Games like Retro Football Boss
If Retro Football Boss is your kind of game, the closest matches are 99Managers Futsal Edition, Football Pitch and Arcade Simulator and GOAL! The Club Manager — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, immersive and nostalgic. 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 Retro Football Boss: Retro Football Boss is a historical football management simulation featuring the English professional leagues from 1888 to 1998 (with German leagues coming soon). This is your chance to take a trip down memory lane or right the wrongs of the past.

Players who liked Retro Football Boss also play
Steam players who put hours into Retro Football Boss 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.
99Managers Futsal Edition
WHY THIS
Top pick for Retro Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Retro Football Boss.
A futsal management game with a 2D match engine and integrated editor. Can you find the next wonderkid and become the best manager? Proudly open source.
Football Pitch and Arcade Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Retro Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Retro Football Boss.
Manage a football pitch and arcade! Upgrade machines, attract players and build your ultimate fun center.
GOAL! The Club Manager
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Retro Football Boss.
Third-strongest match for Retro Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Retro Football Boss.
You are more than a coach. You are the undisputed club boss. Are you ready to dominate the league with your team in this re-imagining of the classic sports management franchise? Could you be the next manager sensation? Prove it!
Global Soccer: A Management Game 2018
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Retro Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Retro Football Boss.
In Global Soccer: A Management Game 2018 there are no restrictions, the whole world becomes playable! The 210 playable nations and the 4000+ playable clubs guarantees truly infinite hours to play.
Soccer Boss
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Retro Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Retro Football Boss.
Be the Boss of your own soccer club, choosing from clubs from the biggest leagues across Europe. Make decisions based on tactics, training, staff recruitment and player selection. Spend your transfer budget wisely during the transfer window whilst keeping the board satisfied with your performance.
Football Club Simulator - FCS #21
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Retro Football Boss.
Ranked #6 for Retro Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Retro Football Boss.
Casual football & strategy videogame. Real-time simulation of your favourite football Club. Agile, intuitive, fast... allows you to play seasons in hours, not days: line-up, training, tactics, youth squad, scout, transfers, stadium, highlights, Strategic match... From the Premier Manager creators.
Lords of Football
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Retro Football Boss.
Ranked #7 for Retro Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Retro Football Boss.
Lords of Football is a whole new sports lifestyle simulator, played in God Mode.The everyday routine of football is brought to life, simulating footballers' training to improve their skills and all the drama and real-life distractions that unfold during a normal season.
WE ARE FOOTBALL 2024
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Retro Football Boss.
Ranked #8 for Retro Football Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Retro Football Boss.
Welcome to WE ARE FOOTBALL 2024! Dive into the world of football like never before. Choose an existing club or start your own. Manage either men or women, lead your club to new heights, and become the next manager legend!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Retro Football Boss at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Retro Football Boss on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retro Football Boss.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~58% under Retro Football Boss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retro Football Boss.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Retro Football Boss on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Retro Football Boss.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Retro Football Boss on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retro Football Boss.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Retro Football Boss on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retro Football Boss.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Retro Football Boss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retro Football Boss.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under Retro Football Boss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retro Football Boss.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Retro Football Boss on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Retro Football Boss.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retro 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.
Clicker Heroes
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retro 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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retro Football Boss.
Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!
Kingdom: Classic
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retro Football Boss.
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Learn to Fly 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retro Football Boss.
Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!
War Selection
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retro Football Boss.
War Selection is a compelling RTS game featuring base building, resource extraction and warfare. Evolve from a stone age tribe to a distinct industrial nation with unique game mechanics and battle for supremacy with dozens of players on a unique procedurally generated map.
Mr.Mine
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retro Football Boss.
Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!
Revolution Idle
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retro Football Boss.
Join an experience where each revolution takes you further into the unknown! Revolution Idle challenges you to multiply your accumulators to reach unimaginable heights. Will you manage to reach infinity?
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Frequently asked about Retro Football Boss
- How much does Retro Football Boss cost?
- Retro Football Boss is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Retro Football Boss?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Retro Football Boss are 99Managers Futsal Edition, Football Pitch and Arcade Simulator, GOAL! The Club Manager.
- Who developed Retro Football Boss?
- Retro Football Boss was developed by 1888 Games and published by Plug In Digital.
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