Pocket GM 2: Football Sim

Name: Pocket GM 2: Football Sim
Rating: 4.85632 (2255 reviews)

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So let me start by saying I love this game. The amount of time I spend playing this game is insane. Just this past week, I checked my screen time and I played for over 10 hours in a week. Before this game I always playing retro bowl, then finally decided the spend the 2 dollars and get this game and turned out to be worth it. Anywayyy thoo, I got a concept that should be taken into consideration. To be able to switch up your roster while a game is active. So for example, you have an aging quarterback who had a decent season and is taking you to the playoffs. But you also have a young rookie that you wanna develop, instead of having the rookie start the whole game, let your veteran qb gain the lead and about 3rd or 4th quarter put your rookie to help speed up his development for when he takes over the starting job. Also adding different character styles.Other than that, this game is phenomenal as it is my favorite football game, lowkey better than madden.

big peppa bob, Feb 12, 2022

Good game, only a few issues.

There are a lot of things to like about this game. The ability to rebuild the team to your liking, focusing on one style of play for both offense and defense or having a variety. The interface showing more of the players specific stats is incredibly useful for building a well rounded team. My biggest issue is, cap makes absolutely no sense. AI controlled teams are constantly over the cap, making trading with them impossible unless I eat salaries. It also makes no sense that trying to trade a QB being paid $28 million would bring my available cap room from $7.9 million, to $900k. Getting rid of a highly paid player frees up cap space, not eats into it. CPU teams are allowed to stay powerhouses, because cap doesn’t truly exist for them. That being said, it is still a good game. My only other issue is how unrealistic owner expectations are. If you win the championship once, you are expected to win it the next year, even if players are aging out or contracts are expiring (and you will have to let some of your players go for them to inevitably be signed by a team already over their cap). If ownership expectations were built around your roster overall, or even if you could pick between a few goals (with a reward of some sort for picking and completing more challenging ones), I feel the system would be more robust and realistic. All that being said, an update fixing cap issues would easily push this rating form a 4 to a 5!

Heuxbeixbd, Oct 21, 2021

Great but one small issue

I love this game just have one small issue. I think that everything about this game is very good except I don’t like how I feel like every player under about an 80 overall has terrible stats in every category. I feel like to make it more realistic these player might have terrible stats except maybe in one category they might have a really good stat. For example there could be a QB who is a 71 overall and has bad throwing stats yet maybe in the speed category he has about a 90. Right now that is not possible and I feel like it would be a good addition to make it more realistic. This would also make players more versatile when it comes to switching positions. While I’m on the topic of changes another small but helpful feature would be a way to tell you what the best scheme for your team would be in order to better suit your players. One more small problem I have is with the draft. I am never able to get good players in rounds 4-7 of the draft yet I feel every player I draft in the first two or so rounds becomes like a 90 overall soon. Maybe if there was a system of boom or busts it would really help to improve the game and make later picks not feel useless and early picks not feel so overpowered. Thank you for you time. Hope you have a good day.

jajajahih, Feb 21, 2021

Is it me or the game? (Updated Review!!!)

Updated review: I can trade! Dev responded quickly to answer my problem. The trade menu is a bit unintuitive to find at first, but easy to navigate to I've you do find. The game itself is excellent, especially dealing with draft picks over and under performing. My only wish is the option to sim more than one game at a time. Maybe add Sim 1 Month, Sim to Trade Deadline and Sim season. Thanks Dev, the game is great fun!———I was really excited to play this game, non-soccer sports management sims are an extremely large hole in the mobile game market. Big but coming! This game starts you out with a message from the owner saying you have full control and then don’t let you trade. It’s incredibly frustrating. There is a trade tab that leads you to an empty trade block area. There is no way to put players on the trade block and there is no way to initiate trades or offers. What’s the point of a sports management sim without trades?It seems like this is a very smaller Dev team, if not just one person. I would love to support a small Dev working in an under represented game genre that I love and is perfect for mobile gaming. But I just can’t recommend this game unless you just want to watch and incredibly slow American football season simulator that greatly limits the actually management parts. No refund needed, but I can’t play this game as is. Here’s hoping for an actual management sim down the line!

Jgsghjvbhh, Apr 28, 2021

Great improvements!

I love how this game has developed since last year. From player management to the game’s interface, this game has maintained its simplistic character while making much needed changes. 2020 was just begging to be updated, and the developer certainly came through in 2021.Player management had some great fixes. My favorite was how players continue to develop throughout their career (or not) as opposed to last year when they pretty much stopped after year 2. Another fix was the contract negotiations. Important players are now more challenging to hold on to and ambitious players don’t go to underperforming teams. The new contracts system makes the game way more immersive and make the players seem more real.However, I do feel like this game could still really improve. Personally I think the biggest improvement to this game would a player editor feature. It would just give the player more freedom. I also think that business operations should be added. This could mean allowing for relocations, ticket prices, or even owner intervention. I already love playing this game, and I can’t wait to see how this game will evolve in the future.

Lllllklllllkkkkjjkjh, Feb 06, 2021

Great Idea. Horrible Sim.

Fantastic idea. Have fun building your team… regardless of the sim that is really enjoyable. The GM portion gets a 5 star review. The Sim is soooo bad. If you could only see the payoff of assembling a great team. Ratings don’t matter in game. They are fun to think about and gush over when trading and drafting, but come gametime they are pretty much useless. You have to sim most games over and over and over again just to get a realistic result. Wastes so much time and mutes the excitement of any GM success. Update the Sim to a better, realistic model and this is an absolute beast of a game.2nd review-I love the GM portion. So much fun. I hate absolutely hate the sim. The ratings mean nothing. I spend more time swimming games over and over and over again because a 70 offense scores the same amount of points on my 90 defense as my 90 offense does against a 70 defense. Every. Single. Game. It’s just ridiculous. 2 90 DEs get zero sacks so often, and you watch a 70 defense with a low 80 DE get 3 sacks… Against an entire OL of high 80s to low 90s.Offenses with one to two 80 Olinemen opening up consistent 50 yard gashes for a high 70 RB against a defense where all players are rated higher (80s and 90s throughout). So many examples. Horrible sim. Get excited building your pro bowl team only to experience 50 times the frustration trying to sim.

n8agEr, Mar 23, 2022

Just fantastic

I sink hours into this game and my grades are dropping but I don’t care. This used to be my backup to Madden Franchise mode, but now I play it even more for a few reasons. I like that there’s no limit to how long a franchise can run. I like how simple it is. However there’s a few things I’d like to see implemented. More customization would be cool, like some sort of god mode where you could edit and create players, no salary cap, etc. Also showing players numbers, and being able to change that would be cool as well. Also, I think when “playing” a game, it would be nice to be able to sub out a player, like if a QB is not performing well, they would be able to be benched in favor of another QB. Overall, fantastic game!!!! Even without these things, it’s still my favorite app on my phone. Keep it up! EDIT: An option for dark mode would also be a great addition.EDIT 2: I think a reworked accolade system would be cool. It’s a little vague right now, just listing how many of each award a player has. Instead, maybe a list of how many times the player has won mvp for example, and the years they’ve done so. Additionally, I think super bowl MVP and conference player of the week should both be listed under a player’s list of accolades.

Ndoqocurjsm amxicosjzjznd, Mar 17, 2022

Fun game but a few major issues that need to be resolved

This is a great game and there are many reviews praising this game (which it deserves) but I will be talking about the issues that I so badly want fixed! First off, injuries are way too common and they need to be nerfed or at least let us turn them off. Secondly(and most important to me), the cap space seems to be broken, especially in the beginning and throughout the offseason. There should be a way to turn this on and off as well. Personally, I’m 30 million in debt, so I want to trade away my quarterback who makes up 26 million of the cap, I find a team who has 28 million in open space, so I trade him for like 6 picks, and it says insufficient cap space or whatever the error screen for the cap space is. What? No, they have the cap and I’m trying to get rid of money, there is no cap error in that trade, it’s a logically sound trade. Those are the main issues of the game, but don’t get me wrong, it’s still a good game, but these are game breaking, please fix these issues!

PapaVince69420, Mar 14, 2021

Near perfect

This is the best GM game out there. It’s simple enough where anyone can pick up and play, yet challenging enough where GM game veterans will feel challenged enough to keep coming back. I don’t need to set ticket prices, purchase stadium upgrades, and spend points on training players or coaches. Just give me a straight up football managing sim, and this one delivers on that. It gets rid of a lot of the fluff you find in other GM games. Downloadable custom rosters are available via the community, and you can build your favorite franchise how you see fit. Some of the achievements are bugged, but whatever, it’s definitely not game breaking. I have tried numerous other GM type games and I keep coming back to this series. Bravo.

Ststeev, Sep 03, 2022

Best football team managing game.

I have played a lot of sport team manager games, and for a NFL game, this is the best one. It has real team rosters, pretty good draft mechanics even thou I enjoyed the grading system better before the last update. Now it really killed the value of picks and players that are 79 and below, but it doesn’t ruin the game. The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is the fact that the pc controlled teams don’t have to stay inside the salary cap. If at the beginning of the season you are past the salary cap, a box pops up telling you have to make cuts or allow the game to make them for you. The game controlled team keep there beat players until they retire mostly because they get to go over the cap, and it’s frustrating when you go to make a trade for picks, and you can’t because the computer controlled team is over the cap. I think this a issue that needs to be addressed before anything else is in the game, and then it would be a 5 star game to me.

Tigers231, Sep 26, 2021

Description

Manage your very own American Football franchise. Make trades, draft your franchise Quarterback, hire backroom staff and win the Championship. REPLAYABILITY:  Use default players, random rosters or import teams created by the fantastic community.

Every game is different and presents a new challenge. CONTROL:  Become the General Manager of a Pro Football Team and build your dynasty. Hire your coach, set your schemes, sign and release players, make trades and draft players. Coach your players from rough diamonds to perennial stars. WATCH: Watch each football game play out as momentum shifts from team to team. See your franchise win the Championship and stars achieve All Pro status. STRATEGY:  Go all in to win, or tank for the #1 draft pick - it's up to you! Build your Football Dynasty! SHARE: Join the community on reddit and help develop the game to be even better. Attribution: - Player Faces - Fashion vector created by ddraw - www.freepik.com - Football Icons - Icons made by Nikita Golubev from www.flaticon.com #1 Football GM Game on iOS, based on gmgames.org User Ratings in American Football Simulator Games category, as at 29th August 2021.