Single-player games like Club Manager 2016
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Club Manager 2016, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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WE ARE FOOTBALL 2024
Single-player alternative to Club Manager 2016 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Strategy with Club Manager 2016.
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!
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GOAL! The Club Manager
Single-player alternative to Club Manager 2016 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Strategy with Club Manager 2016.
You are more than a coach. You are the undisputed club boss. Are you ready to dominate the league with your team in this re-imagining of the classic sports management franchise? Could you be the next manager sensation? Prove it!
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Retro Football
Single-player alternative to Club Manager 2016 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Simulation with Club Manager 2016.
Retro Fútbol is a football management game inspired by the classics of the 1990s. Manage your squad, transfers, tactics, stadium, and finances, and lead your club to the top season after season.
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Football, Tactics & Glory
Single-player alternative to Club Manager 2016 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Strategy with Club Manager 2016.
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.
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Starters Orders 8 Horse Racing
Single-player alternative to Club Manager 2016 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Strategy with Club Manager 2016.
Starters Orders 8 is the most advanced horse racing management sim yet! Redesigned menus, new Jockey Career mode, refreshed racecourses, improved race schedules and deeper simulation features including global staff roles, new betting options, realistic breeding, and new international schedules.
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Noyan: Club Chairman
Single-player alternative to Club Manager 2016 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Strategy with Club Manager 2016.
In Noyan: Club Chairman, you’re the president, not the manager. Leave tactics to the coach; your job is to manage finances, lock down sponsors, and win over the fans. Remember: matches are played on the pitch, but the club’s future is won in the presidential office!
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Football Fictional World Simulator
Single-player alternative to Club Manager 2016 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Strategy with Club Manager 2016.
A solo-developed, text-based football management game focused on transfer windows and building your squad before each season. Simulate around 30,000 matches in about ten minutes, use the flexible Data Editor, and follow football history for centuries.
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Redraft FC
Single-player alternative to Club Manager 2016 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Simulation with Club Manager 2016.
A football management game about hindsight. Inherit a real club exactly as it was, tear the squad up, and sign the players you now know were going to be great - at what they cost then. Play it forward season by season. Seven ways to play, from managing a club to being a pundit.
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Football Manager 26
Single-player alternative to Club Manager 2016 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Strategy with Club Manager 2016.
Step into the dugout and experience the future of football management.
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Fight Manager
Single-player alternative to Club Manager 2016 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Club Manager 2016.
Take control of an MMA promotion and build it fight by fight. Sign contenders, negotiate contracts, book the card, and crown champions across four divisions while a strike-by-strike simulation decides who walks out with the belt.
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Club Manager 2015
Single-player alternative to Club Manager 2016 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Strategy with Club Manager 2016.
It's about time. Time for Football! And every good club needs a good manager. In Club Manager 2015 you slip into the role of an up-and-coming football manager. Developed in the homeland of the current World Champions - Germany.
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Club Manager 2017
Single-player alternative to Club Manager 2016 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Strategy with Club Manager 2016.
Club Manager 2017 lets you take on the role of an ambitious up-and-coming football manager once again. Start your career with a team in the German league or one of four international leagues.