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Football Simulator is a single player and multiplayer sport game. It was developed by Refactor Games and was released on June 8, 2022. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Step onto the gridiron with Football Simulator and experience the most dynamic and physics-driven football game ever made. Break through tackles, juggle tipped passes, and dive for interceptions to lead your team to victory. Features a fully moddable environment. Play local multiplayer or online through Steam Input / Steam Home Streaming (TBD). Online multiplayer is in development. In-depth mo…

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80%Audience ScoreBased on 907 reviews
humor97 positive mentions
stability28 negative mentions

  • Highly fun and entertaining football game with hilarious and satisfying physics-based tackles and tackles that create unique moments each play.
  • Strong modding support allowing for NFL and college teams to be added, enhancing replayability and customization options.
  • Active and engaged developer team continuously updating the game, improving gameplay, optimization, and adding features, showing potential to be a great alternative to Madden.
  • Game suffers from many bugs and glitches including crashes, freezing, season mode not saving progress, and multiplayer issues preventing proper gameplay.
  • Passing mechanics and AI behavior are frustrating and unpolished, often causing dropped passes, unrealistic completions, and imbalance making defense and running the ball difficult.
  • Performance is poor for many players, with severe lag, inconsistent frame rates, and long loading times even on relatively powerful systems. Controls and UI can be unintuitive and lack basic features like camera control and keyboard/mouse support.
  • humor

    97 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's humor is widely praised for its chaotic, goofy, and hilarious ragdoll physics that create unpredictable and entertaining moments, making it highly enjoyable and funny, especially with friends. However, some users find the humor inconsistent due to bugs and repetitive gameplay, which can sometimes detract from the overall fun. Despite its rough edges, many recommend it for its comedic physics and lighthearted, fun atmosphere.

    • “It’s messy, it’s hilarious, it’s energetic—and it’s absolutely one of my favorite games to unwind with.”
    • “Hilarious and the best ragdoll physics in the world. I played for hours because it is so funny. 10/10 would totally recommend.”
    • “Honestly one of those rare games that had my sides splitting from laughing and enjoying the experience.”
  • gameplay

    42 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Gameplay shows promising and engaging mechanics, especially in tackling and physics-based elements, providing a fun and challenging experience that some find more enjoyable than Madden. However, it suffers from inconsistent passing, buggy animations, awkward player actions, and problematic defensive AI that detract from realism and polish. Despite being in early access with notable issues, ongoing updates and mod support suggest strong potential for improvement.

    • “I personally enjoyed the tackle physics—they felt satisfying and made gameplay surprisingly engaging.”
    • “Taking out the fact that for being in early access, the tackling, hurdling, playbook, and a bunch of other mechanics are actually good, let alone the game having mod support in early access is good too.”
    • “The gameplay is already great, moddable physics, moddable teams, active devs and a great community.”
    • “Some core mechanics, especially the passing, felt unpolished and inconsistent.”
    • “QB is either an elite pocket passer or a fumbling machine, RBs keep running into their own blockers, WRs keep getting tied up, opposing DBs continue to teleport out of nowhere for a pick, among other undesirable gameplay issues that can lose you games on a dime.”
    • “Gameplay feels chunky, receivers will stop mid-route if defender is in the way, there is no real line blocking scheme, d-line gets through o-line way too quick, QB holds ball right into their facemask, QB throws stupidly accurate balls while being sacked, the broken tackle 'mash' barely works, and you have to double tap receiver button to throw the ball.”
  • stability

    28 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game suffers from pervasive stability issues, including frequent bugs, glitches, crashes, and unresponsive controls, particularly in multiplayer mode where gameplay is often disrupted. Despite its fun and promising core mechanics, players consistently encounter game-breaking errors, lag, and poor optimization, making it largely unplayable in its current state. While some see potential for improvement, the overall consensus advises caution due to its heavy instability and lack of recent updates.

    • “This game is a hot mess of unfixed game-breaking bugs and glitches with custom teams being constantly deleted, no updates in nearly half a year with no roadmap. Stay away.”
    • “Unable to play multiplayer without glitches and bugs with play overlays that won't leave when you're getting on the field; unable to control players at all in multiplayer.”
    • “Game is a buggy mess, controller works sometimes and when it does it's horrible; the button mapping is all sorts of messed up.”
  • optimization

    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's optimization is widely criticized as poor and in need of significant improvement, especially for lower-end systems. Although recent updates have slightly helped performance, many find it unplayable or buggy until further refinements are made. Despite this, some users still find it enjoyable in its current state.

    • “It runs significantly better than Madden performance-wise.”
    • “Very fun, will be returning when the game is more optimized for lower-end systems or whenever I can finally upgrade, whichever comes first.”
    • “Performance update helped.”
    • “The game is unfortunately horribly, and I mean horribly optimized.”
    • “Gameplay and performance desperately need to be refined before any of the implemented elements should even be considered.”
    • “Optimization is horrible.”
  • graphics

    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics are generally praised for their quality and fitting art style, with some users highlighting impressive visuals and physics. However, performance issues on lower-end PCs and the lack of effective graphics settings cause crashes and lag, indicating that optimization is needed for smoother play across different systems.

    • “Possible GOTY, everything from the graphics to the groundbreaking physics, I haven't seen my children in weeks. I'm just playing this all day every day and will be quitting my job to play this full time starting Thursday!”
    • “The graphics are great, the sound is good, and the gameplay is first-rate fun.”
    • “Graphics and physics are amazing.”
    • “Even with the graphics settings turned all the way down.”
    • “It's seems fun, but my PC is so bad I put it on the worst graphics and turned everything off and it still crashed, this game needs a good PC.”
    • “Unplayable in its current state, everything is coded through controller buttons, I'm playing on a PC, the lag is unbearable, even when all the graphics are turned all the way down, and the surroundings are removed.”
  • story

    11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game offers a fun, emergent storytelling experience through unpredictable matches, but its season mode quests are buggy, unclear, and often unplayable, leading to frustration and a lack of coherent narrative progression. Overall, it lacks a structured story.

    • “Every match feels like a wild story you get to create, and I swear I’ve laughed harder playing this than with almost any other game.”
    • “This game definitely isn't finished yet, the quests in season mode don't really work and the game has a lot of slowdown and soft locks, and don't even try playing with snow.”
    • “In season mode, I haven't been able to complete the first quest the game gives you.”
    • “This game expects you to do these quests in exact order but after doing the cheerleader's quest it doesn't tell you which quest to do next so you are just kind of stuck guessing (if there is a next quest to do).”
  • replayability

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Replayability opinions are mixed: some praise the game for being addictive and endlessly enjoyable as a football simulator, while others feel it lacks sufficient replay value in its current state. The absence of mod support limits customization and replay potential, though players hope for future updates or Steam Workshop integration to enhance this aspect.

    • “If you want a football game that’s fun, expressive, and endlessly replayable, Football Simulator delivers every single time.”
    • “It's incredibly addicting and even in its early stages has the "replayability" that you look for in a sports game.”
    • “I hope to see this game have Steam Workshop support; that would be amazing since the game claims mod support (not really yet), which would make it a super customizable and more replayable experience.”
    • “Yeah, I really didn't think this had a lot of replayability.”
    • “I think if you want the game, wait for a sale or until the game is in a more playable state.”
  • music

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users appreciate the customizable soundtracks and audio options, allowing for a personalized musical experience in the game.

  • atmosphere

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The atmosphere is engaging and can be entertaining, with impactful moments that enhance the experience, particularly when opponents leave the game. Overall, it adds a dynamic and immersive element to gameplay.

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Football Simulator is a sport game.

Football Simulator is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 3 hours playing Football Simulator.

Football Simulator was released on June 8, 2022.

Football Simulator was developed by Refactor Games.

Football Simulator has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Football Simulator for its humor but disliked it for its stability.

Football Simulator is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

Similar games include Maximum Football, Madden NFL 25, Madden NFL 26, Madden NFL 24, Madden NFL 23 and others.