Games like Proper Football Boss
If Proper Football Boss is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sim: Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Sim: World Cup Manager and FD 27: Direct Your Football Club — 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.
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Sim: Heavyweight Boxing Champion
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Top pick for Proper Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Proper Football Boss.
Manage a heavyweight boxer from pro debut to undisputed champion — or play as one of the 300 greatest of all time. 2,500 real fighters from 1880 to 2026, 4 world titles, 7 regional belts, live round-by-round commentary, rivalries, and a career mode spanning 1,000+ years. Unify them all.
Sim: World Cup Manager
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Second-strongest match for Proper Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Proper Football Boss.
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.
FD 27: Direct Your Football Club
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Third-strongest match for Proper Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Proper Football Boss.
A football management game where you're not the coach, you're the club owner. Hire and fire the coaching staff, sign players, negotiate with sponsors, control the finances and build a winning organisation from the boardroom.
Kevin Toms Football Star Manager
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Ranked #4 for Proper Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Proper Football Boss.
The original retro-styled football management game remade and re-released in 2025. It's a faithful recreation of the original groundbreaking 1982 Football Manager, the title that launched the football-management genre!
Pro Football Referee
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Ranked #5 for Proper Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Proper Football Boss.
Pro Football Referee is a football referee simulation game.Start as an unknown grassroots referee and experience the full career of a football official. Officiate matches, make crucial calls, build reputation, and climb the ranks.
THE NEW BOSS: FOOTBALL CLUB
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Ranked #6 for Proper Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Proper Football Boss.
Save a failing club in this text-based football management sim. Scout talent, design tactics, and manage board expectations to stabilize your squad. Navigate tense match-days where your strategic adjustments are the only thing standing between a return to glory and total relegation.
Total Football Online
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Ranked #7 for Proper Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Proper Football Boss.
Build your All-Star lineup in Total Football Online! Easy to pick up, it lets you dive into pure football fun at your fingertips. With events and player updates syncing with real-world tournaments, get ready for a truly immersive football experience.
NUTMEG! A Nostalgic Deckbuilding Football Manager
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Ranked #8 for Proper Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Proper Football Boss.
NUTMEG! is a nostalgic football manager game with a deckbuilding twist, set in the '80s and '90s. Relive the days when the tackles were as hard as the mullets were long and football was about football.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Proper Football Boss.
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.
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 Proper Football Boss.
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 Proper Football Boss.
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 Proper Football Boss.
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.
Clicker Heroes
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Proper Football Boss.
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.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Proper Football Boss.
Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!
Toribash
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Proper Football Boss.
Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!
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Frequently asked about Proper Football Boss
- What games are most similar to Proper Football Boss?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Proper Football Boss are Sim: Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Sim: World Cup Manager, FD 27: Direct Your Football Club.
- Who developed Proper Football Boss?
- Proper Football Boss was developed by Boot Room Games.
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 Proper Football Boss.
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