Esports Godfather

When I first got this game over a year ago, the idea and execution were pretty good, but it kind of only had enough content for one or 2 runs. With the new player management. trait, game update, and the incoming world championship content, I feel like this game is pretty complete and a great representation of an esport management simulator.

Fantastic game overall, even in its current state. As of 2025, the updates have been coming in very slow (even after the release of the champion DLC). I think it's due to the small team's limited resources. I would not mind spending money on another small champion pack if it helps speed up the development process. We are all eagerly awaiting the next major update, as it looks amazing so far on paper.

Absolutely amazing how the game manages to capture the variability and replayability of a MOBA game. No 2 matches are the same. Every MOBA excitement can happen; comebacks against better geared opponents, objective snatches, etc.. And eventhough that's already an amazing premise of a game, they DOUBLE DOWN on it by also providing a very engaging and comprehensive training and management metagame around it.

I may not like playing league of legends for real but this is fantastic. A beautiful blend of management sim, turn based strategy, and a card game bringing strong attributes from each genre to create deeply engaging game play. Absolute masterpiece. Almost makes me wanna turn on some e-sports and do some couch coaching.

It's an amazing game. Many different elements typical strategy / card games, well encompassed into the MOBA idea as a whole - with good difficulty scaling, offering a bit of a challenge, but then again as of time of writing ~30% of people who bought the game have graduated premiere league champions - which goes to show, it's addictive, and fun - if you like the genre, you should try it.

This is the most mixed of mixed reviews I've ever really tried to write. I honestly don't know if I recommend this game or not, but I'll try and keep this short and coherent to maybe help you understand my thoughts. The game is both addicting and incredibly frustrating. It's half esport team management sim, with scouting, signing, and training players as well as getting sponsors and building a performance venue. The other half is a moba simulation card game, with like 30 unique heroes, a bunch of player related skills, and a whole host of items to learn and play with. I do sort of feel that these two ideas are at odds, it's hard to trade away a player who isn't doing well when that also means you lose all the investment, strategy, and knowledge you had with their personal cards/heroes. I want to give this game credit for being unique. It really does play like nothing else I've ever found, and when everything goes well, hours pass by in the blink of an eye. The caveat there is pretty massive though. The game's English translation is bad, and while some games could get away with that, a management sim + complex strategy game really needs to be better about communication, from tutorials, to card descriptions, to even just the difference between "Next" and "Skip". That's a big problem, but it's not the reason I'm on the fence about this game- the reason I'm on the fence is how the game can't decide if you as the player are just watching your team play their matches, or if you're actually using your skill and knowledge to play for them. You spend most of the time in game with the moba sim, playing the game, but the strategic depth wears pretty thin pretty quick and a ton of the game is out of your hands, either with randomness or just there's nothing you can do. Attacks can just plain miss and often do, you don't get to decide what cards your players have in game, and you don't have any control over where they move on the map- laners will always run to their lanes no matter what. This makes a lot of game states where the only solution is "lose the game and hope you get lucky with the randomness of the the management sim this week", which is not a terribly enjoyable feeling. Overall, while there is a lot of fun to be had with this game, there is a lot of bad to go with that good. You need a ton of time investment to just understand it, and then the game just becomes a very mixed experience. For the time you need to put in and the amount of frustration from this single player game, I think you don't get enough back and you should put your resources elsewhere. If you like the unique style of this game though, I can understand wanting to push through.

9/10. Really captures the essence of league without all the toxicity. With the added management elements like football manager, Smarter AI, better endgame, more build variety would take this to a 10. Looking forward to the next update

I used to really like this game, thought it was the perfect mix of strategy and pure fun. But after playing recently I find myself often frustrated at how bugged it has become, and the lack of strategy. Bugs tend to be such things as opponents having 200% crit chance and one shotting all yours. It can be that they get don't use up strategy points when they use cards. Some times they get as much as 24 strategy points, when you get a measly 8. This makes the game very frustrating, but considering they are AI I am ok with some bugs... However, with the lack of strategy, the inability to not change anything like targeting or movement you feel like an idiot when you sit there and see your team get slayed. Likely managed to play better the whole game, but final match just see your idiot gamers spread the love even with presence not being even close to even between the enemies. So sure I have gotten my value out of the game, but its sad to see the game only get worse or bugged lately. Far too many rule changes. All i do now is click "next". Allow players to manage the team the way they want to, let me access the info i want. Don't force me through 20 screen to get to next match. At its current state this is not a good game.

I was fooled by the glowing reviews. This game is absolutely mired in a chaotic mess of stats, jargon and bizarre mechanics, with no tutorial to give you the first clue about the effectiveness of your decisions. What do this stat do? (dunno) Is a score of 34 good? (dunno) Is 100 the cap? (dunno) Does anything soft-cap? No clue. How does this champion play? (dunno) What counters/synergises with it? (dunno) Am I winning or losing this game? Winning, I think... oh, wait... no, a random teamfight happened between 6 players that were on completely opposite sides of the map, and I just got decimated. Now I'm losing everything... oh wait, I just won... but I don't have the first clue how that happened. And so on... If you already speak the game’s private language, maybe there’s depth here. For anyone else, it’s three hours of guessing followed by uninstall. (Oh, and btw, don't think that being a huge eSports fan will help you decipher it - it won't)

Love league? Play this game Hate league? Play this game

urrgh, late for work. It's got its claws in me.

If I can't be Faker, I might as well be his coach.