TL;DR: If you like one of the two main aspect of this title ( football or turn based-games ), you'll love it. If you are sceptical over the concept, do as I did 3 months ago : try the demo, and you'll love and buy it. It's a pure gem. 11/10 in every aspects.

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After multiple tries over the last two decades, I wouldn't have thought a game about football would be the most important "one more turn" - here translated into "one more match" - impact I would have since civilization 1 & 2.

I bought it 3 months ago and I'm already close to reach the 1 000 hours of gameplay. It's a pure gem Creoteam is delivering here. ( And I don't even follow football sport events IRL )
First of all a big up to the devs. They are over reactive in all good possible ways : fixing bug in 1-3 days after being discovered, analyzing suggestions to implement in the game, and adding more and more stuff with every patch. In fact, most games I played, once out of Early Access, never reached the level of completion and polish of Football, Tactics & Glory.

But now to the game itself :

You're a young football player who get a manager job for an amateur football club, after having being badly injured, stopping your player career. The goal of the game is to climb the national leagues in the country of your choice ( 37 are actually in the game ). As an indie, they actually don't have the licensing for real club names, but the steam workshop is filled with mods that actually fix this point. You can also create your own club from scratch ( name, logo, jersey... ).
Each country is divided into 5 leagues: Amateur, 3rd to 1st, and Premier league. You'll have also 3 different kind of championships to fight for, depending the league you are in. So every season will be full of action, and you'll have to manage the mercato to find the players you need, while growing those you already have.

The game mechanisms are very smart and somehow intuitive to get your hands on, even if you'll need to experiment some moves if you want to master it. Every aspect is included in this game. Attributes, skills, age, level, contract renewing price, market price... Oh yes... Because the game has skills... Well it's turn based, and RPG, so it has to have skills ! And those are probably your most important tools to achieve victory in a match. You'll have to develop your team with an array of players and substitutes capable to face most of the situations, and you'll have to adapt your team to the opponent you're facing.

But then, you'll also have all the financial management of your team, and also a secondary resource, "glory", that can be spend in many useful ways. Some could say the management is a simplified version of football manager franchise, I honestly don't know, I don't recall which version of football manager I tried some time ago, but the million of mostly useless information the game throw at you and the unfriendly GUI always drove me away. Here, the management is perfectly balanced; by that I mean, you'll have to think twice, and a bit more, about key decisions of a living football club, but everything will be crystal clear, so you will surely enjoy it at the same level you enjoy playing the matches.

It's really a nice formula, depending on the lenght you chose in your campaign for the duration of the matches ( 3 different lenghts, for games that can take around 10-15 mins to 30-45 ), you'll have a nice alternation of field gameplay and manager gameplay.

And the challenge is real. Even if you can adapt to your prefered difficulty setting ( 3 different ones ) if you want an easier or an harder gaming experience.

Technically, the game is nicely optimised. I actually play on a notebook with Intel HD 4000 series and it goes very smoothly while being beautiful. The sound effects do their job, and the menu musics are over the top ( I recommend to go in the credits once in a while, it'll launch an original song composed for the game, the singer voice is just amazing ).

The game is so deep and complete, I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting some key points. In any case I would recommend you to try the demo, that's what I did and it totally convinced me I should buy the game.