Football, Tactics & Glory
As a coach, you get to take a look at your opponent, unambiguously determine his weaknesses and put your tactics on display to defeat even a stronger opponent. In the living world developing along with you, each match turns into a football puzzle. The tactile sensation of managing footballers like pieces on a chess board. Meanwhile, each footballer is unique. In time, you will recognize each of them by their faces and you will have a particular attitude toward each of them. This game is about strategic planning, not micromanagement. Instead of spending time enhancing some characteristic by 0.01%, you make “big” decisions that noticeably affect the destiny of your club. This eliminates the boring side of football manager games – countless tables, a whole routine, and micromanagement.
Game Discussion
Steam User 10
It's an amazing RNG take on the FM formula. The learning curve is there, and you need to do the extensive tutorial to be successful. However, the tutorial is also extremely well made, with training ground scenarios that help immensely with immersion. It's extremely satisfying to employ the tactics you learned to beat opponents that would otherwise wipe the floor with you. Coped with the players you signed and then trained to specifically fit into your tactical vision, you do feel like a manager pulling the strings just right to get that narrow win against a stronger opponent.
As FM and Battle Brothers veteran, I felt this game as a very fresh take on the genre. Sure, sometimes luck will not be on your side and you'll pull your hair losing to a weak opponent that just got lucky, but other times you'll feel you put the pieces in just the right places to do that successful season you prepared for. And sometimes, you'll be the one to pull a narrow 1:0 win against a much, much stronger opponent. Just like in real football, no match is alike, and anything could happen - if you take that into account, you'll save yourself a lot of rage, and you'll be able to enjoy the game much more.
Generally, a very good game that I spent a lot of hours of enjoyment on. The occasional annoyance of bad luck is made absolutely worth it by seeing your players grow, seeing your tactics finally start to work, and the player you spent so much money and glory on becoming a star.
It's a good game - you will need to put in some time to learn it, but it's absolutely worth it!
Steam User 7
Football Tactics & Glory (FTG) has certainly exceeded my expectations. A non-violent game (except for the occasional red card), you can play it casually or take it seriously and devote a lot of time and energy into developing your club from amateur nobodies to the best club on the continent (or the world with Manager's Journey). Bear in mind, I have only played the game with Football Stars DLC or with Football Stars and Manager's Journey DLCs. Also I have never played any other football managing game because reviewers indicated that they're extremely time consuming. With FTG, however, I find you can still enjoy it, while having a full time job as a professional and raising a family.
It has offered me so many unforgettable moments like when my star player, the top striker in the Budesliga and I dare say Europe, kicked the ball like he's an infant who just barely discovered his feet allowing us an ignominious defeat or when seasons earlier my underdog, struggling club beat the top German club by exploiting their defense with sound tactical execution. Or when your goalkeeper is the thin red line that is keeping you from getting absolutely destroyed or when my new goalkeeper flopped around like a fish out of water missing goal after goal. Or the time when we reached the championship match of the European Cup and sent Manchester FC home as second best. Or when Regensburg FC dominated me for years on end, then we finally beat them and then beat them again.
It's a thinking man's game that will punish or reward you. It won't ask for forgiveness or permission; when the clock runs out and you're down, it's over and you lose. However, there's always another chance, a chance to change tactics, a chance to stop repeating the same dumb mistakes, a chance to win a championship or advance to the next league or it may be another tough season where defeat is more common than victory and you face the humiliation of relegation. In the end I tell myself: “There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.” -Michel de Montaigne
Steam User 4
incredible, who would have know that mixing turn based strategy with football was a good idea. Well it is! This game features mechanics I've never seen before and implements them very well. Would recommend.
Steam User 6
Don't let the 250+ hours fool you, I have almost as many on the Switch port. It's such a nerdy game and i love it. It confuses all my friends who wonder "what the heck kinda game did he put this many hours into?" but here i am anxiously awaiting the next iteration (2025) because the strategy + depth of career + uniqueness + challenge + balance is really unmatched in Football (Soccer) Management Sims. The devs remain active in the community and are always friendly and engaging. If you like management games, buy this one, it holds up.
Steam User 7
This game is so chill. A Football Manger vibe without all the trash and complications that FM games seem to always want to include. There is manageable depth if you want it but there is also chill if you want that.
Turn based football is such a strange concept, but somehow it works, and works well.
Would definitely recommend , my play time at over 600 hours, for me says a great game.
Steam User 5
FTG is a great turn-based tactics game. Don't be fooled: this is a game more like XCOM than like FIFA. You don't need to be a big football fan to enjoy it, though some knowledge will help. Well worth the purchase.
Steam User 2
This is by far my favourite football management game. It's a cross between Chess and Football manager with a bit of Xcom thrown in! If you like any of those I thoroughly recommend you give it a go. Just wish it was available on Android as this would make a perfect mobile game!