Rugby League Team Manager 2015

Massively Disappointing As a lifelong rugby league fan and lifelong sports management game fan, I was greatly pleased (and surprised) to see this appear on Steam. I willingly coughed up £30 (which seemed expensive) out of enthusiasm and intent to back a smallish developer, who've produced a game for a niche market. A mistake. The game feels like an abstraction of Rugby League, rather than remotely realistic. The matches don't play out realistically as the match clock ticks over at a speed which means each team only get a handful of sets of six each half, hugely impacting on the scores etc. A big mistake and one which should not have been made. A much better idea is to adopt the Football Manager style of highlights or actually watch a complete match with action accelerated at accelerated time, so everything would play out better. The playcall system where you can boost defence etc temporarily plays out like a weird card game during a match - again, bizarre and not realistic. I could list more but I won't. It's not fair to compare to the behemoth that is Football Manager, but compared to deep (yet relatively low budget) management games like OOTP Baseball and Front Office Football, this seems like a lame duck. And more expensive too. I don't like bashing games and devs, but I have to say something here. £10 might be a fair price for this for some. Game uninstalled after 2-3 hrs play. So imagine my excitement when I see that Steam offer refunds (amazingly I'd never realised before). And imagine my disappointment when Steam tell me my application for a refund is rejected on the grounds that I bought it too long ago. So £30 for 2-3hrs of "experience". Not good guys. OK - so it's the best rugby league management game? No competition though - it's like saying it's the best looking turd in the sewer. EDIT: For a decent RL game, buy the latest Rugby League Live game - it isn't management as such but it has a career mode/be a pro mode and is a good game.

Must buy for all Rugby League fans!!! Graphics are dated and some players dont have the right stats but overall its a fun way to live out your dream as a rugby league coach

Proper wank, unclear and hard to learn

i really like this rugby league manager 15 it is good for testing your skills at managing a team of any status and as got good tension in a game it really could go anyway thats when you have to be smart with the formations player changes etc. When i first got the game i went as sydney roosters and went all season unbeaten and now iam managing leigh centurions and second in the championship.

I definitely think there is potential. The NRL and Australia leagues have been a bit poorly implemented. Also, some of it is rather confusing. Particularly the training etc... I was getting breached for not enough players being promoted and it took forever to work out how to actually fix this. By far the worse bit has to be the presentation. I find it awkward and ugly. However, there's definitely some good things within it. I think the games themselves work well and definitely a good base. Hopefully, the developer takes some feedback and works to improve the game itself. I'm happy to support it, but there's still a bit of work to go.

Love it, would love a muliplayer league though ;D

terrible game dont have half the leagues they should , hard to navigate through the game and wish i could get my money back

This game is truly dreadful. Total waste of £14.99 stay well away people.......

I'm a big fan of sports management sims and I wanted to learn a little bit about rugby, so I gave this game a shot. It has a rough interface, but once you tinker around with it for a couple of hours, you can work through it. It's basically set up exactly like a simplified Football Manager, so anyone familiar with that series can probably figure this one out rather quickly. It's not overly complex and it's fairly easy to take advantage of the other teams to build up one's own club and get out of unwanted contracts, but it's amusing. Breezing through while letting the AI work out most of the tactical stuff makes the game inviting enough, even for someone with no knowledge of the sport. I did manage to learn how rugby works in the process, so I'm pleased. I'm a little confused as to why this company feels the need to release two separate products for each type of rugby given that both are very similar, but I guess that that's how things work.

what a game!!!!!! finally a rugby league manager game that give you the option of running your team and getting them as far as possible in the cup or to win promotion or the superleague/nrl finals. just a few things that i feel need to be changed - 1) when offered a dream job - make it easier to go straight to the offers from the message notification 2) rfl criteria - when you provide a warning, please give us a hit as to how far over we are so we can rectify the issue - for example i had too many players earning over 43k but didnt tell me by how many so had to put everyone on a pay cut which effected team morral. other than these issues its a great game