Games like Proper Football Boss
If Proper Football Boss is your kind of game, the closest matches are Footy Manager, Calcio 98 and Football Scout Simulator — 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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Footy Manager
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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.
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.
Calcio 98
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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.
Calcio 98 is a single-player football management game set in the 1998/99 season and created by longtime fans of the classics like Premier Manager 98 or PC Fútbol 7. Lead your club across 18 leagues and 14 cups through tactics, transfers, squad development and finances.
Football Scout Simulator
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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.
You don’t coach. You don’t sign the cheques. You find the players nobody else has seen. Football Scout Simulator puts you in the scout’s seat: an office, a phone, a notebook, and a passport. You have ten seasons to turn an unknown reputation into a legend of global scouting, or get yourself fired.
Redraft FC
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Ranked #4 for Proper Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Proper Football Boss.
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.
Total Club Manager
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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.
A love letter to the football management games that stole your nights. Sign players, build tactics, run the youth academy and the finances, and live every match minute by minute. Take a club from nothing to the top of Europe.
Whistle1 - Retro Football Manager
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Ranked #6 for Proper Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Proper Football Boss.
Whistle1 is a retro football manager in the style of the 90s. Take charge of a club in Germany, England, Turkey, Italy, France, Spain or Brazil and lead them to the top.
Football Academy Director
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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 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.
FD 27: Direct Your Football Club
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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.
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.
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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.
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 Proper Football Boss.
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 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!
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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 Footy Manager, Calcio 98, Football Scout Simulator.
- 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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