Gaming: Nutmeg Is A Brilliant Concept That At Its Best Is Almost Football...

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Nutmeg is one of those games that, if you're in the target demographic, sells itself on the title screen. Pure Roy of the Rovers and Panini vibes, with a flaming football streaking across the middle to put an exclamation point on "Nutmeg!" I am a man in his mid-forties who's followed football since I was a kid in the late '80s, had the sticker albums and replica kits, and played obsessively until a few years ago. In other words, I am very much the target audience for Nutmeg.

This is not only a love letter to the '80s/'90s era of English football when the old First Division was becoming the Premier League, but to everything that accrued around it. At times, perhaps, too much so. To give an example that works: you view your squad, backroom staff, transfer targets, and various other information via flipping the pages of a sticker album.

Less great is that there are no likenesses for the stickers that go in this book, with players represented by silhouettes in various poses. Nutmeg treads an odd line here and, funnily enough, parts of it add to the '90s nostalgia for things like International Superstar Soccer's likenesses of players, which were always close enough to be obvious but somehow not actionable. So Nutmeg uses real player names, for the most part, and real club names too: but then every so often you don't play Everton, you play the "Mersey Blues."

Source: PC Gamer