Liuluck here — I’m the developer of Career Simulator, a free browser game about compressing an entire fictional football career into one short run.
The core choice is deliberately painful: you see eight scout reports and can keep one attribute from each card. The other seven ratings disappear. Five later decisions then turn that build into a complete career with seasons, clubs, trophies and one of 24 fictional Story endings.
I’ve also published the design data behind it. A reproducible 10,000-paired-seed experiment found that always taking the highest available rating produces 10.5× as many elite careers as the fixed-order baseline, so balance 1.1 is the next design problem.
Play the embedded itch.io release: https://liuluck.itch.io/career-simulator
Open experiment method and data: https://coperogame.games/career-balance-study/
No account or paid attributes; it works on phone and desktop. I’m the developer and both links are mine.