10 Video Games That Will Be Released Annually Until The End Of Time

7. Football Manager

Simulation games tend to endure very short spells of popularity but Football Manager has dominated sales charts for years now. Combining football with numbers and stats seems to be a winning formula - it's a game that people simply cannot get enough of. For good reason too. The series has an amazingly addictive nature; once a team is set up tactically and personnel-wise, the real fun is seeing how they perform on the pitch week-in, week-out, before fiddling about to try and paper over any issues. With most sports games, the yearly release simply serves as a roster update, recreating real-life transfers and movements to give players the most up-to-date squads possible. New features are added on a yearly basis too and the in-game match engine is constantly being tweaked to make it as realistic as possible. These might seem like superfluous changes but Football Manager is a series which prides itself on realism; after all, it wouldn't be a very good simulation if it was unrealistic. The series is becoming more and more immersive too, recreating the excitement of real-life events like Transfer Deadline Day to hook players into it's world - vital features which make the yearly updates worthwhile. Impressively, despite each game only having a lifespan of a year, fans manage to pour hundreds of hours into one Football Manager career - that level of dedication is simply unheard of in other game series and it's why Football Manager will be released until the end of time.
 
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