THE COACH is a football management game where the job does not stop at the final whistle.
The idea
You are not an anonymous manager behind a dashboard. You create a coach with a personality, take a job, build a tactical identity and manage the human side of the dressing room.
Players have personalities, trust, fitness, potential and breaking points. What you say matters. A conversation at half-time, a promise to a player, a press comment or a transfer decision can affect relationships and eventually your results.
And the career continues outside the stadium: wealth, lifestyle, investments, family and long-term ambition are part of the same character.
What is in the demo?
The current pre-alpha demo covers one full season and includes:
- A minute-by-minute live match engine.
- Real-time formations, tactical styles, substitutions and individual instructions.
- Touchline and dressing-room conversations during matches.
- Eight playing styles, player roles and set pieces.
- Player attributes, fitness, potential, personality and trust.
- Training, transfers, staff, sponsors, journalists and board relationships.
- An inbox full of sporting, financial, media and personal-life decisions.
- 9 fictional leagues across France, England, Spain, Italy and the United States, with promotion, relegation and a national cup.
- A long-term path from coaching to ownership: become wealthy enough and you can buy a club, acquire abroad, or even create one of your own.
The demo runs directly in your browser, saves locally and is available in English and French.
Why release it this early?
Because this is a pre-alpha. It is supposed to be incomplete. I would rather find out now which systems players care about, which screens create friction and which ideas deserve to grow than make those decisions in isolation.
— Joocks, ALBEUS