Speedway Club Manager 25

I've got to admire the ambition of trying to build this speedway management game but there are a few fundamentals which need to be addressed if you want to simulate the British leagues. 1)Unless I am missing something, riders can only ride for one club. This means, when using one of the true rider/team mods, that championship teams immediately suffer as any riders shared with a premiership team lose their strongest rider. 2) The rules around team building are incorrect. There appears to be no limit on averages, a junior rider must be rider 7 (which appears to be the only reserve). The mod I used had Erik Ross as Oxford's best rider but injured for the year & a release clause of £350,000 basically meaning I could not replace him. This could be blamed on the mod but I imagine this situation could easily occur in the default game. 3) Tape breaking at the start does not result in a 15m start penalty or reserve replacement choice. 4) I found it impossible to transfer I. a new rider. This was even after removing Erik. 5) During races the time difference between riders was moving in & out of view. 6) There should not be any promotion/relegation between leagues. These are things I found within the first 30 minutes of game play so some polish is definitely needed. Having said all that I still had fun but it does need more development which I suspect will be added to SCM26 (or later) rather than fixing in this iteration of the game

Great to have a Speedway Manager game after years without, Last one was probably Speedway Promoter 2003. This game has great depth and match engine is good but can skip through to speed things up as well. Only negative is the UK rules are not accurate which does spoil things a fair bit in regard to team building and meeting rules. Great work and game though and look forward to next one.

Really solid game, and the support team is excellent. There are a few minor bugs, but the devs are active on Discord and quick to address issues. Mods are also available, including ones that replace the ‘fake’ names with real ones, which adds to the experience. Gameplay wise, it’s very much Football Manager meets Speedway if you enjoy those kinds of games, this will be right up your alley. I’ve already put 20 hours in over just 4 days, and it’s proving to be seriously addictive. I also agree with another reviewer about the language switching, but it’s easy enough to sort out through the menu.