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Games like Project Legend

If Project Legend is your kind of game, the closest matches are HALFTIME Manager, Miranza Futebol Clube and Football Life — 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 Project Legend: Live one footballer's career, not a club. Fight for minutes, read your coach, negotiate every contract, and move through a world where only your own numbers are certain. 686 clubs, 30 nations, one career at a time.

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Project Legend — Steam game cover

Players who liked Project Legend also play

Steam players who put hours into Project Legend 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. HALFTIME Manager

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Project Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Project Legend.

    A classic football manager in a modern guise: take charge of a club, fine-tune your tactics and experience every matchday as a compact TV broadcast with a 2D pitch, live ticker and half-time dressing room. Six nations, three leagues per country, one shared European cup.

    2026SportsSimulationEarly Access14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Miranza Futebol Clube

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Project Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Project Legend.

    Parabéns, você é o novo presidente de um clube de futebol — agora o problema é seu 🎉 Em Miranza FC, um simulador de gestão e estratégia, você não escala o time: negocia contratos, administra o caixa, responde à diretoria e enfrenta uma eleição que pode te tirar do cargo se os resultados não vierem.

    2026SportsSimulation2.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Football Life

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Project Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Project Legend.

    Beyond tactics and transfers, build and run your club as the manager—facility expansion and upgrades, staff, budgets, board relations, and youth recruitment and academy intake.

    2027SportsSimulationRPGSteam ↗
  4. Football Boardroom

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Project Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Early Access with Project Legend.

    Football Boardroom is a football management sim from the boardroom, not the dugout. Run your club in weekly turns: hire managers, sign players, manage finances, and climb a four-tier English pyramid. Watch matchday unfold, step in when it counts, and fund the club with your hard-earned cash.

    2026SportsEarly Access10.79 USDSteam ↗
  5. Calcio Totale

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Project Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Project Legend.

    Choose from 100 Italian clubs and build your career as CEO. Oversee finances, transfers, staff, facilities and marketing. Delegate the sporting side—or take Full Control, season after season.

    2026SportsStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  6. Club Legend

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Project Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Project Legend.

    Turn your dream of becoming a professional footballer into a career of your own. Play every match, earn your place, chase transfers and trophies, and experience a living football world on your own or with a friend as teammates or rivals.

    SportsIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  7. Hoop Dynasty: Rise of a Legend

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Project Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Project Legend.

    A single-player basketball management sim. Build your basketball career, create your player, develop skills and reputation, earn a starting role and shape your future through contracts and RPG choices. Follow games in the Live 2D Match Center with play-by-play and game stats or use quick simulation.

    2026SportsStrategySimulationSteam ↗
  8. Agent Pro

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Project Legend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Project Legend.

    Agent Pro is a first-person action game where you play as an elite agent. Complete dangerous missions, fight enemies, and use strategy, skill, and precision to overcome every challenge and become the ultimate professional operative.

    SportsIndieSimulationSteam ↗

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 Project Legend.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Project Legend.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  4. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

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

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Project Legend.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Project Legend.

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

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Project Legend

What games are most similar to Project Legend?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Project Legend are HALFTIME Manager, Miranza Futebol Clube, Football Life.
Who developed Project Legend?
Project Legend was developed by Project Legend.

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 Project Legend.

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