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Games like Lords of Football

If Lords of Football is your kind of game, the closest matches are 99Managers Futsal Edition, Footy Ball Tournament 2018 and Global Soccer: A Management Game 2019 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, comedic and funny. 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.

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About Lords of Football: Lords of Football is a whole new sports lifestyle simulator, played in God Mode.The everyday routine of football is brought to life, simulating footballers' training to improve their skills and all the drama and real-life distractions that unfold during a normal season.

2013SportsStrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDMetacritic 52Windowsby Geniaware Srl
Lords of Football — Steam game cover
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Blend football tactics with life sim elementsHumor and absurdity shine throughManage player addictions and punishmentsChallengingComedicFunny

Players who liked Lords of Football also play

Steam players who put hours into Lords of Football 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.

  1. 99Managers Futsal Edition

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Lords of Football fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Lords of Football.

    A futsal management game with a 2D match engine and integrated editor. Can you find the next wonderkid and become the best manager? Proudly open source.

    2025SportsStrategyIndie10.00 USDSteam ↗
  2. Footy Ball Tournament 2018

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Lords of Football fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Lords of Football.

    The auto-run football tournament soccer game. Be the player, be the manager.

    2018ActionSportsStrategy4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Global Soccer: A Management Game 2019

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Lords of Football fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Lords of Football.

    In Global Soccer: A Management Game 2019 there are no restrictions, the whole world becomes playable! The 210 playable nations and the 4000+ playable clubs guarantees truly infinite hours to play.

    2019SportsStrategyIndie8.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Football Pitch and Arcade Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Lords of Football fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Lords of Football.

    Manage a football pitch and arcade! Upgrade machines, attract players and build your ultimate fun center.

    SportsStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. WE ARE FOOTBALL 2024

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Lords of Football.

    Ranked #5 for Lords of Football fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Lords of Football.

    Welcome to WE ARE FOOTBALL 2024! Dive into the world of football like never before. Choose an existing club or start your own. Manage either men or women, lead your club to new heights, and become the next manager legend!

    2024SportsStrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Football Manager 2019

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Lords of Football fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Lords of Football.

    Simulation gaming perfected. Create your unique footballing story by taking charge of the club you love. Complete control of this stunningly realistic game world is yours - every decision in your hands, or yours to delegate. Your call, your way, your story. Everything you've ever dreamed of!

    2018SportsSimulationDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Football, Tactics & Glory

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Lords of Football.

    Ranked #7 for Lords of Football fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Lords of Football.

    XCOM meets Football Manager. Develop your club, earn experience in turn-based matches, learn new skills, achieve new classes, upgrade your facilities, buy and sell footballers, grow your youth academy, make difficult choices. It's a deep strategy game that respects your time.

    2018SportsStrategySimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Football Manager 2017

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Lords of Football.

    Ranked #8 for Lords of Football fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Lords of Football.

    Take control of your favourite football team in Football Manager 2017, the most realistic and immersive football management game to date. It’s the closest thing to doing the job for real!

    2016SportsSimulationDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Lords of Football

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Software Inc.

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Lords of Football.

    Reviewers of Lords of Football cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords of Football.

    Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation22.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Sims™ 4

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Lords of Football.

    Reviewers of Lords of Football cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Lords of Football.

    Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.

    2020AdventureSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Sims™ Legacy Collection

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Lords of Football.

    Reviewers of Lords of Football cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Lords of Football.

    The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.

    2025SimulationCasual11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Football Manager 26

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Lords of Football cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Sports and Strategy with Lords of Football.

    Step into the dugout and experience the future of football management.

    2025SportsStrategySimulation59.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lords of Football at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Lords of Football on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lords of Football.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Lords of Football on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lords of Football.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Lords of Football on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lords of Football.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Lords of Football on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Lords of Football.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Lords of Football on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords of Football.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Lords of Football on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords of Football.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Lords of Football on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords of Football.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Lords of Football on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lords of Football.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords of Football.

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Clicker Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords of Football.

    Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.

    2015StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  3. Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lords of Football.

    Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!

    2017IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Kingdom: Classic

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords of Football.

    Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Learn to Fly 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords of Football.

    Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!

    2017ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Mr.Mine

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords of Football.

    Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Idling to Rule the Gods

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords of Football.

    Idling to Rule the Gods is a free to play Idle-Game with a lot of content and some Minigames. Depending on your play-style, you can play it fast or slow. Either way it can be fun for hundreds of hours!

    2016StrategyIndieSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Idle Research

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lords of Football.

    Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles. Research and craft colorful Flasks and Tubes to earn as much Energy as possible! Big numbers guaranteed.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Lords of Football

How much does Lords of Football cost?
Lords of Football is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Lords of Football?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lords of Football are 99Managers Futsal Edition, Footy Ball Tournament 2018, Global Soccer: A Management Game 2019.
Who developed Lords of Football?
Lords of Football was developed by Geniaware Srl and published by Fish Eagle.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Lords of Football.

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