Football Academy Manager

I actually really enjoy Football Academy Manager. The scouting loop is satisfying, slowly uncovering prospects is addictive, and building up your academy and scouting network gives you plenty to work towards. The repetition hasn't bothered me one bit. My biggest disappointment is realizing you are not actually building an academy team. I spent my first couple months scouting prospects so I could eventually assemble my own squad, compete in youth leagues, develop players through actual seasons, and eventually sell my best prospects to pro clubs. That would have created a great balance between trying to win now and developing players for the future. Instead, the core loop is essentially; Scout players, sign them, develop them, watch them play for other teams, and eventually sell them. That is still enjoyable but the payoff feels surprisingly small compared to how much time and money you invest into finding and developing these young players. There is far much less attachment when they're essentially investments rather than players helping build your academy's history. The game already has a really enjoyable prospect development foundation. If we could field an academy…

This game is great. All the best!

It's a great idea for a game and close to being a lot of fun. There are some frustrating things though that make at least the early game where I'm up to slow and repetitive. One of the weirdest things is watching games and focusing on a couple of players - which is fine - but your knowledge of the other players barely moves up at all, as if the scout closed his eyes any time someone other than the two players he's watching had the ball. It doesn't feel realistic - you can go watch the same team 30 times and still know nothing about the other players on the team other than the handful you're looking at to try and get your knowledge up. It also get repetitive watching games repeatedly while being unable to do anything else - you can't put yourself on another course if it's too soon since the last, you can't build more than one thing at a time, etc. It really restricts how much fun you can have early game. I'd simply ask that you give us more to be able to do and speed things along a bit. If you can do that then this will be one of my favourite games - like some of the guys I'm scouting, it has bags of potential.

for the ea fc career fans who love youth academy!

good

decent for the price