Games like Greats of the Gridiron
If Greats of the Gridiron is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gridiron Football League, Madden NFL 22 and Legend Bowl — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Greats of the Gridiron: Greats of the Gridiron is a football simulation experience where must Outdraft, Outdesign, and Outcoach other coaches to stake your claim to Greatness. • Draft/trade players• Design all plays in their entirety• Control when CPU calls your plays. Go for it on 4th and inches? Up to you.
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Steam players who put hours into Greats of the Gridiron also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Gridiron Football League
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Top pick for Greats of the Gridiron fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Greats of the Gridiron.
Gridiron Football League combines retro football presentation with deep franchise simulation.
Madden NFL 22
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Second-strongest match for Greats of the Gridiron fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Greats of the Gridiron.
Madden NFL 22 is where gameday happens. All-new features in Franchise include staff management, an enhanced scenario engine, and weekly strategy. Share avatar progress and player class between Face of The Franchise and The Yard with unified progression.
Legend Bowl
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Third-strongest match for Greats of the Gridiron fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Greats of the Gridiron.
Legend Bowl is a throwback to the classic 8-bit and 16-bit football games of the past. Take to the gridiron and fight your way to becoming a football legend! Enjoy sim-style gameplay, realistic weather, detailed stats, franchise mode, tournament mode, fully customizable rosters, and much much more!
Madden NFL 23
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Ranked #4 for Greats of the Gridiron fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Greats of the Gridiron.
Play your way into the history books. Control your impact with every decision in all-new ways. Call the shots in Franchise with free agency and trade logic updates, leave a legacy in Face of the Franchise: The League, and assemble the most powerful roster in all of Madden Ultimate Team™.
College Bowl
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Ranked #5 for Greats of the Gridiron fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Greats of the Gridiron.
College Bowl is a beautifully pixelated on-field simulation of American Football! Challenge college rivals on your way to winning a National title! Take on various game modes, including a deep Dynasty mode with in-depth recruiting, scouting, stat tracking, ranking, bowl games, yearly goals and more!
Pro Strategy Football 2024
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Ranked #6 for Greats of the Gridiron fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Greats of the Gridiron.
NOT the latest version, please check out PSF 2026!
NBA 2K24
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Ranked #7 for Greats of the Gridiron fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Greats of the Gridiron.
This product will no longer be available for purchase as of 10/30/2025. NOTE: All multiplayer servers for NBA 2K24 will be shutdown as of 12/31/2025. After that time, all game functions requiring online servers will no longer function.
NBA 2K25
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Ranked #8 for Greats of the Gridiron fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Greats of the Gridiron.
Command every court with authenticity and realism Powered by ProPLAY™, giving you ultimate control over how you play in NBA 2K25. Define your legacy in MyCAREER, MyTEAM, MyNBA, and The W.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Greats of the Gridiron at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~80% under Greats of the Gridiron on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Greats of the Gridiron.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under Greats of the Gridiron on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Greats of the Gridiron.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~44% under Greats of the Gridiron on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Greats of the Gridiron.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under Greats of the Gridiron on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Greats of the Gridiron.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~72% under Greats of the Gridiron on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Greats of the Gridiron.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Balatro
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Priced ~52% under Greats of the Gridiron on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Greats of the Gridiron.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~70% under Greats of the Gridiron on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Greats of the Gridiron.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
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Priced ~60% under Greats of the Gridiron on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Greats of the Gridiron.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Greats of the Gridiron.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Greats of the Gridiron.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Early Access with Greats of the Gridiron.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Lily's Well
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Greats of the Gridiron.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Liquidators
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Greats of the Gridiron.
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Greats of the Gridiron.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Frequently asked about Greats of the Gridiron
- How much does Greats of the Gridiron cost?
- Greats of the Gridiron is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Greats of the Gridiron?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Greats of the Gridiron are Gridiron Football League, Madden NFL 22, Legend Bowl.
- Who developed Greats of the Gridiron?
- Greats of the Gridiron was developed by Critical Density Studios.
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