# College Football Sim 2 — user reviews > 85 indexed App Store user reviews of College Football Sim 2 by John Jaco, rated 3.40/5 from 131 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/college-football-sim-2/id6450391379/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/college-football-sim-2/id6450391379.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 43 · 4★ 27 · 3★ 24 · 2★ 16 · 1★ 21 ## What do users think of College Football Sim 2? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great game overall - 👍 Lots of great features - 💡 Potential for improvement **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🔧 Needs more updates and bug fixes - 📱 Poor user interface and navigation **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezes after 21 years of play - Recruiting system is broken and inconsistent - Prestige and coach development issues **Most requested features** - Add background/automated recruiting - Improve conference realignment and updates - Expand to other sports like baseball ## Newest reviews (19 of 85) ### 2/5 — First one was better *2026-02-18* If you took CFB Sim 1, added the ability to save/load league files, fixed some of the bugs, added a couple features, you would’ve had an A+ game. The UI on this game is a downgrade in every single way from the first one. It took the simplicity and ease of use of the first game and made it 10x worse, not better. So disappointing. ### 3/5 — Good game. Ads ruin it *2026-01-28, version 1.1.7* It’s got good basics but it runs an add after every single game you simulate. ### 3/5 — Stuck on Simmulating *2025-12-20, version 1.1.7* I recently downloaded this game and really enjoy it! Something I've noticed is that whenever I get to 10.32MBs in a save file, the game won't let me continue to simulate past this point. I have gotten to this point and don't know what to do. ### 2/5 — Huge Downgrade *2025-12-11, version 1.1.7* The first game is better in almost every single way. Hard to believe these games were made by the same guy. ### 4/5 — Love Game But….. *2025-09-04* I have been playing this game for years. I recently had to redownload as I lost my phone and the data didn’t transfer (Not the game or creator’s fault.) Since my redownload in July 2025 I have been finding that the game will freeze or glitch during ads playing or freeze completely in the offseason not allowing my to advance and forcing me to restart. It would be nice if this bug could be fixed as I love this game and would hate to not play anymore because of glitches. ### 2/5 — Good & Simple Mechanics, Poor Execution *2024-11-04, version 1.1.7* Recruiting is broken. Some years you randomly have promises worth 400 points but most seasons you have them worth generic 110-225 points (even with over 100 prestige level coach with 90+ pitch and time). I’ve lost out on players where I’ve had an almost 2000 point advantage the week prior. Coach development is way too slow and assistant coaches are mid at best (they also NEVER develop) Game crashes mid recruiting once every two seasons. Game lets opposing schools explode above you in recruiting points for prospects out of nowhere in like week 3/4 (I’m talking around 2000-3000 points worth) I like the simplicity of a lot of things in this game, but it’s just too broken when it comes to the execution. ### 3/5 — Promises *2024-10-01, version 1.1.7* Why when I make promises they are always broken is it something I’m doing or is it just not working like I won’t redshirt someon and then that promise is broken ### 3/5 — So much potential *2024-09-15, version 1.1.7* Game has a lot of potential but way too many issues. Recruiting interface is awful, and In the “game plan” section, every single team says they run nickel D and run n gun O. Just doesn’t make sense. Seems developer has totally stopped any updates ### 2/5 — Game Breaking Bug *2024-07-05, version 1.1.7* Game essentially freezes after 21 years. Cant advance to next season ### 2/5 — This game is good *2024-07-01, version 1.1.7* I like this game a lot now we need it the exact same way in basketball 🏀 please I’m hoping y’all can make it soon if y’all do ### 3/5 — Prestige Not Working *2024-06-24, version 1.1.7* Idk if maintenance is still being done on the game but my prestige is not working for my coach. I have had several seasons of a .500 or better record and winning 8+ games in a season as well as finishing in the Top 25 and it seems to be stuck on 36… ### 3/5 — Great game but *2024-06-21, version 1.1.7* The game gets stuck loading after a few seasons. And when I close the app and reopen it, the conference championships get wiped from all the coaches data. This game has amazing potential tho! ### 3/5 — Love the game, but freezes. *2024-05-06, version 1.1.7* Love the game, but after a few seasons my game gets stuck in a loading screen in the offseason, making me abandon that profile and start fresh. Would be a 5 star game if that was fixed! ### 3/5 — Bugs *2024-03-24, version 1.1.7* Can’t call my players leaving or bid on any player in the portal and not sure why, there was also no coaches changes in any league which is another red flag in this game, too many bugs pop up after the seasons go by ### 3/5 — Great but Coaching *2023-12-27, version 1.1.7* This is a great game but don’t bother coaching a game. Overalls don’t matter, likelihood of plays working don’t matter, everything just gets no gain. Everything else about this game is amazing, but don’t waste your time on trying to coach. ### 4/5 — 21 years *2023-11-27, version 1.1.7* Mine stops at 21 years and won’t load coaches other than that fun game ### 4/5 — Game is good overall *2023-11-14* Please fix the bug where it doesn’t sim to next week it just loads and says it’s sinking a computer game. I had to restart about 4 careers because of it right now my team is 34-2 and I might have to restart it. It’s so annoying ### 4/5 — Could use slight adjustment *2023-11-13* I really like this game and I think it’s really fun but I went for the realistic approach and made all of the teams the real life teams but the independents only have 4 teams but in the leagues you have to do 6-20 teams so I had to take teams from other divisions and had to bring in 2 high school teams but other then that great game Also I would really like to see a baseball game set up exactly like this where you can redshirt guys as you choose and all of that stuff so if you could a baseball one would be great. ### 3/5 — First Edition of the Game was way better *2023-11-02* While there are some nice additions to this version, the original game seemed to flow a lot more smoothly. I’ve noticed in recruiting that information does not update on recruits until you back out all the way to the main dashboard. Quality of life issues like this are what makes it hard to play this one for multiple seasons unlike the original. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crash *2026-03-24, version 1.1.7* Can’t sim one week without having to restart my game and do everything over again. Delete the game or fix and finish it because you and I both know this game is no where near done. For the last update to be 2 years ago ### 1/5 — Bad *2024-03-30, version 1.1.7* I couldn’t even get into the game because of the “underscores” this game needs improvement ### 1/5 — Games a bust *2023-12-29, version 1.1.7* Crashes after 21 years. Add ons don’t work. Would love my money back! ### 1/5 — Can’t get it to work *2023-12-02, version 1.1.7* It just has a black screen and won’t work. I’ve offloaded, reloaded, deleted the game repeatedly, everything in my power and it won’t work. ### 1/5 — Recruiting don’t make sense *2023-09-09, version 1.1.7* Fix the recruiting ### 1/5 — Updating Coaching Changes bug *2023-08-15, version 1.1.7* After 20 years in offseason week 1 there is a bug and it makes the game unplayable. ### 1/5 — It Just Wont Open *2023-08-13, version 1.1.7* Trying to play this on my mac, but the app just opens to a blank white screen. The first version works just fine, but this one does not ### 1/5 — Can’t even play the game *2023-08-05, version 1.1.7* So I created a realistic version of the NCAA in 2024 where realignment is there, but whenever I try to even start playing the game I’m stuck on a loading screen that says “scheduling matchups…”. I’ve tested it and so far it’s been 10 minutes of that, and there’s no change. I’ve tried this multiple times with multiple teams. ### 1/5 — Player customization *2023-07-29, version 1.1.5* It’s very wack that the last game had more customization than the second game. ### 1/5 — Worse *2023-07-12, version 1.1.2* Difficult to navigate bad recruiting horrible layout and u bought the thing to change players overalls and I can’t and I can’t refund ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Please don’t stop updating! *2025-12-02, version 1.1.7* Is very fun but noticed it hasn’t been touched in a couple of years ### 5/5 — Background simulated recruiting!!!! *2025-07-06, version 1.1.7* With the amount of detail in this game how does simple background user sim recruiting not exist? I should be able to not touch recruiting at all with a low caliber team and the AI should just sign 17 low caliber players right? Well doesn’t…if you don’t recruit it won’t do anything, I like recruiting, I like the detail in this game regarding recruiting but dawg that’s why it’s crazy how automated recruiting doesn’t happen for the user if they decide to just focus on player management Edit 07/06 Yeah this game would definitely be dope if the recruiting was something that would “play in the background” if you choose to not manually do it…doesn’t recruit stars, just goes after general talent that’s interested, local Edit 07/06/25 Added auto recruiting, too little to late to ride the wave of a great game tho, hopefully you guys are developing a new game tho ### 5/5 — Please make a baseball one *2025-06-24* John Jaco your probably the best mobile app creator on the market right now and baseball has a humungous following if you’d please please please make a baseball game just like it cfb sim and your basketball sim we would gratefully pay any amount you ask we need it!!- baseball Community ### 5/5 — Better than cfb25 *2024-10-11, version 1.1.7* Ea couldve just copied your platform for dynasty and it would’ve been worth the money good job guys ### 5/5 — Great Game Just Needs A New Update *2024-07-25, version 1.1.7* I think it needs a new update for the new 2024 season with the next conferences moves I would love to see it and I would play it every day!!! ### 5/5 — Great Game! *2023-12-13* Love playing this to pass the time and just have some fun only issue I’ve ran into recently is that when I go to aim into the off season it freezes at “Updating Coach Changes” I think it’s a bug but I’m not a 100% sure I’d love to get this fixed so I don’t have to keep making new coaches id love to get back to playing the rest of my season after this is fixed! Great Game Great Job! ### 5/5 — Is this part of the game or is it a bug *2023-11-26* When I get to21 years coaching experience and try to advance to the next season it with just not advance . I don't know If that is the max seasons you can play . The overall the game is a really good game ### 5/5 — Pro Game *2023-09-28, version 1.1.7* please make the pro game so we can transfer college players to pro league ### 5/5 — Best football game on the App Store *2023-09-22* This one is definitely and upgrade over the first football sim game, I really liked the basketball one but was not a fan of how the first football one was set up. But this on is set up a lot better at least in my opinion. Really only a few things that bother me so far. - There’s a bug between players leaving and change positions where the leaving players stay on for the next task. It can cause some issues if you forget who is leaving - noticed that all season records are just career records which really isn’t a big deal but would be nice to know the season records too - I tried to run a backfield where the running backs split the reps by adjusting the substitutions but the starter still took all the reps - Not sure why the names are all weird, more of a cosmetic issue but it seems to make it harder to remember some of my players because they don’t have real names it seems - lastly I don’t mind the way the recruiting is set up as this is how the older NCAAs were but I really loved NCAA 14s way of recruiting where you just assigned the points to guys ### 5/5 — This game is good *2023-08-21* I like this game a lot now we need it the exact same way in basketball 🏀 please I’m hoping y’all can make it soon if y’all do --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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