# Pocket GM 2: Football Sim — user reviews > 125 indexed App Store user reviews of Pocket GM 2 by Jonathan Howell, rated 4.90/5 from 2,430 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-gm-2-football-sim/id1530940107/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-gm-2-football-sim/id1530940107.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,202 · 4★ 163 · 3★ 34 · 2★ 10 · 1★ 21 ## What do users think of Pocket GM 2? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Addictive gameplay - 👍 Realistic football simulation - 🚀 Great value for money - 👍 Responsive developer - 👍 Immersive team management **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent injuries - 🔒 Restrictive salary cap - 🐛 Inconsistent team performance - 🐛 Buggy trade/free agency system **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes on load - Inability to trade players due to cap issues - Incorrect player/team ratings and statistics **Most requested features** - Player/team editing capabilities - Expanded league/team history tracking - Customizable gameplay settings (injuries, salary cap, etc.) - Improved scouting and player development - Expanded roster management options ## Newest reviews (16 of 125) ### 4/5 — Make a Hockey Game *2026-07-30, version 1.5.4* Great game and love playing it! Been dying for a hockey version of this. ### 4/5 — I love this game, *2025-07-11, version 1.5.4* This game is amazing! Has everything you want in a football gm game except it’s hard to build a good team right away. It takes a few years. The free agency is realistic with how if your team isn’t good, it’s rare to get a high ovr who is willing to join your team. Injuries in my opinion happen to much but it might just be me. Everything else is great. One thing I would like is to be able to play the newest one, but it’s not free so I’m not able too. I would love if soon you could make the newest one free so us people who don’t have money to spend on getting the newest one can play it. That would be very much appreciated. (New Ask) Can you possibly make a college football version? Because there’s no college football games on here that I like to play. I LOVE college football but I need a mobile game for my taste of college football. If that’s possible that’d be great!!! Thank you ### 4/5 — I love this game, *2024-04-18* This game is amazing! Has everything you want in a football gm game except it’s hard to build a good team right away. It takes a few years. The free agency is realistic with how if your team isn’t good, it’s rare to get a high ovr who is willing to join your team. Injuries in my opinion happen to much but it might just be me. Everything else is great. One thing I would like is to be able to play the newest one, but it’s not free so I’m not able too. I would love if soon you could make the newest one free so us people who don’t have money to spend on getting the newest one can play it. That would be very much appreciated. Thank you ### 5/5 — Fantastic game! *2022-11-27, version 1.5.2* I personally love simulation games. This game is excellent. A few things that would make this game better. With the player stats page, please on the next one, split the teams stats up instead of combining all of them together. Also, too many QBs are 5’11 lol. That will be great to have more 6 foot QBs as there are not a ton of 5’11 QBs. ### 5/5 — Draft Class *2022-11-21, version 1.5.2* Can you make it so we can edit players in the draft pool? Names age and everything else? And maybe add a bio option where we have the option to write a bio for players. ### 4/5 — Great game some things could be tweaked. *2022-11-08, version 1.5.2* Off the top of my head I’d say great game. Definitely sunk quite a bit of hours into it but I’d like to see pro style offense do better. I mean you’ve got a 92 QB, 92, 87 RB, 99,87,87 WR, and 84,80 TE. Yet the passings yards are barely touching 200 yards and rushing barely hits 100 every game. I’d be fine if it was every other game but cmon. It’s pretty weak and I figured it would be a balance of games with big pass yards then games with big rush yardage. ### 5/5 — Ssss *2022-10-26, version 1.5.2* Sss s ### 5/5 — QB importance *2022-10-24, version 1.5.2* There has got to be a way for teams to value the QB position more. Teams will drop 93 overall QBs, but the kicker is the team will do as good if not better and they only have a 70 overall QB. This is the most unrealistic part of this game. It honestly the part that leaves me from leaving a perfect review. ### 4/5 — Honest *2022-10-11, version 1.5.2* The game is fun so I won’t bash it because one mechanism annoys me, because it really is FUN. The only thing is, unless you want to give yourselves a handicap (easy mode), 1-2 players will get injured every game. I’m currently in playoffs where 6 of my players have “season ending” injuries, and the medical staff I have is specialized in preventing that stuff. I feel like there’s a lot of stuff in the game that’s just pointless, but it tricks you into thinking there’s a purpose for it. Most players have the same sport rating names, which is weird considering they’re all playing different positions. An offensive lineman doesn’t need to have a good “release” like a quarterback does, but this game has a stat for it. Odd. ### 4/5 — Love the sim but weird things happen sometimes *2022-10-06, version 1.5.2* It seems like every season there is one game in which the offense drops the ball completely, whether they’re 89 ovr or 97 ovr. It’s kinda annoying and makes the sim predictable at times. I hope it’s a truly free simulator in the next edition. Seems like this sim just tries to work within boundaries set by the creator and the boundaries limit how good this game can get. ### 5/5 — Update *2022-10-05, version 1.5.2* When is there gonna be a update for the 2023 season ### 5/5 — Best GM game available!!! *2022-10-03, version 1.5.2* This has turned into practically the only mobile game I ever play, and it’s always fun to continue to do new seasons. One thing I would love is a couple more save options, three is a little too few and I don’t enjoy only being able to have 2 of my favorite ones saved. If there were 5 total instead of 3 that’d be great, but also I’m big into basketball, and there’s not a basketball GM game as good and as in depth as this football one, if you were to make one I can guarantee I would pay to play that. I don’t know how many others would but yeah nothing but great things to say about this game! ### 5/5 — Great game *2022-10-02, version 1.5.2* I love this game but Jesus it would be the best if we got the option to edit players ### 5/5 — 2022? *2022-09-24, version 1.5.2* Love this game. Any plans on a new version? ### 3/5 — Salary cap *2022-09-22, version 1.5.2* Make it a option for either salary cap or no salary cap I constantly get stuck after 8 years and then I have to get rid of all my best players just to have cap man. I love this game but goddamn I lose confidence to play if I can’t have fun and keep going ### 5/5 — New game? *2022-09-21, version 1.5.2* Is there going to be a new game for this year?? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Good *2023-06-08, version 1.5.4* This is a very good game but…. U can’t control your money and I always have to lose my best players ### 1/5 — Would not recommend *2023-04-16, version 1.5.4* I am not impressed…. I got the game because I thought it looked cool. I got into the game and started with Detroit(77ovr) and was out of cap space and went 5-12, then the next season I couldn’t resign players or even sign free agents without it saying “you need at least 12 million for rookies” and 4 seasons in i finally get to a 87 ovr and can’t even beat a 70 ovr team. I spent my 99 cents and haven’t gotten a dimes worth. 11 years of playing mobile games and not once have I been this disappointed. ### 1/5 — Game makes no sense *2022-09-07, version 1.5.2* This game is very confusing and very frustrating. How can I have the best players in the league that match my schemes my coaches are and still go 1-16, that doesn’t make any sense and I’ll no longer be playing ### 1/5 — Not at all fun *2022-07-19, version 1.5.2* The only strategy to this game is the off-season. Once the season begins you just watch the games being played. It’s impossible to win, maybe over 20 seasons but it gets old and boring. There is no room for negotiation, the player sets the price and if you try to work him down he’ll reject your offer. Once you’re in a season you just watch the games being played and wait for the next off-season. That’s all there is to do in this game. A major rip off. ### 1/5 — Horrid sim… 3 years running *2022-06-14, version 1.5.2* Best rated football game… what a joke. The creator says can it get better? Yes. Yes it can. Then proceeds to list all the improvements they continue to make with ANYTHING outside of the actual sim. For a game based off ratings, you would think they impact the sim. They don’t. For those who do not mind simulating the same game for hours to get competent results, this game is for you. If you actually care to see the payoff for constructing an amazing team, I’d say save your time and energy for a game the developer actually thinks through before submitting. There is no point to this game if the sim doesn’t work. Never has. ### 1/5 — Good game but could use some big and hugely asked for changes! *2022-03-14, version 1.5.2* Good game and good idea but the trade menu is horrible and messy it would be nice if players were separated by position and if you could change a players position like a OG to OT or a LB to DE or DT I would also like if there was a lot more cap space because it is hard to improve your team and you can barely keep a full roster with such little cap space. Otherwise really good game and Idea! Just some huge fixes would bump it from a two to a three. I bought it because I thought these issues would be fixed in this one but I suppose not. Please fix these! And I also realize that most of the other reviews mention these issues. ### 2/5 — Feels too basic. *2022-01-26, version 1.5.2* It may just be my experience but I see this game as a strictly random success chance based purely off your teams overall score. Player development to me makes no sense and just seems out of place, and you cant even train to improve who you do have, like why? Worst thing for me is you cant adapt to whom you’re playing against so on top of the random number generation youre stuck watching the same off and def strategy against every single team. Feels basic but glossed with stats to make it seem more complicated than it is. Just my opinion though. ### 2/5 — Okay but 20 was better *2021-03-13* There are to many glaring issues in this version of the game compaired to the previous, one of the biggest issues is the fact that super/quick development players downgrade to normal for no reason, i won the super bowl with a rookie who was a super development player and he went to normal dev after, this makes no sense, another issue is the new peak system, this dev ruins great players and comes to often, its far to hard to build a good team when your players wont develop fast. Another HUGE issue is injurys, way way to frequent and long, i went to 5 superbowls in one of my runs and every single time lots of key players were injured for it like my qb(4 out of the 5 times) and usually my best wr and rb and some keys on defense, overall it needs fixing so for now keep playing 20 its alot better **Developer response:** Hi Sigerlion, genuine thanks for feedback. I read each of these and understanding what works and what doesn't is how I can make this game better for those that play. PGM21 has a few different development types (early, mid or late), which can make some of the development patterns more extreme than 20 - this is intended to better reflect reality. Players do reach a peak slightly earlier than in '20 too, but again this is after research into pro football trends/performance and is a better representation on average. After previous feedback on injuries, the next release will provide the option to reduce their frequency within the settings. I had tried to pitch this in line with pro football, but you will be able to tweak this yourself very soon. Hopefully with this, as well as other improvements to come in next release (change teams, GM reputation, owner goals) you'll be saying 21 is now better :-) Thanks, Jon ### 2/5 — Injuries! *2021-02-15, version 1.1.0* Please, I absolutely love this game, but the injuries system NEEDS to be fixed. Every year, I build the best team I can, and I’d say once ever 2-3 years I have a fantastic team. Every single year, whether the team is good or bad, they are absolutely PLAGUED by injuries. Like I get it, it’s football, injuries happen, but seriously... like it doesnt make sense that at points my entire offensive line is wiped from injuries. Also, the timing of the injuries is painful... it feels like every year injuries during weeks 15-16 are upped drastically, and then my star players get hurt and it doesnt even matter if i make the playoffs or not because all my good players are injured and I lose in the first round anyways. Terrible injury system- needs to be reworked. ### 3/5 — Fire but impossible *2026-05-21, version 1.5.4* Games nice but I build a 95 ovr team and lost in the championship 7 straight years with the team being above a 93 the entire time lol they’ve got to be rage baiting me ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great Game *2025-03-20, version 1.5.4* I love this game, I wish some of the features were finished. I like this version more than 3 because it’s in-depth enough to enjoy but not crazy in-depth to where it becomes a hassle. ### 5/5 — Small issue *2023-10-14, version 1.5.4* My game won’t open occasionally. I’ll press the “load game” option and it’ll close me out of the whole game. To make it worse, I don’t get any of my teams back… I love this game and have spent wayyy over the recommended amount of hours on this game. Just fix that please!💯 ### 5/5 — W *2023-05-18, version 1.5.4* W game tbh ### 5/5 — Excellent Football GM Game *2023-03-23, version 1.5.4* Pocket GM2 is a great & fast way to manage a realistic roster and only have control of the game as a GM would. App is great to use, clean layout, and never gets old. One thing I would fix is the QB salary cap hit when they continue to go unsigned (they never decrease in value). Great game, thanks for making 🏈 ### 5/5 — Great game *2023-02-13, version 1.5.4* Really good game, my only gripe that stops it being a 5 star - Chicago are so overpowered, they win the Super Bowl most years ! ### 5/5 — Learned alot from this game *2023-01-27, version 1.5.3* Learned alot about football contracts and cap considerations from this game. Despite the title saying ‘21’, the game doesn’t havecontent related to any particular NFL season. So it’s basically a good game to pick up whenever you happen to be reading this! ### 5/5 — Favorite Mobile Game *2022-12-31, version 1.5.2* Hundreds of hours of play at this point at every level and I’m still not getting tired of it. While i love the challenging modes, running air raid offense with a great qb on easy with injuries and min player rule off is the best. There have been seasons where my qb had 7000 yards and 70 TDs on that mode haha. Even though it’s less rewarding there’s something awesome about having god-like seasons that could never happen. Is there a new game coming??? I’m can’t wait to see what’s next ### 5/5 — Game is great *2022-12-24, version 1.5.2* Not only is the game excellent - the developer and community surrounding the game on Reddit is incredible. This is the best gm game out there for any sport. ### 5/5 — Best gm game out there!!! *2022-12-08, version 1.5.2* Please keep updating this game! It’s amazing! ### 5/5 — Great game *2022-12-01, version 1.5.2* Amazing game could you guys make a hockey version or one of other sports huge fan --- *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 2026-08-30.*