Games like Hardwood Basketball Manager
by Mythic Flux Foundry
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.
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$29.99Pro Basketball Manager 2026
Nov 17 · Umix Studios
Both: Sports · Basketball · Management
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
-20%$19.99Simhaus: Football
7 days ago · Simhaus
Both: Sports · Management
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
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Both: Sports
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$6.99THE REF - Football Referee Simulator
Aug 6 · HustleGrow AB
Both: Sports
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.
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$4.99Pro Soccer Online
Dec 5 · Skywall Studios LLC
Both: Sports
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.
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Both: Sports
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
$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.
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Both: Sports
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.
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$1.49Rikogol
7 days ago · Deniz Durusoy
Both: Sports
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.
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Both: Sports
Sport meets slaughter in this roguelite arena FPS. Use lethal sports equipment to crush B-movie monsters. Combine upgrades, perfect your build, perfect your skills, and face the ultimate evil bosses. Play ball... or die trying.
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$24.99News Tower
Nov 18 · Sparrow Night
Both: Management
Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
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Jul 16 · RaulM
Both: Sports
A fast-paced tactical cycling game where every kilometer is a decision. Play your cards, manage your energy, time your attacks and fight for victory across Grand Tours, stage races and legendary Classics.
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Both: Sports
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Both: Sports
Run your sporting goods shop. Sign contracts with leading brands, order products, hire workers, expand your store, and run little contests to entertain your customers. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your shop.
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6 days ago · Unordered Games
Both: Sports
Slot cars meets simulation racing. Master grip, timing, and race strategy using only throttle and brake. Push to the limit, outsmart rivals, and fight for every corner in intense wheel-to-wheel competition.
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$17.99Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Jun 11 · Biotech Gameworks
Both: Management
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!
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$12.99Island Market Simulator
Sep 3 · Zentium Studio
Both: Management
Team up with your friends and build a thriving trade empire in this CO-OP strategy and economy simulation set on a lively island. Begin with a small market, share tasks, manage production chains, raise livestock, and dominate the economy together through changing seasons and dynamic festivals!
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