# Astonishing Basketball Manager — user reviews > 219 indexed App Store user reviews of Astonishing Basketball Manager by Studio Zero Incorporated, rated 4.70/5 from 4,600 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/astonishing-basketball-manager/id1589313811/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/astonishing-basketball-manager/id1589313811.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,818 · 4★ 508 · 3★ 132 · 2★ 53 · 1★ 89 ## What do users think of Astonishing Basketball Manager? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Fun game - 👍 Great basketball simulation - 🔒 No ads - 👍 Addictive gameplay - 🚀 Smooth performance - 👍 Customization options **Cons** - 🐛 Glitches and bugs - 🔍 Lack of realism in player ratings and performance - 💰 Pay-to-win elements - 🕰️ Slow progression in career mode - 🤔 Confusing in-app purchase system **Commonly reported bugs** - Age reset in career mode - Inconsistent player performance and ratings - Unrealistic playoff matchups - Legendary players performing poorly - Inability to see daily training rewards for a period - Disappearing saved player files **Most requested features** - Add ability to change player age and draft year in career mode - Implement realistic contract negotiations and free agency - Introduce tiers for player growth (rookie, rising star, elite, all-star) - Allow ratings to improve over time, not just due to aging - Implement defensive gameplay choices and interactions - Add more leagues and international competitions - Introduce a college/high school mode for franchise player - Implement a play-by-play feature - Add ability to time free throws - Introduce difficulty settings - Implement player motivation system during timeouts - Expand player attributes and ratings - Add a leaderboard for team/player records and achievements - Implement a retirement system where players can have a son/daughter to continue the legacy ## Newest reviews (16 of 219) ### 4/5 — Difficulty issues *2026-08-08, version 6.4.5* It’s a a really fun game but becomes nearly impossible to play when you raise the difficulty. No matter how well you assemble the roster or what strategy you use, your team completely underperforms. It’d be nice if there was a more comprehensive way to track what exactly is going wrong when you have 4 All Stars and are finishing as an 8th seed team ### 4/5 — None *2026-08-08, version 6.4.5* So like the players I pay for with actual money can up and leave and I have to deal with it? ### 2/5 — MODO 3D *2026-05-14* Inadmissível fazer um jogo novo pior que o anterior, não estou conseguindo arremessar no modo jogador! Arrume isso pra ontem, estou jogando o 25 porque esse não está completo **Developer response:** Prezada Modo3D, Este é o Astonishing Basketball Manager, e ele nunca teve 3D, pois não é "baseado em habilidade", como dizemos na indústria de jogos. É tudo sobre raciocínio, não sobre reflexos. Aerilys ### 3/5 — Agressive Monetization *2026-04-23, version 6.4.0* The monetization could be less agressive. ### 2/5 — Unsure *2026-03-07, version 6.2.4* I can’t make my franchise player that good I’ve levelled him up a lot and he’s terrible still ### 4/5 — Legends Dominate *2026-02-02, version 6.2.0* Free until you win three championships. Then legends start to appear on other teams. To compete you need to purchase your own legends. Responsive developer will discuss issues and suggested improvements. I would like to see improvements with salary cap and draft. It is difficult to improve draft choices as the salary cap is too tight. Another reason to purchase legends as they don’t count toward the cap. ### 2/5 — Says it’s about strategy but really another pay to win game *2026-01-01, version 6.1.4* Online games you will face nothing but all stars which you can only get multiples of by $. Coaching sim you’ll face Dargor who will hire legends and all stars for multi-yr contracts for ZERO salary. (League minimum is 1mil) Game was very fun first few years and liked supporting the devs. Now it’s a maximum data extract + money extract sim with a basketball mask. ### 4/5 — Not Quite 5 stars *2025-12-17, version 6.1.3* My only take away from this game is the ability to have “in-game on the court- prompts where we’re on the court with our franchise player and can shoot the ball ourselves or pass instead of choosing to shoot a 3 or fade away like the command prompts ask. Have like a shot meter like the game Astonishing Basketball Career. It’s basically the same exact game except ABK25 have other modes other than franchise mode. That would make it worth spending money on packs to level out player to levels up to 90 - 95 overall. ### 5/5 — Astonishing NBA *2025-12-01, version 6.1.1r2* I love this game because you can use your own imagination and you can have your very own team in this game, you can create your own team and you can create your own players Even though they don’t own them, you can create them into your own player and I love this basketball game. I’m 500%. ### 5/5 — Cool *2025-11-27, version 6.1.1* BEST GAME EVER ### 5/5 — Title h *2025-11-10, version 6.0.4* I love this game because we can actually be in the manager of the game, but we can’t really play it so that’s why I don’t really make noise at five but I will get this ### 4/5 — Broken Leadership *2025-10-20, version 6.0.2* Love the game but all of a sudden my leadership is broken & lagging out entire app every time I try to go to it causes entire game to freeze & I can only continue if I close app & reopen ### 5/5 — Not bad *2025-08-02, version 5.5.4* Not bad at all if you give it a try and also store very cheap too so it’s not going to hurt the pocket ### 5/5 — Game idea *2025-07-13, version 5.5.33* Y’all should add simulating meaning that u could fast forward your season ### 4/5 — Très bon jeu + question *2025-06-28* Excellent jeu, j’y passe des heures depuis des mois. Cependant pourquoi est il est quasiment impossible d’avoir plus de 2 contres de moyenne en tant que pivot en mode joueur et par conséquent de devenir DPOY? ### 5/5 — Fun management game *2025-06-26, version 5.5.33* I am still in year one with first team but I am very pleased with the experience with this app to date. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — System is not working *2026-05-07, version 6.4.2* It seems even in regular mode it is acting like the top level. Fun game until the last 3 weeks and you have crazy win totals for the AI teams and never can win the cup.. I have a loaded roster and still loosing first or second round. Tried to reach out and no response. ### 1/5 — PAY TO WIN *2026-04-29, version 6.4.1* Won’t let you win anything unless you upgrade through spending. ### 1/5 — Don’t Spend Money *2026-01-28, version 6.2.0* Twice I purchased training points and both times, I did not get them. Support has not responded to my message. Also, after 4 seasons, the SoCal team adds a legend with Zero salary on an 8 year contract and the game becomes pay to win. ### 1/5 — No ball knowledge game *2025-08-11, version 5.5.4* I have a player with A+ shooting and A 3pt shooting and the HIGHEST defense in the game right now with 135 AND he’s a superstar tier 3. He gets scored on a lot and current has a .15% 3pt percentage and only average 25 so he never makes the 1v1 tournament or the legends contest! HOW?! So much money put into him. Ratings say he’s goated and he’s very mid. Explain how ### 1/5 — Horrible *2025-04-09, version 5.4.4* Absolutely horrible lose every game also this game only cares about the money you spend trash game ### 1/5 — It’s good at first *2025-04-04, version 5.4.3* But then it becomes obvious you can’t realistically advance without buying a bunch of points and even then the need is exponential. Also the game looks deep at first but you pretty much see all there is in the first 30 minutes. Save yourself some time and skip this one ### 1/5 — Bad Bugs and glitches *2024-10-08, version 4.8.0* I tried to move on to a different day and the game froze resulting in me deleting the whole save and then app.Terrible customer service,maybe they should hire more staff and people that actually know how to help and unbug problems. ### 1/5 — Attributes MEAN NOTHING *2024-06-20, version 4.6.3* I bout the pack where it upgrades all your stats to a 90. But for some reason, my teammates with a worse grade in every stat are playing better than me. Even players from other teams. How can I average 14 points a game with A+ shooting and A 3P shooting and my teammate has a B in both shooting and 3P shooting and averages 22? It doesn’t make sense and I feel like just got robbed of 10 bucks! ### 1/5 — This is annoying *2024-05-20, version 4.6.2* This is annoying your team is in first place they always lose in the playoffs make it stop ### 1/5 — This game wack for this *2024-01-18, version 4.4.0* I paid to get all my stats to 20 and my stats went down and all my ratings went to an F? Make it make sense?! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fun and strategic game *2026-06-21, version 6.4.32* Loved the system really flows well and no need to pay to win ### 5/5 — Add the other stats *2026-06-19, version 6.4.32* Show the other stats while in game and also this is the best game ever!!! ### 5/5 — ABK *2026-06-05, version 6.4.3* Great game enjoyable asl , could further develop on the minor teams so free agents who don’t get signed go to the minor teams or you can promote players or have a player there in career mode ### 5/5 — Game Suggestion *2026-05-02, version 6.4.1* I LOVE THE GAME Been playing it nonstop for about 2years now I just can’t stop!! And it’sVery realistic I just have one suggestion can we put 1999-2009 & 2016-2020 Mod rosters on here so I can experience the best nostalgia Please!!! ### 5/5 — Good job *2026-04-18, version 6.3.2* Bro I just love doing 2k sims but in the future I wanna hop in for a lil boy that’s it do ### 5/5 — Amelioration *2026-04-03* Le jeu est top mais intégrer les équipes nationales pour que le joueur du mode carrière puisse représenter sa nation à une compétition nationales comme la coupe du monde ### 5/5 — Probably the best basketball manager/franchise player mobiles apps but *2025-12-26, version 6.1.3* They definitely need to fix player contracts. U could avg 40 points win mvp and finals mvp and when it comes time to negotiate your contract the teams are so stubborn. You could turn the team around from bottom to top of the league and a team full of min contracts and maybe a few 10 mill contracts and they still won’t give you over 35 mill. I got 47 mill one time at the amazing age of 41, definitely fix player value ### 5/5 — Good game *2025-12-26, version 6.1.3* I enjoy the game but maybe make the whole game where you see the player dots moving around making plays. ### 5/5 — Very good *2025-12-25, version 6.1.3* I love it ❤️ ### 5/5 — 5 stars from the beginning *2025-12-12, version 6.1.2* Can’t get enough of this game! Very addictive and fun to play! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-08.*