Wednesday Basketball

Being someone who's played basketball all their life, I was really interested in finding a strategy basketball game and seeing what it would play like. The system was easy to understand, by the second game I was already feeling pretty comfortable in the mechanics. Being on offense is the most fun part, tailoring your playstyle based on the characters that you were given was the most fun aspect of the game. The defensive mechanics, however, were pretty lackluster in my opinion, and it was even noticeable when I was on offense, as I never really had to factor in the skillsets of any of the defenders when strategizing, aside from one character. There's no real option to ensure on-ball defense, making you feel extremely helpless when the CPU chucks 3s in your face and nails every single one, or when they move away from ur defender on their turn and then drain another 3. The "first to 7" standard makes the difference between 3s and 2s a huge deal, so it's really demoralizing when the CPU Remi steals from your character after they were randomly placed next to them after a change of possession, shoves a defender out of the way, and drains a three without there being anything you can do. There's only one character who has an ability that resembles on-ball defending, but even then there were multiple times the CPU simply dribbled away from them and then made their shot, and you are playing against that character half the time. Storywise, it was definitely effective in making me favor certain characters over others (Alex is a certified bucket btw), but I found it interesting because I found that I liked and disliked characters based on both their dialogue and their playstyles. I hated two characters because they were ballhogs and one of them would not be actionable on defense since they were being lazy, and even though some other characters would not be actionable every turn due to being old or having certain conditions, I didn't harbor any negative feelings towards them like I did the non-actionable characters who were described as being nonchalant or lazy. Overall fun game, would love to sink my teeth into something like this if the mechanics were more fleshed out, but for what it is, I find it enjoyable. I do feel like a game around $10 for something that lasted me 2 hours was a little too much, but I wouldn't mind playing through it a couple more times in the future I guess.

More people have to play this. A very decent narrative based sport game. A low key slice of life tale on team spirit, inclusivity and human relationships.

Wednesday Basketball took me 2,5 hours to complete. It is a fun, relaxed story centered game, with a couple of bugs, which should not be there. The game has excellent and funny dialogue at some points, which makes the story about the value of community worthwile. It also has a clear political message about immigration and equality. There are quite a few bugs, which cause the game to freeze (two balls in play, the AI making no moves) or crash. Luckily the creators foresaw this in including a 'skip match', button, which moves you forward to the next dialogue. I had to use it three times because of these bugs. Sadly enough, at some points the dialogue between characters is missing, showing only an alphabetic code, which I assume must be a placeholder for that missing dialogue. This is a serious bug in a game reliant on story. The gameplay features dialogue between our main characters on one hand and playing a game of basketball on the other. Both phases of the game take about 1 or 2 minutes to complete. The characters personalities are reflected in the gameplay and through the basketball we see characters grow, sometimes towards each other and sometimes in other directions. I tried to play the characters true to their character and the ending I reached in my game did not give me a lot satisfaction. Spoiler warning for the ending of the game: [spoiler] I played Alex true to her beliefs against police brutality. Also as head coach I did not allow discrimination on the matter of membership at the basketball club. This gave me the unexpected ending of the sympathetic head coach giving an very cynical speech, which reflected the crisis the local community of our game was in. [/spoiler] As for the gameplay: what I was missing is the opportunity to play against other clubs, perhaps a friendly game here or there or a tournament in the next city. Those games could have given opportunity for a more fleshed out narrative and for the basketball strategic puzzle aspects to shine a bit more. Despite the bugs and missing dialogue (in a narrative game), I recommend the game, but just barely. I think the game has a lot of missing polish and missed opportunities. I expected more and feel a little bit of disappointment on my part. If the creators are interested in fixing the bugs, I have made screenshots of them as evidence, so they can fix it if desired.

The game has rough edges but it's really really sweet! It's more of a story than a tactical game. The tactical phases are mostly there to support the story (and they do it brillantly). The game takes roughly 3h to finish and it's worth every second of it.

This is the kind of cool, melancholic & feel good game you'll want to play. The tactical part of the game is well done and the story is gonna make you laugh & cry a little. Hot beverage, blanket, launch the game.

A relaxing basketball strategy game, which, to be perfectly honest, has less to do with sweaty try-hard-vs-AI type of gameplay and focuses more on the characters and story. It's very touching, has some choices for you to make in between games, and gives great examples of how people show their true colours while playing ball. Overall a pleasant experience. Below I'd like to leave a quote that felt appropriate after I finished the game. "The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates" - Jay Bilas

Even with a few bumps along the way, the devs have tapped into something special with Wednesday Basketball. The moments where you start to feel why your team is playing basketball and why they may want to win... when you can see characters grow and change as a result of what happens off the court? That feel absolutely electric. I found the quality of the English translation a little spotty (so if you can read French, that's the way to go) and wished there was something more conclusive to the stories and the characters, but if you're looking for a cozy, slightly puzzly, drama-infused-basketball game, you can find a lot to love here.

Cute indie story-based game with turn-based basketball "battles". The biggest strength of this game is the story: the characters are fleshed-out and diverse, with their own strengths and weaknesses, and I really wanted to find out what happens to them and how they will change throughout the game. The basketball-playing parts seemed a bit confusing in the beginning, but the gameplay is simple enough to get after one of two matches.

Super jeu! Le gameplay est plutôt fun. J'ai beaucoup aimé le fait que la personalité des personnages est liée à leur facon de jouer, et que ces deux évoluent en fonction de l'histoire, c'est un super détail! Pour l'histoire, c'est basique mais ce n'est pas une mauvaise chose car on voit vraiment les liens entre les personnages se nouer (ou se casser) et ca rappelle au joueur que tout le monde souffre de quelque chose, il ne faut pas juger trop vite mais faire preuve d'empathie envers les autres. La fin est un peu triste, mais ca reflète la situation actuelle avec la politique... capitalisme > solidarité... Merci pour ce jeu!

간단한 스토리가 있는 일반인 동아리농구 컨셉. 농구 좀 간편히 즐기고싶으면 깔아도 됨. 솔직히 정가는 좀 무리임. 어디까지나 스토리를 풀어나가는 느낌이라서 계속 게임을 할수는 없음. 각 캐릭터마다 고유 능력이 있는데 말했다시피 한번 엔딩을보면 그걸로 끝임. 계속 하고싶다면 새로운 게임을 파서 할수야 있겠지만... 캐릭터를 육성해나가면서 뭔가 마이커리어(?) 모드같은거 있었으면 좋았을듯... 게임 자체는 재밌고 분위기도 가벼운 분위기에 캐릭터들을 알아가는 재미가있어서 추천. 9불이 아깝진않은데 엔딩보고나서도 계속 하고싶은 게임을 원한다면 사지마세요. 세일할때 한번 사서 해보는게 좋을듯. 후회없이 재밌게 즐겼음.