First Play: Watch us play Nutmeg, a deck-building football manager game

Nutmeg is a deck‑building football management game inspired by 1980s–1990s sticker books.

Players start with a Division Four club and undertake a 20‑year managerial career through the English leagues.

Gameplay includes setting training schedules, transferring players, speaking to the press, selling merchandise and setting ticket prices.

Training generates cards that are added to the player’s deck, and that deck is used in matches.

The game is available on Steam; the First Play series (introduced last year to showcase more non‑AAA games) covers the first 30 minutes and the video is embedded in the story or viewable on YouTube.