Games like World Basketball Tycoon
If World Basketball Tycoon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Geeked-Out Basketball, Hoop Dynasty: Rise of a Legend and Final Buzzer : Idle Basketball Manager 🏀 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and retro. 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 World Basketball Tycoon: WBM Tycoon is a fresh look in sports strategy games that combines the classic manager game with the financial management and development of a Tycoon type game. As the Club Owner you must generate (or loan) the necessary funds in order to expand the club's facilities, raise the financial level and improve the team's roster.
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Geeked-Out Basketball
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Top pick for World Basketball Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
Think you have the coaching chops to build a dynasty? Prove it. Recruit and develop your players, scout opponents and craft your game plans — then call every possession live. The basketball management sim with depth you can actually see and feel.
Hoop Dynasty: Rise of a Legend
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Second-strongest match for World Basketball Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
Build your player's basketball career in a single-player management sim. Manage training and recovery, develop skills, weigh contract offers and build relationships with your team. Earn a starting spot and follow simulated games in 2D with play-by-play and stats, or use quick simulation.
Final Buzzer : Idle Basketball Manager 🏀
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Third-strongest match for World Basketball Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
Basketballs rain onto your street court and every shot that drops earns you cash. Spend it on a 196-node skill tree, grow your squad to 30 shooters, and play real 5v5 pixel-art matches to climb seven leagues. An idle basketball game you can actually watch.
Basketball Legacy Manager 27
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Ranked #4 for World Basketball Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
Build the ultimate legacy as the general manager of a professional basketball team!
Hardwood Basketball Manager
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Ranked #5 for World Basketball Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
Hardwood Basketball Manager is a basketball simulation where you build and manage a professional franchise. Set detailed tactics for every possession, scout prospects through the Foundry draft combine, negotiate trades and free agent signings, and watch it all unfold in a 2D tactical visualizer.
Hoops Ahead: Basketball Manager
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Ranked #6 for World Basketball Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
A new basketball league has been founded! Manage, trade, and sign players to help lead your team to a championship.
Statto Complete Basketball
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Ranked #7 for World Basketball Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
Take control of your own basketball world where you are the head coach, general manager, and commissioner!
Basketball Legacy Manager 26
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Ranked #8 for World Basketball Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
Build the ultimate legacy as the general manager of a professional basketball team!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below World Basketball Tycoon at current Steam store prices.
The Test
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Priced ~50% under World Basketball Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~50% under World Basketball Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under World Basketball Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under World Basketball Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
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Priced ~50% under World Basketball Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~75% under World Basketball Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~75% under World Basketball Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
The NOexistenceN of Lilith
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Priced ~55% under World Basketball Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
Lilith has returned from the fantasy world to become your desktop companion. Watch her wander freely across your screen with lively animations and dynamic real-time behaviors. Spend cozy everyday moments together as she keeps you company and eases the stress of daily life.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
iBasket Manager 3 - Online Basketball Manager
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
Join the online Basketball revolution and immerse yourself in the ultimate sports simulation, where your decisions on and off the court will define your legacy. iBasket Manager 3 represents the nextgen of online Basketball Manager games. Are you taking the challenge, Manager?
Astonishing Basketball Manager
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
The ultimate basketball manager game. Become the best coach of the league and build your own basketball dynasty!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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Other recommendable Steam games by Icehole Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
World Basketball Manager 2010
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Shares a retro mood with World Basketball Tycoon.
Another title from Icehole Games, the studio behind World Basketball Tycoon. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
World Basketball Manager (WBM) is a basketball strategy game. It uses the same game-play principles as most soccer management games do. Entering the game, the player creates his manager profile and he is hired as the general manager of a basketball club and his task is to improve the team’s performance by analyzing the facts and making...
US and THEM
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Shares a contemplative mood with World Basketball Tycoon.
Another title from Icehole Games, the studio behind World Basketball Tycoon.
Lead the CIA or KGB in a turn-based global strategy. Influence nations, run covert ops, and win the Cold War without firing a shot.
Sim Junta
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Another title from Icehole Games, the studio behind World Basketball Tycoon.
Sim Junta – A game of dirty politics! You are the new dictator of Risuena, a small and poor country of the third world. You have just seized power after a bloody coup and your intentions are to stay in power as long as you can, to rip this country off, transfer the money to your secret Swiss bank account and of course, stay alive and...
World Basketball Manager 2
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Shares a retro mood with World Basketball Tycoon.
Another title from Icehole Games, the studio behind World Basketball Tycoon. Shares Simulation with World Basketball Tycoon.
Start an international career as a basketball manager in the ultimate old school sport management game! WBM2 is not just the latest addition to the successful series of basketball management games, but a completely new game, based on a super fast engine and a friendly and simple interface!
Frequently asked about World Basketball Tycoon
- How much does World Basketball Tycoon cost?
- World Basketball Tycoon is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to World Basketball Tycoon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside World Basketball Tycoon are Geeked-Out Basketball, Hoop Dynasty: Rise of a Legend, Final Buzzer : Idle Basketball Manager 🏀.
- Who developed World Basketball Tycoon?
- World Basketball Tycoon was developed by Icehole Games and published by Strategy First.
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