About Us
Established 2004
Invincibles Studio is an established, innovative games development studio based in the North West of England. The studio has been producing high quality football games since 2004.
The studio is headed up by CEO Chris Gore, who has an expert board behind him, including gaming veteran and former CEO of Codemasters, Nick Wheelwright as Executive chairman.
Global player base
60M+ downloads worldwide
Together the team have produced some of the most engaging and authentic football games that the market has seen. The team’s decades of combined experience in the games industry has resulted in significant year on year sales growth and a strong business platform from which the team expect to achieve further growth, taking advantage of the growing gaming market which Newzoo has predicted will reach $200 billion by 2023.
Invincibles Studio is working with some of the world’s biggest football publications (Goal) and license holders (FIFPRO) to add authenticity to the games. The Studio’s games are played in every country of the world which has resulted in more than 60 million downloads to date.
Our History
Invincibles Studio: founded 2004
The passion for creating football games has led Soccer Manager to grow from a small team starting out in their parent’s garage to a team of over 50 people located in Preston.
Invincibles Studio have brought 11 football games to the global market: Soccer Manager Worlds, The Soccer Manager single-player series, which is currently in its 8th iteration, Football Clash: All Stars and F2 Target Tekkers.
Timeline
Mikel Arteta partnership announced as the global ambassador of the SM series
Released on the 21st October, Soccer Manager 2020 is our latest iteration of our popular football management simulation. Choose from over 800 clubs from 33 countries around the world, so you’ll have the chance to manage and build your top eleven. Featuring realistic 3D graphics, intense competitions and an in-depth game economy. The football manager experience in Soccer Manager 2020 is as close to the real thing as a game can get.
Soccer Manager collaborated with The F2, YouTube’s most famous football freestylers, bringing an epic football puzzle game to market. On launching it shot straight to the top of the charts.
Released on the 31st October, Soccer Manager 2019 is our latest iteration of our popular football management simulation. Lead your favourite team to victory in an immersive football management simulator. Decide to take on a top flight club to test your management skills against the best or help a struggling, lower division team fight for glory.
After creating Soccer Manager Arena in the Unity game engine we knew that we wanted to develop our next iteration of the single player game using the same engine. Using Unity gave us much more scope in what we were able to achieve with the game. Building it in a dedicated game engine allowed for better optimisation and more memory usage which made it possible to have a more interactive user interface, resolve save game issues and to include 3D elements. Soccer Manager 2018 was released in open beta in September with the full launch following early November.
The decision to re-brand evolved from feedback from our community, we wanted to divert away from users thinking it was a management game like our other titles. We also introduced new 3D shooting/ goalkeeping mechanics and the anticipated feature tournaments to the latest version. These changed the dynamics of the game so it was the perfect time to re-brand the game as Football Clash: All Stars, a name which we think is a much more appropriate fit.
In April 2016 ideas started flowing for our third title, this time we wanted to divert away from our comfort zone and create a completely different sort of football game and Soccer Manager Arena was the result. The concept was to take two popular genres of games on the market and combine features from them both creating for the first time, a high quality football based, card collecting, PvP mobile game. Soccer Manager Arena was officially launched a year later in May 2017.
Soccer Manager 2017 was released in the October which contained the updated squads and leagues for the 2017/2018 football season. It was also synchronised across platforms so it allowed our users to switch seamlessly between devices and platforms so they can continue their management career anywhere and everywhere.
During development of the Single player game it was decided that a new iteration of the game would be released at the beginning of each season to ensure a sense of realism by including up to date squads and leagues as well as a host of other new features and improvements. Subsequently Soccer Manager 2016 was soft launched in the September and then fully released in October.
Soccer Manager, our online multiplayer game at the time was rebranded as Soccer Manager Worlds and was given a fresh new look ready for the up and coming release of our single player game. This was so that our two games would have distinctive identities.
A browser based multiplayer game that allowed managers to buy and sell players and compete head to head against other managers from across the globe. What set it apart from other football management games on the market is that it was the first realistic online multiplayer football management game, that users could play for free.