The creator of the unique Soccer Supervisor is re-releasing it on Steam, making a cheeky jibe on the present sequence within the course of.
Kevin Toms, who created and programmed the unique Soccer Supervisor again in 1982, revamped the sport in 2016 and launched it on cellular units as Soccer Star Supervisor.
Now the sport is getting a Steam port, which will likely be launched on August 14, to coincide with the beginning of the Premier League season.
A tongue-in-cheek trailer launched to advertise the upcoming Steam model states that the sport is “the unique, the most effective, the one Soccer* Supervisor coming this yr”, a transparent reference to the cancellation of Sega and Sports activities Interactive‘s Soccer Supervisor 25.
It additionally jokes that Soccer Star Supervisor has “completely not one of the options you’ve come to anticipate from fashionable gaming”, stating: “So, neglect about your graphics card, say goodbye to your loved ones and prepare to return to the place all of it started.”
Kevin Toms’ Soccer Supervisor sequence ended with Soccer Supervisor 3 in 1992. When Sports activities Interactive break up up with writer Eidos and misplaced the naming rights to its Championship Supervisor sequence, the Soccer Supervisor title was resurrected with the discharge of Soccer Supervisor 2005. The sequence has since seen annual launched as much as Soccer Supervisor 2024.
After a number of delays, nonetheless, Soccer Supervisor 25 was formally cancelled in February, with Sega and developer Sports activities Interactive saying its focus would shift to the subsequent sport within the sequence. Information on the sequence’ return has nonetheless but to reach.
The sport was set to be some of the notable updates within the sequence’ historical past, primarily all the way down to the inclusion of ladies’s soccer for the primary time and Sports activities Interactive’s resolution to implement a wholly new graphics system utilizing the Unity engine, a transfer it beforehand mentioned would mark “the place to begin for the studio’s subsequent 20 years”.
In the meantime, Sega is bringing its personal long-running Japanese soccer administration sequence SakaTsuku to the West for under the second time. Sega Soccer Membership Champions 2025 is a free-to-play soccer administration sport coming to PS5, PS4, Steam, iOS and Android, and is “powered by Soccer Supervisor”, although to which extent is unclear.
