SFTP - Super Football Tactics Pro
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SFTP - Super Football Tactics Pro

Super Football Tactics Pro drops you into the high-energy chaos of a wild football league where classic checkers meets hard-hitting strategy. Plan your moves, outsmart your opponent, and unleash game-changing special powers that can flip the match in an instant.

DEV: Sparkling VinegarPUB: Tiny DragonAppID 4509600
UPDATE PULSEevery ~5d·last 19d ago·6 recent on record

Is SFTP - Super Football Tactics Pro still being updated? — the short answer, with the evidence.

Should you look into this?

From Steam's own record

Current price

$5.99$7.99−25%

Development

Actively supported

Last heard from developers

19 days ago

Usual rhythm

every ~7 days

Substantial updates (6 mo)

2

Current silence

3× normal

The developers post roughly every 7 days and were last heard 19 days ago — within their normal range. 2 substantial updates landed in the past six months, 2 of them major. It is currently 25% below its usual price.

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Our coverage

1 dispatch written from this game’s announcements

releaseAug 22, 2026

SFTP – Super Football Tactics Pro Launches, Mixing Checkers with American Football

Sparkling Vinegar and Tiny Dragon have released SFTP – Super Football Tactics Pro, a turn-based tactics game that began as a single, unlikely question: could checkers be transformed into a modern strategy game? The answer, apparently, required American football.

The developers describe building the game with little prior knowledge of the sport, drawn instead to its structural drama — offensive and defensive lines, ball carriers, the geometry of collision. That fantasy became the scaffolding onto which they laid the checkers-derived ruleset.

What the game includes

  • A core system combining checkers mechanics with American football structure
  • Special abilities designed to reverse losing positions in a single turn
  • A three-league story mode featuring a cast of rival coaches
  • Arcade mode, local multiplayer, and online lobbies
  • A playable demo available on Steam for those who want to try before buying

The release announcement, authored by olivier, invites players to share feedback via Steam discussions, reviews, or the studio's Discord server.

For players who have followed the demo, this marks the transition to the full experience — story mode included.

Two years of development

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9 announcements · 2 substantial · 21 months with nothing

Recent Transmissions

9 entries in codex

Community AnnouncementsSep 15, 2026
Update - 260914-6d58f5b

Add the missing team condition for the "unlock all in the almanac" achievement.Fix power names not being localized for a couple of unlock condition descriptions.Thank you and have a nice day!-Sparkling Vinegar

Community AnnouncementsSep 1, 2026
Update 260901-ea6d058

Fix the branching dialog logic against the mid-boss during the silver league.

Community AnnouncementsAug 28, 2026
Update 260828-f1b23c8

Add some missing localization keys at the end of the league mode.Add some missing French dialog lines.Thank you and have a nice day!-Sparkling Vinegar

Community AnnouncementsAug 23, 2026
Update 260823-c5cb318

Add a loss condition when bumping on an armored pawn with a ball pawn from a sideline.Fix the computer not playing moves when facing that loss condition by not filtering this type of capture move anymore.Make the computer opponent less like…

Community AnnouncementsAug 23, 2026
Update 260823-741b671

Added the gold league victory screenFixed a typo in the french localizationThank you and have a nice day! -Sparkling Vinegar

Community AnnouncementsAug 19, 2026
SFTP - Super Football Tactics Pro is out now!

Hi everyone,We're so glad to release our game, SFTP - Super Football Tactics Pro today! For those of you who haven't played the demo yet, SFTP - Super Football Tactics Pro started as an attempt to answer a simple question: could we turn che…

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Community AnnouncementsJun 29, 2026
Ready for Another Shot?

We’ve just rolled out our second major update for the demo, bringing a healthy dose of fixes, balancing, and… one more reason to jump back into the Bronze League. Bug fixes and balancingWe’ve squashed a bunch of bugs and reworked the balanc…

Community AnnouncementsJun 19, 2026
Demo Update – Molière on the field

Good news! The demo is now available in French. 🥖That's right. Every menu, tutorial, dialogue, and questionable coaching decision can now be experienced in the language of baguettes, cheese, and suspiciously complicated grammar rules.If yo…

Community AnnouncementsJun 12, 2026
Demo Out Now!

Hey everyone! We are Sparkling Vinegar, a small indie dev team of game industry professionals and lifelong friends creating modern takes on the games that shaped our childhoods. Inspired by the creativity of the '80s and '90s, we blend old-…

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