Football Manager 2023 Console
Football Manager 2023 Console is a PlayStation 5 sports game released in 2023 developed by Sports Interactive. It centers on competitive sport controls, shifts between attack and defense, and score or tournament goals, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.2 / 10
About this game
Football Manager 2023 Console is a PlayStation 5 sports game centered on competitive sport controls, shifts between attack and defense, and score or tournament goals. Matches, challenges, and tournament goals give sessions clear boundaries, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Players, venues, animation, and score feedback establish the match atmosphere, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that opponent ai, control precision, multiplayer accessories, and period-specific rosters can affect consistency. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Football Manager puts you in the dugout, building a football team through recruitment, training and tactical decisions. Sports Interactive’s management series connects the work between matches with what happens on the pitch, letting a long-term squad plan unfold across seasons.
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AI review
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Deep management adapted well to PS5.
Football Manager 2023 Console retains the series’ compelling chain of managerial consequences on PlayStation 5. Tactics, training, transfers and player demands interact, so steering a major club or a lower-league project can create a very different long-form story. A direct PS5 review finds that simple match highlights turn dense statistics into memorable moments. Staff can handle negotiations, lineups and other tasks, letting players decide how deeply to micromanage. The console edition folds its introductory guidance into a working save and streamlines its controls, making an intimidating simulation easier to enter without removing its complexity. Most of the presentation remains text and tables, however, and occasional abrupt injuries or swings of form can make outcomes feel less under the manager’s control. This is well suited to players willing to plan over seasons and read data, not those seeking direct football action. The assessment is confined to the PS5 Console edition rather than assuming feature parity with the full PC version.
Strengths
- Interlocking decisions and useful console onboarding.
Weaknesses
- Dense menus and occasionally arbitrary swings.
Who it is for: Console players who enjoy long-form club planning.
Play notes: PS5 Console edition only; no PC feature transfer.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Emergent seasons endure. | Reviewed | 8.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Deep management decisions. | Reviewed | 8.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Function over spectacle. | Reviewed | 7.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Console onboarding helps. | Reviewed | 8.1 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Sports Interactive
- Publisher
- SEGA
- Release date
- 2023
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
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- Offline minimum players
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- Offline maximum players
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- Online minimum players
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- Online maximum players
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- Categories
- Management & Building · Primary genre
- Tags
- Pick-up and PlaySports-based PlayMain Story Under 10 Hours3D GraphicsLow Entry BarrierReplayablePlayer versus PlayerSolo-friendlyShort SessionsFast-paced
- Supported game languages
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- Requires base game
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- Standalone
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- Age ratings
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- Play modes
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- Perspectives
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Release editions
- PlayStation 5Worldwide2023
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