Single-player games like Proper Football Boss
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Proper Football Boss, 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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Footy Manager
Single-player alternative to Proper Football Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Calcio 98
Single-player alternative to Proper Football Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Football Scout Simulator
Single-player alternative to Proper Football Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Redraft FC
Single-player alternative to Proper Football Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Total Club Manager
Single-player alternative to Proper Football Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Whistle1 - Retro Football Manager
Single-player alternative to Proper Football Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Football Academy Director
Single-player alternative to Proper Football Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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FD 27: Direct Your Football Club
Single-player alternative to Proper Football Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.