Games like Soccer Manager 2018
by Soccer Manager Ltd
The most diverse FREE 2 PLAY football management simulator in the world. Take on a top flight club and test your management skills against the best or help a struggling, lower division team fight for glory.
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-20%$19.99Simhaus: Football
7 days ago · Simhaus
Both: Sports · Football (American) · 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
$4.99Pro Soccer Online
Dec 5 · Skywall Studios LLC
Both: Sports · Football (Soccer)
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
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
$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
$29.99Pro Basketball Manager 2026
Nov 17 · Umix Studios
Both: Sports · 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
$1.49Rikogol
7 days ago · Deniz Durusoy
Both: Sports · Football (Soccer)
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
FreeIOSoccer
Jun 12 · IOSoccer Team
Both: Football (Soccer) · Sports
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
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
$6.99THE REF - Football Referee Simulator
Aug 6 · HustleGrow AB
Both: Sports · 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
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-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
-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
$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
-15%$6.79SPORTAL
Jun 11 · Sleepwalking Potatoes
Both: Sports · Football (American)
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.
SportsAction RoguelikeArena ShooterFPSRogueliteBaseballBowlingFootball (American)GolfHockey
-15%$16.99TCG Card Shop Simulator
7 days ago · OPNeon Games
Both: Management
Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your card shop.
SimulationManagementEconomySingleplayerCollectathonTrading Card GameCapitalismCard GameShop KeeperTrading👍 47,485
$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
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
$19.99ScooterFlow
Apr 29 · UncannyKiwi Limited
Both: Sports
The world’s most realistic freestyle scooter game is finally here. Ride the skatepark, hit the streets, boost the mega ramp, fully customize your scooter & throw down all of the real life trick combinations you could dream of within this physics based scooter game.
SimulationSportsIndieMultiplayerControllerPhysicsRealistic3D PlatformerSingleplayer3D👍 3,978
