![]() ![]() To celebrate this news, we’ve partnered with Epic to make Football Manager 2020 available to download and keep for FREE even if you already own the game on another platform.įM20, as well as future editions of Football Manager and Football Manager Touch, includes cross network play with Steam allowing you to go head-to-head with your mates no matter which of the two platforms you’re playing on. It could have been because, unlike the two-week stretch that it was available for free on Steam, the Epic Games Store has made the game free to keep forever, as long as it's downloaded before September 24th.We’re delighted to announce that Football Manager 2020 is available right now on the Epic Games Store. The question does remain, however, of how this spike in downloads came to pass. After years of continually polishing and improving the game, such a high number of downloads in such a short time must bring about a huge sense of elation for the team at Sports Interactive. This level of attention and sales (if free downloads can be considered as such) for Football Manager 2020 is no doubt a great success. Since then, most of the conversation about the company has been about its constantly rotating free games - at least until it started a legal battle against Apple and Google over Fortnite. When the storefront launched last year, it was a lightning rod for controversy over Epic's aggressive courting of developers for exclusive deals. The Epic Games Store's free giveaways seem to be doing just as much good for Epic as they do for game developers. Jacobson thanked fans and welcomed newcomers after highlighting that Football Manager 2020 had surpassed the 1 million download mark. The wonderful news for Sports Interactive gets even better, as the 1 million downloads - alongside a peak of roughly 250,000 concurrent players - has broken download records for the Football Manager franchise. Now, Football Manager 2020 has gotten a massive surge that has eclipsed any short-term download count that Steam may have produced. Football Manager 2020, released in October of 2019, had a significant bump in players last March when it made the game free on Steam to help sports fans through the wave of COVID-19 sports cancellations. Related: Football Manager 2020 Review: More Impressive DevelopmentĪccording to a series of Twitter posts by Sports Interactive's Studio Director Miles Jacobson, Football Manager 2020 has seen over 1 million new players download the game after showing up on the Epic Games Store's list of free games for this week. Even a top-tier Premier League team, Everton FC, at one time struck a deal with Sports Interactive, developer of Football Manager, to use its player database for scouting players and opposing teams. Documentaries and comedy specials have come about espousing the game's addictive gameplay. Some have secured jobs working for professional football clubs by using their Football Manager skills as relevant experience. ![]() While the game primarily caters to more hardcore football fans, its successful format and continual improvements to gameplay have earned it a lot of attention over the years, especially from the real world football industry. ![]()
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