★ 11/12

Esports Manager 2026 (Neurona Games)

Esports Manager 2026 is a management sim for an esports organization: you scout players, sign contracts, grow the team's brand, and compete for titles, with 325+ real teams and…

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Geo Ukraine (Kharkiv): studio [fact]; the publisher indie.io operates out of Krakow, Poland [estimate]; the audience is global, with a pronounced skew toward RU/CIS (Russian-language reviews 'Very Positive' ~81% vs. English 'Mixed' ~66%)

Founders Andrii Chupyr (CEO/Product Director, Kharkiv, Ukraine [fact]) · Bohdan Buiak (CTO, Ukraine [estimate])

Domains esportsmanager.gg · store.steampowered.com/app/2749950 · store.steampowered.com/app/4006000 · neuronagames.com · emdb.gg

Score demand 2 · ease 3 · ICP 2 · monetization 2 · freshness 2

Growth tactics (teaser)

a 7-year journey: mobile MOBA prototype 2019→2021 (Patreon $500-800/mo) → PC reboot 2023-12-31 → release 2026-07-06 [fact]
A viral tweet by a Brazilian content creator (Feb 2024) brought 20,000 wishlists in a single day [fact]
EMDB.gg, a crowdsourcing tool with Steam login where players edit real team/roster data, instead of buying a license for the real rosters [estimate]
A two-stage demo launch: first the publisher's 'Steam Sports Fest' (Dec 2025), then Valve's official Steam Next Fest (Feb 2026) with an improved version [fact]
PR-wire syndication of a single press release to 8+ gaming outlets at once (not organic pickup) through the publisher indie.io [fact]

🔒 Full dossier

Launch timeline, metrics, the growth mechanics taken apart and checkable sources — sent to your email after payment, as a .md attachment. The dossier itself is written in Russian; this page and the catalog are the English part.

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