PHASE: Rugby Manager

Pick a club. Pick a side. Live with it. PHASE: Rugby Manager is a management game in the tradition of the great text-driven sims: dense squad tables, real decisions every week, and a career that remembers what you did in season one when you get to season fifteen. You take a job, you name a team, and you find out how far you can take it. THE WORLD • Over a hundred clubs across eight competitions, from the English top flight to Japan, with second tiers, a continental cup, playoffs and promotion underneath them. • Bonus points, knockout draws made in front of you, and an international window that takes your best players at the worst moment - and hands an academy kid his chance. • Rival clubs run their own books, sign their own players and sack their own managers. The table you climb is one others are climbing too. THE WEEK • A week that arrives at the pace a week arrives: Monday's fallout and the treatment room, Tuesday's press, midweek business, Thursday's squad, Friday's opposition report - then Saturday. • Transfers with agents who haggle, contracts that run down, loans negotiated on length and wage share, a scouting network you commission, an academy, and backroom staff who are good at some things and not others. • A board with an opinion about you, a press pack that quotes you, sponsors to keep sweet, facilities to build, and a town that keeps the score of a derby longer than the table does. • Run out of money and it bites: wage bills, debt, a board that stops asking nicely. THE SQUAD • Every player has form you can read - his last ten ratings - an injury history, a temperament and a consistency the game never shows as a number. You learn who is who by watching a season. • Partnerships that click, mentors who bring kids on, development focus you set yourself, and a depth chart that tells you where one injury would hurt. THE MATCH • Live text commentary with a pitch view: tries, cards, injuries, the lot, at three speeds - or hand it to your assistant and read the report. • Touchline decisions that are yours: the kick at goal or the corner, the half-time talk, the counter-plan when they change shape, when to empty the bench and who onto which shirt. • Saved tactical setups you name yourself, and a coach's verdict that picks two things to fix and marks them next week to see whether you did. THE CAREER • A reputation that follows you, a CV that other clubs read, and a job market that decides whether you are worth an interview. • A long-term ambition you choose, a ledger of every decision you made, grudges that outlast the men who started them, and a legacy written at the end. • Three difficulty settings, chosen once, at the start. NEW TO RUGBY? • The Manager's Handbook explains every number in the game AND every word of the sport, in plain language, with a search box. Lineout, jackal, the 22, what a 6-2 bench buys you - it is in there. BUILT FOR A PHONE • Portrait, one-handed, designed for it rather than shrunk into it. Four skins, day and night, and a text-size setting. • Completely offline: no account, no login, no cloud, and nothing about your career leaves your device. The adverts are the only part that uses the network. • Free to play. Small adverts sit at the foot of two screens, with optional "watch one instead" buttons you choose to press. Never during a match. Pro Manager takes every advert away for good. • Four career slots, saved after every week, with export and import so a backup is yours to keep. • English, French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. PHASE: Rugby Manager is an unofficial, independent game. Club names are real; competitions, grounds and sponsors are renamed or invented. Player names are real, used to identify people in a sporting database and for nothing else. The game is not affiliated with, endorsed by or licensed by any player, club, league or governing body, and contains no official badges, kits or logos.