# Football Drama — Every goal has a story

> Narrative football management game with interactive choices and deck-building mechanics. (iPhone/iPad app by Open Lab Srl.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/football-drama/id1401903505 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Open Lab Srl](https://appshunter.io/developer/405267726)
- Category: Games, Entertainment, Adventure, Strategy
- Price: $0.99
- Rating: 3.60/5 from 19 App Store ratings · 51 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 11.0 · 215 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, European Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish
- Released: 2019-09-18
- Data updated: 2026-08-31
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/football-drama/id1401903505/reviews.md

## What is Football Drama?

Football Drama is a narrative and managerial game on football.

You are Rocco Galliano, the Marseillaise new manager of Calchester Assembled Football Club.

After the abrupt ending of your coaching career seven years ago, the hysterical attention of the press quickly faded. But struggling results by Calchester FC convinced Boris Aluminovitch, its billionaire president, to axe the previous beleaguered manager and give you a new chance.

Will your raucous shouts from the bench change the fate of the team? Will you find wiseness and karma leadership with the help of the Book of Changes? Will your shady past reach back to you and make you crumble?

Chances that you can make it through a full season are slim. Corruption, crime, drugs and romance are all paths that you may take - for better or worse.
This is the only football game where you may lose the championship and win the game!


Key features:

- Interactive narrative with meaningful game-changing choices
- Karma or chaos: life choices, game choices
- Turn-based match play with live-action animations
- 18 dramatic weeks of procedural championship where you can be fired at any time
- Deck-building mechanics determined by life choices and game results
- Ridiculous cards about the craziest aspects of today's football
- Illustrated log of each of your matches
- Silly main commentator with his obligatory colourful sidekick
- Replayable - every championship is unique, several different endings
- Stunning illustrated cards and characters

## Key features

- Interactive narrative with choices
- Karma and chaos leadership
- Turn-based match play
- Procedural championship
- Deck-building mechanics
- Illustrated match log

## Recent user reviews (10 of 51)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/football-drama/id1401903505/reviews.md

### 2/5 — Troppo Facile

*2022-07-25, version 2.0*

Ho vinto alla prima stagione.

### 3/5 — Средненькая игра, не стоит своих денег

*2021-02-08*

Очень посредственная текстовая игра. Скучный геймлей, где все в основном рассчитано на рандом, достаточно скучный сюжет, если он вообще есть. Из плюсов прикольные игры с именами и названиями команд , Борис алюминович мое почтение) 
Ну а в целом не стоит отдавать за игру 450 кровных рубликов. В пс сторе иногда так стоит ведьмак 3. Поэтому троечка, вернул бы деньги.

### 2/5 — Short game

*2020-04-13, version 1.9*

The game was very good and enjoyable, but for the money I spent on it, it was a very short game

### 2/5 — It’s not great

*2020-04-09, version 1.9*

Riddled with grammar errors and a nonsense story, talking to cats and a book....just seems to be it doesn’t matter what you pick because nothing makes sense

### 1/5 — Crasha

*2020-03-29, version 1.9*

Crasha continuamente. iPhone 7 aggiornato.

### 5/5 — Sorprendente

*2019-12-31, version 1.9*

Gioco molto innovativo, grafica unica e notevole, musica originale e nell'insieme un'esperienza di gioco molto piacevole. Non me lo aspettavo, lo consiglio!

### 3/5 — Deludente

*2019-12-10, version 1.9*

Boh chissà che mi aspettavo sinceramente. Influenzato forse dalle recensioni troppo positive. Partite lasciate troppo al caso in cui selezioni solo due o tre mosse. Pensavo fosse più incentrato sul discorso di carte e quindi sull’abilità di scegliere quella giusta.  Carina la storia e il discorso della scelta delle risposte. Ma basta lì. Peccato. Buttati un po’ di soldini.

### 2/5 — Appassionante ma noioso

*2019-12-09, version 1.9*

All’inizio questo nuovo approccio a un football manager può appassionare, ma la lentezza delle partite in cui sembra tutto molto lasciato al caso nonostante l’uso delle carte, la non chiarezza su che vantaggi darebbe una mossa rispetto a un’altra, rende tutto molto noioso. La telecronaca è monotona e rallenta molto il gioco, anche toccando ripetutamente lo schermo non si abbrevia.

### 1/5 — Schwaches Spiel

*2019-12-08, version 1.9*

Langweilig. Auf die Spiele die man spielt hat man keinen Einfluss. Man trainiert ohne, dass man weiß was man trainieren sollte. Kauft nicht!

### 1/5 — Нужен фикс! Игра на е включается чёрный экран

*2019-12-08*

Игра просто не включается, хотя по системным требованиям должно работать.

Ps IPad mini 2, os 12.4.3

**Developer response:** This is on the game description:
*WILL NOT WORK ON iPad Mini 2, and iPad Mini 3, iPad Air 1, iPhone 5S.*

So sorry for that, we had to add it to the description as system requirements do not allow us to do this fine grained distinction between models. You could ask for a refund from the App Store.

## Frequently asked questions about Football Drama

### What kind of game is Football Drama?

Football Drama is a narrative and managerial game focused on football. It combines interactive storytelling with turn-based match play and deck-building mechanics, offering a unique take on the sports simulation genre.

### What are the key features of Football Drama?

Key features include an interactive narrative with meaningful choices, a karma or chaos system for life and game decisions, turn-based match play with animations, a procedural championship, and deck-building mechanics influenced by your choices and results.

### How much does Football Drama cost?

Based on the provided information, Football Drama is a paid application. There are no mentions of in-app purchases or advertisements, suggesting a one-time purchase model.

### What platforms is Football Drama available on?

The provided data does not specify the platforms Football Drama is available on. However, it is described as a mobile application, suggesting availability on iOS and/or Android devices.

### What makes Football Drama different from other football games?

Football Drama distinguishes itself by focusing heavily on narrative and player choice, allowing for outcomes where you can lose the championship but still win the game. It incorporates elements of corruption, crime, and romance, alongside unique deck-building mechanics tied to life and game decisions.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.0 — 2021-04-22

In this update several little improvements and bug fixes:
- All text appearance and colours have improved.
- Several fixes to localization (German, Russian, Chinese).
- Less boring press meetings :-) (More variety.)
- More robust to random tapping.
Remember the new auto speed up option in settings!

### 1.10 — 2020-12-22

This Football Drama’s update brings night matches, that are part of an overall improved management of weather conditions (can be foggy, rainy, stormy, and it can even snow) that influence your team performance depending on overall stamina.

One nice new feature that we found can improve a lot the gameplay experience for some players is the “sped up mode” (thank you for the feedback), available in Settings, that speeds up the matches gameplay so that the flow from deciding between a cautious and a risky move is quicker. This option also removes the enter fields animations and the replays.

We also introduced some post-processing for the graphics of the whole application, which results in nicer animations..

And finally, a smoke-free logo...

### 1.9 — 2019-11-22

This update is "major" because we improved several aspects of the game also in consequence of the feedback received.

*WILL NOT WORK ON iPad Mini 2, and iPad Mini 3, iPad Air 1, iPhone 5S.*

Now if you play Football Drama on a high-resolution tablet, you can play it in landscape mode, getting the additional features available on HD layouts.

The other main updates are:
- After every training and for each successful card played, you get detailed feedback about your team's state compared with your current opponent. This is something several players requested. This reveals a lot of background, so we tried to make it so that it does not "break the magic" of how matches go.

- We introduced more variations in the narrative (e.g. press meetings), with more integration between matches and Rocco's life, and removed some end of match loops ("handshakegate") after the first championship weeks.

Minor improvements:
- Action replays improved.
- Improved the AI on some match actions.
- Minor font size issues in non-English versions.

### 1.8 — 2019-10-25

Football Drama's attack actions now have a "slo-mo replay" feature at their end. We think its quite cool :-)

*WILL NOT WORK ON iPad Mini 2, and iPad Mini 3, iPad Air 1, iPhone 5S.*

Also fixed a bug on the home launch buttons if clicked furiously.

Notice that both for the replay, end of action, and also when you are playing the two-choices turns in the field if you tap in the middle of the screen, the action will end or speed up depending on the context, and this can change the game-feel considerably if you like faster matches.

### 1.7 — 2019-10-01

WILL NOT WORK ON iPad Mini 2, and iPad Mini 3, iPad Air 1, iPhone 5S.

- Fixed a bug in the Russian version that stopped the game at certain dialogues.
- Little improvements in the dialogues' language and in translations.

WARNING
In this release we have made explicit the requirement that "Metal" (a technology) must be supported by your device; the former OS version requirement was already doing that, but it included some iPad Air models that do not support "Metal Shaders". Our new restricted requirement will not solve the problem for those iPad Air because formally they do support Metal but actually they do not work with Metal Shaders, and there is no support for the distinction. Sorry for that.

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