# Blue Bloods Basketball — user reviews > 63 indexed App Store user reviews of Blue Bloods Basketball by David Ferraro, rated 4.14/5 from 184 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blue-bloods-basketball/id1616736773/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blue-bloods-basketball/id1616736773.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 111 · 4★ 32 · 3★ 16 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 19 ## What do users think of Blue Bloods Basketball? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎮 Highly addictive and engaging gameplay - 👍 Realistic college basketball simulation - 📊 Deep recruiting and player development system - ⏰ Perfect for casual and extended play sessions - 🏆 Well-balanced game mechanics - 👥 Active developer with regular engagement - 🎯 Authentic tournament experience - 💪 Satisfying progression from low to blue blood programs **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and stability issues - 😤 Inconsistent difficulty - unexplained losses to inferior teams - 🎮 Tedious player management and rotation system - 📋 Bare-bones user interface lacking polish - 🤔 Confusing position assignment and depth chart management - ⏳ Repetitive annual setup tasks without reminders - 🎲 Unrealistic player performance inconsistencies - 💾 Corrupted save files causing progress loss - 🔍 Delayed recruit ranking visibility (10 games in) **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on startup - Crashes every 5 seconds during gameplay - Freshman players skip a year upon commitment - Corrupted save files - Season history shows as unknown - Automatic position assignment errors - Recruiting ranking inconsistencies - Practice system shows minimal impact on player ratings - Recent update degraded game quality **Most requested features** - Transfer portal system - Early draft declaration option - Player draft tracking and BBGM integration - Difficulty settings (Easy/Normal/Hard/Impossible) - In-game play simulation with manual controls - College football version - NIL deals and modern features - Create-a-player functionality - Player position display in lineup menu - Coaching staff customization - Increased recruit limit (more than 3) - Hall of fame and jersey retirement - Assistant coach feedback and suggestions - Live game summaries - Team switching capability - Summer foreign tours and in-season tournaments - Player stats comparison tool - School logo customization - Character customization and upgrades - Prestige system clarity - Conference customization ## Newest reviews (13 of 63) ### 4/5 — Love this game *2025-07-25, version 2.9.1* First of all—like the title says—I love this game; the recruitment, the stats, the real-life feel of it all. So much fun. I just wish it could be a little simpler/user friendly. It does feel pretty bare-bones. Functional, but not FUN-ctional, if you know what I mean. For example, every year you have to recruit, bring in freshmen, and then you’re supposed to set settings FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL PLAYER. It can be very tedious and there’s nothing to remind you. Half the time I forget! Another thing I wish this game would do is tell you what you need most (goes back to being fun and user friendly). For example, let’s say your center is a senior and you power forward is a senior. You go after some bluechip guys—maybe 2 PFs and 1 center for simplicity. Let’s also say that the center goes somewhere else but you get the two PFs you wanted. Great. Except when the game automatically puts one of those PFs at your starting center spot. It becomes so much to manage that you don’t realize you need an ACTUAL CENTER, and this guy gets stuck at center when he’s undersized. It does make a difference and I wish there were features to fix it. Other than those nitpicks, it’s a great game and I’ve killed hours making Indiana (Bloomington in-game) back into a Blue Blood! ### 4/5 — Great game *2025-05-29, version 2.9.1* I love this game have been playing it for a while now but they should make it easier to win the natty and win games cause it makes no sense that I have a 23-0 Duke team and I lose by 100 to Kent st and there was one season when I lost by 50+ points for 3 to 4 games in a row so I think they should make it easy to win the championship and win games ### 4/5 — Great game, but… *2025-05-04, version 2.9.1* I absolutely love this game. It’s very addictive and very fun. The only problem I have with this game is that when you get to the tournament, you all of the sudden lose to a bad team. I have some great teams, a 28-5 team and even a 30-3 team. But I lost in the second round of the conference tournament and the second round of the big tournament. It’s really annoying when you have a team like that and lose in the second round. The only thing I’d change is to make it a little easier to win a title. ### 5/5 — Update *2024-06-09, version 2.8.3* Can we please get some updates please this game is fun and all but we need updates and can you make a football version of this game please ### 5/5 — Blue Bloods *2024-05-28, version 2.8.3* This is the best sports game I have EVER played. I find to be very enjoyable and gives a in depth dive into college basketball, but I would like there to be a transfer portal and a coaching staff that you can edit. I would also like more recruiting points, but the one thing that I really wants is to be able to have more than three recruits. Even though the game is great now these are some things that can be added to make this the best game of all time. ### 4/5 — Transfer portal *2024-05-12, version 2.8.3* I think that adding a transfer portal to the game would make it much more interesting ### 5/5 — Can we get some more updates this a pretty cool game like can you add character customization *2024-03-11* I like this game a lot but can you add character customization and like we’re we can upgrade them to ### 4/5 — Transfer portal *2024-01-08, version 2.8.3* You should add a transfer portal ### 5/5 — Just me *2023-09-22, version 2.8.3* I want a option where is can make people insane like 2k ### 5/5 — Can we get some more updates this a pretty cool game like can you add character customization *2023-09-16* I like this game a lot but can you add character customization and like we’re we can upgrade them to ### 5/5 — Make a game like this but your the character *2023-09-03, version 2.8.3* This would be very fun, in you senior year going into college and you upgrade your character and things like that ### 4/5 — Good game but how do I get prestige? *2023-08-28, version 2.8.3* I have played 15 seasons so far and the last 4 seasons I only lost 2 games and I have won 1 championship and I’m still at NONE prestige what should I do to get prestige? ### 5/5 — recruiting *2023-08-12, version 2.8.3* i think y’all gotta fix the recruiting because there are burger boys how are ranked as 5 stars but then in the player rankings there 75th or something like that so i think to make it realistic that all of the 5 starts are actually in the top of the class and people averaging 21,5,3 and are number 1 aren't 4 and half stars and not burger boys just a suggestion other than that games fun ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Blue blood *2025-11-11, version 2.9.1* You should make it where there is different difficulties the easy mode is where you can see the players stars all season normal mode so when you scout the player you can see how many stars he has when you full scout all his rating and the hard level you don’t get to see any star just the there ratings then the impossible level where you can see ratings or stars only stats ### 1/5 — crash *2024-03-23, version 2.8.3* it just crashes i can’t do anything ### 1/5 — Crashes *2023-12-22, version 2.8.3* Game crashes every 5 seconds ### 1/5 — Skepticism *2023-11-17, version 2.8.3* Deleted game as soon as I saw Lexington, KY as a low prestige mid-major program yet Durham as a blue blood. Clearly not ,are by a college basketball fan. ### 1/5 — Update *2023-03-30, version 2.6.1* the new update ruined the game. it’s crazy that this game would stay better if it WASNT updated, very ironic ### 2/5 — Good not great *2024-07-07, version 2.8.3* I like the game but I think we should be able to play the game and there should be difficulty’s so it could be easy to win a championship or harder but it is still a decent game and I think it has a lot of potential. ### 2/5 — Doesn’t not work *2023-11-20, version 2.8.3* Any time I open the app it crashes it looks like a good game but doesn’t work for me ### 2/5 — Below Average *2022-08-15, version 1.1.28* Campus Dynasty was much better ### 3/5 — Could be better *2025-02-18, version 2.9.1* The game is not bad, but I don’t understand why you have to wait 10 games before recruit rankings come out. It leaves you in the dark in the early part of the season on who to actually prioritize and who to not really waste time with. ### 3/5 — The game is good but need to update *2023-07-24, version 2.8.2* 1. The win to lose ratio is crazy I can win all my exhibition games and some OOC games but when it come to conference games you lose all of them. 2. The depth chart need to behave the positions. It’s so confusing putting a team together putting a PG in a PF position. 3. I think you should get more feedback from the assistant coach like suggesting changes certain play styles to fit our player better. 4. Possibly a live sum of the game would be cool to have. 5. The Ui could be better you could have the school logo in a box. Idk if you can’t use the logo change the logo to make it different enough. The have it be side it say who out best player, our record and what rank we are at ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best college basketball game *2026-04-04, version 2.9.1* Very fun game to play and is the perfect simulation for me, only thing I would change is to show if your players got drafted and where they went, so that way I could maybe run a different simulation in something like bbgm by importing these players, overall my favourite college basketball game. ### 5/5 — Perfect game? *2026-02-26, version 2.9.1* Fun game I can play for hours. I wish they would add a feature where you could sim in game buys that is. Almost perfect for a mobile game. ### 5/5 — This is the best game ever I rate it a 5/5 *2025-04-17, version 2.9.1* I like this game but it could be even better if we could play the game on the court with all of the players and play 20:00 minutes in the first half and 2nd half then it would be really fun to play ### 5/5 — Great game, however… *2025-03-28, version 2.9.1* Hello game devs, first I want to say this game is a 10/10. I’ve never been addicted to a game for so long like I have with this game. Needless to say you guys put the time and effort in for a great game and it shows. However, as much as I am impressed I could be even more amazed. We need either a new version of the game or more updates to better make the game more engaging overall. Come on devs I know you’re even more capable of producing a game that will blow us out the water even more. I need new features, more customization, more modern up to date things that college basketball has such as NIL deals but instead just have some kind of recognition showing this athlete has deals. Just a little extra to make the game more satisfying. Again this game is amazing if you read this game devs and even take into consideration any ideas I thank you. ### 5/5 — Game is good *2025-03-22, version 2.9.1* This game is actually amazing, please make a college football version ### 5/5 — Transfer Portal *2025-03-21, version 2.9.1* The game would be much better if there was a transfer portal in this game. It would be way more modern. Also players should be able to declare for the draft early. Pretty good game but those additions would make it great ### 5/5 — Great game just missing a transfer portal *2025-01-29, version 2.8.3* If it had a transfer portal with players wanting to come to your team and players wanting to leave your team for playtime or school interest I would rate the game 6 stars. ### 5/5 — So addictive! *2025-01-05, version 2.8.3* I grew up on NCAA Football and NCAA Basketball on the PS One onward. But unlike most people, I couldn’t care less about hitting the circle button at just the right time to complete a big play; I simulated all games while playing career mode, trying to build a zero star program into a champion. This app is the closest I’ve come to that on a phone, and I love it. Maybe there could be some added wrinkles - unhappy players wanting to transfer, having people get drafted, etc - but overall, it is a really fun play. Thanks to the game designers and developers for this one! ### 5/5 — Help *2024-12-01, version 2.8.3* Having trouble with bugs in the game update please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ### 5/5 — This the best basketball coaching game! *2024-08-28, version 2.8.3* Will there be any updates soon? --- *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 2026-06-28.*