Esports Godfather Reviews

Fun Moba coaching/Strategy sim. Had to use google translate on my phone to go into settings and switch it into english but it only took a couple seconds, having a lot of fun.

so much more than i expected! there are some things lost in translation, but there almost always is. figuring out some of how things work in the game (using the coins, dismissing players, for example) took a little time for me and never could find on google. the fact that the game in the game goes thru changes and updates and everything like the games it was based off of is amazing! worth more than every cent i spent on this.

I absolutely love this game, as a fan of pro play league, it really encapsulates well how a match could be percieved from the outside. This game is increadibly unique and I think it is a shame that it isn't well known, it has so much potential to become even greater in the future also, if the devs want to continue adding content !

After beating the regular game on normal, I jumped into Hell mode and it's quite a different beast. Hell mode turns me into a full-time armchair coach, SCREAMING at my team who can't land a hit on a 1 hp Bond. It feels like a MOBA, plays like chess, and tilts me like ranked League. I’ll spend hours in the item menu theory-crafting comps, and losing my mind over the cheesiest metas… and somehow, I still can’t stop playing. [h1] 10/10 [/h1]

Insane strategy game where you set up defenses and ganks in a League style match. Alternatively, league without the annoying teammates and/or enemies.

TLDR: A really fun unique blend of card game and MOBA sim, with small hints from roguelike card games. If you like MOBAs, sims/management games, and roguelike card games, you HAVE to try this game out. They do have a demo called Esports Godfather legend begins on the steam store. I don't think it's been fully updated as the current game but it gives you insight into all the games main mechanics, try it out! Really really enjoy this game. As someone who is a huge fan of roguelike card games, and of MOBAs, and had been really wishing for a good MOBA sim, this is it everyone. It isn't EXACTLY a roguelike, its not as if you die or fail a career. They are apparently adding a more roguelike mode but as of now, besides the dying/game ending, it has a lot of progression similar to roguelike card games. The player progression is very similar to roguelikes. You unlock cards, perks, and sometimes player traits and are given a selection of random options. The sim side has a fair amount of depth to it. Tons of traits, modifiers, champion masteries, cards, strategies etc. that adds a lot of variation to the game. You can play around being a passive farming team. An aggressive initiation/fighting team, an objective focused team etc. Pretty much any style of play in real MOBAs you can recreate here based on champion picks, cards, and player traits, stats, and perks. The energy system means you have to choose what you decide to commit to, and you can play around timings. Sure you can force a gank and get a kill at top right now, but if a dragon spawns soon your jungle may be left low hp and unable to get the dragon (much like a real MOBA action and consequence). No other sim I have tried has all these strategies, and aspects of decision making that you can see the parallels to in real League games (the main MOBA I know). They update the game pretty regularly and release small DLC here and there that is OPTIONAL. They still update and add to the main game while doing the DLCs. The game has patches that changes usually how the objectives works (these are basically forced teamfights with special rewards, you can choose to give up the objective if you wish). Patches can change champions abilities, items, when objectives happen, what the rewards are. The teamfights themselves are autobattles, so there is chance involved but obviously the chance depends on the stats, traits, champions etc. While it's not to the level of Teamfight Manager real time battles the, as a turn based autobattler it is solid and does its job. There's a decent amount of animations in the game which, while not needed, add some flair and eye candy to the game. The pixel block art style works well for the game. The only thing art/visual wise is they did use AI gen to make portraits of coaches/players. While I'm very anti-AI, a small indie studio using a gen to make a wide range of player portraits that have no impact on the gameplay is pretty passable in my eyes. I don't think they tried to replicate a certain persons style, though all generative AI to some degree HAS to have taken aspects of other real art somewhere down the line. But if you really dislike the AI portraits there are plenty of mods that replace the portraits. While this doesn't have the SAME level of simulation as something like Football Manager, the teamfights of Teamfight Manager, or the roguelike card elements of Slay the Spire, this is a very original concept that blends some of the best elements of all 3 into an incredible package with tons of replayability. If they ever made a multiplayer (as of now I believe they said they aren't), it would be spectacular. For the low price and the unique ideas, if any of the elements I mentioned caught your interest I highly suggest trying it.

Game is fun to play, really a hidden gem that not much people share about. Maybe because the main language is Chinese. If you are familiar with any MOBA and love strategy, this game is for you!

Not feel repetitive even after 10+ hour, very unique and addictive. I have played the demo before, even the demo worth 7 hour gameplay, it's good to learn the mechanic. I was afraid the full game just have full league access and more hero, but I was wrong, this game have so much more new mechanic that makes the game fun and immersive. Progression pacing is good. Nothing feel useless in every aspects of this game, the athletes, heros, cards, items, dynamic rules, currency, follower, relationship, scouting system, interview, even the comments makes all dynamic and immersive. I like how the KOL have their own stand point, I like the team have different approach and strategy, and it's fun to read in-depth statistics 😆 AI Generated Image I don't care about AI generated img, if it's look good it's good. I understand developer decision to make athlete's potrait using AI, even thought it's look identical silhouette the game have so much chara potrait to choose. I feel it's just like irl, every person look identical but not the same, that still make sense for me. I appreciate the dev let us customize the name and athlete potrait anytime. I would be honest, this is the 1st game that use AI generated image that can satisfy me.

This game is confusing at first, but if you overcome the barrier you get a really interesting simulator that does a great job of showing how one broken champ can ruin a games meta for an entire season. It has AI art though, gross

amazing game, surprisingly deep and strategic 10/10 the meta changes, just like in real esports, so every x fights new hero's are released and current heroes get buffed/nerfed, some items removed some added, aswell as ingame rules regarding gold and objectives so youll be adapting a lot based on the newest changes after every x matches the game plays itself but you can play cards to add extra poke dmg or initiate teamfights etc. every player has 3 cards they bring to every match, but the champions you pick also add their unique individual cards to your deck. so half of your deck is often different. its really satisfying timing your jungler perfectly to align with a midlane roam to 4 man dumpster botlane right before a crucial dragonfight, or trying to find good combinations of all the unique champion cards. in between matches you have 2 currencies for buying things and training players in new champions and skills, theres quiet some minigames in between games which sounds bad but they are actually really fun to min max and give good variation in between the actual matches there is just a lot of content and a lot of strategy, leagues, playoffs, world championship. love the newest addition of "league of legends fearless draft" adds a lot to the complexity of pick ban phase! <3