It runs on the device
The whole simulation happens on your phone. On a train, on a plane, in a basement with no signal, it behaves exactly the same. Nothing stops working the day a server gets switched off.
It waits for you
No energy bars, no timers counting down while you are at work. Four minutes between two things, or an hour on the couch.
It shows no ads
No banners, no video you sit through to continue, no bonus for watching one. The game is the whole screen. Where a game costs money it says so up front, and that is the entire deal.
Club Dynasty
A football management game about the long game. Take a club nobody rates and spend the next twenty seasons proving everybody wrong: squad, tactics, the youth academy, the club grounds, the staff around you. Seasons roll on, players age and retire, and the club you leave behind is the one you made.
Sixteen divisions across seven countries, ninety-six national teams, continental competitions, and the national team job if your reputation gets there. English and Dutch.
The browser version is the whole game, nothing cut out. Your save lives in that browser on that device, so it is waiting for you when you come back, but it does not travel to your phone. More about the game, or join the closed test to get it on Android.
One More Year
A life, one year at a time. You are born somewhere you did not pick, with a family you did not choose, and from there every year is a handful of decisions: school, friends, work, money, the things that happen to you anyway.
There is one button and it says plus one year. That is the whole game, and it is very hard to stop pressing it.
Runs in the browser, no install and no ads. Add it to your home screen and it works offline too. In Dutch for now; an English version is on the list.
DartsGame
You throw at your own board at home and type in what you actually hit. The game keeps the averages, the checkouts and the table, and takes you from the pub league up through the national circuit, Q-School and eventually the tour.
It is finished enough to play, but it needs a server and a database, so it is not on this site yet. That is the next thing on the bench.
One person, building these one at a time
Thumbwork Games is a one-person studio. Club Dynasty is the first thing out of the workshop and there is more behind it. Found a bug, want to test something early, or want to tell me what you would have built differently? Write to me. I read all of it.
thumbworkgames@gmail.com