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Games like Football Story

If Football Story is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sunday League Manager: Horse and Spoon, Club Legend and Super Arcade Soccer 2026 — 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 Football Story: Football Story is a cozy street football management and life sim RPG. Train your skills, explore the charming Highshore City, complete side quests, and recruit your dream squad. Lead your teenage neighborhood team from local backyard matches to ultimate glory in this singleplayer adventure!

SportsIndieAdventureSimulationRPGCasualWindows · macOS · Linuxby fructus temporum
Football Story — Steam game cover

Players who liked Football Story also play

Steam players who put hours into Football Story 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. Sunday League Manager: Horse and Spoon

    WHY THIS

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

    Manage Horse & Spoon FC, a down-and-out pub team in Sunday League football. Guide veteran plumbers and aging shop attendants from car park pitches to regional glory. Sunday League football management at its most beautifully chaotic.

    2025SportsStrategySimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Club Legend

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Football Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Football Story.

    Make your dreams come true and become a professional football player: Create your player, sign for your favorite clubs and score bangers against their biggest rivals. Play your ultimate football career you want to have in the most realistic first person football career mode game!

    SportsIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Super Arcade Soccer 2026

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Football Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Football Story.

    Fast-paced, classic arcade football with a next-gen feel and pinpoint control. The 90s soccer feel you loved, rebuilt with modern physics and a fresh cartoon style. Just in time for the 2026 World Cup.

    2026SportsIndieSimulation11.20 USDSteam ↗
  4. FOOTBALLER

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Football Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Story.

    Plunge into the wonderful world of football together with millions of players from all over the world. Create and upgrade your character. Play online with friends in 1vs1, 2vs2, 3vs3, 4vs4 matches where every player is a real player. Find your comrades in our discord server and see you on the field!

    2021SportsSimulationMassively Multiplayer1.00 USDSteam ↗
  5. Foot Odor Girl

    WHY THIS

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

    The heroine is a girl who likes sports. However, what is troubling is that after exercise, the stockings on her feet will be wet by sweat, giving out a unique smell.

    2022SportsIndieSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. CFS (Chinese Football Simulator)

    WHY THIS

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

    "Chinese Football Simulator" is a management game themed around Chinese football. As both club owner and head coach, you'll develop and manage teams—either existing or custom—immersed in authentic Chinese football culture.

    2026SportsIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. REMATCH

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Football Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Football Story.

    Rematch is an online multiplayer football game. Control one player and compete with your team in fast-paced 5v5 matches from an immersive third-person perspective. Team up with your friends and join the action.

    2025ActionSportsIndie23.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Pocket League Story

    WHY THIS

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

    Train your team to battle to the top in this sensational soccer team simulation!

    2022SportsStrategyIndie8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Football Story.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Football Story.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Football Story.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Football Story.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Football Story.

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Football Story

What games are most similar to Football Story?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Football Story are Sunday League Manager: Horse and Spoon, Club Legend, Super Arcade Soccer 2026.
Who developed Football Story?
Football Story was developed by fructus temporum and published by Polden Publishing.

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 Football Story.

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