Games like Retro Manager
If Retro Manager is your kind of game, the closest matches are Football Academy Director, FC Mafioso: Football Dynasty Manager and Simple Football League Manager — 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 Retro Manager: A fast-paced retro football management game inspired by the 90s. Build your squad, tweak tactics, and watch matches unfold minute-by-minute.
Players who liked Retro Manager also play
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Football Academy Director
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Top pick for Retro Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Retro Manager.
Build and lead a football academy from U11 to U19. Scout and recruit young talent, develop your squads, set tactics, compete for promotion and trophies, improve your academy, and follow your graduates throughout their senior careers.
FC Mafioso: Football Dynasty Manager
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Retro Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Retro Manager.
A text-based football management game with procedural storytelling, derby drama, and underworld influence. Build your club, shape your manager, and decide how far you’re willing to go to win.
Simple Football League Manager
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Third-strongest match for Retro Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Retro Manager.
A football management game for people who love football but don't want to spend hours on every detail. Build your team and guide it through leagues, cups and continental competitions. Featuring 5,909 clubs from 218 countries, 2 difficulty modes, local multiplayer and an easily customizable database.
Retro Club Dynasty Season 92/93
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Ranked #4 for Retro Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Retro Manager.
1992.... The top flight has a new name, the money is coming, and the old rules are about to change. Build a dynasty across the seasons as fees, wages, tactics, deals and grounds all grow with the decade. Poach kids. Tap up targets. Fill the stands. Survive the boom. Build your dynasty !
Sim: World Cup Manager
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Ranked #5 for Retro Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Retro Manager.
Take charge of your nation from a world of 202 teams and chase international glory. Build your squad, master deep tactics and live sideline shouts, unearth wonderkids in your national youth academy, and battle through the World Cup and Continental Championships in a deep football management sim.
Football Life
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Ranked #6 for Retro Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Retro Manager.
Beyond tactics and transfers, build and run your club as the manager—facility expansion and upgrades, staff, budgets, board relations, and youth recruitment and academy intake.
Footy Manager
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Ranked #7 for Retro Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Retro Manager.
Take charge of a football club and answer for everything: sign players in a market where clubs haggle for days, balance the wage bill against the board's demands, and steer matches live from the touchline. 27 leagues, 690 clubs, one season at a time.
Pro Basketball Manager 2027
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Ranked #8 for Retro Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Retro Manager.
Take charge of a basketball club and oversee every aspect of its development. Build your roster, discover emerging talent, develop future stars, and implement the tactical vision that will define your team's identity.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Retro Manager at current Steam store prices.
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Retro Manager on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Retro Manager.
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 ~60% under Retro Manager on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Retro Manager.
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 ~80% under Retro Manager on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Retro Manager.
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 ~60% under Retro Manager on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Retro Manager.
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 ~60% under Retro Manager on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Retro Manager.
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 ~80% under Retro Manager on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Retro Manager.
"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!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Retro Manager on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Retro Manager.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Kill It With Fire
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Priced ~48% under Retro Manager on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Retro Manager.
Kill It With Fire is a first-person action game about hunting spiders and causing collateral damage.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Retro Manager.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Lily's Well
WHY THIS
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 Retro Manager.
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.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Retro Manager.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
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 Retro Manager.
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!
Umamusume: Pretty Derby
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Sports and Simulation with Retro Manager.
Umamusume: Pretty Derby, winner of Best Mobile Game at The Game Awards 2025, is ready to race! Scout featured trainees and supporters as you navigate the immersive sports life simulation through the game's in-depth training system and top-of-the-line 3D graphics!
AdVenture Capitalist
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
Fallout Shelter
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Retro Manager.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
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Frequently asked about Retro Manager
- How much does Retro Manager cost?
- Retro Manager is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Retro Manager?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Retro Manager are Football Academy Director, FC Mafioso: Football Dynasty Manager, Simple Football League Manager.
- Who developed Retro Manager?
- Retro Manager was developed by Mark Stables and published by Metaguard Studios LLC.
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 Retro Manager.
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