Games like Soccer Manager 2021
by Invincibles Studio Ltd
Be a top football manager in Soccer Manager 2021. Take a football team to the top and test your management skills against the best, or help a struggling team fight for glory!
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$11.99Football Agent
Aug 25 · ATERO GAMES
Both: Football (Soccer) · Sports · Immersive Sim
You're not the manager, you're the agent. Scout hidden gems across 47,500 players, win them over face to face, build their careers, and sell them for millions. A deep football agency career sim where every contract has your name on it.
Football (Soccer)SportsSimulationImmersive SimStrategyManagementShop KeeperEconomyIndieTactical👍 114
$29.99Pro Basketball Manager 2026
Nov 17 · Umix Studios
Both: Sports · Management · Immersive Sim
Lead your club to greatness in Pro Basketball Manager 2026! The Basketball Champions League arrives with 53 licensed teams, putting you in charge of every decision as you aim to dominate both domestic and continental basketball.
SportsSimulationStrategyBasketballManagementImmersive SimSingleplayerText-Based2D3D👍 121
$4.99Pro Soccer Online
Dec 5 · Skywall Studios LLC
Both: Sports · Football (Soccer) · Team-Based
Pro Soccer Online is a 1st/3rd person, highly skill based, online multiplayer soccer game. It offers a sports game experience unlike any other with smooth, physics based, input driven gameplay that is competitive and rewarding with no pay to win mechanics.
SportsFootball (Soccer)PvPCompetitiveeSportsCharacter Customization3DFirst-PersonThird PersonTeam-Based👍 23,248
-20%$19.99Simhaus: Football
7 days ago · Simhaus
Both: Sports · Management · Tactical
Rise from high school assistant to the top of the sport in one fully-simulated, connected football universe — from high school to college to the pros. Manage a roster, call every play, and watch it play out in a realism-based broadcast-style game engine.
SportsFootball (American)ManagementStrategySimulationTacticalModdableSingleplayerEarly Access
FreeGlobal Football
3 days ago · Giovanni Marin, Carlos Eduardo Fernandes, Guilherme Souza, Vinicius Marchesini de Oliveira
Both: Sports · Football (Soccer)
Global Football is a multiplayer football game focused on real skill, teamwork, and identity. Here, each player controls a single athlete on the field — not an entire team. No pay-to-win. No scripts. Victory depends solely on your game awareness, technique, and team chemistry.
SportseSports3DFootball (Soccer)Artificial IntelligenceFree to PlayMassively MultiplayerMultiplayerPvPCharacter Customization
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$69.99EA SPORTS FC™ 26
Sep 25 · EA Canada, EA Romania
Both: Football (Soccer) · Sports
Experience The World's Game like never before in EA SPORTS FC™ 26. Go for glory in a 48-team international tournament mode, take on themed Manager Live Challenges, and step into Player Career with new international ICONs and Heroes.
Football (Soccer)MultiplayerSportsControllerSimulationSingleplayerLocal Co-OpCompetitiveOnline Co-OpRealistic👍 100,028
$14.99Football Dynasty Manager
Aug 6 · Nekolitch Games
Both: Sports · Management · Tactical
A football management sim that does not cut corners. Recruiting, NIL, the portal, contracts and the cap, the draft, and an engine you can sim or call play by play. Eight connected leagues from high school to the pros, four rules eras back to 1950, and an editor for all of it
SportsStrategyFootball (American)ManagementSingleplayerTacticalIndieSimulation
FreeIOSoccer
Jun 12 · IOSoccer Team
Both: Football (Soccer) · Sports · Tactical
IOSoccer is a free non-commercial competitive third-person online multiplayer soccer game that offers unparalleled freedom in ball control and gameplay depth.
Football (Soccer)SportsMultiplayerFree to PlayOnline Co-OpPvPCo-opCompetitiveTacticalIndie
$1.49Rikogol
7 days ago · Deniz Durusoy
Both: Sports · Football (Soccer) · Team-Based
Arcade football, 1v1 to 11v11. Fast top-down matches, pure physics, no fouls and no offside. One player per team can leave the pitch and coach it instead: set the formation, ping the grass, and draw arrows only your own team can see.
SportsFootball (Soccer)MultiplayerCasualPvPIndieArcadeTeam-BasedCompetitivePhysics
$6.99THE REF - Football Referee Simulator
Aug 6 · HustleGrow AB
Both: Sports · Immersive Sim · Football (Soccer)
The football game where you're not the star - you're the law. Officiate full matches: whistle fouls, wave off divers, run VAR, survive the press. In 1-4 player online co-op your friends run the lines - and every blown call has a name on it.
SimulationSportsArcadeImmersive Sim3DFirst-PersonThird PersonComedyFootball (Soccer)Character Customization
$14.99Eslabong
Aug 24 · shirowita
Both: Management · Tactical
Arena combat meets mercenary club management. Recruit from a dynamic market, build your squad, and compete season after season in leagues and cups.
Early AccessAuto BattlerStrategyManagementRPGTacticalCombatCharacter CustomizationFantasyMedieval👍 1,118
FreePitchside Empire
Sep 5 · Bombastik Studio
Both: Sports · Football (Soccer)
Start with one five-a-side pitch. Answer the phone, haggle over the price, fill the hours. Reinvest: more pitches, more land, more staff. Grow enough and the neighbourhood league plays its season on your grass.
Sports2D PlatformerSimulationShop KeeperFootball (Soccer)3DSingleplayerStrategyFree to PlayIndie
$12.99Clothing Store Simulator
Nov 28 · Kiki Games
Both: Management · Immersive Sim
Are you ready to shape fashion world? Make a brand deal, order products, fill the aisles, dress the mannequins and start selling. Dresses, shirts, coats, pants, nightwear, underwear, shoes and more are waiting for you.
SimulationManagementEconomyLife SimSingleplayerTradingImmersive SimCapitalismResource ManagementInventory Management👍 1,120
$9.99Hakoniwa Base Ball
Jul 15 · Alybe Aria
Both: Sports
A front-office baseball management sim modeled on Japan's pro baseball (NPB) — no action. Run the draft, free agency, trades, contracts, scouting and stadium finances; simulate a season instantly or watch it pitch by pitch. Up to 30 teams, 6 leagues, all editable via CSV.
SimulationSportsStrategyBaseball2DCharacter CustomizationSingleplayerSandboxTradingResource Management
-34%$9.89Hardwood Basketball Manager
Apr 27 · Mythic Flux Foundry
Both: Sports · Management
Run a basketball club across seven connected leagues, from a college program to a pro front office to a club in Spain. Draw up your own plays and zone defenses, then take them online against another coach. Step away and the league keeps moving without you.
SportsSimulationStrategyBasketballManagementMultiplayerSingleplayer
$25.99Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Management
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
ManagementEconomySimulationCapitalismLife SimSandboxSingleplayerResource ManagementTime ManagementInventory Management👍 14,060
$17.99Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Jun 11 · Biotech Gameworks
Both: Management · Immersive Sim
Kebab Chefs! is a Co-Op, cooking and restaurant management game that can be played up to 4 players. Design your own restaurant. Cook delicious foods, fill your menu with various recipes, feed customers and become the biggest kebab restaurant in town!
CookingMultiplayerSimulationManagementPhysicsSandboxFunnyTime ManagementImmersive SimBuilding👍 7,017
-15%$8.49SCORE
6 days ago · TecEh! Studios
Both: Sports
Score is an online football world where you create a player, join or build a club, compete through leagues and cups, and earn money to buy cars, apartments, houses, and furniture in a shared multiplayer city. A pure football game inspired by Pro Clubs , no missions, no crime, just the sport.
SimulationSportsMassively MultiplayerIndieAction