**EDIT** Changed my review to a perfect 10 because I received threats from community members.
The game isn't bad, but it's also not good. I will explain why:
The reason why I think it is sometimes fun:
You play 4v4 and you get to play football with cards which you can earn through one of the many tournaments that the developers offer almost every 2-3 weeks. That's the fun part... I guess.
The reason why it is not worth to play it for more than a month:
- Childish community
- The community consists of childish people in the discord and in the game server that it makes you question why you are even on this game. Perfect example: Everyone in the reviews is someone in the "top rankings" on the game, and the only reason they are leaving positive or amazing reviews is because they hope the developers will give them free players packs.
- Pay to Play mentality
- At first, you get to play with base cards. Then you have to pay for packs in the store. The chances of you getting a good player out of any of the packs is rare. There used to be a $90, $30 and a $7.99 pack. Now, they made some insane pack of the $7.99 pack (which has the worst odds of you getting a good player) and they made it a $150 (30 packs of the $7.99) which sounds like a good deal, but the chances of you pulling anything decent, you may as well spend that money at a strip club because you have a better chance of getting lucky there.
- The Pay to Play mentality is basically set as you are only able to compete against others if you have a 4 star or a 5 star card. Every card (whether it is 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 stars, has different abilities. The more stars, the more abilities. The way you level your player up is by playing (obtaining XP), and with that, if you don't have more XP, you need to pay.
Now there is a way for you to get Packs, Coins, and XP without paying for it, but I hope you have nothing but time on the weekend and during the weekday, much like those in the positive ratings on here. In order to get these coins or packs or XP, you compete in tournaments or events. Those events are more often than not occupied by 4v4 Superteams such as P4TRONTV. P4TRONTV is a professional Gamer, so you can understand how much time he has and the last few events, he managed to win them, which leaves no chance for anyone else, unless you would like to have marital issues like someone else in the community and then ask for a gofundme from everyone to help pay for his groceries because he spent all his money on STG packs.
- Developers listen to the "community" but that "community" consists of those who are within the age range of 13-22 years old, and therefore they implement events such as "beat the developers" so they can distract the player base away from the fact that their product has no depth.
This game is no NFL Blitz, it is not a Madden killer. It is simply a free to play game, which in the end the odds of you landing a decent player pack has a worse ratio than Madden Ultimate Team.
Check it out, play the game, but you will become bored of it, especially since there is no innovation to this game and it has been out since October 2022 and it is still in "early access".
This game rocks. Fun gameplay, great community, and active/ communicative devs. Not much more you can ask for. Can only get better with a bigger player base.
Great game, feels like old NFL blitz. Awesome community, I've met a bunch of cool people I play with on a regular basis. Another plus is the developers will respond and react to any issues you have in minutes.
Started playing this game last week because I found an advertisement on Youtube. I thought, why not check it out, it's free, so it can't hurt. Video looked cool but the wait times to get into a game are horrendous. I was sitting in a lobby by myself for about 15 minutes before I got into a game and then half of my team quit because we were down by one touchdown. The other team had all outrageously good players, and I kept going into a queue against the same opponents. Honestly, the game has potential, but right now, the player base is making this game boring because I do not want to sit there and wait to get into a game, and then when I do, it's nothing but blowouts.
If you want to play a watered down version of MUT with the player base size of your local church group, then this game is for you.
There's not enough players. The cards that they have available are terrible, and if you want to get better cards, be prepared to spend a lot of money. There's no point in playing this longer than an hour, because let's be honest, that's how long it will take you to get into a game.
Pros:
- Great community manager (Allen)
-Responsive Devs
Cons :
- Garbage, entitled community
Repetitive gameplay
- "ranked" mode consists of the same try hard players teaming up and chasing any and all new players away.
Did I mention you are forced to play ranked because during those times there aren't even enough people playing the game to populate the non try hard game modes.
SummaryOfficially licensed by the NFLPA, STG Football is a free-to-play, real-time, arcade football game designed from the ground up to be a true multiplayer game supporting unique 4v4 gameplay that emphasizes teamwork and strategy.
With SuperStars like Josh Allen, Davante Adams, Cooper Kupp, Aaron Donald, Patrick Mahomes, and Aaron Rogers to ...