After the World Cup and before the domestic football season begins, the world's most popular sport tends to enjoy a relatively quiet period. For some though, the need for football remains.
This summer that demand has been met by the creation of a raft of mobile sports games in which players can dive into nostalgia and storytelling. This craze has seemingly been inspired by the viral 82-0 basketball game in which players can draft an all-time NBA starting five by spinning a random wheel for teams and decades.
Inspired by this, Deniz Sancar, a hobbyist coder who works in advertising, created 38-0-0. Sancar told "mobilegamer.biz" that despite having no previous coding experience, he built the game overnight with Claude Code, an advanced AI assistant that is designed to help with coding. The game was number one in the UK App Store games charts in June.
Destiny Eleven: From TikTok to France and the world
Another example is Destiny Eleven. Maxence Pigne, a PSG fan and a project manager, was inspired by a game he saw on TikTok that allowed players to play out the career of a professional footballer. After the 2026 World Cup, Pigne released his version, also created with the help of AI assistant Claude, which took the original idea further by offering more variety and choices in the career.
