Pocket GM 3: Football Sim

Name: Pocket GM 3: Football Sim
Price: 2.99 USD
Rating: 4.9 (3914 reviews)
Author: Jonathan Howell

Manage a football dynasty!

Only for iPhone

$2.99 · Designed for iPhone

3.9K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Sports
Developer

Jonathan Howell
Language

EN
English
Size

55.5
MB

Also Included In

Pocket GM: Sports

Sports

iPhone

Take your team to the Championship as General Manager of an American Football franchise. Sign, trade and draft to create the ultimate dynasty. Pocket GM is BACK! It's once again time to manage your very own American Football franchise to glory! - Draft your franchise Quarterback on your way to creating a dominant roster through trades and free agency - Develop your players and support them on gameday with the best backroom team you can build - Watch games develop play-by-play and track the stats of key players - Create your own rosters to maximise immersion 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 coaches, scouts and physios, all with unique traits and schemes, then sign and release players, make trades and draft future stars. Coach your players from rough diamonds to the hall of fame. WATCH: Watch each football game play out in amazing play-by-play detail, 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 now, 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. You determine what features come next. Attribution: - Football Icons - Icons made by Nikita Golubev from www.flaticon.com

Ratings & Reviews

4.9

out of 5

3.9K Ratings

this game is amazing! + some suggs :)
02/26/2023

zen_trash
this game is great and incredibly addicting. i love the NFL draft process and the concept of team building, and this game does it all so well. not to mention it is an iOS game (there are not many iOS games that i enjoy) and it is incredibly energy efficient. kudos to the creator!if i were to make any suggestions, i think increasing the salary cap every year would be a nice thing to have. the NFL salary cap normally raises around 20m every year. the reason i say this is because it can be frustrating at times working with a big QB contract while also trying to retain players at important positions.would also be nice if we received compensatory picks for losing good players in free agency like in the NFL. it’s a bit unfortunate when you can’t pay a super high rated player and you have to let them go, and you get nothing out of it. one sneaky way around it for the user is to just offer the player a 1 year contract with low guaranteed money and then trade them off for a ton of draft picks, but that feels like cheating lolother than that, i think it would be nice to have something like a practice squad. there have been many times where i want to develop low-rated players who have potential but i just don’t have the space due to roster limitations. it would be great to have a place for players to develop and be elevated if there are ever any injuries.that’s all. thanks for making such a great game, even though it has taken over my life!
this game is amazing! + some suggs :)
02/26/2023

zen_trash

this game is great and incredibly addicting. i love the NFL draft process and the concept of team building, and this game does it all so well. not to mention it is an iOS game (there are not many iOS games that i enjoy) and it is incredibly energy efficient. kudos to the creator!if i were to make any suggestions, i think increasing the salary cap every year would be a nice thing to have. the NFL salary cap normally raises around 20m every year. the reason i say this is because it can be frustrating at times working with a big QB contract while also trying to retain players at important positions.would also be nice if we received compensatory picks for losing good players in free agency like in the NFL. it’s a bit unfortunate when you can’t pay a super high rated player and you have to let them go, and you get nothing out of it. one sneaky way around it for the user is to just offer the player a 1 year contract with low guaranteed money and then trade them off for a ton of draft picks, but that feels like cheating lolother than that, i think it would be nice to have something like a practice squad. there have been many times where i want to develop low-rated players who have potential but i just don’t have the space due to roster limitations. it would be great to have a place for players to develop and be elevated if there are ever any injuries.that’s all. thanks for making such a great game, even though it has taken over my life!
Started off fun
03/23/2023

Nig Dug
So I will say when I first got this it seemed actually really fun. The trading, free agency and just general GM aspect is honestly really good. However the simming of the games and watching them genuinely is awful. Firstly so many penalties it’s actually absurd. There’s like multiple automatic first down penalties called every single drive whether it’s defensive holding, roughing the passer, unnecessary roughness, etc to the point it’s actually just annoying to watch. Second the decision making makes absolutely no sense. I had one game I was down 10 with 4 minutes left on the opponents 40 and my team punted?? Then the very next game I had a 4th and 17 at the opponents like 25 easily in FG range and my team decided to go for it, obviously not making it. Then later that game down 21-7 made it to 4th and goal at the 3 and they kicked a FG. Completely throwing the game. Just none of this makes sense at allEdit: After continuing to play this game it gets worse and worse. I do not recommend playing unless lots of fixes are made. Penalties are still awful. And I’m like 99% sure your player overalls and team overalls genuinely don’t matter at all. I have played about 10 seasons built my team to an 89 overall the next highest is around 84. And my team consistently is losing to and sometimes getting blown out by absolutely awful 75 overall or less teams even lost one 31-5 against a 68 overall team

Developer Response
I’ve got a beta version due for release shortly which has a rewritten game engine. There did seem to be a few bugs and poor AI decisions so hopefully I’ve addressed those. Details to join the beta on the PocketGM subreddit
Started off fun
03/23/2023

Nig Dug

So I will say when I first got this it seemed actually really fun. The trading, free agency and just general GM aspect is honestly really good. However the simming of the games and watching them genuinely is awful. Firstly so many penalties it’s actually absurd. There’s like multiple automatic first down penalties called every single drive whether it’s defensive holding, roughing the passer, unnecessary roughness, etc to the point it’s actually just annoying to watch. Second the decision making makes absolutely no sense. I had one game I was down 10 with 4 minutes left on the opponents 40 and my team punted?? Then the very next game I had a 4th and 17 at the opponents like 25 easily in FG range and my team decided to go for it, obviously not making it. Then later that game down 21-7 made it to 4th and goal at the 3 and they kicked a FG. Completely throwing the game. Just none of this makes sense at allEdit: After continuing to play this game it gets worse and worse. I do not recommend playing unless lots of fixes are made. Penalties are still awful. And I’m like 99% sure your player overalls and team overalls genuinely don’t matter at all. I have played about 10 seasons built my team to an 89 overall the next highest is around 84. And my team consistently is losing to and sometimes getting blown out by absolutely awful 75 overall or less teams even lost one 31-5 against a 68 overall team
Developer Response 04/04/2023
I’ve got a beta version due for release shortly which has a rewritten game engine. There did seem to be a few bugs and poor AI decisions so hopefully I’ve addressed those. Details to join the beta on the PocketGM subreddit
A Can’t Miss Football Game
12/01/2025

Shauns506
I’m not one to leave reviews, nor have I ever even left one on a mobile game. However this game is incredible, the in depth expansion of it, friendly UI, and smooth gameplay with no crashes or any issues of the sort is incredible! This is something rare to find from a mobile game, and has me wanting more for the next game of the series. It takes strategy and season planning a huge step ahead compared to other games. It doesn’t feel way too unrealistic like Madden does with specific playbooks that are set up for more success. But this rather makes you understand that any playbook works, of course with the fact that it depends on your roster and what you’re aiming for to choose a fitting style on both sides of the ball. Highly recommend this game! This is hands down the best management game out there for football, and even basketball as I just got that as well and I’m not even a basketball fan, just love this style of management.
A Can’t Miss Football Game
12/01/2025

Shauns506

I’m not one to leave reviews, nor have I ever even left one on a mobile game. However this game is incredible, the in depth expansion of it, friendly UI, and smooth gameplay with no crashes or any issues of the sort is incredible! This is something rare to find from a mobile game, and has me wanting more for the next game of the series. It takes strategy and season planning a huge step ahead compared to other games. It doesn’t feel way too unrealistic like Madden does with specific playbooks that are set up for more success. But this rather makes you understand that any playbook works, of course with the fact that it depends on your roster and what you’re aiming for to choose a fitting style on both sides of the ball. Highly recommend this game! This is hands down the best management game out there for football, and even basketball as I just got that as well and I’m not even a basketball fan, just love this style of management.
Great game but the new update made the draft confusing in blindaccessibility mode
05/06/2025

Lucky 10382
I love these types of games and I am super into this game in particular. I am blind and playing this game in voice over mode which is the accessibility setting for iPhones. This game is quite accessible which was a nice surprise. Almost everything is labeled. The main notable exception is the middle tab at the bottom of the page. It’s just labeled as tab and then says 3/5. The Tab to the left is labeled team 2/5 and the tab to the right is labeled league3/5. I like parts of the new update. The mini camp update is interesting and helpful. The draft however is so much harder to figure out in the accessibility mode I’m using. I can’t emphasize how much harder it is to figure it out. I’ve gone through 4 drafts i’m finally comfortable enough to use the new draft feature, but for my personal preference I was able to navigate the old draft feature much better.

Developer Response
Thanks for the review and be great to talk more about improving accessibility. Can you email me at jon@pocketgm.io please.
Great game but the new update made the draft confusing in blindaccessibility mode
05/06/2025

Lucky 10382

I love these types of games and I am super into this game in particular. I am blind and playing this game in voice over mode which is the accessibility setting for iPhones. This game is quite accessible which was a nice surprise. Almost everything is labeled. The main notable exception is the middle tab at the bottom of the page. It’s just labeled as tab and then says 3/5. The Tab to the left is labeled team 2/5 and the tab to the right is labeled league3/5. I like parts of the new update. The mini camp update is interesting and helpful. The draft however is so much harder to figure out in the accessibility mode I’m using. I can’t emphasize how much harder it is to figure it out. I’ve gone through 4 drafts i’m finally comfortable enough to use the new draft feature, but for my personal preference I was able to navigate the old draft feature much better.
Developer Response 05/08/2025
Thanks for the review and be great to talk more about improving accessibility. Can you email me at jon@pocketgm.io please.

Additional bug fixes on top of previously release. Updated for 2025/26 Season: - New Salary Caps - New Contract Demands - Improvements to AI Draft Logic - Further Improvements to Draft Display - Bug Fixes.