v0.5.0 Steam Early Access

07. November 2025

Today the game enters Early Access on Steam with v0.5.0 and can be purchased for the first time! This is the biggest moment so far for my game development career and I hope it will be a success.

Get the game now!

• Steam
• itch.io
• Codeberg

The Flathub version v0.4.7 was broken, because I forgot to update the Flatpak base image to Godot v4.5 and this version should fix this issue. The Flatpak release takes some time until it shows up, as usual.

Added

• UI
  • Formation setup: highlight selected player and best possible substitutions
  • Number format settings: choose between dot, colon or space separation of big numbers
• Match UI
  • Match events log: improve look and add player changes
  • Match events log: show goals
  • Stadium: add new colors yellow, black and white
• Data
  • Save games: add forced load button, to skip checksum validation
    • Useful if files have been changed manually by user
  • Save games: show corrupt files as list, when save state has errors

Fixed

• UI
  • Dashboard: update email button count correctly
  • Dashboard: use scroll container for league table
  • Team logos: make them more lightweight, for performance
    • Improves loading performance of screens with many logos
  • Player list: show all filters again in player search
  • Player list: fix same positions multiple times in filters
• Match UI
  • Camera: move to center in screen (was slightly moved to the right)
• Match Engine
  • Team: simulated changes work again
• Logic
  • Stamina: improve overall stamina consumption/recovery during and outside matches
• Data
  • Backups: fix loading of backups, by actually load correct backup files
  • Player Positions: fix wing left position assignment
    • There where only a few wing lefts and many wing right players
  • Stadium: fix year renovated calculation
  • Offer list: save/load player contract correctly to csv
  • Youth players: reduce attributes, they where too good

Changed

• UI
  • Email: split size of list and message view 50/50
  • League table: make own team row bold
  • Text: make bold text bolder
  • Player list: move all filters to left and view change button to right
  • Stadium: hide unused information, like year renovated or ticket price, until used
• Data
  • Save games: remove automated backup for save game files. Only user can trigger backup
    • Automated backup still are used for internal files, such as settings
  • League names: use more generic names
  • Custom name files: allow dots as valid characters
  • Custom name files: treat wrong headers just as warning, to as error

Code Contributors

• Simon Dalvai (dulvui)

Translation Contributors

• French
  • Max RMax
• German
  • Simon Dalvai dulvui
• Italian
  • Simon Dalvai dulvui
• Portuguese
  • Skkkkkrt. Skkkkkrt.
• Ukrainian
  • Максим Горпиніч Maksim2005UKR

Every feedback is welcome

Feel free to write me an email at info@99managers.org and comment on Mastodon.