# Retro Goal — user reviews > 1,330 indexed App Store user reviews of Retro Goal by New Star Games, rated 4.40/5 from 28,453 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/retro-goal/id1535765855/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/retro-goal/id1535765855.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 20,231 · 4★ 4,510 · 3★ 1,070 · 2★ 505 · 1★ 2,137 ## What do users think of Retro Goal? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Great gameplay - 👍 Addictive and fun - 🚀 Smooth controls - 👍 Variety of leagues and teams - 👍 Enjoyable retro style - 👍 Good management features **Cons** - 🐛 Unfair 'chance missed' mechanic - 💰 Expensive to maintain a good squad - 🐛 Unrealistic player contracts - 🐛 Overly punitive booking system - 🐛 Difficulty balance issues - 💰 Pay-to-continue model **Commonly reported bugs** - Achievements not tracking properly - Glitches when switching teams - Unrealistic player and team ratings - Inconsistent referee decisions **Most requested features** - Player and team customization - Dynamic difficulty settings - Improved defense mechanics - International competitions and tournaments - Better contract and transfer systems - More detailed player and team statistics ## Newest reviews (13 of 1,330) ### 3/5 — AI and interaction *2026-08-31, version 1.1.2* The teammates AI are sometimes too dumb. Things are expensive. ### 4/5 — You NEED player career mode *2026-08-26, version 1.1.2* The manager career mode is fun, but I feel like if you guys added a player career mode I think it would get more players ### 2/5 — Watch out for yellow cards *2026-08-25, version 1.1.2* Yellow cards are out of control, I play on difficult mode and get at least a yellow card every other match during simulated events. I get slide tackled 10 times a match by computer but get a yellow on the computer a handful times a season. Not much fun to play anymore and I never slide tackle on my own as it an automatic yellow for me. If you have a red mist or chopper on your squad, forget it. ### 3/5 — Mid *2026-08-24, version 1.1.2* This game kinda pisses me off since whem the other team kickes the ball to the other side and I’m 2c away from the ball it’s like “chance missed” they should add a mode u can also control true team without chance missed ### 2/5 — Y *2026-08-22, version 1.1.2* This game sucks I have no words but a little bit fun ### 2/5 — iOS 12 *2026-08-13, version 1.1.2* It very good game played a lot. If it’s compatible with iOS 12 developer should made it work but it crashing right after it click to start. ### 3/5 — Great, but… *2026-08-12, version 1.1.2* The game is great, but in Retro Bowl, you could rename your entire roster and it made the game feel more like yours. If this game added the feature to rename players it would get 4+ stars ### 3/5 — Good game but could use some work *2026-08-06, version 1.1.2* The game is good and fun but it’s either too easy or impossible to win. The coaching offers you get are very random and sometimes the players are just toxic for no reason. If they could improve the logic in which you get jobs, make the game difficulty more consistent, make the opposing goalies better, and have some more free features rather than having to pay for them, this would be one of the greatest football games there is. ### 5/5 — Great Soccer Game, however lacking two pivotal features *2026-08-04, version 1.1.2* I’ve been playing this wonderful game for a while now and it has been really pleasant. The variety of clubs and unique player events that can happen make you feel like a real manger. But for a while now there hasn’t been a multiplayer mode like retro bowl. Or any online features that would change the game from great to legendary. ### 4/5 — Pretty good game *2026-08-04, version 1.1.2* Like the game, but they should add more national teams and add a full national team manager mode ### 3/5 — Game Is Fun *2026-08-04, version 1.1.2* The game is overall pretty fun but the “Chance Missed” mechanic is absolutely terrible. There is no rhyme or reason on what decides a missed chance and it pops up when you clearly still have an opportunity to get control of the ball. Other than that game is fun. ### 3/5 — Is alright *2026-08-03, version 1.1.2* You should remake headers as it always passes from a header instead of shooting and also add defending otherwise it’s a good game ### 5/5 — New star games request for retro goal *2026-08-03, version 1.1.2* It would be amazing if I could make my own bracket for the World Cup mode and I can add almost any country that fifa recognizes even if they don’t qualify and it would be great if you guys add like 500 more points to the star point when choosing the players for the country. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Controls r total buns *2026-09-09, version 1.1.2* Buns ### 1/5 — Pretty damn bad *2026-09-04, version 1.1.2* Imagine you hire someone who knows nothing about soccer to make a game, a soccer game, and all they know about it is that people kick a ball into a net, and offsides, then it turns out, oh wait, I don’t even know how to makes games. It seems like this is that situation summed up. It’s not TERRIBLE, but every gk acts like prime neuer and passes never complete, stick to football please. ### 1/5 — This game is hell *2026-08-22, version 1.1.2* Do I even need to say anything ### 1/5 — Buggy *2026-08-13, version 1.1.2* Update led to a bug that accelerated all contracts by a year, ruining my save. ### 1/5 — AI meant to win *2026-08-05, version 1.1.2* In favor of the AI, never give any fouls or penalties, always make them 10000x faster then everyone. Always make them score on every single attack. Make the goalkeepers act like prime Buffon. In favor of the AI, horrible. ### 1/5 — Scammed *2026-08-04, version 1.1.2* Don’t pay for the upgrade I did and my game stopped working for a while then when it came back says I need to purchase the full version again ### 1/5 — Not worth it *2026-08-03, version 1.1.2* Spent £1.99 thinking this would be a really good game to play more fool me waste of money the controls make this game unenjoyable would be better if you had on screen controllers rather than a daft touch system. In my opinion it makes the game not worth playing ### 1/5 — I *2026-07-26, version 1.1.2* Worst game I have ever played You can’t get a good team and everything suck in that game ### 1/5 — Fraudulent game took purchased coins and auto simulated this season *2026-07-23, version 1.1.2* Be careful purchasing coins as the game will simulate a season without prompting or permission and you will lose all coins, if you spent them before that season. This bug has appeared on Reddit and resulted in me using my money. ### 1/5 — Referee *2026-07-20, version 1.1.2* It’s like I’m playing against Argentina the ref is blind when they tackle me ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Refreshing game *2026-08-31, version 1.1.2* Love this game. It has so much to offer and no pop ads and is not pay to win. This is how games should be. ### 5/5 — Fun ai could be better *2026-08-29, version 1.1.2* Make teams and players customizable like the rest of the games. AI could be a little better. When they call for a shot they become stupid and can’t control them and you lose the ball. Over all very fun game ### 5/5 — Great game *2026-08-21, version 1.1.2* Gives the whole retro vibe and is really addictive ### 5/5 — New animations *2026-08-20, version 1.1.2* There should be a chipping and maybe a power shot animation overall i think the game is great ### 5/5 — Love this game *2026-08-18, version 1.1.2* Pretty fun ### 5/5 — Good but not so good *2026-08-13, version 1.1.2* I really like this game,a lot,BUT I wish I could play the champions league because I’ve qualified to it by finishing first on the league but it doesn’t let me play it ### 5/5 — game *2026-08-10, version 1.1.2* this game is really good the only thing is that I’m in the United States league it’s skipping playoffs I even bought the unlimited version and it’s still skipping playoffs another things is the trophy celebration definitely could be better atleast show a stage with coaches and teammates rasing up the trophy for every cup game that would be nice but other than that this game is amazing you should download ### 5/5 — Game is great *2026-08-06, version 1.1.2* Game is an excellent soccer experience, high quality and polished. My only issue is there are some bugs. for example when you go to the transfer list to buy new players, and select forwards to buy, the game crashes. Besides the bugs it’s basically perfect ### 5/5 — Great game, Needs more updates *2026-08-05, version 1.1.2* I love the game but I wish there was individual trophies for players like ballon Dor, golden boot etc. also I wish that retro goal had more kits for teams. I also wish that retro goal adds the ability to look at all the leagues and see standings. Right now you can just see your league the league below in your country and the champions league standing. For the champions league I also wish it was 2 legs for all the games up until the final and actually have a group stage aswell. Overall love the game. ### 5/5 — Defense *2026-08-05, version 1.1.2* This game would be the best game in the App Store if you could just play defense as well instead of having your ai play defense for you. The rest of the game is great and really hope this changes. --- *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 2026-09-13.*