New Star Manager 12+

This game has a surprising amount of depth with lots of things to think about. As well as choosing your players and formation for the match, you have to manage training needs, energy, injuries and egos, as well as keeping your fans, sponsors and the board happy too. I really like how you start off as a new manager in charge of a team which is in trouble and have to turn fortunes around. Furthermore the best thing about the game is although you are a team manager you get to take control of the match for key moments of that game.

Although the game encourages you to spend real money it’s not necessary to do so and is more challenging/satisfying anyway I reckon. I support the developer by watching the occasional ads! Overall a brilliant game

New Star Manager has clearly been one of the best soccer games on the App Store, but there are definitely room for improvements. Firstly, it would be very nice if there was a way to save your data and use it later when you delete the game. This happened to me when I had a decent team and then when I deleted and installed it back again, everything is gone. Secondly, I think the game progress is way too slow. It would be nice if the game would have only play each team once in the league(Half a season) rather than playing them twice(Full season). And thirdly, it would be better if you add shooting, passing, crossing and other attributes into the game rather just being something called technique. Because this just made my centre-back invincible when he is shooting. If you added the attributes into the game, can you also make an option so choose your set piece taker. Lastly, it would be nice to have daily tasks and a free pack everyday( it doesn’t have to be the pack where you get black or gold players. Maybe some bronze players or some skill cards). Please make changes as soon as possible as I would be looking towards the next update.

The game is solid and is obviously based on previous NSS games but from the managers perspective. Overall it’s clean, simple and easy to master. There are a few bugs and improvements to be made.

1. Game crashes are sporadic but rarely occur. I can’t pinpoint a trigger, but sometimes occur during advertising displays.
2. When playing in multiple cups, I have found that if you have two completion games on the same week. You will play one and the other is auto-played for you. This is a bug and needs fixing.
3. Needs a saving feature to back saved games to cloud.
4. Keeping players happy about development is a nightmare. More cards are needed or reduce player expectations.
5. Would be nice to rename team, players or parts of game.
6. Issue with stadium attendance. Currently have unbeatable team but only get 50% attendance in small stadium.
7. Youth facilities and Scouts are good but very biased to generating forwards. Ratio on forwards is 4:1 on any other outfield player.
8. Moving clubs and end of season must not be available. Haven’t had the option in my current 5 seasons.

Good game but I’m sure there is more to come. Very good potential and follows on from previous NSS models.