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Games Like Kevin Toms Football Star Manager

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The original retro-­styled football management game remade and re-released in 2025. It's a faithful recreation of the original groundbreaking 1982 Football Manager, the title that launched the football-management genre!

Reviews: Positive — 93% — of 29 reviews
Released: 2025-08-14
Developer: Kevin Toms
Publisher: Curveball Games
Genres: Casual, Simulation, Sports, Strategy
Platforms: Windows

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    MicroProse™ Soccer is an accessible and engaging classic soccer game that lets you compete against a friend or CPU opponent at world class level in the World Cup, International Challenge, or in the indoor league.

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  2. #2 The Chairman
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    The Chairman is a football management sim built that lives in the bottom corner of your screen. Matches simulate automatically while you work, study, or do anything else. Check in when you have a moment. Make your decisions. Let the season run. You choose the time lap.

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  3. #3 Retro Football Boss
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    This is soccer management like you’ve never experienced it - Be more than just a player, be the head, the heart, and backbone of New Star FC. Be the Manager.

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    Become the manager of a small neighborhood futsal club, recruit players on a tight budget, and build your tactics. Manage morale through team activities, shift the momentum with substitutions and tactical changes in tense text-based matches, and grow your team step by step.

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