# Pocket GM 3: Football Sim — user reviews > 231 indexed App Store user reviews of Pocket GM 3 by Jonathan Howell, rated 4.90/5 from 4,262 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-gm-3-football-sim/id1645791169/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-gm-3-football-sim/id1645791169.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,010 · 4★ 164 · 3★ 35 · 2★ 15 · 1★ 38 ## What do users think of Pocket GM 3? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Awesome and replayable - 👍 Great franchise mode - 👍 Addictive and realistic - 👍 Best football GM game - 👍 Excellent football simulation - 👍 Impressive attention to detail - 👍 Responsive and active developer **Cons** - 🐛 Excessive penalties - 🐛 Inconsistent AI decision-making - 🐛 Unrealistic player development - 🐛 Scouting accuracy issues - 🐛 Lack of position flexibility - 🐛 Injuries too frequent **Commonly reported bugs** - Unable to sign free agent staff - Crashes on older devices - Inability to load saved games **Most requested features** - Ability to edit player positions - More diverse draft classes - Compensatory picks for free agent losses - Ability to control in-game decisions - Improved player/coach progression system - Expanded team/uniform customization - Practice squad functionality - Salary cap increases over time - Improved media/commentary features ## Newest reviews (19 of 231) ### 5/5 — We need a hockey sim *2026-07-14, version 1.6.2* Love your games it is so simple to pickup and play would pay $100+ dollars if he made a hockey version. ### 5/5 — Absolute peak *2026-06-20, version 1.6.2* There’s a few things I wish were in the game like career ending injuries and older or better QBs mentoring the younger qb but this game is still awesome ### 5/5 — Played for years! *2026-06-13, version 1.6.2* Best football game with salary ### 5/5 — Best Mobile Football Sim *2026-06-05, version 1.6.2* I’ve been playing this series for years now. It’s simple. This is the best football GM sim you’re going to find. No need to look anymore. The game is immersive and the Reddit community is active. It’s a good grab. Do yourself a favor and spend a few bucks on the bundle. No cash grab here. Just a straight up, good game ### 4/5 — Love this *2026-06-02, version 1.6.2* Solid game. I’d like to see top 10 in stats, like leaders in yards, tackles, int, tds, etc. HOF needs a slight overhaul. Other than that can’t wait for future updates! ### 4/5 — Holdouts! *2026-05-21, version 1.6.2* Fix the holdouts. These bums don’t get to accrue a year of service if they hold out all year. Also, the salary cap should index for inflation if they just are going to demand more money every time they serve out a contract. Otherwise, great game ### 5/5 — I love this game *2026-05-18, version 1.6.2* This is my favorite football managing game OAT, with Football GM / Zen GM right behind it. A few qualities that Football GM does have that PGM3 does NOT, is more in depth statistics tracking (I would love for this to be in game but it’s hard on mobile I’m sure), I also wish there was a little more evenness in playtime, for as weird as it is, in football GM, everyone on the team records stats but with PGM3, it’s really only the first 2 players unless there’s an injury. That all said, those aren’t major gripes, this game is worth it ### 5/5 — Incredible *2026-05-11, version 1.6.2* Incredible football sim. Very addicting. Awesome Reddit community as well. ### 5/5 — 10/10 *2026-05-10, version 1.6.2* This is the best bang for your buck football sim game you can get ### 5/5 — Baseball game *2026-05-06, version 1.6.2* You guys should absolutely make a baseball game best simulation games on the market! ### 5/5 — Perfect Football Manager Game *2026-04-25, version 1.6.2* It’s the perfect football sim game. So much autonomy and detail. The only change I would make would be allowing the CPU to all have no salary limits if you turn salary off. It can feel unrealistic when some of the top players in the league are free agents. That issue has definitely decreased but I think it’d be a good change. It’d also make the game more competitive ### 5/5 — Good *2026-04-15, version 1.6.2* I LOVE this game it is amazing. But if it’s possible can you PLEASE make one for hockey. Thank you and keep up the amazing work. ### 5/5 — Love the game *2026-04-07, version 1.6.2* I just don’t get the import thing it never works ### 5/5 — Exceptional!! *2026-04-03, version 1.6.2* Hands down the BEST football sim on the App Store. I’ve dumped hundreds of hours into this game and regret none of it. If you are looking for a team building football sim this is your game! ### 4/5 — Time for a 4th Generation *2026-03-19, version 1.6.2* Love this game. Time for an update and/or 4th version. Some obvious upgrades would include... Uniform/color pallet editing. Some teams don’t have the right color pallet - ATL jumps out - primary color is black, not red. Would be fun to toy with those combinations. Optional Expansion Teams could add another layer of fun and help with the glut of high quality FA late in the game. Expansion of name database to include some fun alternate names/nicknames would be great. Generated prospect storylines would be a great draft-level addition that could carry through the game (à la Madden 12 draft classes). Ability to promote and relegate coaching/scout/physio candidates. A lot of former HCs should qualify for OC/DC roles and not just rot on the HC roster. Ability to call a run or pass on offense or elect for a long range FG instead of a punt. ### 5/5 — Dangerously Addicting *2026-03-19, version 1.6.2* This game single-handedly destroyed my sleep schedule. I stayed up way too late playing in bed and showed up to work exhausted. Totally worth it. ### 5/5 — 10/10 Football gm game plus no adds *2026-03-04, version 1.6.2* Been playing this game since the release aswell as the previous games highly recommend to anyone whole loves managing a football team with a strong Reddit fan base with many custom rosters ### 5/5 — Hear me out! *2026-03-03, version 1.6.2* Make pocket gm college football edition, I think it could be fun! And on the pgm3 football you should add an adjusting cap just as it does in the NFL. Every year it could go up a small percentage to allow you to resign your guys. ### 5/5 — Great *2026-03-02, version 1.6.2* I usually never review games but this was amazing. It has everything I wanted in a game. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — game *2026-05-05, version 1.6.2* honestly terrible, idk why this costs money ### 1/5 — Fun concept, frustrating game, don’t buy *2025-12-17, version 1.6.2* The game is fun, don’t get me wrong. How in depth and easy to navigate your team makes it a great pick up and go game. However After building a 90 OVR team over 4 seasons, I have consistently haven’t won more than 9 games, missing the playoffs each time and losing to teams I shouldn’t be. Team overall does not matter as well as player overalls. Sure pure luck if you win or not. Save your money, don’t buy. Unrealistic cap. Unrealistic sim. This guy sucks. ### 1/5 — Broken sim engine *2025-12-16, version 1.6.2* Genuinely a waste of money. Can have the best coaches, top 10 team, and the sim engine will decide a one win season. Player has basically no control and the RNG is designed to make you lose ### 1/5 — Sim outcomes don’t make sense *2025-11-29, version 1.6.2* The game could’ve been awesome. Theres fun in there, but if even you align coaching schemes , have high rated players, it feels like none of it matters. At the moment wouldn’t recommend unfortunately ### 1/5 — Poor Simulation Algorithm *2025-10-02, version 1.6.2* I really wanted to like this game. It has a polished UI and a surprising amount of depth in the trade system. However, after playing several seasons I began to suspect player stats didn’t mean as much as I would expect. As a test, I edited every single player on my team to have 99 in every stat (except injury prone-ness) and simmed a season. This is obviously completely unattainable in normal play, and the real life equivalent would be a team comprised of the best player in history at every single position. The results: -I was the top-scoring team less than 30% of the time. I never scored, and never saw any other team score, over 50 points in a game. In multiple games my team scored less than 10 points. -My team did go 17-0 in the regular season but lost the “Champions Bowl.” -My perfect QB stats were good for 4,500 passing yds, 300 rushing yards, 41 TDs and 8 ints. This is obviously an MVP season in the real world, but real QBs on teams without “perfect” players at every position have done better than this. -None of my demigod backs in a “lead back” scheme rushed for over 1000 yds with five demigods on the OL. My only conclusion here is that there is a lot of rubber-banding going on and paradoxically quite a lot of variance (in all the wrong ways). Please fix this—the game is basically unplayable when the core function of a simulation game produces results that bear no resemblance to the real world. ### 1/5 — PocketGM 2 is Better *2025-07-01, version 1.6.1* While this game has more “features,” it just makes it more complicated and frustrating. There are now coaching budgets, so expect to have 50 OVR coaches on your staff until you start winning. Doesn’t help much when you’re trying to rebuild. Players also demand much higher contracts in this game. Sure, you could turn off the salary cap, but that ruins it. The AI is much more difficult as well. Having a high overall team means literally nothing as I get bounced in the first round of the playoffs each year. My “Negotiator” perk has done literally nothing as players still demand top dollar contracts and then refuse to talk after negotiating once. PocketGM 2 is simply better in every way and much easier to manage. ### 1/5 — AI Needs Balancing *2025-05-15, version 1.6.0* I have played this game for plenty of hours and after all of it I found out that the AI is heavily favored. You could have a 90 ovr team with the reigning mvp QB and he will throw 5 picks on a 77 ovr team while their 42 year old 67 QB throws 5 TDs and have 400 yards. The simming makes no sense cause you will lose to the worst teams consistently and the whole morale aspect is way to inclusive. Your team ovr can drop by 10 and once the morale is low good luck bringing it back. It also seems like the “skills” have no actual impact on the game at all. ### 1/5 — the simulation is terrible *2025-04-16, version 1.5.0* i had a 91 overall qb, 95, 91, 85, 81, 80 ovr recievers, 89 ovr rb, 90 and 80 ovr tackles, 95 and 88 ovr guards, 86 ovr center, etc all high rated players for multiple years and my team missed the playoffs every year and either finished 3rd or 4th in the division, i had injuries off and the hc, oc, and dc were all 90+ overalls, i understand that upsets should happen but while i had all of that my team continuously lost 10+ games ### 1/5 — Ratings don’t matter *2025-02-21, version 1.5.0* I tried a few leagues rebuilding teams, I understand losing at that point. I would randomly have a good season improve the roster and play worse the next year, not the worst thing could see it happen. After so many leagues when your team is the highest rated and you don’t even make the playoffs it is just so dumb. I got to the point I edited players and staff to just be an elite program with all matching schemes and I won 4 games. ### 1/5 — Unrealistic stats *2025-01-25, version 1.4.7* The stats are very unrealistic, and every team has good stats. It means nothing for your QB produce a 4,000/35/5 season because every other team had that too… lol The defense seems to not stop the QB’s and they never throw picks even the bad ones ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — These are the best games *2026-08-20, version 1.6.2* U just want to say I love the PGM games! My favorite is the football ones. I would love another one, hopefully it’s in the works… in my opinion PGM 2 was better when it came to player info etc. also are we getting a PGM BaseBall? We need a new game. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-08-19, version 1.6.2* Awesome game. I wish that they would add a career earnings for the players just to add some depth ### 5/5 — I need this game on android *2026-08-16, version 1.6.2* Please make it available for android. I will buy this game again ### 5/5 — Caution: Very Addicting *2026-08-13, version 1.6.2* If you enjoy tinkering when it comes to GM type games...This is it. ### 5/5 — The best game but just needs one adjustment. *2026-08-09, version 1.6.2* All of the pocket gm games are amazing and especially this one. It’s by far my favorite mobile game and has amazing ui and simulation that you can’t find in any other mobile game. The only thing that I think needs to be fixed is the trade value of picks during or before the season. For example you could have two teams with the same record and similar team overalls but one is at the time projected the first overall pick and the other could be the third or fourth, and the projected first overall pick is worth about double when it should be quite similar. The game is so good that there is only one minor issue that comes to mind when I leave a review. ### 5/5 — Cfb *2026-07-30, version 1.6.2* Love this game. You should make a CFB dynasty sim where you have to recruit and nil as well!! ### 5/5 — These are the best games *2026-07-25, version 1.6.2* U just want to say I love the PGM games! My favorite is the football ones. I would love another one, hopefully it’s in the works… in my opinion PGM 2 was better when it came to player info etc. also are we getting a PGM BaseBall? ### 5/5 — Basically my ideal sport sim game *2026-07-22, version 1.6.2* It’s got what I want, and aint got what I don’t. Nice ### 5/5 — Genuinely the best $3 I’ve ever spent *2026-07-18, version 1.6.2* I bought this game a couple years ago because I had the original back in high school. I spent the three dollars which is like the only time I’ve ever spent money on a mobile game. I play ts religiously. Definitely worth it, love this game ### 5/5 — Best Football Sim *2026-07-15, version 1.6.2* Easily the best $4 or whatever I’ve spent in my life. Highly recommend. --- *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 2026-08-27.*