Football Drama Reviews

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...

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.