Nutmeg is a brilliant concept that at its best is almost football Balatro, but boy is this a game of two halves

Nutmeg is one of those games that, if you're in the target demographic, sells itself on the title screen. Pure Roy of the Rovers and Panini vibes, with a flaming football streaking across the middle to put an exclamation point on "Nutmeg!" I am a man in his mid-forties who's followed football since I was a kid in the late '80s, had the sticker albums and replica kits, and played obsessively until a few years ago. In other words, I am very much the target audience for Nutmeg.

This is not...