Pocket GM 2: Football Sim

Name: Pocket GM 2: Football Sim
Price: 0.99 USD
Rating: 4.9 (2413 reviews)
Author: Jonathan Howell

American Franchise Manager

Only for iPhone

$0.99 · Designed for iPhone

2.4K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Sports
Developer

Jonathan Howell
Language

EN
English
Size

44.1
MB

iPhone

Manage an American Football franchise. Sign, trade & draft stars on your way to winning the Championship! 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.

Ratings & Reviews

4.9

out of 5

2.4K Ratings

Just fantastic
03/17/2022

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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.
Just fantastic
03/17/2022

Ndoqocurjsm amxicosjzjznd

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.
Good game, only a few issues.
10/21/2021

Jordan K97
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!
Good game, only a few issues.
10/21/2021

Jordan K97

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!
Read me
02/12/2022

big peppa bob
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.
Read me
02/12/2022

big peppa bob

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.
Great but one small issue
02/21/2021

jajajahih
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.
Great but one small issue
02/21/2021

jajajahih

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.

I'm not a fan of annual releases without big changes, so I've moved away from a yearly release cycle. To make this make sense, I've renamed Pocket GM 21 to Pocket GM 2. This is then more obviously the prequel to the latest version - recently released as Pocket GM 3. Icon and game graphics updated to align to name change.