Football Manager 2012 is the kind of game that consumes entire nights without ever showing you a single cutscene.

The profile is one of the most polarized seen here. Desert island ranks ahead of 93% of games, which is exceptional for a text-heavy management game from 2011. Social sits near the median at 47%, hook at 29%. On the other side, narrative, art direction, sound design, and replayability all sit at the very bottom of the rankings, ahead of only 1% of games. Gameplay comes in at 4%, fun at 15%. These are rock-bottom scores by design: nobody plays FM for the visuals or the music.

This is the classic profile of a deep management game built for the long haul. Cities: Skylines showed a similar gap between strong attachment and weak presentation. FM 2012 pushes that gap even further, with a higher desert island score and lower scores across the board on everything else.

Football and sports management fans will sink hundreds of hours into this. Everyone else will bounce off it within minutes.