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NUTMEG! A Nostalgic Deckbuilding Football Manager

90% positive of 391 Steam reviews

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Released
2026
Steam Deck
Verified
Platforms
Steam

Made by Sumo Digital, Sumo Digital Academy. Published by Secret Mode.

About the game

NUTMEG! is a nostalgic football manager game with a deckbuilding twist, set in the '80s and '90s. Relive the days when the tackles were as hard as the mullets were long and football was about football.

Tagged by players

  • Football (Soccer)
  • eSports
  • Sports
  • Deckbuilding
  • Strategy RPG
  • Management
  • Card Battler
  • Text-Based
  • Tabletop
  • Card Game
  • 1980s
  • Simulation

What players say

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What players say

  • Recommended
    One… more… game… I took the Cherries (Bournemouth) to top flight football. Signed Maradona when he was 29 and also got Alan Shearer. I love how realistic it is, whenever you complete the season your desk updates to the current year. Really well done game and I’ve found myself playing until the early hours of the morning. I just signed Oliver Kahn so no messing with my keeper now. If you love card games and football,…

    30 h played when written, mostly on Steam Deck. 3 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    If you're looking for a game that gets the vibes of old FIFA and PES games right, this is absolutely the game for you. Can the game design be a tad better? Sure, there were a number of times where I click the blackboard wanting to start a match rather than get to the training part of the game. But that really is a nitpick compared to how good the game plays and how it made me feel. The music is good, the gameplay is…

    15 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Lost my interest pretty quickly. The gameplay loop is pretty simple but in my opinion not interesting. The card game vs management sim themes blend well, but on each end of the game they are just very shallow and there are not any interesting decisions to make. And the UI is just a disaster. It's fine once you get accustomed to it but it is initially quite frustrating, and unfortunately takes away from the immersion…

    1.1 h played when written. 8 found it helpful.

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