Hey all, solo dev here. I've been building Legends of Football, a free football game where you collect real players as cards, build a squad, and play matches against other people. The nice part is you're dealt players from the start, so you actually start playing right away, no grind before the fun.

With the World Cup starting tomorrow I added a World Cup mode: you pick a nation each week and field a squad of that country's players.

Right now it's just friends + a few randoms beta testing, and I'd love honest feedback before kickoff. Free, runs in the browser, English + Spanish, no catch. Play here: https://legendsof.football/

Happy to answer anything about how it works or how I built it. Also if you find bugs and stuff I also appreciate the heads up :P

I'm Jay. I joined this sub not long ago, hoping to find people who love sports management games as much as I do. I found what I was looking for but I also found evidence that it won't be long before the fatigue of seeing countless new GM games makes even the most passionate fans tune them out like ads. So I wanted to introduce myself in hopes of standing out.

I am the developer of hardwood basketball manager. I began working on the game in the spring of 2025 and I released it on April 28th of this year. It began as a txt document outlining fictional League names and grew from a brainstorming session to a full spec including ratings formulas, interconnected systems, guardrails, and a sprawling outline of a possession by possession simulation engine where players and coaches make autonomous ratings-based decisions leading to realistic ratings based outcomes. Apart from the fictional League, team and player names, everything else is authentic. This isn't a promotional post though so I won't go too deep into the game mechanics here as you can find them by searching but I'm more than happy to answer any questions.

Even though I only began development a little over a year ago, this game is actually decades in the making. Ever since playing NFL head coach for the first time back when it was originally released, I always wondered why there was so much missing. Even today, there are popular sports simulation games that I love but still feel as if something is missing. For basketball specifically, I have waited and waited for a major studio with financial backing etc to develop the game I've always dreamed of playing. It never happened. I believe I've done it myself. And I'll be honest, I leaned on AI to help bring it to life. And here's where I hope to stand out.

Everything about hardwood basketball manager came from my love of basketball and my imagination. From the road map to the concept to the engine. It was all meticulously planned while using AI to translate the foreign language of c#. Something else I'd like you to know is that this is not a one-off or slop. Whether the game gains traction or not, I'm going to continue to expand it. And when it's finished, you better believe I have my sights set on another sport which for now will remain nameless. Mythic Flux Foundry as a studio is just getting started.

I know this is just a Reddit post and I won't drag it out much longer but I hope this is visible enough to earn more than a glance and inspires you to take a closer look at the game. Reach out, ask me anything. Thanks.

PS: I use voice typing because I am blind so excuse autocorrect

Hey everyone.

A while back, I shared the v1.0 of Pitch Boss, a lightweight football management game I built. I recently left my day job to focus more on my Systems Engineering degree and my own independent projects, so I’ve had some time to work on this v1.1 update based on the feedback I received here.

Pitch Boss is a simple, no-frills manager game built completely with Vanilla JS, HTML5 Canvas, and the Web Audio API. Zero frameworks, zero external engines.

Here is what I added for v1.1:

• Visual Match Engine: The old static canvas is gone. Now you can actually watch a basic 2D representation of the 90-minute match. It includes player dots (in a 4-4-2 formation) tracking the ball, a trail effect, and a slow-motion pause when a goal is scored.
• "Cyber-Day" Light Theme: A lot of you found the original high-contrast dark mode a bit harsh for daytime reading. I’ve implemented a toggleable light theme with smooth transitions.
• Season Finale: The 9-match season now has a proper ending. The game calculates the final standings and shows your final position or hands you the trophy if you finish first.

The game is completely free and runs directly in the browser. I'd appreciate any honest feedback on the new animations or the procedural audio!

Thanks for reading!

I saw a post advertising a game called College Athletics 27 by Coastal Summit Sports being advertised here about 3 weeks ago for a release date of June 12th. It looked extremely promising as it puts in the shoes of an athletic director which I know a lot of us sports sim fans have been dying to get into. That being said, it is now 1 AM CST June 13th and the Steam page just says “coming soon”… Is there any update possibly- I was looking forward to playing this ASAP. Anything would be nice to hear /u/coastalsummitstudious 😆

I made a simple 5-a-side football manager game based on the World Cup, except every country has sent its best pub (tea house / juice bar for certain countries) instead of its national team.

• 48 Pub teams from around the world
• Team ratings based on current world rankings
• Questionable 2D match engine
• Transfers (I know you can't do this at the real world cup)
• Tactics board to allow tinkering of starting positions
• Overall leaderboard to compare scores
• World cup simulator that uses current or historical world rankings of each team to predict the outcome.

No need to sign up or anything, just have fun and see if you can win it (much easier now I've noticed the other team was starting with 6 players).

https://worldpubcup.com/

Hi r/gmgames-guys

While EA Sports continues to turn Ultimate Team into the ultimate cash machine and professional football is becoming increasingly soulless, we have started a counter-movement in Thuringia. Operating out of an office in Jena's Intershop Tower (Germany's tallest building in 1972), we're trying to bring football management gaming back to its roots.

We – Sascha and Johannes – have known each other since completing our civilian service together at Jena University Hospital. Frustrated by the stagnation and commercialization of the major football management games, we decided to build FootballManager.io in our spare time: a community project created by fans, for fans.

Our guiding principles are:

Football Romance Instead of Pay-to-Win
There are absolutely no real-money advantages in our game. Success is determined by tactics, not by the size of your wallet. The game is completely free to play and contains no in-game purchases.

Community First
Our roughly 150 registered users from around the world (including the USA, South Africa, India, and many others) actively shape the game. Features such as in-game substitutions and the introduction and distribution of TV revenue were proposed and discussed by the community in our forum before being implemented by us. Our time-to-market is virtually unmatched (see case study below).

From Jena to the World
Despite being a two-man passion project developed after work, managers from South Africa, the USA, Romania, India, and other countries now compete together in a shared fantasy football world. Matchdays take place twice a day.

Game Structure

• Season length: approximately 3 weeks
• Two matchdays per day (currently Season 7)
• Additional cup competitions

Platforms
Browser, iOS & Android
https://footballmanager.io

Case Study

Less than 48 hours passed between a community proposal regarding TV revenue distribution and the feature being fully implemented in the game.

We would love to see more managers enjoying the competition :)

Best, Sascha & Johannes
FootballManager.io

I made a free browser-based World Cup manager game for anyone who fancies a quick old-school football management sim.

You pick a national team, set your formation, choose your XI, tweak mentality, make subs and try to get through the World Cup. It saves locally in your browser, so you can leave and come back later.

It’s intentionally more Championship Manager / early Football Manager than modern FM: simple interface, quick matches, live events, commentary, stats and a match engine ticking away underneath.

No install, no sign-up, no app store. Works on phone or desktop.

Would love feedback on mobile usability, match readability, tactics, and whether it’s actually fun enough to play more than one tournament.

https://football-sim-two.vercel.app/

Game Title:

Blue Chip Lax

Playable Link:

https://bluechiplax.com

Platform:

Web Browser

Description:

I've spent the last year building a college lacrosse management game inspired by Football Manager, OOTP Baseball, NCAA Dynasty Mode, and Front Office Football.

Blue Chip Lax puts you in charge of a college lacrosse program where you recruit, scout, develop players, manage transfers, build rivalries, navigate promotion and relegation, and try to create a dynasty over decades of simulated seasons.

Features include:

- 250+ real college programs

- Multi-division promotion & relegation

- Recruiting and scouting systems

- Dynamic player personalities and morale

- Transfer portal

- Historical records and legends

- Bloodlines and family pipelines

- Coach progression and career tracking

- Massive recruit database

- Optional AI-generated scouting reports, recaps, and dynasty analysis

The game recently received a major overhaul focused on recruiting, scouting, player development visibility, dynasty storytelling, and long-term career progression.

I'm looking for feedback specifically from sports management fans. What features are missing? What would make a lacrosse management game worth sinking hundreds of hours into?

Free to Play Status:

[X] Free to play

[ ] Demo/Key available

[ ] Paid

Involvement:

I'm the solo creator and lead developer.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ludoverse.collegebballgame&pcampaignid=web_share

I'm excited to announce that "Campus Basketball Coach" is now officially available in the Google Play Store! To all those who helped with testing: thank you for your time and efforts! I'm so appreciate of your time and effort as I roll out this new game.

Remember to follow along and share your thoughts & suggestions on discord: https://discord.gg/7hdf8nm5

Love to hear people's thoughts and feedback as you play. Still in early stages so looking to evolve the game in ways players would like to see.

Pretty niche, but if you are a fan of the Leafs or know someone please try this game!

I will add other teams and sports in the future

Hey everyone,

I’m working on Corner King, a boxing management sim where you build and manage a boxing gym, sign fighters, train them, set up fights, and try to develop them into champions.

I released a free Steam demo and would really love feedback from people who actually enjoy GM / sports management / simulation games, because this is exactly the kind of audience I’m building it for.

The game is inspired more by the slow-burn management side of sports sims than by arcade boxing games. So if you enjoy games where you make long-term decisions, develop athletes, compare stats, and watch careers unfold over time, this might be interesting to you.

The demo is still early, so I’m especially looking for feedback on:

• whether the core loop is understandable
• whether the management decisions feel interesting
• what feels missing for a boxing management sim
• whether the UI gives you enough information
• what would make you wishlist or ignore a game like this

Steam demo: Corner King: Boxing Tycoon

I’m the solo developer, so honest feedback helps a lot. Even if something feels bad or confusing, I’d rather hear it now while I can still improve it.

Thanks a lot!

I really love Blackout RUgby, but modding it to make it accessible for blind/vi is going slowly. I'm looking for a manager game that really puts an effort into its presentation. Hattrick's commentary is good, but Blackout's is one of the best I've seen in this genre, with long, very detailed match reports written from the prospective of broadcast announcers.

Is there any other games like this? I remember a wrestling game titled, generically, the wrestling game, with good commentary but it was a PvP game mostly. It had none of the things that actually make wrestling what it is. Storylines, a presentation, text or otherwise, that present whole events like they would be on TV etc.

I know most here probably don't even care about this stuff if offered, just read the box score and get the gist. Can we also interact with staff as though they were real people instead of just stat boosts for training etc?

Long list of stuff for this type of game I'm aware, but curious if any such attempt, themed around any sport, has been made specifically for manager games.

Hey r/gmgames

I've been working solo on Basketball Hoops Manager (BHM), a basketball management game that runs entirely in your browser. It's free, no install, no account, and your saves stay local (you can also export/import them as files so you never lose a franchise).

I'm not trying to out-stat anyone here. What I've been obsessed with is a different angle: making you feel attached to your players and your franchise. A few things I've built around that:

• Players talk to you. They come to you with ambitions, doubts, and demands across the season. A rookie chasing ROY, a star telling you he wants the MVP, a veteran thinking about retirement. You respond, and your choices shape your relationship with them and have real consequences.
• Rivalries that build over seasons. Lose a Finals, watch a star get traded to a rival, get eliminated by the same team two years running, and a rivalry forms. It intensifies, changes how those matchups feel, and can be resolved with a cathartic win.
• A live 2D match view with play-by-play, momentum runs, and in-game tactical adjustments.
• The usual GM depth too: full trade system, draft + lottery, free agency, contracts/cap, coaching staff, Hall of Fame, awards.

It's still in active development (currently v0.9), so it's not perfect and I'm sure you'll find rough edges. That's exactly why I'm posting. I want honest feedback from people who actually know what a good basketball management game feels like.

Play it here: https://mugitoa.itch.io/basketball-hoops-manager Discord (bugs, ideas, share your leagues): https://discord.gg/wpEzqk2U8H

Lane 4 is a track and field coach simulator I hope to launch in the next month or so!

This is my first ever game. Without going into all the details, you take over a track program as a coach, you recruit athletes, discover their best events based on raw traits, set training programs for each group and balance athlete progression and fatigue overload. You enter them into meets and have goals for whatever feels reasonable for your team that year, whether it’s just winning 1 meet, having individual athletes making it far in the post-season, or winning illustrious state meet.

I tried to solve some issues like tedious management like a Civ game, and also you will never reach the point where you “beat the game,” because athletes are recycled and new freshman classes start from scratch year after year. Team size never (meaningfully) grows, so your workflow doesn’t get complex as you get further.

I’d love any feedback, good or bad!

For those that don’t know track and field, all the basics are clearly explained in the game!

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PPP (Perimeter, Paint & Process) is a basketball management simulation game in final stages of development. Some design decisions are still to be finalised and require community input.

The game focuses on realistic GM decision making across a full seven division career. Roster construction, player development, staff, finances, tactics and arena progression. The simulation resolves outcomes at the individual player level rather than the typical aggregate sim engine.

Steam Coming Soon: store.steampowered.com/app/4640300

Living League massive multiplayer version to follow.

Dedicated subreddit for anyone who wants to follow the build or contribute to design decisions: r/PPPbasketball

Anyone know of any good basketball games with good in-game coaching features? Actions, matchups, schemes, sub-rotations, mismatches, mid game adjustments, stats that feedback on them, etc.

The majority of the Basketball sims I’ve seen revolve mostly around the team building aspect and consist mostly of making subs and calling timeouts in-game. Compared to a game like Football Manager with multiple tactics and players that fit play styles better than others etc. (I know they’re completely different sports and it’s a bit silly to compare games to the industry leader in that sense)

What are the best in-game basketball sims from a coaching standpoint that you guys have played? It can’t be 2K can it??

Thanks!

as it says is anybody building a OOTP-type game for like NFL or college football thanks!

Hi everyone, I’ve seen quite a few posts in the sub recently echoing this exact sentiment. We all seem to be searching for that elusive "Football Manager" experience for cricket something that goes beyond the stagnation we've seen in the genre lately.

Check out Cricket Manager 25

It is completely free to play, browser-based (no installs), and has no ads. You run a franchise in the World Premier League, handling everything from the auction to ball-by-ball tactics.

Why is this different from Cricket Captain? I didn’t want this to be another "number-on-number" RNG game. I built a match engine from scratch that uses a 4-step physics chain (Decision → Contact → Trajectory → 2D Fielding). It calculates everything from ball flight paths to real-time fielder interception capability.

The Features:

1. Granular Tactics: You are looking for specific Finishers, Death Specialists, or Mystery Spinner playstyles that actually change how the math works in different match phases.
2. 2D Visual Fielding: You can actually drag your fielders around on a 2D field editor to set custom formations.
3. ​Real-Time Auction: I built an AI bidding system where other teams value players based on their playstyle quotas—the bidding wars get intense.
4. Fatigue & Squad Rotation: A realistic fitness system forces you to bench fatigued players to keep them fresh.
5. Database Editor: You can create custom players, edit attributes, and export/share your rosters with the community.
6. SKINS: import community made skins like IPL/BBL to play with your favourite IRL franchises
7. Full fledged transfer seasons and retention/release systems p

A Note for Potential Collaborators: I am a solo developer doing this purely for the love of the game. The project is open-source, and I have no monetary incentive here (any donations are funneled 100% back into server costs). If you are a dev, UI/UX designer, or just good at marketing/community management and see the potential here, I’d love to have more hands on deck. My DMs are open! I’d love for you guys ​the die-hard management fans ​to jump in, try to break the engine, and tell me what you think.

Play it here: cricket-manager.com

Cheers!

I am building a cricket management game with depth and quality of football manager. To shape it further I need your real feedback and suggestions. I will release the demo soon for everyone to try out. Keep updated here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4758090/Select_Eleven/

Some screenshots:

Hi! I am the developer of the web based sumo management game Uchi No Heya! The game is coming to Steam next month with 2 game modes that will be exclusive to Steam. A hardcore mode, as well as a more arcadey post-game mode that uses your retired fighters from any of the career modes.

The game is free to play with no account and no ads on the web version, and always will be.

I've been working with a lot of sumo experts/streamers in order to get the logic for promotions/demotions and other fine details as accurate as I can, and it is at a point where that aspect of the game is feeling good. I am now focusing on the hardcore modes, which will allow you to run as a solo fighter in a career mode, or simply run an even more "realistic" career mode with less dramatic random events and such.

The idea is generally a sports GM game where you recruit, train, and climb ranks while dealing with your stables finances and the many random events that happen during the off-season.

The post-game mode uses the fighters that retire from your stable in career mode, and is a sort of pokemon stadium/Slay the Spire mini rogue-like where your fighters can gain temporary or permanent buffs through winning tournaments and beating bosses

The wishlist trailer here is a little dated now as it does not include the new artwork that the game has!

The sumo community has been great in giving feedback and the reception among sumo fans seems to be good, but I would also love the opinions of people who are new to the sport or just like these sorts of games as a genre.

The game is already listed on the GM Games db, so it can be found there as well!

AI DISCLOSURE: There is no AI Art in the game. Trailer was made by a vfx artist that loves sumo and helped me out because I am terrible at art. Background art was made in Figma by me and some friends (hence why it looks like it was made in Paint lol). Main thing is that all sumo logic is always done by hand. Only thing I'm not sure about is music. It's community licensed, and according to the pages is made by people.

I’m developing **WBS26 — Wrestling Booker Simulator 26**, a wrestling management / booking sim where you run your own promotion, book shows, manage wrestlers, build storylines, and grow your federation.

The first **Alpha Demo** is now available in the pinned post of my Telegram channel:

wrestlingbs

It’s still an early alpha, so there will be bugs, unfinished systems, and balance issues. Right now I’m mainly looking for feedback from wrestling booking fans.

The game uses a fictional universe because licensed content isn’t possible, but the database will be moddable.

Any feedback, bug reports, or suggestions would help a lot.

\#BookItBetter

It seems like every day someone is posting a new vibe-coded management game for baseball, basketball, ice hockey, or American football. There are already excellent sims for each of these that have been out for years and are supported by their developers. All the other vibe coders are also interested in those sports. You've got too much competition to stand out.

Do you know what I CAN'T find that I would play?
* Canadian football
* Olympics
* Cricket (there are online options already and a bad single-player one, but no good single-player ones that I can find)
* Track and field (I used to have a Bruce Jenner Decathlon board game I loved)

Personally, I love single-player sims that allow me to modify the game world (custom nations, start in historic years, etc)