Super Sub: World Cup

Today we released the latest demo for Super Sub: World Cup!It's one of the final steps before releasing the full game, which is planned for release during the (2026) Football World Cup.It most likely won't be the final demo. Though this demo is reasonably polished and full of content, playtests keep showing us ways to improve the game, and we're already busy with an overhaul of several parts.What's in the demo?It's available for free on Windows, Mac, and Linux.You can play it with mouse, keyboard, or touchscreen. (Controller is also supported, but there is no UI explaining which keys to press yet.)It contains the first 3 matches and first upgrades in every branch.It contains 4 unique modes. You can play a chill version, or a more difficult one with smart opponents, or try the smaller and faster Futsal mode, and more.And it contains 14 countries to play.We wanted to give you a broad taste of all the final game will have to offer, instead of a very curated tiny portion of it. Maybe this approach was a mistake---we're learning about Steam and demos as we go---so let us know what you think. What's yet to come?The game is already "content complete". It means all the upgrades, matches, modes, teams, ideas, everything has been made and put into the game already.In this final stretch we must finish the second important step to making a fun game: balancing all the ideas and finding the best version of them. Until the release of the game, I'll probably be endlessly tweaking numbers, switching the order of upgrades, and testing if it's too hard or too easy now ;)Some more surface-level features are also missing in the demo due to time constraints. For example,Full support for controller input is only a few steps away.Some actions have no (clear) feedback yet, or reasonable limits to their power, and are therefore not very usable in play.And of course, as always, more visual polish and tiny bug fixes.As it stands now, the full game will have a bracket of 8 matches (increasing i...