Football Mogul 18 Reviews

The game itself is fairly good, but the offseason is a bust, with no way to use your high draft picks if you already have any good players signed for the next season.

This is definitely an upgrade over the 2014 edition. However, as another reviewer reported the game deletes players every time you save it. I lost 4 players randomly. Not completely unrealistic, maybe 8% of the players in this league are Antonio Brown level crazy and just disappear. I would prefer not to lose players though.

Totally glitchy. Players (sometimes almost a fourth of them) randomly disappear from rosters, player ratings randomly change, etc. Tried to install latest patch (15.10), won't even run. Bad software.

Player ratings drop off a cliff for no reason , players disappear from roster , economic system is trash . They should be ashamed that they are still putting out the same garbage over and over .

Good old fashioned simple sports sim that gives you that "one more season" itch. It has not come very far in the many years they have been making this game, but it is still a very entertaining game.

I was looking for an American Football Management Game. I wanted something not to complicated or too deep. A game like Head Coach by Midnight Oil from back in the day. Well this game is like Head Coach in many way except is is text rather than a graphical representation. But don't let that fool you or put you off. I put the text of slow and you get a play by play blow by blow and it can keep you on the edge. This game is very enjoyable. You play as The General Manager and The Head Coach, like the games of old :) How cool is that :) One thing I nearly didn't buy this game but for one positive review among all the bad reviews. But I'm glad I did and I'm glad of his positive review. Bottom line is if you want some fun but don't want to spend you life in a sim this is for you it has just enough depth and you can even design you own plays for both defence and offence. Plus many other customisations around gameplay to suit want you want from the game. A sold 8.5 out of 10 for me.

Half hour was all I needed. Lacking depth. Lacking balance. It is the skeleton of what this game could and should be. I actually like thier Baseball Mogul games more than OOTP, but this is a cash grab. I can only hope for an update. I'll be asking for a refund.

I hate to do this, but I have to give this a thumbs down. I've played these games for years and they always have the same issue: the economic simulation is terrible. The game thinks NFL teams have a problem making money, to the point that any truly bad team can't even afford to sign their #1 pick unless they trade a bunch of future picks for cash. And this year's version makes this problem even worse, as every player who resigns now wants a bonus you can't afford to pay, especially if you have a big draft pick to sign. Worse, this is a known problem that has plagued this series for years.

More of the same. While some improvements were made, there are still glaring issues. For example, trading the number 2 overall draft pick will get you, at best, a future 1st round pick. And the ratings for rookies are always too low. Mitch Trubisky, for example, was so low that he was cut the next year and no one picked him up. Which is totally insane! There are other issues like this that make an unrealistic simulation. With a little polish, however, it could great.

I only have about 10 hours maybe a few more off line, so take this with a grain of salt. I have been playing sports sims from about the 1985 years. One of my first was a game called Dugout Decisions made by a company called First Base Software. The company is no longer around. I have been a user of Front Page Sports Football & Baseball, Madden, Front Office Football, and my all time favorite OOTP Baseball. My only football sim I had before my purchase of Football Mogul as of 5 years ago is Front Office Football. I do not have the latest version. I decided to see what Mogul would have compared to Front Office. And from my reading reviews Front Office is just a roster update and rule changes the NFL made anyway. So I gave Mogul a shot and this what I have so far experienced. The good is it can be totally customized to your liking in league set up, you can edit player ratings, make and add players and plenty of options. The game is fast as you can play 5 or 6 years in a 7 to 10 hour time frame. You can create and edit a playbooks, set prices and ticket values. Now the bad. If you are like me and want to be the coach and call plays, you can however I see no substituting players, no fatigue stat, but you can call a timeout??. Now I maybe missing something and if so let me know. You have no real sound it is just beeps and clicks. So you will not be able to listen to Nelly's (I am number one) unless you put in a DVD. Graphics are 50/50 as I don't expect a lot with a text base sim but, they look old even for this type of game. The drafting and game play/off Season is a bit wacky. Now this is on vanilla settings but, you have to trade away draft picks to make money to pay signing bonuses, yet I'm 55 million under the cap. I did fix this by going into commissioner mode and gave each team 250 mill in cash. Rosters are set at 100 players, no restricted free agency or franchise tags. Anyway I will keep the game as I have already gone past my 2 hours of play time on Steam. Would I get a refund if I could? Yes. I payed 27 with tax and I think this should be more around the 10 to 12 dollar range. I will play more and see if they update this with some patches. If so I will re-review. Over and out.