Esport Manager: Last Pick

About the Game

Behind every win, a decision.

You're the coach of an esports team on a MOBA circuit, and your job is to sign players, develop them, prepare every fixture and build a club that holds together across several seasons.

Your players play the match themselves

Once the match starts, your five players head out onto the map and manage on their own, reading what's happening around them to decide whether to farm one more wave, head back to base or go and help on the lane next door. Each of them does it according to their own temperament, which means a very creative player will never play the same game as a cautious one, even on the same champion and with the same instructions.

Your role is to prepare the match through game plans, in which you set the team's priorities, from how to approach the laning phase through to which neutral objectives to secure and the kind of composition you want to play.

The draft

The draft is the last moment where you still decide anything, and it's probably the most important part of the fixture. You know each opposing player's champion pool, so you can ban away whatever they're most dangerous on, then watch the composition opposite you take shape pick after pick while you keep your final choice to answer it.

The club

A roster is built over time, by spotting players the other clubs haven't noticed yet, planning their training week after week across mechanics, strategy, mental and form, and accepting that the budget follows results rather than the other way round. The choices you make this season are paid for or cashed in the next one, when you have to decide who starts, who goes to the bench and who leaves.

The season

The regular season puts ten teams through a round robin before playoffs decided over BO3 and a BO5 final, and when it ends the off-season redistributes players, so you start each year with a squad slightly different from the one you had in mind.

In Early Access

The game already plays end to end across multiple seasons, and what it still has to become will be decided with the people playing it.

One thing worth knowing before you buy: during Early Access an update can make a save incompatible, and a career you start is not guaranteed to survive a patch. This will be flagged in the update notes where it applies.