Games Like World Boxing Manager

The boxing world is at your fingertips in this deeply detailed and outrageously entertaining sports management simulation. Enlist competitive fighters, recruit top-notch staff, and ride the hype train all the way to endorsement city! Watch your fighter rise to the top, or get KO’d trying.

Why similar: Sports 48%, Management 25.8%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive successor to the original, offering refined mechanics and a deeper simulation of the boxing management experience.

BOXING SCHOOL! Take control of a boxing gym in the 80s. You’ll hire the boxers, teach them to fight and climb the ranks. Management game made by the developers of Gladiator School.

Why similar: Management 35.6%, Strategy 30.7%, Simulation 28.3%, Indie 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title mirrors the seed game's focus on building a gym and developing amateur fighters into professional champions.

Step into the world of MMA in World of Mixed Martial Arts 3. In this simulation title, you control every aspect of the MMA world. Take control of an MMA company and run it the way you want. Decide who to hire, what matches will take place, and who doesn't make the cut!

Why similar: Sports 66.9%, Simulation 20.3%, Management 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, data-driven management simulation that captures the complexities of running a combat sports organization.

MMA team manager is the all new, face punching, body slamming manager game for the real MMA fans. Experience the life as a manager running your own team and leading the fighters to international glory in the cage.

Why similar: Sports 54.8%, Management 20.5%, Simulation 17.2%, Strategy 4.3%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar management loop but expands the scope to the world of mixed martial arts, requiring diverse training strategies.

Gladiator Manager is a sports management and tactical battle simulation game.

Why similar: Sports 51.4%, Strategy 19%, Simulation 17.5%, Management 8.7%, Indie 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines the management of a training facility with the tactical combat simulation of fighters in an arena setting.

Have you got what it takes to become the manager of a high-performance motorsport team? Motorsport Manager is a highly detailed, best-in-class management game for fans of motorsport. You’ll hire the drivers, build the cars and embed yourself in the dynamic world of racing.

Why similar: Management 34.5%, Sports 34.4%, Simulation 16%, Strategy 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: While the sport differs, it provides the gold standard for tactical sports management, requiring careful resource allocation and in-race decision-making.

You've waited long enough. Boxing management is now in your gloves. Winning fights is your goal. Running the best gym is your future. Take control. Train and steer your boxers to glory in the ring! Build up your gym, make it World class!

Why similar: Sports 49.6%, Management 19%, Strategy 17.1%, Simulation 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic competitor that focuses on the daily operations of a boxing gym and fighter management.

Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon.

Why similar: Sports 49.5%, Management 33.5%, Simulation 17%

Why You'll Like It: While more RPG-focused, it perfectly captures the grind of training, managing hunger, and climbing the ranks of the boxing world.

Teamfight Manager is a simulation game where you are the coach of an e-sports team. You must manage players to set them up for matches. Make the best of pick & ban by evaluating the characteristics of the champions/players! A smart strategy can make up for a lack of individual player skills.

Why similar: Management 40.9%, Simulation 27.6%, Sports 22.5%, Strategy 7.9%, Indie 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the tactical management of a team, requiring you to draft and train players to succeed in competitive matches.

Victory Road is a boxing simulator that uniquely puts you in the role of the coach, not the boxer! As a coach, the fate of your boxer’s career, and potentially his life, is in your hands. Raise your boxer and utilize various strategies to climb up the ranking board.

Why similar: Sports 55.1%, Strategy 19.1%, Simulation 18.3%, Management 4%, Indie 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sports management title that emphasizes the journey of a fighter from an amateur to a professional champion.

Create your own gym, train boxers, and aim for the championship!

Why similar: Sports 58.2%, Simulation 19.2%, Management 13.3%, Strategy 8.6%, Indie 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, charming take on the boxing gym management genre that emphasizes staff and facility development.

Gym Manager is a simulation game where you can build, expand and manage your own gym. To attract more customers, invest in new equipment and sabotage your competition. But beware: the town's shady streets provide opportunities for illegal business ventures.

Why similar: Sports 45.4%, Management 30.8%, Simulation 20.5%, Indie 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the business and infrastructure side of running a training facility, providing a grounded management experience.

Franchise Hockey Manager returns for the 2023-24 season with plenty of additions to the deepest, most authentic hockey strategy gaming experience you can find. Choose from teams around the globe and select a team to guide to glory, including a chance at the ultimate prize, the Stanley Cup®.

Why similar: Sports 48.6%, Management 19.3%, Strategy 16.4%, Simulation 15.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly detailed simulation of sports team management with a focus on statistics and roster development.

Build your gym, train your boxers and make them stronger to beat stronger opponents.

Why similar: Sports 62.7%, Simulation 23.1%, Management 12.1%, Indie 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the simulation aspect of boxing matches, allowing you to observe and influence the outcome of bouts.

Pro Gamer Manager 2 is an e-sport simulator game. Create, manage and compete with your own team of Pro Gamers. Conquer all obstacles and become the number one team in the world!

Why similar: Sports 47.7%, Simulation 17.6%, Strategy 17.3%, Management 14.1%, Indie 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Applies the management simulation formula to the world of esports, requiring similar focus on team dynamics and training.

Draft Day Sports: Pro Basketball 2024 puts you in the role of general manager of your favorite basketball team. Every decision can be made by you from drafting, trading, signing free agents all the way to making each substitution to lead your team to championship glory and becoming a dynasty.

Why similar: Sports 59.8%, Strategy 19.8%, Simulation 19%, Indie 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, text-based management simulation that emphasizes scouting and long-term team building.

Run your own football academy. Scout and discover young talents, evaluate their potential, manage their development through training, and negotiate transfers with clubs to grow your prestige and influence.

Why similar: Sports 51.1%, Management 29.6%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 5.5%, Indie 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the development of young athletes, mirroring the 'young and hungry' aspect of the seed game.

Suit up and become the manager of a basketball team. You’ll have all the managerial tools you’ve come to expect in a manager game, scouting, facilities, training and more. Will you put emphasis on coaching or player development? Success is only the result of your decisions both on and off the court.

Why similar: Sports 53.9%, Management 19.2%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 11.5%, Indie 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A modern iteration of basketball management that emphasizes deep simulation and tactical depth.

Finally state of the art handball management. Prove yourself as a manager and trainer in the daily business of professional handball.

Why similar: Sports 51.9%, Management 20.9%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Indie 2%

Why You'll Like It: A niche but deep sports management simulation that requires careful tactical planning and economic management.

An old-school football manager in the style of the management games of the 90s. Lead your team through the seasons, shaped by dynamic story events. Develop your club and yourself to gain reputation and conquer your league and the world.

Why similar: Sports 49.8%, Strategy 17.4%, Management 16.4%, Simulation 16.3%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled management simulation that focuses on the core loop of team development and match strategy.

Start your journey as a boxer from the ground up, fighting your way to glory. Develop your character, collect fight cards, and face the challenges life throws your way. Train hard, manage stress, and give everything you've got to turn your championship dreams into reality.

Why similar: Sports 49.3%, Management 24.4%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 12.7%

Enter a world of blood, influence and secrets in this easy to learn, yet deep strategy sim where you control a group of Gladiators, guiding them through combat and competition. Bribe, gamble and slash your way to an arena championship!

Why similar: Sports 58.6%, Strategy 14.8%, Simulation 14.1%, Management 9.6%, Indie 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique management game that tasks you with training fighters in a fantasy sports setting.

Take the lead of your favourite rugby union team.Pro Rugby Manager 2015 covers all aspects of the challenges of a real rugby union manager: guarantee sporting success on the field and financial success off it and be the next Champion!

Why similar: Sports 63.6%, Strategy 19.3%, Simulation 17.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a strategic look at managing a team sport with a focus on training and match-day tactics.

WBM Tycoon is a fresh look in sports strategy games that combines the classic manager game with the financial management and development of a Tycoon type game. As the Club Owner you must generate (or loan) the necessary funds in order to expand the club's facilities, raise the financial level and improve the team's roster.

Why similar: Simulation 58.4%, Management 41.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the business and management side of sports, providing a similar feel to the seed game's economic mechanics.

Compete for stardom in this Esport management tycoon.

Why similar: Sports 39.8%, Management 23.9%, Simulation 23.6%, Strategy 9.3%, Indie 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: An early entry in the esports management genre that provides a solid foundation for team-based simulation.

Train, fight, and rise to the top in this knockout sequel to the smashing fighter management simulator! Mentor your fighter and guide him to become the ultimate champion: choose from different combat styles, control his routine, and watch him kick some butt like a proud sensei!

Why similar: Sports 62.7%, Management 37.3%

Become Undisputed in the most authentic boxing game to date! Featuring true to life visuals, bone-jarring action, and more licensed boxers than ever before, Undisputed gives you unprecedented control to master every inch of the ring.

Why similar: Sports 77.1%, Simulation 22.9%

Experience the ultimate college basketball management game. Take charge as a coach, recruit top talent, develop your team, and compete for national championships. Manage one of 192 teams (or up to 384 when using custom leagues), making strategic decisions to build your basketball dynasty

Why similar: Sports 59.8%, Management 17.8%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 7%

Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2020 puts you in the role of head coach of your favorite college basketball team. Every decision can be made by you from staff hiring, recruiting, scouting and all the way to making each substitution to lead your team to tournament glory and becoming a dynasty.

Why similar: Sports 55.7%, Strategy 20.9%, Simulation 19.8%, Indie 3.6%

Manage your own horse racing stables, breed and train future champions. Compete across diverse tracks, balance finances, manage staff, and expand your reach in the world of horse racing. Turn ambition into legacy, one choice at a time.

Why similar: Sports 42.2%, Management 26.3%, Simulation 16.9%, Strategy 14.7%

In this comprehensive and realistic basketball management game, take control of all aspects of a coach's life such as recruitment, finances and training, as well as direct charge of games, in order to lead your team to the top of more than 70 championships that have been faithfully reproduced!

Why similar: Sports 75.4%, Simulation 24.6%

Tactic Boxing is a boxing game with ragdoll physics, local multiplayer, career mode and manager mode.

Why similar: Sports 74.5%, Simulation 25.5%

A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.

Why similar: Management 56.2%, Strategy 38.3%, Indie 5.5%

E-sports Godfather is a Deck-building game simulating MOBA e-sports. You will play a role as team coach and build your team. You need to train players and make strategies in various game versions, beat other teams and finally, take the Champion of the World. Be nobody, or lead your team to dominate!

Why similar: Management 36.3%, Strategy 23.9%, Simulation 18.8%, Sports 18.4%, Indie 2.5%

Pro Wrestling Sim is a text-based pro-wrestling booking simulator. Control a wrestling promotion, decide your roster, and create storylines, feuds and matches where the winners and losers are in your hands.

Why similar: Sports 43.5%, Management 20.6%, Simulation 18.9%, Strategy 17%

Step into the ring. You’re the promoter and it’s your job to crush the competition by assembling, managing, and leading a roster of wrestling stars to victory.

Why similar: Sports 100%

The engine behind 3D wrestling brings the revolution to MMA, where real resistance challenges you to survive each round! Embark on a career to climb the ranks at 5 unique promotions with their own weight classes, or become the boss in the sport's 1st fully playable "Promoter" mode.

Why similar: Sports 61.9%, Strategy 19.5%, Simulation 18.6%

Manage a house of eSport gamers by training the strong, and pruning the weak. Then go head to head with North Korea, the greatest gaming nation in history.

Why similar: Sports 41.1%, Management 20.9%, Strategy 18.1%, Simulation 16.7%, Indie 3.1%

World Basketball Manager (WBM) is a basketball strategy game. It uses the same game-play principles as most soccer management games do. Entering the game, the player creates his manager profile and he is hired as the general manager of a basketball club and his task is to improve the team’s performance by analyzing the facts and making...

Why similar: Sports 53.9%, Simulation 46.1%

Step into the dugout and experience the future of football management.

Why similar: Sports 51.1%, Simulation 17%, Strategy 16.2%, Management 15.8%

Gym Manager: Prologue is a free simulation game where you can build, expand and manage your own Gym. To attract more clients - invest in new equipment, keep the room clean and sabotage your competitors.

Why similar: Sports 45.8%, Management 31.4%, Simulation 22.8%

Basketball Pro Management is the ultimate basketball management simulation with a multitude of parameters. Each of your choices will have a direct influence on each game! NOW includes complete North American league system (recruitment, salary cap, luxury tax,...) .

Why similar: Sports 54%, Strategy 18.8%, Simulation 16.9%, Management 10.3%

XCOM meets Football Manager. Develop your club, earn experience in turn-based matches, learn new skills, achieve new classes, upgrade your facilities, buy and sell footballers, grow your youth academy, make difficult choices. It's a deep strategy game that respects your time.

Why similar: Sports 43.2%, Management 25.4%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 15.4%

Dive into the most advanced tennis management experience to date. Manage your academy, develop your staff and facilities, and recruit the best players from junior to pro, across both men's and women's circuits. Forge the champions of tomorrow and shape the future of tennis!

Why similar: Sports 44.7%, Strategy 20.9%, Simulation 20.4%, Management 14%

ESports Club is a sim game based on electronic sports industry, including most popular game types such as FPS and MOBA. What are you still waiting for? Start your esports career now!

Why similar: Sports 44.9%, Simulation 20.2%, Strategy 19.9%, Management 12.1%, Indie 2.9%

Esports Legend is a Esports club simulator. You are here to make a unknown amateur team world-famous within several seasons!

Why similar: Simulation 27.5%, Strategy 26.7%, Management 25%, Sports 15.9%, Indie 4.8%

Franchise Hockey Manager 5 is the only sports strategy game licensed by the NHL ® , including the real clubs, awards, and trophies associated with the greatest hockey league in the world. FHM 5 allows you to build your hockey franchise into a perennial Stanley Cup winner YOUR way, in the current 2018-19 season or back through the entire...

Why similar: Sports 59.4%, Strategy 18.9%, Simulation 18.3%, Indie 3.5%

Manage a team of professional cyclists: control the budget, recruit young talent, train riders and devise race strategies. Jostle for position to reach the top of the world rankings!

Why similar: Sports 53.1%, Simulation 20.3%, Management 18.2%, Strategy 8.5%

Age of Gladiators II: Rome is a single-player strategy/management sim set at the height of the bloody gladiatorial games in ancient Rome. As your fighters increase in level, it will be up to you to decide how to forge their attributes and abilities. Build your story. Build your empire.

Why similar: Sports 43.1%, Management 23.1%, Strategy 17.8%, Simulation 13%, Indie 2.9%

Become the basketball manager of the moment and leave your mark by leading your own dynasty. Control all the management tools that International Basketball Manager 23 puts at your fingertips to take your team to the top. Manager, your time has come!

Why similar: Sports 45.7%, Management 18.5%, Strategy 18.4%, Simulation 17.4%

Gym Simulator 24: Build Your Fitness Empire! Embark on a journey to create your dream fitness haven in Gym Simulator 24, the ultimate simulation game where you'll ascend the ranks and craft your very own fitness empire.

Why similar: Sports 50.1%, Management 29.7%, Simulation 20.2%