Sociable football will return to Steam next year with the release of Sociable Soccer ’22. This is a remake, after the spiritual successor to Sensible Soccer, from original creator Jon Hare, was first launched on Steam in 2017 only to be later withdrawn.
Tower Studios announces upcoming release through the game’s website, says that they have partnered with Kiss Publishing to bring the game to PC and consoles. The new release will apparently feature enhanced graphics, AI, updated teams, and battle pass.
The same press release also says that Sociable Soccer “was originally released in 2019 via Apple Arcade for iOS,” but Sociable Soccer’s history is much more layered than that. It was originally Launched on Kickstarter in 2015, which failure, and finally Released in Steam Early Access in 2017.
However, that initial release was quite simple and didn’t sell well enough to fund development. Tower Studios then signed a publishing deal to release the game on mobile devices in China in 2018, and another with a US publisher that launched through Apple Arcade in November. 2019. Before that, in June 2019, Tower Studios removed the game from sale on Steam.
In a post on Steam from August 2018, its developers explain that they “need to invest more than we have gained from the sale to date”. Finalizing the mobile version for China Mobile publishers will leave them with a game that “will have a lot of online and squad-building elements, and perfecting these elements for the Steam version will be simple.” much simpler.”
Owners of the original through Steam will be able to get a copy of Sociable Soccer ’22 for free at launch “as long as you provide proof of purchase”, according to a tweet.
Sociable Soccer ’22 will launch in Q2 2022.
