Real Gaelic tactics
Kickouts, sweepers, press triggers — and they matter.
Set your kickout routines, how high the half-backs push, who sweeps and when you press. Tactics and selection change results, not just the commentary.
Illustration: a fifteen-a-side Gaelic football move on a floodlit pitch. A short kickout is worked up the wing, switched to midfield, played inside and kicked over the bar for a point.
Irish indie studio · Gaelic games management sim
Forever Gaelic Manager
Take a parish side and never stop. Club, county, province, All-Ireland — endless seasons, real Gaelic tactics, old-school depth and new-school motion.
Short kickouts✦Long kickouts✦Call the mark✦Sweepers✦Press triggers✦Man-to-man✦Zonal✦Endless seasons✦Holiday mode✦Parish to All-Ireland✦Short kickouts✦Long kickouts✦Call the mark✦Sweepers✦Press triggers✦Man-to-man✦Zonal✦Endless seasons✦Holiday mode✦Parish to All-Ireland✦
32 counties●Overseas pathways●Emigration●Returners●Volunteers●Committees●Weather●Club championship●League●Provincials●32 counties●Overseas pathways●Emigration●Returners●Volunteers●Committees●Weather●Club championship●League●Provincials●
The game
Built from the Gaelic game up.
Not a reskin. Every system starts with the real thing — kickouts, the mark, the solo, parish rules, county boards, emigration, the weather, the lot. You are the manager: plan the week, handle the people, pick the fifteen, and watch every choice arrive on the pitch.
Forever career
No end credits.
Advance week after week, season after season. Players age, study, emigrate and come home. The parish remembers.
Holiday mode
Go on holiday. It rings you if it’s serious.
Auto-sim a week, a month, to the next match or the end of the season — it stops the moment something needs you.
32 counties + overseas
Every county plays differently.
Each county gets its own researched competition structure — not one template cloned 32 times — and the overseas game is part of the world too.
Random season events
Every season goes sideways somewhere.
Waterlogged pitches, J1 summers, storms, sponsors with opinions. An inbox of trouble keeps every season different.
Depth + motion
Old-school depth. Genuinely good animation.
Dense, fast manager screens you can live in — and a match view that shows why the week mattered: shape, runs, press, and the ball sailing over the bar.
The career
Parish → All-Ireland
01 · Parish
Start where everyone starts.
One pitch, a borrowed floodlight, a committee that meets in the back room, and fifteen players who may or may not turn up on a wet Tuesday.
15a side
02 · Club
Build a club people stay for.
Underage pathway, volunteers, fundraisers, the clubhouse roof. Keep your best players from Boston and Sydney — or welcome them home.
∞seasons — it never ends
03 · County
Earn the county call.
Step onto the county line, where every county has its own structures, rivalries and calendar to master.
32counties
04 · Province & All-Ireland
Chase the long summer.
Provincial titles, the All-Ireland series — then back to the parish for the winter, because the club championship waits for no one.
4provinces
Tactics board
Win the kickout, win the game.
- R1
Short to the corner
The corner-back peels wide, the keeper goes short, and you play out through the wing under the press.
- R2
Long to the break
Clear the middle, kick long over the press, and send a midfielder onto it to win it clean and call the mark.
- R3
Press their kickout
Push up man-to-man on their restart, take away the short option, force it long — and turn it over.
- Kickout
- short
- Target
- corner-back
- Risk
- low
- Press beat
- wide
Forever career
Seasons that never run out.
A Gaelic season has a shape — league, provincials, the All-Ireland series, then the club championship. Ride it week by week, or go on holiday and let it run until something needs you.
Inbox0 unread
- Committee
Pitch is waterloggedClub secretary
Tuesday’s session is moved to the school hall. Bring flats.
- Player
Got the J1Full-forward
Off to the States for the summer. Back for the club championship, please God.
- Weather
Storm warningFixtures
Sunday’s league game is off. Re-fixed for a Wednesday night under lights.
- Board
Championship draw is outCounty board
You have the neighbours in round one. The whole parish has an opinion.
- Sponsor
Jersey deal on offerLocal garage
Their name on the front — and a few thoughts on who should be starting.
- Returner
Home from SydneyFormer minor star
Asking if there’s a place at training. Two years away; still has the left foot.
Illustrative events. Clubs and people in the game are fictional.
County authenticity
All 32. Every one different.
Each county gets its own researched competition structures, formats and calendar — not one national template cloned 32 times.
And the game doesn’t stop at the coast. Overseas pathways are part of the world, because emigration and coming home are part of the game.
32counties
8overseas regions
4provinces
- DON Donegal
- DER Derry
- ANT Antrim
- SLI Sligo
- LEI Leitrim
- FER Fermanagh
- TYR Tyrone
- DOW Down
- MAY Mayo
- ROS Roscommon
- LON Longford
- CAV Cavan
- MON Monaghan
- ARM Armagh
- GAL Galway
- OFF Offaly
- WES Westmeath
- MEA Meath
- LOU Louth
- CLA Clare
- TIP Tipperary
- LAO Laois
- KID Kildare
- DUB Dublin
- LIM Limerick
- KIK Kilkenny
- CAR Carlow
- WIC Wicklow
- KER Kerry
- COR Cork
- WAT Waterford
- WEX Wexford
- Britain
- USA
- Canada
- Australasia
- Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- Latin America
Design vision
Old-school depth. New-school motion.
Squad · Senior footballIllustrative · fictional players
| # | Pos | Name | Age | Fie | Tac | Kic | Sta | Com | Pac | Form |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | Ó Dálaigh, S. | 27 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 12 | 17 | 11 | WWDWL |
| 2 | RCB | Moloney, C. | 24 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 14 | WWWDL |
| 3 | FB | Kavanagh, D. | 31 | 15 | 17 | 10 | 14 | 15 | 9 | WDWWW |
| 6 | CHB | Mac Aodha, P. | 29 | 14 | 16 | 13 | 15 | 13 | 12 | DWWLW |
| 8 | MID | Tierney, R. | 22 | 18 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 16 | WWWWD |
| 9 | MID | Ó Murchú, T. | 26 | 17 | 14 | 16 | 13 | 14 | 13 | WLWWW |
| 11 | CHF | Brennan, E. | 25 | 12 | 10 | 17 | 12 | 16 | 15 | WWDWW |
| 14 | FF | Hyland, M. | 23 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 10 | 17 | 17 | LWWWW |
Coming to Steam · Early Access
In development.
No date and no price yet. When there’s real news — a playable build, a store page — it’ll be posted here and on @playcluiche.
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Made in Ireland by PlayCluiche.
An Irish indie game studio building original games out of Irish life.
Engineering-first: a deterministic, fully tested simulation core; original art and code with recorded provenance; fictional clubs, people and crests — independently created, not real ones lightly renamed.
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