It’s not that I’m immersed in the visual side of the game – the in-match 3D renders are primitive and otherwise it’s a case of wading through spreadsheet after spreadsheet. The fact I want to repeat that journey is another reason that I keep playing these games (I’ve never come close since). A few Football Manager titles ago, I managed to take a minnow from the lowest level of competition and get them into the EPL itself, and its testament to the storytelling quality of Football Manager Touch that I remember that journey more clearly than almost any other game I’ve ever played. Play well and you’ll find your team winning competitions or even promoted to the next level of competition (especially if you play the English competition, which goes deep into the lower-level leagues and has the full promotion/demotion system in place). Football Manager Touch 2021 brings the social media elements right to the foreground, with the fake Twitter stream telling you just what the fans think of your performance as a manager with every match. In practice, he’s a line of text on the screen, a page of statistics, and a really low-quality profile image, but you’re going to really care that that block of data isn’t delivering. You’ll find yourself getting frustrated that your star striker is going match after match without a goal. Carefully structuring a team around your preferred tactics, watching your decisions play out on the field of battle, but having no direct control over the action on the pitch is a surprisingly narrative-driven experience. FIFA lets you live the dream of playing football, but Football Manager lets you take ownership of your favourite team. The obvious reason first: running a football club is for so many of us a dream. So why do I find Football Manager so compelling? That is despite each title being a very genuine spreadsheet simulator, and I hate spreadsheets. Every year without fail these things land on the eshop, and every year I download that year’s edition, deal with its (many) rough edges, and end up spending hundreds of hours lost into its intricacies. The three previous titles on Nintendo Switch are all inside my top 20 in terms of total hours playtime on the console. At this point, I think that I’ve been fully Stockholm Syndromed into Football Manager Touch.
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