Padel Manager 27

Build a padel academy from scratch

You start with a rented warehouse, two courts and four students. In Padel Manager 27 you decide everything that comes next: who you sign, who plays with whom, how they train and what they do when the match tightens.

Every point is played for real

Matches are not a result calculated behind a scoreboard. Every rally is simulated shot by shot, with ball physics, glass walls and nineteen shots: lobs, bandejas, víboras, smashes, drop shots, chiquitas and more. Players move, defend and attack according to their own attributes and tendencies. Watch it live with a broadcast camera, or simulate quickly and read the report.

Direct from the bench, or play it yourself

• Prepare a tactics board for each situation: serve, return, net and defence.
• Give orders during the match and see how they change your pair's game.
• Read the match analysis to learn where the points were won and lost.
• With launch comes the mode that lets you step onto the court and control a player, plus the option to create your own player.

Play in first person too, and practise in Training mode. Current voice commentary is available in Spanish.

Play solo, compete or team up

• Online PvP: play matches with 2 to 4 human players through Steam, with humans on opposing teams and AI filling the remaining court positions.
• Online and local co-op: two human players can form a pair and take on an AI-controlled pair.
• Local multiplayer: up to 4 players on the same PC, sharing the screen. Choose your teams to compete against each other or play together.
• The academy management career is single-player; online and local multiplayer are separate match modes.

People, not numbers

• Every player has a personality, preferences and ambitions.
• Pairs need chemistry: the right partner matters as much as level, and there are friendships, rivalries and mentorships.
• Talk to your players, make promises and live with the consequences of breaking them.
• Hire coaches, analysts and medical staff, and scout young talent.

A padel world that lives on its own

• Climb an amateur league from the tenth division up to the first.
• Enter opens, cups and international circuits as your players improve.
• Compete against rival academies that sign, train and grow on their own.
• A world of 50,000 players, 3,000 clubs and rankings in 196 countries.

Run the business

• Build courts and facilities and decide what your academy offers, up to four sites.
• Balance student income, sponsorships, wages and loans.
• Negotiate contracts and transfers, clauses included.
• Plan the training week and manage fatigue and injuries.
• You set the pace: from ×1 to ×64, with skips to the end of the game, set or match.

Early Access: the game keeps growing

We want to keep expanding Padel Manager 27 with advanced construction, online tournaments and the “I Want to Be No. 1” mode; deeper management; more and better animations; and improvements to the game engine and the AI controlling players and opponents. We also aspire to bring the game to consoles and develop a future mobile version. These are our development goals: their scope, order and timing will depend on available resources and the project's progress.

Languages

Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Polish, Turkish, Dutch, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Ukrainian, Czech, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, Bulgarian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai and Arabic.

All competitions, academies and people in the game are fictional.

The people behind the project and our use of AI

Padel Manager 27 is the work of one developer with help from his brother. AI has made it possible for such a small team to pursue a project of this ambition. Our aspiration is to gradually replace AI-generated content with professional translation, voice acting, art and 3D modelling. If the game attracts enough support and resources, we want to hire people whose talent, sensitivity and creative judgement can give the game an increasingly distinctive personality.

Generative AI has been used for translations, commentator voices, some 3D models, certain sound effects and background images in the game and its promotional materials, and to help draft some explanatory text. AI assistants have also been used to support programming. Voice commentary is prepared in advance, and the game plays the recordings in response to match events; voices are not synthesized live.