playing it, or every-single thing was scripted...
I had fun playing it but it was nothing close to what I expected when I bought it...
What an utterly boring, slow game. It sells itself as being all about drama, but there is none and you spend 95% of your time clicking to attack or defend in-match, none of which is anything other than random. A total waste of money.
This game is an incredible experiment, you are not playing football, you are living it! A lot of citation from litterature and history of football. This game talks about football not only as a sport but as a philosophy because, as Mourinho said:
"who knows only about football knows nothing about football".
And this is true because this game has an excellent narrative
Fun short story that sees you take the role of a "washed up" manager trying to make a comeback despite the higher ups not wanting you to. It definitely goes into some really weird places, and I mean that in a good way. The end credits song alone is legendary. The gameplay is super simple but fun and tactical, with some amount of randomness of course. The game doesn't do a great job of telling you how the main systems work, but once you figure it out, it's fun. I see a lot of the other reviews complaining about how their actions don't do anything, well, that's simply not true. Once you figure out how everything works, it's pretty clear you are in control.
On another note, I'm not sure if the English version of this game is supposed to be written as it is, or if there's something lost in translation (if there is any). Either way, that works to the advantage of the game. If you like football and goofiness, definitely check out this game.
Sorry, this game is 80% very good... and 20% soooo terrible!
The story, the graphics, the initial feelings... all this for a game about soccer (football) that... fails to deliver a nice match engine and tactics.
The matches have a very strange flow and playing against the first team in the standings is often difficult as playing against the last one!
I don't pretend a new FM, but this doesn't feel soccer at all.
Really, so sorry, and I really hope to see something from the same devs, a sequel with a way better match engine!
Some games make me wish I could neither recommend nor not recommend a game. Football Drama is a mixed bag. It has a certain charisma, mostly due to its characters being good concepts that reflect well the real world of football, but this charisma can wear thin when some conversations are repeated at the end of the week in exactly the same way. The gameplay can get quite boring, with a feeling of lack of control over the match and tactics that don't seem to impact your performance. Not only that, it is shallow: you can't hire new players or change the positions they play in (in fact, the game doesn't get into the players at all), you can only change your formation when you randomly get cards, you can only scream from the sidelines and hope your team will listen.
If I'm being honest, this game has more bad things than good things. So why am I recommending it? Well, with all its flaws, it's a game that has a soul. The devs had a very unique idea and they went for it, and that's something that counts to me, that the studio wants to make new and interesting games. If you're the kind of person who likes to try new things and rewards idiosyncrasy, go ahead and give it a try. If you want value for your money, though, wait for a sale.
Feels random in general (after a while it's like you don't cause an impact on the game), same conversations and commentaries. And these don't seem to affect greatly the story. The match gameplay is not great and frustrating sometimes. The mechanics are not explained so try and figure out how all works. I have the feeling that the story doesn't vary and that it isn't the result of my actions.
A highly stylized, intuitive and entirely accurate look into the world of football management. This is how it actually is in the real world. Props for including all of that after-hours, shiver-inducing voodoo that makes real men shuffle ever onward, towards doom and fate.
A very cool idea ruined by an absolutely boooooooring game mechanics.
This is not a football management game but a (very cool) story set in the world of football with a very nice humour touch. I really wanted to like this game and go forward and see the outcomes of my choices but, seriously, I cannot stand the match management which is clunky and absurdly monotonous.
Great idea, poor (very repetitive) mechanics. Try it out when on sale
it is an alternative perspective of become football manager, it's not about winning...it's all about the drama...
a mix between visual novel and a very light football-manager strategy game. heartily recommended that you go into it without further spoilers.
I can see why many won't like this, but I can't help but find something interesting in it. With one eye on the poetry of football and another on its place in society, both good a bad, you a form of drama different to what other games can offer. Enter only if you're up for something slightly odd, but if so you should find something fascinating.
An intriguing game, full of atmosphere and interesting ideas. Gameplay-wise, it feels very mobile-first, but the simplicity of the UI keeps that from feeling too limiting. The writing is fantastic, bursting with memorable characters and surprising seriousness.
There are a few weaknesses. There is a dearth of gameplay variety. The core in-match loop gets repetitive due to the unstoppable and very limited number of commentary reactions. Narratively, players — the most important part of football — are unnamed and irrelevant, which feels like a missed opportunity.
All in all, though, this game does what I want so much more of in the sports management genre — focus on story, feeling and art more than just simulation-style reproduction. An admirable first effort I hope blazes new ground in this gaming space.
TL;DR:
+Really cool in its cool narrative moments
-Other times, boring as that one time you were forced to watch a football match with a friend and endure his hype and you aren't into football, not a bit
This game was meant to be so cool that I and boys kept tabs on it for months and played it on release.
It's indeed the coolest, but only in certain narrative pieces like your encounters with the cat, Monica, Pasolini and yourself. Narrative moments other than those are overly repetitive so they wear their charm out fairly quickly.
Gameplay-wise it tries to do something I'm always attempting to do as a game dev, that is the lack/loss of control as the leader of something, a football team in this case. So what it really did to me is to show me how not to do it.
It does not show you what everything (tons of stats all of them vague beyond comprehension) does so that you don't know how to do what, so you can hardly learn anything from the past matches. It does not respond promptly so that your actions never roll out as you'd expect. Combined you can't tell if a win is pure luck or you are really nailing it; when you lose you don't know if the AI is cheating or you did something wrong, and you can never tell where you were right or wrong. You are just super frustrated like a coach yelling nonsense into the void. You are just so tired tapping through one match after another, enduring the pair of commentators' mockery, featuring only a few lines running over and over again like when you sit on the train and your phone is dead as JFK, the guy next to you smells like a swarm of rat, and the only thing to distract you from this living hell is the LED display. You just intensely watch meaningless texts run in and run out.
So I won't recommend buying Football Drama. I like pieces of it, but I suffered from playing it. I chocked on it. And I hope that you won't.
But I recommend it for its cool moments, for its soundtracks and sound effects, for its visuals, for what it attempts, for where it fails, for what is yet to come.
[Disclaimer: Helped beta test this game, but was so enamoured with it I simply had to purchase my own copy.]
A unique, elegant, funny, and rather unexpected take on football, that actually piqued my interested in the sport once again. Loving it!
This game is a breath of fresh air!
tl;dr A balanced and unique blend between *a stylized soccer manager with simple controls but surprisingly deep mechanics and *a narrative experience that ranges from the dark and brooding to the philosophical, coated with satire and sarcasm with enough layers to keep you warm through all of its 10ish hours of magnificent weirdness. Which you will probably play in one go.
You know those times when you're talking to your cat and, for once, everything in your life seems to fit together.? No, me neither. But then I played Football Drama.
This game is being categorised as a football management sim with narrative elements. But I beg to differ. I think its a sport-themed spin on the narrative game genre. It is precisely the story of the team's manager Rocco Galliano that represents the beating, smoking (get it? you will if you play it) heart of the game.
Football Drama plays as a sequence of soulfully penned dialogues between Rocco and other significant people surrounding the rise (or fall) of Calchester Assembled in the Thiefa League (hah) intermixed with the playing of the actual 18 games of the championship. What starts as a somewhat mournful and uneventful introduction to the fictional soccer universe is soon revealed to be the story of a man torn between the karmic battles of his past and the chaotic nature of his everyday impulses.
Under the hood of a pleasant and minimal (although highly information-rich) interface hides a surprising complexity. Playing the matches boils down to a sequence of turn-based decisions between a more or a less risky play and managing the team's fatigue in-between. However, there is so much more that determines how a match plays out. Two macro stats, Chaos and Karma, influence both the moment-to-moment state of your beloved championship games and the unfolding of Rocco's life and relationships. It's all interconnected (don't worry, even if you don't know what 'diegetic connectivity' means, you can still play the game. Or you can try to). Fourteen other team stats influence the conditions of each match. They can be trained in pre-game events that range from the serious to the absurd (hint: forget practice and just go drink beer together). And then there is the funniest element of the game: the cards. But we don't want to spoil everything now, do we?
Returning to the proverbial fresh air and its act of breathing. This game challenges the stale air of a game industry that has become too certain of its categories and strangely unwelcoming of experiments that threaten them. I think that Football Drama is a great example of a game with a lot of heart that tries something new, not only because of its unexpected amalgamation of genres, but also for its choice of themes and the artistry with which it depicts them. It is the light at the end of the tunnel of self-referential narrative games. The lighthouse in the storm of... Ok. You get it. Now play the goddamn game.
While the game has interesting ideas, it was clearly developed for the phone users - 90% of the screen not utilized, all controls are made for touch screen. overall feels very awkward to play.
Maybe a good phone game, but not for pc users.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Open Lab Games |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 19.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 63 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 65% положительных (26) |