Soccer Manager 2015

Soccer Manager 2015 is for people who enjoy running a football club from the spreadsheet side: transfers, lineups, tactics, budgets, and the slow pressure of league tables. By our assessment, the appeal of this kind of management game is the control it gives over the whole club picture, not the thrill of playing on the pitch. The downside is that it can feel abstract and repetitive if someone wants the drama of live football rather than the office work around it. In practice the loop is made of decisions, results, and more decisions, with a lot of reading between matches. Compared with action football games, it is a colder and more managerial experience, and the 2015 in the name is just part of the recorded title.