Games like The Gaffer
If The Gaffer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hockey Manager 20|20, Civis: The Eternal City and Central Bank — 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.
Get personalized picks →About The Gaffer: A retro football management sim, Take a Fourth Division club through thirty seasons of English football, 1959 to 1989. Sign, sell, drill and talk your way up four divisions, while your board, your pub and your town remember every result, every signing and every excuse.
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Hockey Manager 20|20
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Top pick for The Gaffer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with The Gaffer.
Enjoy the state of the art hockey management. Prove yourself as a manager and coach in the day-to-day business of ice hockey and lead your favorite club to fame and fortune.
Civis: The Eternal City
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Second-strongest match for The Gaffer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gaffer.
A Roman political simulator set in the late Republic. Navigate the Senate, manage your household, build a dynasty, and watch the Republic you serve slowly become something unrecognizable.
Central Bank
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Third-strongest match for The Gaffer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gaffer.
Take control of the most fearsome weapon known to mankind: the key interest rate. As head of the central bank, you wield the power to make (or break) nations. Raise it, and watch markets crumble and riots erupt. Lower it, and brace yourself for an economy so hot it could melt steel.
Tennis Manager 25
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Ranked #4 for The Gaffer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with The Gaffer.
Dive into the most advanced tennis management experience to date. Manage your academy, develop your staff and facilities, and recruit the best players from junior to pro, across both men's and women's circuits. Forge the champions of tomorrow and shape the future of tennis!
Tennis Manager 2024
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Ranked #5 for The Gaffer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with The Gaffer.
The courts have missed you, it’s time to sign your comeback and prove yourself as the greatest tennis manager. Tennis Manager 2024 is back and better than ever! Get ready to strategize, train your new wonderkids, and conquer the courts in the most immersive tennis management experience yet!
The Fixer
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Ranked #6 for The Gaffer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with The Gaffer.
Football star on Saturday, match fixer the rest of the week. Rig games for the syndicate, launder dirty money and keep your suspicion gauge under control in this narrative career sim. How far will you go before it all comes crashing down?
Time Re:Quest
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Ranked #7 for The Gaffer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Gaffer.
A survival game with a classic style of the graphic adventures of the 80s. Current graphics, updated to the new generations and with a simple way to play. Two game modes. Discover your way and one great game. Procedural game, it is generated as you progress. Every game is different. Survive!
Joe Biden Vs. Jeo Boden - Escape From MAGA Chapter 2
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Ranked #8 for The Gaffer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gaffer.
Joe Biden is back as the one term president hoping to become the two time president. November 2024 is only months away but the world is getting more ridiculing by the day. Choose your decisions wisely and help Mister 46 survive his next 3 weeks in office. You must help Joe Escape From MAGA, again.
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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. Shares Indie with The Gaffer.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Gaffer.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Gaffer.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Gaffer.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Gaffer.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Gaffer.
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.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Gaffer.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Gaffer.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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- What games are most similar to The Gaffer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Gaffer are Hockey Manager 20|20, Civis: The Eternal City, Central Bank.
- Who developed The Gaffer?
- The Gaffer was developed by Pitchwork Studios Ltd.
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 The Gaffer.
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