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I built Footbal Glory, a lightweight, minimalist text-based football simulation that runs entirely in your browser without any account creation or pay-to-win mechanics.

Growing up playing old-school browser games and text managers, I really missed the simplicity of quick, engaging loops where you can knock out a season during a 2-minute break. Most modern mobile managers feel weighed down by microtransactions, menus within menus, or endless waiting times.

What’s inside right now:

Career Progression: Start in the lower leagues at age 16 and try to build a legacy before retiring.
Decision Making & Events: Mid-season dilemmas, training focus, and personality traits (Ambitious, Loyal, Professional, etc.) that shape your player's path.
Contract Negotiations: Bargain for higher wages, squad roles, or performance bonuses with the board.
International Football: National team call-ups, Continental Cups, World Cups, and interactive penalty shootouts.
Instant & Private: Zero account signup required; your save persists locally in your browser storage.

The game is still in beta and I’m developing it purely as a passion project. I’d genuinely love to hear your feedback, balance critiques (especially on wage/transfer scaling), or any cool features you'd like to see added next.

Thanks for checking it out!

Cricket Team Manager is a Cricket management game with a very intelligent game engine making it super enjoyable for cricket nerds and management/strategy lovers in general.

Out now on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5034440/Cricket_Team_Manager/

25% launch week discount!

What it lets you do?

You start a international career with one of the 12 full member nations - Australia, India, England, etc. and take charge of the team from October 2026 playing real fixtures going forward - tours, test series, T20 World cup, ODI World Cup, Asia cup, Test Championship, etc.

Main Features

~5000 players in the game with real stats across six format (FC, List A, T20, Test, ODI and T20I). Names are fictionalised due to licensing restrictions
In-game database editor that allows use to easily edit player names and attributes. Also super easy to share your edits across the community.
Hand out yearly contracts, appoint captains, train players as you progress through the career.
Player skills and attributes based on real stats - see them grow as you train them.
Players get old and retire. Young Regens show up for you to train and turn into the next star.
Full schedule - Ashes, ODI World cup every 4 years, t20 World Cup every 2 years, 2 year Test championship cycle, World rankings
Team and Player historical record that you try to beat in your career.
Real grounds with their real attributes - spin friendly, flat, green top, etc.
Player injuries, rest periods and domestic players' watchlist.

Match Controls

Meaningful match controls to make your game enjoyable

Full view of various important stuff during a match - Scorecard, worm, manhattan graph, live ball-by-ball commentary, conditions, fields, wagon wheel, pitch map, etc.
Batting - 5 batsman aggression levels - start defensively and go mad during death overs. Batsman settle indicator. Farm the strike if a tailender is at the other end.
Bowling - Choose lengths for fast bowlers, spin/flight for spinners based on conditions and opposition batsmen - everything affects the game. Set fields as per match situation.
Declare innings, prepare pitches for home fixtures, select lineups and rest players to let them recover.

and much more....

What's the main selling point?

The Game Engine - We have worked hard on the game engine, improving it, tweaking it for months before getting to a point where it feels very real-life like and has lots of cricketing intelligence. We have a test harness that we use to simulate thousands of matches and analyse the results to make sure the engine is producing real life like results, within a pre-determined range. The pre-determined range is not just random common sense - it is derived from actual ball-by-ball data of last 30 years of International Cricket. A lot of beta testers have tested the engine and provided feedback and we have improved it based on that.

The Database - ~5000 current players (names fictionalised, real stats) and their attributes derived from stats and cross-checked by humans for accuracy. We have worked a lot to get these stats. I am myself a stats nerd so wanted accurate stats in the game instead of random number. The game feels much more real when you take your favourite player to 250 current wickets to 500 wickets.

Testing - The beta testing program ran for 2 months and lots of amazing beta testers have provided great feedback and suggested improvements which we have incorporated into the game and the engine.

No Domestic teams/leagues?
Our focus for v1 has been the game engine. We wanted a game that feels like real life. Having a 100 features and 1000 buttons makes no sense with an engine that doesn't produce good results. Domestic teams and leagues will surely come in next year's version.

Is there a Demo?
A demo is already out on steam to try right now and see how it feels.

Is it AI slop?

The developer behind this (me) has 10+ years of experience building software more complex than this - finance, startups, etc across 3 continents. But I won't misinform anyone by saying there is absolutely zero AI involvement. Claude code was regularly used to speed up the development. For example, analysing stats and deriving skill values from those, writing unit tests for comprehensive coverage, research work, etc. Some components of the steam artwork was also created with the help of AI.

Useful links
Steam Page - store.steampowered.com/app/5034440/Cricket_Team_Manager/
Subreddit - r/CricketTeamManager
X - https://x.com/CricketTMGame
Youtube trailer - https://youtu.be/1-W1L-vToqI

Football Glory- Football Career Sim — A lightweight, text-based browser game where you climb from lower leagues to the Ballon d'Or [No signup / Free]

Cricket Team Manager - out now on steam