Not quite Ten Hag out of Ten though.
Football Manager is an obsession for a rather large demographic each year, the sort of game that is nibbling away at the back of your mind when you’re supposed to work, do taxes, or just be a grown-up. For some of us the obsession dates back to its Championship Manager days in the early/mid-1990s, and the core of manipulating a massive spreadsheet is still here. That said, the series has evolved a lot in terms of depth and design, with Sports Interactive also finding ways to take the game from its full-fat home on PC to various platforms and formats. For Switch, this means Football Manager 2024 Touch — as opposed to the ‘Console’ version on PlayStation and Xbox — the iteration of the game that simplifies some areas and strives to retain depth to hook players, all while being accessible on a touch screen.
This year is an interesting entry for another reason; it’s an end of an era. As an annual series, it has sometimes been accused of not advancing or changing enough each year, so Sports Interactive opted to change less in this entry with a true sequel/step forward due next year. In a quirky turn of events, however, that approach of simply polishing the heck out of last year’s game — while fixing some oddities and irritations — has made this year’s PC entry arguably the best in years. Who knew that devoting enough time to one product could make it better?
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