Football Manager 2023
New tools thrust you closer to every aspect of the beautiful game in FM23. Get ready for your journey towards footballing glory.
What it feels like
The game sincerely treats football management and team-building as meaningful pursuits without irony.
What it's about
Football (soccer) is the definitive subject — all mechanics and narrative center on athletic competition and team building. Budgets, wages, profits, and money management reflect economic systems of modern professional football. Navigating board expectations, managing egos, and wielding authority over players touches on power dynamics.
How it plays
Dense interconnected systems for player contracts, transfers, tactics, finances, and match outcomes produce emergent, unscripted situations each season. Managing limited budgets, wages, and squad depth is central to long-term competitive success. Assembling and directing a squad of distinct players with different attributes and roles is core to the experience.
How it looks and sounds
Interface and menus are presented as part of the fictional team management environment rather than overlaying it.
How it's structured
Single-player campaign is the primary mode, with the core loop of building and managing a team across seasons. Campaign play spans multiple seasons of progression, with dozens of hours required to build a dominant team. A bounded multi-season narrative arc where you guide a club from starting point toward championship glory.
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