“A Fantastic Soccer Strategy Sim”: Football Manager 2024 Review

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For all the fast-paced action of football, it’s always impressive that a series like remains one of the best ways to experience the sport in a virtual format. Developer Sports Interactive has done a tremendous job of transferring the tactical and formation flexibility of the beautiful game into a strategic sim. Now, provides players with the latest entry in the franchise.

is once again a comprehensive tactics-based sports game, with players taking on the teams of their choice as a skilled manager and trying to lead them to glory. Featuring a huge list of leagues from around the world, including the Japanese J1, J2, and J3 leagues for the first time, it’s yet again one of the most mesmerizing video games about staring at spreadsheets.

brings a few additions to the previous entries, to try and bring a bit of variety from other years. Perhaps the most immediately impactful of these is a new marking and set piece system that gives players more control over their setup, and turns something that previously felt a little perfunctory into something far more important. It's a good choice to focus on, and gives an extra dimension to play, especially for those who go for physically strong teams.

That’s not the only change that brings, either. There are other good improvements in place, from small but useful additions like being able to port over a save through to elements that impact on gameplay in effective ways. Tweaks to the system for transfers, making targets for players, and a more organic approach to board expectations all bring improvements.

All in all, it helps make feel far more real and more dynamic. The virtual game feels closer to the real thing, or at least what football fans might expect the real thing to be like