Swansea (28/07/25) – Kevin Toms is back, remade and re-released for 2025, the godfather of football management games is back with Kevin Toms Football Star Manager.
The new Release Date trailer encapsulates what is at the heart of Kevin Toms Football Star Manager, fast, enjoyable, addictive, and easy to pick up gameplay without the need for excessive hardware or time. Kevin Toms Football Star Manager arrives on Steam on August 14, 2025.
If you’re after a fast, nostalgic, football management fix with bite-sized tension and strategy — then this is the football management sim for you!
For all those footy fans, the release of Kevin Toms Football Star Manager will coincide with the start of the Premier League season on August 14, 2025.
While Kevin Toms Football Star Manager is currently available on mobile platforms, the move to Steam has allowed Kevin to make meaningful quality of life improvements to ensure gameplay is fast, satisfying, and customisable.
About Kevin Toms:
Kevin Toms is a British games designer and developer who founded Addictive Games in the early 1980s when he created the original Football Manager video game. Its novel concept as a football management strategy game, rather than copying arcade games of that time, made it an instant classic that spawned a genre.
About Curveball Games
Curveball Games operate as the publishing branch of the wider Curveball Leisure Group, a market-leading worldwide distributor and publisher of video games and consumer electronics, headquartered in Swansea, Wales.
Formed in 2024, Curveball Games aims to uplift games that we love and leveraging our extensive experience and established networks to help bring them to market.
The new Release Date trailer encapsulates what is at the heart of Kevin Toms Football Star Manager, fast, enjoyable, addictive, and easy to pick up gameplay without the need for excessive hardware or time. Kevin Toms Football Star Manager arrives on Steam on August 14, 2025.
If you’re after a fast, nostalgic, football management fix with bite-sized tension and strategy — then this is the football management sim for you!
- Classic simplicity with subtle depth: Manage your club across four divisions, with promotion, relegation, domestic cups, and European cup competitions. There's a transfer market, tactics to set, player fitness-wise decisions, and club finances to balance — all designed to be quick to learn but hard to put down.
- Match highlights: Stylised, text and graphic match highlights reminiscent of the original 8-bit title. It’s charming, easy to follow, and still engaging.
- Customisation & roster controls: Rename teams, edit kits, or retitle players. Player ratings consist of skill, fitness, and age. Aged out players retire or decline, while younger talent can improve season by season.
- Strategic decisions: Purchase loans to fund signings, manage morale boosts (twice per season to lift spirit), bid on players with risk/reward valuation, and navigate transfer valuations that fluctuate with division status.
For all those footy fans, the release of Kevin Toms Football Star Manager will coincide with the start of the Premier League season on August 14, 2025.
While Kevin Toms Football Star Manager is currently available on mobile platforms, the move to Steam has allowed Kevin to make meaningful quality of life improvements to ensure gameplay is fast, satisfying, and customisable.
About Kevin Toms:
Kevin Toms is a British games designer and developer who founded Addictive Games in the early 1980s when he created the original Football Manager video game. Its novel concept as a football management strategy game, rather than copying arcade games of that time, made it an instant classic that spawned a genre.
About Curveball Games
Curveball Games operate as the publishing branch of the wider Curveball Leisure Group, a market-leading worldwide distributor and publisher of video games and consumer electronics, headquartered in Swansea, Wales.
Formed in 2024, Curveball Games aims to uplift games that we love and leveraging our extensive experience and established networks to help bring them to market.