Dust off your short shorts, lace up your boots, and don’t you dare shave that moustache – (retro) football is coming (to) home (computers)! The gaffers at Sumo Sheffield and shirt sponsors Secret Mode are getting ready for the season with NUTMEG!, a football management with a card-based twist and a love of English league football of the 80s and 90s.
NUTMEG! will see players take a step back in time to manage their favourite teams through twenty years of the beautiful game. Start with a Division Four team and take them to the top of the table to unlock teams in the upper echelons of the sport. Use your knowledge of football’s past to snap up legendary players before their salaries get too inflated.
It’s a game of two halves – manage your team by setting training schedules and transferring players, answering calls from the press, buying merchandise, and adjusting ticket prices for home games. Combine cards generated from training to develop new tactics and build a deck that even Fergie couldn’t sniff at.
Then head onto the pitch for fast-paced card battles, diving into the match at key points to ensure the boys do good. Stop an attack, gain control of the ball, and prove your bouncebackability with a well-played card to shift the odds in your favour and get one in the back of the net.
Originated at Secret Mode in conjunction with the apprentices at the Sumo Digital Academy, the NUTMEG! team was called up by Sumo Sheffield as it entered full production. It will launch on PC in 2026.
