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Games like Cricket Team Manager

If Cricket Team Manager is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cricket Management 26, Sim: Heavyweight Boxing Champion and Gridiron Football GM — 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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About Cricket Team Manager: Take charge of a Test nation and run it season after season. Pick your squads, award the contracts, appoint your captains — then manage the team ball by ball. Tours, World Cups and a Test Championship, while one generation retires under you and the next one comes through.

2026SportsStrategyIndieSimulationWindows · macOSby LSL Ventures
Cricket Team Manager — Steam game cover

Players who liked Cricket Team Manager also play

Steam players who put hours into Cricket Team Manager 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.

  1. Cricket Management 26

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Cricket Team Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Cricket Team Manager.

    Build your cricketing dynasty in a deep and immersive cricket management simulation. Manage tactics, transfers, finances, player development and matchday strategy across multiple formats including T20, One Day and red-ball cricket.

    2026SportsStrategyIndie13.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Sim: Heavyweight Boxing Champion

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Cricket Team Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Cricket Team Manager.

    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.

    2026SportsStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Gridiron Football GM

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Cricket Team Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Cricket Team Manager.

    Run the front office of an American football franchise. Build a dynasty across decades. Multi-season draft, free agency, trades, salary cap, and pre-snap play-calling on every snap. Calibrated to real pro football statistics. Single player. No microtransactions.

    2026SportsStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  4. Cricket Manager

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Cricket Team Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Cricket Team Manager.

    Build a global T20 dynasty across dozens of fictional competitions. Scout thousands of players, win auctions and transfers, develop youth, set fields and bowling plans, and watch every delivery resolve through a ball-by-ball match engine entirely offline.

    2026SportsStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Elysium: Blood Games

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Cricket Team Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Cricket Team Manager.

    Enter a world of blood, influence and secrets in this easy to learn, yet deep strategy sim where you control a group of Gladiators, guiding them through combat and competition. Bribe, gamble and slash your way to an arena championship!

    2016SportsStrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Franchise Hockey Manager 12

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Cricket Team Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Cricket Team Manager.

    Franchise Hockey Manager returns for the 2025-26 season with plenty of additions to the deepest, most authentic hockey strategy gaming experience you can find. Choose from teams around the globe and select a team to guide to glory, including a chance at the ultimate prize, the Stanley Cup®.

    2025SportsStrategySimulation44.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Franchise Hockey Manager 11

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Cricket Team Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Cricket Team Manager.

    Franchise Hockey Manager returns for the 2024-25 season with plenty of additions to the deepest, most authentic hockey strategy gaming experience you can find. Choose from teams around the globe and select a team to guide to glory, including a chance at the ultimate prize, the Stanley Cup®.

    2024SportsStrategySimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Football Coach: College Dynasty

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Cricket Team Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Cricket Team Manager.

    A true college football management game. Play as a coach or a school, recruit players, develop your team, and compete for national championships. Build a college football dynasty and become a coaching legend!

    2025SportsStrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cricket Team Manager.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cricket Team Manager.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Cricket Team Manager.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cricket Team 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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. OnlyCans: Thirst Date

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cricket Team Manager.

    Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!

    2021IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cricket Team Manager.

    The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...

    2017IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. No Results Found

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cricket Team Manager.

    Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  8. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cricket Team Manager.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Cricket Team Manager

What games are most similar to Cricket Team Manager?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cricket Team Manager are Cricket Management 26, Sim: Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Gridiron Football GM.
Who developed Cricket Team Manager?
Cricket Team Manager was developed by LSL Ventures.

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 Cricket Team Manager.

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