Ultimate Football Manager 2024 4+

Have been waiting for this game for some time as I am a fan of football management games. You can go Premium and pay £2.99 which unlocks more features or basically the full game, playing the game without going Premium does get very boring and repetitive, it’s just play match, play match and play match with nothing to do in between matches, it will most likely be like that even if you do go Premium. Am I missing something? Your meant to be the manager but you can’t change the formation, that looks like it’s up to your head coach and it only changes if you hire a new head coach, but you can change the players/lineup, strange, even more strange is that during the matches you can’t even make any substitutions or change formation or anything else for that matter, so you have no way of affecting the result, so you might as well just sim every game, furthermore there isn’t a player rating so you have no idea how well or how bad your players are doing, all you do is just read some text of a few things that’s happening during the game, this basically renders the game pointless as your the manager but you can’t make substitutions or change formation etc. The opposition will dominate you in pretty much every game and you will lose a lot of games in your first season, I know this might change when you improve your squad. All your doing is playing match after match and then pressing advance to the next game without anything else to do. Might revisit the game if more features are added and if there is a bit more to do as at the moment it is incredibly boring/repetitive. Regarding issues with the game, when you are scrolling fast on certain screens such as buying players the game will simply close and crash, also some times the bottom half of the screen disappears which means you can’t see your lineup or change it, I’ve played a lot of games and have not received any yellow or red cards, lastly, the owner is satisfied with my performance although I’m bottom of the league and have only won three games all season. I’ll stick to Football Manager, Soccer Manager and Football Chairman. A decent effort though and there are some positives but I doubt many will download this game or even know about it. I’m sorry to be critical but when all you do is press advance and then play match after match with nothing else to do then there really isn’t any incentive to continue playing the game as it gets boring real quick. Perhaps add news stories, transfer rumours, add some press and media stuff and give us the option of changing formation and during matches whilst also being allowed to make substitutions, also a few more leagues would be good, only four isn’t really enough, if you add these plus other features then you could have a really good game on your hands. Good effort again but it needs a lot more.

- Update - thanks to the developer for the reply and for explaining about what the game is about as it can be confusing. I have changed my review from 2 stars to 3 stars as I was a bit harsh in my review. There is a lot to like about the game such as the league structure, a large player database and the huge challenge of making your club better as the first season is incredibly tough. But there isn’t anything to do in the game other than playing matches, but I have decided to give the game another go and overlook the shortcomings etc. The game has a lot of potential though and with certain things added in future it could be a great game which I’m sure it will be as currently it’s obviously in it’s infancy. Any chance of a proper Football Manager game though? Maybe that could be your next project? Good developer though as they are updating the game and fixing issues. I’ll pay for premium soon to support the developers.

Honestly, really awesome to read and to see you really gave the game a proper chance.

I get your disappointment with some features, and lack of actual game and coaching controls - but the game this game is trying to focus on the role of a General Manager/Director of Football - that works alongside the coach, but not manages the matches themselves.

About your suggestions, we will check what we can add,
I liked the press events you suggested, we will look into it and what i can say is that we will add player rating system - its already planned.

About issues and quirks,
We are ironing things out in this less than a week old game, and will definitely make it better and more stable.

EDIT:
We will be adding more proper managerial and coaching responsibilities, including in game decisions, which should take this game to the a better level of involving the manager with stuff to do every week.

Thanks again!

After playing the game for a longer period of time I realise how good the game is. One thing that stands out is making it easier to link people by chemistry than ubasketball GM and the D4 to D1 aspect with youth academy players makes the game realistic.

Hey, thank you very much for such a great review! Glad to hear you enjoy the game :)

Game’s constantly getting updates which is great.
Obviously there’s room for so much potential, would highly recommend

Thank you so much for the amazing review!