Teamfight Manager
Before the review, just going to point out the conclusion first.
Ignore the ignorant reviews. Bans, Picks, Player traits, stats and mastery. YES THEY ALL MATTER!! Keep playing the game and STOP trying to RUSH for results and you’ll be enjoying the game a lot more. As you keep playing, you’ll notice EVERYTHING in the game matters and you will end up winning. (The game has gotten too easy for me now)
I saw many negative reviews with different opinions on why it’s bad (stats doesn’t matter, its scripted, I keep losing, player development is useless etc.) I really thought the same. You’ll experience each of the different complaints you see as a review.
– Real player with 149.8 hrs in game
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This is, by far, one of my favourite games ever.
I have never played a simulation game that has captivated me in such a manner as Teamfight Manager has. The essence of eSports is captured in such a fun and exciting way that I find myself unable to put the game down. The underlying systems that this small team of Korean developers have created allow for a dynamic, unique and unparalleled experience.
I currently have palythroughs going for both on and off stream, and despite the fact I’m very early on in one playthrough and have been the world champion in the other, both files are still fun to play. Champions being introduced such as the Shield Bearer really disrupt the meta, and the way that teams utilize said champions dictates who gets nerfed and how.
– Real player with 89.2 hrs in game
Heart of Mithras
Lead the combat team of your district to the top of the ladder, in the epic battle game of the megacity Mithras. Play a detailed management game. Recruit new soldiers, hire trainers to help your team to develop, build up your new base and play epic tactical battles in a complex simulation, in the arena called Heart of Mithras.
Heart of Mithras is somehow a dystopian sci-fy sport manager paired with a tactical shooter simulation (like a CS-simulation)
Story:
After the great civil war of 2700 the megacity of Mithras was buried under rubble and ashes.
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Counter Fight ICHIRAN
A nice game to play in VR.
– Real player with 13.0 hrs in game
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Best VR game I’ve played so far.
Very immersive ramen cooking experience.
I really played like 3 hours straight non-stop.
Wish it could have features like adding more Noodle Strainers or change languages.
Overall, nice game. Keep up the good work :)
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
Esports Life Tycoon
TLDR
the Managment stuff is a boring minigame to fill bars and the gameplay itself is a static rng mess ; the stats of players and developing them feels too linear and doesn’t provide enough options. No Teamfights not much active managment in game no hero comp buildings, Picks and Bans are too similar atm. Jungle feels so useless and is too much of a lottery. So even Early Access has a long way to get thumbed up and the publisher is sadly tainted with sort of abandoning other projects let’s hope for the best.
– Real player with 47.0 hrs in game
This is a “not yet” recommendation, because there’s a lot of fun to be had in this game, but right now it’s so wildly imbalanced.
But first, the good stuff:
-Fun premise
-The MOBA mini game is neat
-Character progression
-Character customization
-Ladder scaling premise is fun
-Decent variety of things to manage
As for the “needs to be fixed for this to be fun” part:
-Chemistry, as a research method, is very broken/overpowered. Potentially getting to take twice as many turns as your opponent does swings the RNG so wildly in your favor that it becomes very difficult to lose, even as a team with a rating of 59-62, I was consistently able to beat teams with ratings up to 74.
– Real player with 17.0 hrs in game
Soccer Boss
BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO!!!!!!!!!
Finally manager game like football manager…..
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
eSports Manager
eSports Manager is a simulator of an eSports organization manager. Sign players and staff, manage squad, training and tactics to achieve the title of the best team in the world!
Choose your team
Start your journey by choosing the team you want to manage. The game features dozens of different teams from all over the world. Each team has its own financial position, reputation, and managerial requirements. You can start your career, for example, in a little-known team from South America, or in the most popular team in Europe - the choice is yours!
Collect the best players and staff
Collecting a quality squad is not an easy task. The game has the ability to sign free agents from the market or buy players from other teams. The transfer budget of a team is directly related to its financial situation, so it is very important to keep track of the amount of money spent on player acquisition and their salaries.
Set the training process
Players must have a high level of understanding in order to perform well in official matches. To do this, the team must have an established training process. You yourself must control the success of the training, as well as their focus, in order to get the maximum result.
Create your own tactics
Tactics are the most important part of the game. Your success depends primarily on the tactical scheme, as well as on the level of the players. The game also has a level of understanding of tactics by the players. In order for this level to grow, you must play tactical schemes in training matches. The more such matches will be played, the better the team will show the result.
Participate in tournaments
The game features a huge variety of different tournaments, both rating and regular. It is your direct responsibility to decide which tournaments to participate in and which to ignore. The game has a seasonal rating system. In order for your team to rise in the rating, you need to participate and win in rating tournaments. Teams with a high rating receive direct invitations to the best tournaments, teams with a lower rating can enter the tournament only through qualifying.
Make your team the best in the world
At the end of each season, the most important tournament is held with the best teams from all over the world. The winner of the tournament receives the title of the best team in the world. So go ahead and make your team the best in the world!
Football Manager 2022
I’ve enjoyed playing the game for the last 2 weeks, not a lot has changed from last years release but i wasn’t expecting much change, i just enjoy the updated teams and player improvements.
1 thing i am NOT happy with is the in game editor has almost DOUBLED in price, company greed makes me sick. in my opinion this isn’t aimed at new comers as i truly believe they wont even know about the in game editor at first, nooo this is aimed at us lot, the loyal fan base who return year after year. 50p increase, fine… but an almost 50% increase is filth. This isn’t about the price as the IGE is still quite cheap, but nothing new has been added to it, nothing has changed from the last decade, so why that much of a price jump .. imagine next years release, and the full game costs £72, would we be happy with that?
– Real player with 662.3 hrs in game
After 292 hours in game, I can say that this doesn’t worth the money. I enjoyed FM21 a lot but FM22 is a major downgrade and makes it a frustrating experience. Even if there was a bet launched before and a lot of bugs and shortcommings were reported, none was solved until the actual launch of the game, which is odd because there isn’t a major update compared with FM21 where all these things worked smooth.
There are major bugs/glitches in the engine like endless passing between defenders, wrong animation at free kicks. unrealistic long headers or shots from players lacking the respective skill
– Real player with 340.4 hrs in game
Pro Gamer Manager
Possibly one of the worst games available on Steam, this turd is laughably bad, even when you strip away the notion that it “could have been good.”
When I first got this game, I thought it was conceptually awesome. I’m a big fan of eSports just as a sport and following the LCS in LoL makes me substantially happier than playing the game. So I was willing to put up with a completely unfinished alpha build of a game.
This game is full of placeholders. Almost every graphic, nearly every menu, every instance and event is clearly a placeholder. There is only one animation on the MOBA side of things, a spinning circle that is meaningless. Everything else is just stills and moving from one still to another. That’s fine, Game Dev Tycoon is fairly light on animation, though at least in that game the screen does have movement. Everything in this game may as well just be text based because the images lend nothing to the game.
– Real player with 92.3 hrs in game
TL;DR
Released from Early Access way too early. Features and mechanics are not fleshed out, game decisions rarely matter and seem completely random, probably due to lack of any type of visual feedback which is crucial in this type of game. Great idea, but poor execution.
The Idea of the game is pretty solid. The game is split into two parts, the first you get to take control of an amatuer gamer and turn them into a pro either at FOBA (the game’s version of MOBA) or FPS. The second part involves leaving your old life behind and managing a team instead.
– Real player with 36.3 hrs in game
Pro Strategy Football 2022
I came into this series last year with Pro Strategy Football 2021. A game which, for an old time gamer sparked a lot of nostalgia in the way it was presented. There were things missing like game keeping records for head to head etc I fixed that little itch with a spreadsheet and small things like not being able to navigate to a players career stats from any screen. Still the game was a little gem.
Those things have been addressed with this addition along with numerous other improvements and continued optimizations as the game feels tighter and slicker when loading if that makes sense.
– Real player with 798.4 hrs in game
A tremendous effort by a lone indie developer with a day job. This game was created with love and passion for the game. Know what you are buying first, because it won’t be for everybody. Please read the description and feel free to ask things in the game forum first if you wish. The developer (Kerry) is very honest, open, and transparent - and very consumer friendly and a great guy! (plus it is a really terrific community too).
The game’s strength is the on-field gameplay - and in that department, it is unheralded, producing an accurate, realistic simulation of the game. You will not be controlling the players with a gamepad - it is focused on coaching, or if chosen, spectating games. In the coaching department there are thousands of plays that can be designed on the fly. This year many new formations (both classic and modern) were added and entire leagues (or individual teams) can be tailored to utilise them in ways that create their own characteristics or flavor (and there are mods done by really talented mod authors covering almost the entire NFL, USFL, and various other leagues too –- including fantasy leagues and teams).
– Real player with 355.6 hrs in game
eSports Legend
I’ll get straight to the point.
What I like:
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The management system, it’s well done and decently complex. From training your players to fit your playstyles, to making them more famous via Promotional Events, to care for their stats Vigor and Acum which is essential to gameplay, it’s satisfying to do;
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The tournament systems, simple league systems to tense playoffs where a single loss costs you heavily, it keeps the tension high.
What I DON’T like:
- The AI, it’s the same as spectating a Iron game in League. Your jungler dives 3 sets of turrets to get a kill and ends up dying. Your dying player runs away from the fight, just to turn into the enemy team for no reason and die. Your jungler ganks by coming behind towers, losing 1/3 of its like and dying in the fight. Your jungler will start farming a camp near the enemy jungler, just do be killed instead of running. Honestly, the AI is horrible.
– Real player with 638.0 hrs in game
I bought this game yesterday and already have 9.4 hours played on it. That should tell you how much I’ve been enjoying this. It’s a great little game if you are a fan of both esports and management sims. Moreso if you follow the pro League of Legends scene.
Pros
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Very colourful, user-friendly design.
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A surprising amount of game features to keep you busy.
[Player skills, talent trees, coaching, counselling, building upgrades, hiring staff, PR, streaming, sponsorship, etc]
- The pick/ban phase of champ select feels almost like a mini game in itself.
– Real player with 175.0 hrs in game