Games like Football Manager 2017
If Football Manager 2017 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Football Manager 2019, Football Manager 2020 and Football Manager 2022 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its high level of customization, outstanding attention to detail and challenging. 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 Football Manager 2017: 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!
Players who liked Football Manager 2017 also play
Steam players who put hours into Football Manager 2017 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.
Football Manager 2019
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Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Top pick for Football Manager 2017 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
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!
Football Manager 2020
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Second-strongest match for Football Manager 2017 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
Run your football club, your way. Every decision counts in Football Manager 2020 with new features and polished game mechanics rewarding planning and progression like never before, empowering managers to develop and refine both your club’s and your own unique identity.
Football Manager 2022
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Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Third-strongest match for Football Manager 2017 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
The closest thing to real football management. FM22 brings new, progressive ways to find your winning edge, instill your footballing style and earn it on the pitch.
Football Manager 2021
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Ranked #4 for Football Manager 2017 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
New additions and game upgrades deliver added levels of depth, drama and football authenticity. FM21 empowers you like never before to develop your skills and command success at your club.
Football Manager 2019 Touch
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Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Ranked #5 for Football Manager 2017 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
Handle only the managerial essentials in Football Manager 2019 Touch, the slick and nimble alternate to the world’s favourite football management simulation.
Global Soccer: A Management Game 2018
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Ranked #6 for Football Manager 2017 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
In Global Soccer: A Management Game 2018 there are no restrictions, the whole world becomes playable! The 210 playable nations and the 4000+ playable clubs guarantees truly infinite hours to play.
Football Manager 2021 Touch
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Shares a challenging mood with Football Manager 2017.
Ranked #7 for Football Manager 2017 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
Stripped-back and simplified for speedier seasons, FM21 Touch is the time-saving alternative to the desktop classic, focusing largely on the managerial essentials – tactics and transfers.
Soccer Clubs
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Ranked #8 for Football Manager 2017 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
Soccer Clubs Football Manager is a football e-sports game authorized by FIFPro. The game has IP authorization for more than 60000 professional players from more than 54 countries around the world, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, Mbape and so on, creating a luxury football feast for players.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Football Manager 2017
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F1® Manager 2022
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Shares team management and an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Reviewers of Football Manager 2017 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
Make your mark on Formula 1® in the officially licensed F1® Manager 2022. Be the boss of your chosen constructor and pick from a roster of 2022 drivers and staff.
Crusader Kings III
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Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Reviewers of Football Manager 2017 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
Hearts of Iron IV
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Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Reviewers of Football Manager 2017 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
Out of the Park Baseball 21
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Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Reviewers of Football Manager 2017 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
Officially licensed by MLB, MiLB, and the MLBPA, Out of the Park Baseball 21 is a strategy & sports gaming fan’s dream come true and the only game ever to win Metacritic PC Game of the Year Award TWICE. OOTP 21 - Twenty One Years of Excellence!
Stellaris
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Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Reviewers of Football Manager 2017 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
RimWorld
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Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Reviewers of Football Manager 2017 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Eastside Hockey Manager
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Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Reviewers of Football Manager 2017 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
EHM offers fans the most realistic, in-depth and immersive simulation of hockey management available, giving them the chance to manage either club or country in any of the world’s top hockey-playing nations.
Battle Brothers
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Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Reviewers of Football Manager 2017 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
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.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Football Manager 2017.
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!
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Football Manager 26
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Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Another title from Sports Interactive, the studio behind Football Manager 2017. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
Step into the dugout and experience the future of football management.
Football Manager 2020
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Another title from Sports Interactive, the studio behind Football Manager 2017. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
Run your football club, your way. Every decision counts in Football Manager 2020 with new features and polished game mechanics rewarding planning and progression like never before, empowering managers to develop and refine both your club’s and your own unique identity.
Football Manager 2024
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Another title from Sports Interactive, the studio behind Football Manager 2017. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
Build a world-class team ready to dominate your rivals in football’s most prestigious competitions. Progress never stops when you’re pursuing footballing greatness.
Football Manager 2021
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Another title from Sports Interactive, the studio behind Football Manager 2017. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
New additions and game upgrades deliver added levels of depth, drama and football authenticity. FM21 empowers you like never before to develop your skills and command success at your club.
Football Manager 2022
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Another title from Sports Interactive, the studio behind Football Manager 2017. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
The closest thing to real football management. FM22 brings new, progressive ways to find your winning edge, instill your footballing style and earn it on the pitch.
Football Manager 2023
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Another title from Sports Interactive, the studio behind Football Manager 2017. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
Build your dream squad, outsmart your rivals and experience the thrill of big European nights in the UEFA Champions League. Your journey towards footballing glory awaits.
Football Manager 2019
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Another title from Sports Interactive, the studio behind Football Manager 2017. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
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!
Eastside Hockey Manager
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Football Manager 2017.
Another title from Sports Interactive, the studio behind Football Manager 2017. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Manager 2017.
EHM offers fans the most realistic, in-depth and immersive simulation of hockey management available, giving them the chance to manage either club or country in any of the world’s top hockey-playing nations.
Frequently asked about Football Manager 2017
- Does Football Manager 2017 run on Steam Deck?
- Football Manager 2017 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Does Football Manager 2017 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Football Manager 2017 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Football Manager 2017?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Football Manager 2017 are Football Manager 2019, Football Manager 2020, Football Manager 2022.
- Who developed Football Manager 2017?
- Football Manager 2017 was developed by Sports Interactive and published by SEGA.
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