FootLife FAQ
Find answers to 12 FootLife questions about free browser play, positions, offline access, seeds, daily challenges, local rankings, languages and save backups.
What is FootLife?
FootLife is a free, text-based football career simulator. Start as a 15-year-old academy player and shape your training, match decisions, contracts, transfers, national-team career and retirement. It focuses on career choices rather than real-time football controls.
Do I need to download anything or sign up?
No account or installation package is required. Play in a phone, tablet or desktop browser. Supported browsers also let you add the game to your home screen.
How do I start a football career?
Enter a player name on the home page, choose goalkeeper, defender, midfielder or forward, then select a specific position and nationality. Start your career, complete the childhood choices and join a youth team.
Where is my progress saved? What happens if I refresh?
Career saves, achievements, past lives, leaderboards and settings are stored in this browser’s localStorage. The game saves at the start of each season. After refreshing, resume from that season’s start; unfinished choices within the season must be replayed.
Can I continue on another phone or browser?
Yes, through a manual backup. Open Save backup on the home page, download the complete JSON file, and import it on another device or browser. There is no automatic sync. Importing merges history and achievements while preserving existing progress and settings.
Can I play FootLife offline?
An internet connection is needed for the first visit. Once a supported browser has cached the resources through its service worker, cached game resources can be used offline. A language or font that has not yet been cached may still require a connection.
What is a world seed? Will the same seed give the same result?
A world seed determines the game’s random sequence. In the same game version, using the same seed and making all the same choices produces the same career. Try a friend’s seed to replay their world; different choices change what happens next.
Does the leaderboard upload my data?
No. The overall, national, records and daily leaderboards in this version are local to your browser. They are not global online rankings and do not upload career data to a server.
When does the daily challenge reset?
The daily challenge uses the UTC+8 date to select a fixed seed, nationality and position. Only the first attempt in each browser that day qualifies for the local daily leaderboard. Later attempts are practice.
Can I recover a save after clearing browser data?
If you downloaded a JSON backup, you can import it again. Clearing site data, changing browsers or ending a private browsing session may remove local saves. Without a backup, there is no server copy to restore.
Which position is best for beginners?
Try striker if you want to focus on scoring. Choose midfield for passing and playmaking, or defence for defensive play. Goalkeepers have different abilities and match ratings. Learning to balance training and fatigue matters more than finding one supposedly best position.
Which languages and currencies are supported?
The game supports Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean. Salaries and transfer values can be displayed in Taiwan dollars, US dollars, euros, Japanese yen or Korean won. Currency changes affect display only, not career outcomes.