EA SPORTS FC™ 26
analyzed 2026-08-18 · sample of 261 English reviews across the whole review history
Players who mention gameplay most often describe frustration: the offline mode "se vuelve aburrido muy rápido," and one asks to "Make powershots good again." Complaints about bugs, performance, and stability are uniformly negative, with reviewers citing "FPS glitch still a thing its so annoying," "some stuttering in cut scenes," and an "impossible to return to the game" state. Controls and servers draw similar ire, including "Joystick keeps stoping working" and "some lag in some online games," while every sampled mention of servers, monetization, UI, and updates is negative. Opinion splits appear mainly around graphics and multiplayer, where positive mentions outnumber negative ones, and content amount, which draws both praise and criticism. Several reviewers call it "literally the same game as last year," while others note "presenting better graphics" and call "Online Seasons IS the best mode btw." Price and value are a recurring sore spot, with warnings like "DO NOT BUY THIS AT FULL PRICE" and "not worth the money and time." Players also bring up developer conduct, accusing EA of not caring about PC players and of "predatory micro-transactions," alongside balance and AI behavior concerns such as "female players are extremly broken especially Pina" and "the players dont pass where their told."
quotes copied verbatim from reviews · plain text is the language model's own wording
Aspects
share of sample, axis to 20% · ± is the sampling uncertainty around each share
- positive
- mixed / neutral
- negative
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gameplay
13 positive · 20 negative · 2 mixed · 1 neutral
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Faltan de opciones de juego, el offline se vuelve aburrido muy rápido: El modelo de negocio del juego debería ser distinto desde la base.
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Make powershots good again.
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Ultimate team is not even football, 5'4 Usain Bolts, trash gameplay, no tactics, no variations just meta, Ayoze & Pino, press with midfield, waste time and run past defenders, absolute garbage!
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bugs
0 positive · 24 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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… and i found a bug that if i pause the game seconds after restarted the game (like begin of second half) to change my players, the game bugs and randomly change the players and if i tried to pause again to adjust, it`s impossible to return to the game and i need to close the FC and lost the game.
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Other bugs include not having the correct team rosters in some game modes but expect that to get fixed.
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it has lots of problems but once they fix its gonna be great
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performance
1 positive · 20 negative · 1 mixed · 0 neutral
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drop frame
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I SPENT 3 Hours customizing my Manager Career and club only to get into a game and for the FPS to drop.
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This still runs like garbage and is insanely buggy.
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stability
0 positive · 19 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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… of second half) to change my players, the game bugs and randomly change the players and if i tried to pause again to adjust, it`s impossible to return to the game and i need to close the FC and lost the game.
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I personally have not had any crashes - only noticeable issue is some stuttering in cut scenes and some lag in some online games but could be the opponent's connection.
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freeze in play rivals freezee controller
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controls
2 positive · 14 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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Joystick keeps stoping working.
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التحكم زي الزق و اليد تفصل بدون سبب
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controller lag
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servers netcode
0 positive · 16 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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I personally have not had any crashes - only noticeable issue is some stuttering in cut scenes and some lag in some online games but could be the opponent's connection.
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I’ve been trying with my friends for a week to do matchmaking in Clubs and it only shows 'Connection to lobby Lost'.
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lag
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price value
1 positive · 11 negative · 1 mixed · 2 neutral
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So it`s a expensive game that has some bugs, controllers doesn`t fully works and i keep playing because i like football.
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worst fifa/soccer game ive ever played bought it hoping it was going to be better then past years but this company doesnt know how to make a game complete waste of money
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DO NOT BUY THIS AT FULL PRICE.
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monetization
0 positive · 13 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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Faltan de opciones de juego, el offline se vuelve aburrido muy rápido: El modelo de negocio del juego debería ser distinto desde la base.
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Still has predatory micro-transactions but it seems more players are viable than in past years making the requirement to get the meta players to have any fun less pressing.
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still pay to win ea tho so gg 5 times
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content amount
3 positive · 6 negative · 1 mixed · 0 neutral
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literally the same game as last year, if not worse.
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pure recycled glitchy unfinished gimicky laggy ass.
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They removed Finland. I wonder why.
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developer conduct
1 positive · 9 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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I really believe that EA doesn`t care about PC players and will no solve this problem.
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hackers and EA just trying to manipulate you any way possible to spend money.
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I don't recommend the game to any one because ea company or developers will never fix the issues
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see more
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ui
0 positive · 10 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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fixed matches, bugs, slow menu.
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The graphics are fine, but that's not the point, the menu sucks, and the gameplay sucks, defenders are useless.
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Game is terrible the Ui is trash don't waste your money
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updates
0 positive · 10 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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04/11/2025 - A new update was released today and THE CONTROLLERS KEEPS STOPING WORKS.
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its awful and yet again as soon as the game is updated its worse.
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this game was good but after updates nobody wanted this game has been horrible and never worth buying
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balance
1 positive · 8 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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Ultimate team is not even football, 5'4 Usain Bolts, trash gameplay, no tactics, no variations just meta, Ayoze & Pino, press with midfield, waste time and run past defenders, absolute garbage!
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0 defense
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For some reason female players are extremly broken especially Pina.
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ai behavior
0 positive · 7 negative · 1 mixed · 0 neutral
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I cant recommend this game still the defenders are sluggish same problem its not possible to play anymore high line press way too risky the defenders are too slow and the keeper was also allowing strange goals did not try to safe it.
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this game is straight ass the players dont pass where their told they make me want to pull my eyeballs out of my skull
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I know that most of the reviews are bad but this was my first fc game i have ever played and apart from getting pissed off at my retarded gk i have really loved this game.
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graphics
5 positive · 2 negative · 0 mixed · 1 neutral
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The graphics are fine, but that's not the point, the menu sucks, and the gameplay sucks, defenders are useless.
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its good, great graphics.
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The game is simply just ok, same as couple of previous games in the series, just with updated roster and better graphics.
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multiplayer
5 positive · 3 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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También pensar algún modo online para jugar por épocas.
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Online Seasons IS the best mode btw
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Amazing game you can really have fun with friends and I kind of like KO Rush so check that out because it is good to play with friends.
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realism
1 positive · 4 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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ate esta data, esta muito bom jogar o UT, gameplay melhorou mt finalmente a EA ouviu os jogadores, nunca foi um simulador mesmo e continua não sendo, mas agora esta divertido e saindo gol para um caralho
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Carrer mode in realistic mode... is the biggest lie/scam ever made in the gaming history, it is the same as the last game but with the sliders lower to make the game feel more realistic, i've been doing that since Fifa 19, and you sold me that as a new thing.
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No semblence of realism or remotely real physics.
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Review timeline
weekly peak 4,300 reviews · all languages
weekly share rated positive · 50% reference · weeks with <5 reviews faded
the timeline as a table
| week | reviews | up | down | positive | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| week of 18 Sep 2025 | 3,376 | 1,748 | 1,628 | 52% | |
| week of 25 Sep 2025 | 3,999 | 1,927 | 2,072 | 48% | |
| week of 02 Oct 2025 | 2,612 | 1,107 | 1,505 | 42% | |
| week of 09 Oct 2025 | 1,864 | 747 | 1,117 | 40% | |
| week of 16 Oct 2025 | 1,443 | 611 | 832 | 42% | |
| week of 23 Oct 2025 | 1,659 | 625 | 1,034 | 38% | |
| week of 30 Oct 2025 | 1,064 | 421 | 643 | 40% | |
| week of 06 Nov 2025 | 1,120 | 407 | 713 | 36% | |
| week of 13 Nov 2025 | 937 | 299 | 638 | 32% | |
| week of 20 Nov 2025 | 3,169 | 1,517 | 1,652 | 48% | |
| week of 27 Nov 2025 | 3,327 | 1,769 | 1,558 | 53% | |
| week of 04 Dec 2025 | 1,762 | 708 | 1,054 | 40% | |
| week of 11 Dec 2025 | 1,674 | 636 | 1,038 | 38% | |
| week of 18 Dec 2025 | 1,924 | 712 | 1,212 | 37% | |
| week of 25 Dec 2025 | 2,271 | 978 | 1,293 | 43% | |
| week of 01 Jan 2026 | 2,210 | 1,047 | 1,163 | 47% | |
| week of 08 Jan 2026 | 1,405 | 661 | 744 | 47% | |
| week of 15 Jan 2026 | 1,882 | 871 | 1,011 | 46% | |
| week of 22 Jan 2026 | 2,008 | 895 | 1,113 | 45% | |
| week of 29 Jan 2026 | 1,656 | 758 | 898 | 46% | |
| week of 05 Feb 2026 | 1,079 | 496 | 583 | 46% | |
| week of 12 Feb 2026 | 1,053 | 468 | 585 | 44% | |
| week of 19 Feb 2026 | 1,041 | 478 | 563 | 46% | |
| week of 26 Feb 2026 | 795 | 398 | 397 | 50% | |
| week of 05 Mar 2026 | 1,382 | 670 | 712 | 48% | |
| week of 12 Mar 2026 | 1,521 | 827 | 694 | 54% | |
| week of 19 Mar 2026 | 1,796 | 951 | 845 | 53% | |
| week of 26 Mar 2026 | 1,678 | 855 | 823 | 51% | |
| week of 02 Apr 2026 | 1,420 | 728 | 692 | 51% | |
| week of 09 Apr 2026 | 1,471 | 695 | 776 | 47% | |
| week of 16 Apr 2026 | 1,532 | 808 | 724 | 53% | |
| week of 23 Apr 2026 | 1,539 | 777 | 762 | 50% | |
| week of 30 Apr 2026 | 1,539 | 785 | 754 | 51% | |
| week of 07 May 2026 | 1,463 | 782 | 681 | 53% | |
| week of 14 May 2026 | 1,140 | 593 | 547 | 52% | |
| week of 21 May 2026 | 1,221 | 673 | 548 | 55% | |
| week of 28 May 2026 | 1,397 | 846 | 551 | 61% | |
| week of 04 Jun 2026 | 1,944 | 1,075 | 869 | 55% | |
| week of 11 Jun 2026 | 4,281 | 2,276 | 2,005 | 53% | |
| week of 18 Jun 2026 | 4,300 | 2,484 | 1,816 | 58% | |
| week of 25 Jun 2026 | 3,991 | 2,174 | 1,817 | 54% | |
| week of 02 Jul 2026 | 3,692 | 2,190 | 1,502 | 59% | |
| week of 09 Jul 2026 | 3,697 | 2,237 | 1,460 | 61% | |
| week of 16 Jul 2026 | 3,191 | 1,777 | 1,414 | 56% | |
| week of 23 Jul 2026 | 2,745 | 1,589 | 1,156 | 58% | |
| week of 30 Jul 2026 | 2,165 | 1,223 | 942 | 56% | |
| week of 06 Aug 2026 | 1,927 | 1,101 | 826 | 57% | |
| week of 13 Aug 2026 | 1,093 | 589 | 504 | 54% |
How this report was made
- Population
- all Steam reviews of the game (every language, purchase type, and verdict), walked newest-first per window; only English-language reviews are analyzed
- Sample
- 261 English reviews, time-proportional draw over 48 windows (newest-first within each), taken from an all-language walk and kept English-only — where English is a minority the sample runs smaller than the draw, and every margin of error is computed at 261
- Aspect yield
- 125 of 261 analyzed reviews carry at least one aspect (47.9%); every share on this page divides by all 261
- Interval regime
- calm: standard margins of error for a share of a sample (Wilson interval), no widening needed
- Fetch paths
- 48 time windows fetched directly (windowed)
- Language mix
- 1,000 fetched: brazilian 294 · english 261 · turkish 116 · 23 more
- Steam-marked windows
- none flagged by Steam (Valve's off-topic flagging began March 2019)
- Marked share
- 0.0% of sample inside marked windows, under the 2% floor
- Narrative
- passed the grounding gate first try
- Evidence floor
- aspects and emergent themes appear only with 5+ supporting reviews; smaller counts sit at the classifier's false-positive floor
- Instrument readings
- measured once on the study corpus for this model and prompt: frozen calibration, not properties of this run
- · aspect tagging vs. human labels
- 0.766 [0.713–0.811] (F1 against a human-labeled test set; 1.0 is best)
- · quotes filed under the wrong aspect
- 11.6% [6.6–19.6] of quotes, measured by hand on a sample; lower is better
- · independent model vs. production labels
- 0.791 [0.772–0.810] (F1 of the production labeler against an independent judge model)
- Versions
- deepseek-v4-flash · prompt classify-v1 · ontology v2
- Run
- serve-20260818T194721Z-6e984286 · code ccaa6a4
full methodology in the milestone write-ups