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Football Drama – Adventure Game Review
Football Drama is a Adventure/Strategy/Entertainment game from Open Lab Srl, first launched in 18th September 2019.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 19+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Football Drama Stand Out
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
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Football Drama is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd April 2021
Recent improvements include:
In this update several little improvements and bug fixes:
- All text appearance and colours have improved.
- Several fixes to localization (German, Russian, Chinese).
- Less boring press meetings :-) (More variety.)
- More robust to random tapping.
Remember the new auto speed up option in settings!
Download & Availability
Football Drama is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Football Drama on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
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. We found it humorous, interesting & entertaining. And the games can be exciting…you wouldnt 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.
For a game called football drama, it is sadly boring. Marches are slow and frustrating. We cant seem to figure out what we are doing and it seems unfairly random. At least it needs a good tutorial (if we are generously assuming that the problem is our lack of understanding) at its worse, it needs an overhaul of game play. Its a shame. It is stylish, and a card based football game is a great idea. We 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.
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 isnt really much to do with it. Wouldnt recommend for the price tag.
New release, we get it. But for $5 the game seems very unfinished. Managing a team, we thought, meant managing people, players trainers, hot dog sales and so on. Instead your players are reduced to dots. You dont control tactics, instead youre given cards that work seemingly at random. We were really roooting for this game as we think other football management sims take themselves too seriously. We love the style and feel, we 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.
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. We feel that their is a lot of room to improve as the concept is very interesting but overall we were expecting more.
The concept is great. The idea of controlling your team and having stats based on your off field interactions is interesting. Trouble is, Im 5 games in and the dialogue is so bad its impossible to tell whats actually happening. For example, at one point we apologized for something we did and the press published a story about our Appy Lolo Loogy, or something like that. This is just one example. Very bizarre. Too bizarre. Will come back to this if they get some English speakers to review/change the text. Also, add a tutorial. In readable English. Thank you.
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 we really do not want to see little dots(players) entering the field for 10seconds every time we play a match. It makes the game super slow and boring unfortunately.
We could go into all the reasons why we regret buying this, but Ill spare ourselves 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 doesnt 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 Id spent our $5 on something better, like a sandwich or a pound of apples. 2 stars because the game runs smoothly, it references the we Ching, and the color scheme and design are catchy. The rest of it is trash. Im going to try and finish our season and then delete it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0
- Size: 214.78 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, RU, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: Open Lab Srl
Last updated: 22nd April 2021 | Genre: Adventure, Strategy | Developer: Open Lab Srl