Redraft FC

You already know what happens. That is the game.

Every football management game asks you to predict. This one asks you to remember.

Take over any club in Europe's big five exactly as it was in 2012/13 - the real squad, the real budget, the real league around you. Then tear it up. Sign the seventeen-year-old you now know turns into the best player in the world, at what he cost that summer. Sell the man who was about to lose a yard. Play it forward, season by season, to 2025/26, and find out whether hindsight is worth as much as you think it is.

Seven ways to play, one world

Manage a club. Inherit a real squad and rebuild it with hindsight. Fourteen seasons to prove the point.

Sign blind. The same game with every rating switched off. A name, an age, a club and a price - and you find out what he is the day he walks in. Hire scouts, post them to a league, and pay for opinions instead of players. A cheap scout is not vague. He is confidently wrong, about one player in seven.

Be a player. One footballer, seventeen to retirement. Declare a role and be judged on it - a poacher is graded on goals, a deep-lying playmaker on the pass before the pass. Get picked or do not. Get injured. Negotiate contracts, answer for it in the press, play the big nights yourself, and spend what you earn on houses you do not need.

Manage a country. Sixty-six national sides with their real players. No transfers, no money. You get the footballers your country produced, and a tournament every other summer to be judged on.

Be a pundit. Walk in at forty with whatever past you claim, and then be right on the record. Six calls a year - the champions, the golden boot, the kid who explodes. May grades every one of them. Naming the favourites buys you nothing.

Break the news. Ninety days of a real transfer window. Work your sources and decide when to print. Go on one source and you are first, and you might be wrong. Wait for a second and you are right, and second.

The Perfect Season. One transfer window, then thirty-eight games. Win every one, or be graded on exactly how far you got.

How it is built

• Every world is a seed. Nothing rolls twice. Reload and the same thing happens - and the number is shareable, so two people can play the same world.
  
• It plays entirely offline. No account, no launcher check, no connection needed after install.
  
• One purchase. No DLC, no season pass, no microtransactions, no ads. Ever.
  
• Your save is a real file you can export, back up and move.

What it is not

There is no 3D match engine and there never will be. The football is a live text feed with every stat moving as it happens, and it is honest about what it is. What went in instead is everything around the match: a manager who can be sacked, a dressing room that decides who gets passed to, an agent who takes his cut of everything forever, a press conference that holds you to what you said last year, and a career that runs to a real footballer's retirement rather than to the end of a spreadsheet.

Most people buy a game, play it for ten hours and never open it again. That is not what this one is for.