# Hockey Legacy Manager 23 — user reviews > 78 indexed App Store user reviews of Hockey Legacy Manager 23 by Elie Lamoureux, rated 4.80/5 from 380 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hockey-legacy-manager-23/id1627639611/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hockey-legacy-manager-23/id1627639611.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 339 · 4★ 19 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 9 ## What do users think of Hockey Legacy Manager 23? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎮 Great game - 🕹️ Addicting gameplay - 🏆 Best sports manager on mobile - 🔝 Better than EA's franchise mode - 🔍 Excellent depth and detail - 💰 Good value for the price **Cons** - 🤯 Steep learning curve - 🐛 Bugs and crashes - 💰 Overly monetized - 🔒 Issues with Pro version - 🗓️ Outdated rosters **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes when viewing player stats - Issues with moving players between leagues - Pro version not working on different devices - Sim freezes on certain dates **Most requested features** - Add more seasons - Improve roster updates - Implement a tutorial - Add more leagues/sports - Enhance player progression - Improve save/load functionality - Implement a colorblind mode ## Newest reviews (17 of 78) ### 4/5 — Перевод *2026-06-07* Русский язык есть? ### 4/5 — Opinion *2023-08-06* I love the game, it just needs to be more accessible for free to play users like myself ### 5/5 — Great *2023-07-14* The only thing that’s iffy about the game is you need pro to actually have fun, otherwise u can’t do as much, but pro is not super expensive, if you like hockey this is a great game ### 5/5 — I love this game *2023-07-08* Would be so great to have a baseball version of this game ### 5/5 — Addicting *2023-07-03* Easily one of the most addicting things ever put on my phone. Can’t put it down, absolutely stellar. Although maybe I’m just stupid but I’m not sure if there is any way to check your draft capital atm, would be a nice addition ### 5/5 — Incredible *2023-07-03* The hockey version is perfect. Football needs a little work. I hope you do a baseball one this year ### 5/5 — Best time killer *2023-06-24* I have over 78 Hours playing this game. I think i’m addicted. ### 5/5 — Great *2023-06-17, version 23.3.1* Great game ### 5/5 — Awesome, But… *2023-06-12* Love this game, the value is tremendous. Takes a bit to figure out, your tutorial link is broken. My players max progression always seems to fall. No idea what I’m doing wrong as I have no tutorial to help? ### 5/5 — A-M-A-Z-I-N-G *2023-06-10* Best game ever ### 5/5 — W game *2023-06-06* It’s really fun u get a free trial and if u like it its 6$ cad for unlimited edition ### 5/5 — Absolutely love it *2023-06-06* I’ve been playing these games since HLM20 and every year gets better. The addition of making your own leagues is plain awesome, and the quality of the day just keeps getting better. Just had a couple of thoughts on how to improve the game. 1. Adding hits could be cool (could be influenced by an aggressiveness trait) but might not be feasible. 2. For some reason a 99 offense mcdavid or Makar do not dominate the league, so could be patched to make more realistic. 3. Not quite sure why I need 14 F and 7 D per league level to send players down a league. I play with the NHL, AHL, and ECHL, and can’t always move players down to the most appropriate league because of this issue. 4. Maybe addresses the above, but have a custom setting (maybe for the pro version) to increase the number of contract spots? Especially if I use several minor leagues associated with the NHL, this could help me fill out my team and for every other team to not be over the contract limit with my custom roster. 5. Shorthanded points would be cool. 6. Increased power play points to make more realistic. 7. To help with the above, penalty minute more reflective of discipline. Players with lower penalty minutes should easily be getting 100+ pims. Maybe make discipline a colored stat (blue, green, yellow, light red, dark red) like the motivation colors. Those are all the suggestions I have for now. I truly love this game and you’ve done an amazing job. Looking forward to HLM 24 already! ### 5/5 — the best *2023-05-06* great idea and an absolutely amazing game, keep up the good work! ### 3/5 — Great game but simple and correctable flaws *2023-04-20* Really great and engaging game which is perfect for long flights. The issue is the game doesn’t save for some reason even after manually saving. If you leave for just a few minutes and come back you have to reload and it defaults back to a previous save. That really ruined it for me…otherwise 5 star game for sure. ### 5/5 — I have a little idea *2023-04-20* Can you put a practice for thé player on thé game for upgrade their overall. ### 4/5 — Fun game to kill time *2023-04-12* I always play this game when on the road or whenever I have time to kill. it’s my go to game every day now. i love it. there’s so much to do in challenge mode as well. only suggestion i have is please make the +/- viewable when you’re in the “stats” mode in Lineup. I hate having to go into the players entire profile in order to see their +/- Some times I just want to see if my first line D-man that’s 40gp and 5 points has a good +/- or not :( other than that, one bug i’ve found (and idk how), is the game bugs out and freezes when auto save turns on. and it just freezes everything and i can’t even exit out of the window so i have to close altogether. it happens once in a while tbh. other than that, yes it’s a very fun game if you’re into franchise mode and the NHL. ### 5/5 — very good *2023-04-06* very good for price and considering it’s done by 1 person it’s really good ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Absolutely horrendous it is so hard to do anything *2024-05-11, version 23.7.0* Do not download ### 1/5 — No way to figure it out *2023-09-27* Loaded game. No tutorial. Had too many forwards and had no idea how to fix it. Gave up in frustration and deleted app. You folks need to either make it easier to navigate or build a tutorial. ### 1/5 — Unnecessarily monetized *2023-03-06, version 23.2.12* This game is way too greedy. I’m fine with pro for certain features, but you need to pay for more seasons? If you guys are that money hungry, just make the game cost money. The game doesn’t need monetization and you still do it. ### 1/5 — Fix it *2022-11-13, version 23.2.6* Bro i keep getting stuck in the Sim on the 7 of januar and november ITS STILL A PROBLEM and the day after the award’s is a problem now too ### 1/5 — Pro *2022-09-16* I payed for the pro then I logged in to my Apple ID on my other phone and now it’s saying I don’t have pro ### 1/5 — Convoluted *2022-09-15* They took a great game in HLM22 and made it way too confusing. I am going back to 22 and a very sorry that I wasted my money on 23 Pro. Wish I could get it back. If you are new to this app, it might work out for you. But for me, 23 is far too much. Sometimes simple is better. ### 2/5 — Premium doesn’t work *2023-03-14* I paid for the premium and then a week later it went back to the non pro version, not real teams, players, etc. Should fix this ### 2/5 — Buggy and more *2022-09-17* I was playing challenge mode and having a great time (as I always do in these games, having bought pro every year since 2021) until I got to Vegas, the game will not let me simulate past October 13th on the first season, it will let me play the game that day but nothing past that. It makes the game mode unplayable, and since Vegas is very early makes a majority of the teams unplayable. Also 2 smaller issues, first of all the game is missing a few players, some that are major players like O’Reilly and Merzlikens. Also the defense chemistry makes no sense, making defensive defensemen almost useless ### 2/5 — Good game but dates are displayed in a weird format *2022-09-06, version 23.1.5* For example it should be like “September 02 2022” and not “02 September 2022” this just makes the game look unfinished. Maybe this is a date format in a different country so maybe give us a option to change the date format? ### 3/5 — Good Game, but desperately needs bug fixes *2023-05-29* It’s a great game but you guys seriously need to fix a few bugs. The one that annoys me the most is when you try to view a player’s career stats the app crashes. It’s extremely obnoxious and I really hope you could fix it ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Hockey Legacy manager 23 *2025-04-04* It is fun but I loose all the TIME maybe because I play on the avalanche ### 5/5 — Отличная игра *2023-10-25* Супер ### 5/5 — Great game *2023-08-09* I have been addicted to this game and have played a combined 40+ years across multiple saves. I would highly recommend this to anyone that enjoys managing sports teams. And the daily feature addition is a great way to let everyone know you are still working on the game. ### 5/5 — High detail, quality game *2023-08-06* Great depth for team management and to analyse statistics/history, very hard to fault. I would love to see a collaboration with a gameplay server of the sport. It would create the ultimate sports game! EA sports get involved! ### 5/5 — Better than EA NHL *2023-07-31* Love doing franchises and this is by the best out of any other game. Nhl 23 takes atleast double or triple the time to do full season sims compared to this game. A baseball version would be 🔥🔥🔥 ### 5/5 — baseball version? *2023-07-26* a baseball version would be fire ### 5/5 — F1 version *2023-07-20* An f1 version would be cool and easy to make ### 5/5 — Awesome awesome *2023-07-18* Love this game. Have to write a review. It’s the least I can do 5/5 10/10 1000/1000 ### 5/5 — Great game! *2023-07-16* A great game I have spent a lot of time playing. This sims very well and works much better than similar products like the ea games. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2023-07-15* Amazing in depth simulation game. I always prefer to play franchise modes, this is levels ahead, it only gets abit confusing with modified names but I understand due to trademarks. Only recommendation is to allow to see stats of retired players in depth, but even with that, 5 star! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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