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FRAGLINE: Esports Manager

Build an esports org from a scrappy roster into a world champion. Scout raw talent, design your own set plays, and outcoach rivals who adapt to your tactics. Grind from open qualifiers to grand finals in a scene where every win and loss makes headlines.

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About the Game

Build an esports empire from a single scrappy roster, and outsmart an opponent that actually thinks back.

FRAGLINE is an esports team management simulation where every call you make, from the draft board to the final round of a grand final, is answered by an opponent that adapts, learns, and punishes hesitation. This isn't a scripted ladder you grind through. It's a mind game against the other side, and they're reading you as hard as you're reading them.

An Opponent That Adapts and Fights Back

Most management games hand you a difficulty slider. FRAGLINE hands you an opponent: one that reads your composition, adjusts its tactics between rounds, and exploits the weakness you didn't know you had. Your own coaching decisions matter because the other side is genuinely reacting to them, not rolling dice. Beating a higher-rated team here feels like it should: like you out-thought someone.

Design Your Sets, Then Watch Them Play Out

Build your own set plays in the set editor: coordinated strategies, positioning, and executes that carry your team's identity. Then watch them come to life live, round by round, in a clean and readable 2D match view. No black-box "you won" screens. You see whether your set beat their read, and you see exactly why. This is where your coaching actually shows.

Build Your Team, Your Way

Every player has a full set of stats and a defined role, and none of them stand still: talent develops, peaks, and declines over time. The roster you build is a collection of careers you manage, not a static lineup. When you need fresh blood, scout for new talent and filter your search by role, country, or tournament to find the exact piece your team is missing.

Negotiate, Sign, and Prepare

Signing a player is a real negotiation, not a single click. First you come to terms with their club, then you sit down with the player to settle money and conditions, and the deal only goes through if your budget can carry it. Once they're in, the training and preparation screen is where you sharpen the squad and get them ready for what's coming.

The Portal: A World That Reacts to You

The scene is alive, and it talks. The Portal is FRAGLINE's in-game news feed, where every transfer, every locker room dispute, and every rumor ripples out across the world and lands on your players. Sign a controversial star and the headlines follow. Let tension build in the locker room and the speculation writes itself. Your decisions don't disappear into a menu. They become the story everyone is reading.

Shape the Game With Us

FRAGLINE is being built in the open, and Early Access is where it grows. Adding it to your Wishlist now means you're there from the first build: following development and helping steer the game toward its full release. Major updates are already on the road ahead; a full 3D match presentation mode, layered on top of the engine you're playing today, is one of them.

Wishlist FRAGLINE now to be first in when the doors open.