Football Manager Touch 2016 is reformulates the classic Football Manager format. It provides all of the modes and depth we have come to expect from the FM series - with the same level of quality you would expect from the PC version – while also providing a lighter more streamlined experience for play on the go.

The full Football Manager

Football Manger Touch 2016 offers a complete Football Manager experience. So, as with the desktop version on PC and Mac, you have three main modes: Career, Challenge, and Create a Club.

Career provides the familiar classic game. Create a Club is ultimately the same thing, only it also lets you build your own team from an existing club template. Finally, Challenge starts you off with with a team in trouble, and you must solve their problem in order to win. You may have to save them from relegation, stay afloat despite numerous injuries, or overcome an economic crisis.

This is all complemented by the Create a Coach option. This simple editor give you more control of the game’s minutia, offering unprecedented control over your players.

Football Manager Touch 2016 features all the control options that you’re used to. As manager you get to control signings, training, dealing with the press... But if you have never played the series before and that seems overwhelming do not worry: the game walks you through the different processes and offers you lots of automation in the form of coaches, scouts, and technicians until you are up to speed.

Once matches start you still have plenty of options at your disposal, from instructing the whole team, right down individual members. You can also plan plays with a new option offered in FM 2016

Also new to Touch 2016 is the match analysis. This feature gives you a lot of information after each fixture letting you check in on the league, your team, and single players.

Take your game anywhere

Football Manager Touch 2016 offers all the same features and options of its PC big brother, only with controls optimized for touch. The game system is not restricted or limited by this, and is simply offered in a manner better suited for mobile play.

But nothing is unique to either version – a fact proven by the fact that you can start a game on mobile and continue on PC, or vice versa. Simply connect the games through your Steam account.

While Football Manager Touch 2016 may lack any graphical punch – being largely menu based – the huge number of databases and numbers that it is dealing with does mean that it demands cutting-edge devices.

Cross-play comes to FM

Football Manager Touch 2016 offers exactly what fans have been asking for: full connectivity between versions. Finally, a way to go out and look social without ever having to stop playing.