Desktop Soccer

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( full review with screenshots: https://www.gaming-parrot.com/2023/03/desktop-soccer-review-middle-of-table.html ) Desktop Soccer is an arcade-y soccer game that theoretically features a bunch of modes, but that is really entirely about the tournament mode. Of the others, practice and friendly matches are really the same thing except that one is against the AI and one is against humans. Two other modes are gachas to get new equipment and team customization items, but one can be played every time you win 5 matches and the other is playable once per day. The last is just the team customization menu, which lends you change player names, uniforms, equipment, team stats, and formation. It sounds out a lot deeper than it is - most of these are only really visual changes and equipment and stats are painfully slow to acquire. So if the tournament is all that matters, is it any good? Meh. It's a four round single elimination tourney against randomly generated teams, which means there's absolutely zero significance to who you're playing each round. The AI difficult escalates each round from being laughably incompetent in round 1 to being far superior to your team in the finals regardless of which team you're playing against. This sounds cool, but the problem is that you can only gain stats to be able to compete against these finals teams by winning the tournament, and to do that you'd have to already be able to compete with them. You can at least get random equipment that boosts stats of individual players by winning 5 matches, but destroying terrible teams 5 times in a row to get equipment you might not even need isn't exactly thrilling. All of this means that the core progression is completely meaningless - you can't get better unless you're good enough to win the tournament, and once you can in the tournament, there's no content left to be better at except winning the tournament again. It's completely backwards. -------- For more reviews, see [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43219041]my curator page[/url]