The Program User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience78.7% of reviews
Neutral7.9% of reviews
Negative experience13.4% of reviews

~ Based on 921 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is The Program Safe?

The Program: College Football appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The Program is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 40,851 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 40,851 App Store ratings for The Program.

Is The Program Legit?

The Program: College Football appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Program is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Great game. Gets stagnant

The game is really great. I love how the seasons can be totally different each time and it’s really a new experience every season. However, getting only one staff token per season is a killer. When the staff cost more and more yet you still only get one, it takes exponentially longer to get new staff and it becomes a burden of just going through a season to get tokens for new staff rather than playing the game. If maybe in the later seasons you got two or three tokens it wouldn’t be so bad but even later in the game it’s still just one token.
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A great little game to play on your phone

Honest to God I really like this game. It’s a very fun game to play. There’s a lot of things you can do on here like the recruiting is pretty cool. I like the way it Sims the games. It’s pretty fun. Good time you get kind of lost playing this game.

good

good strategy game

Great sim

Wish it was more interactive

Game difficulty

I may just suck but I’m in year 3 and can hardly win a game.

Great game if it didn’t piss me off

I completed my goals for the desert pacific conference, scored 61/55 gems needed to move to a new division, I finished the season 12-0 with a bowl win and 3 invites to the…Mid Mountain, Western Horizon and Sunshine Conference, I accepted the mid mountain conference, the game showed me new staff and coaches that I unlocked and even showed me the recruits, just for me to start training camp and the game to sent me back to the Desert Pacific conference and will not let me advance. I deleted the app, restarted my phone only to remain in the same conference I just moved from a minute prior.
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Game I come back to everytime

I think they need a little better updating with some of the features but how active and consistent the developers are with the game it keeps me coming back to see what’s changed. I think they should focus less on things like new ai face models and focus on making attributes actually translate to performance (ex higher speed -> longer more breakout runs), or adjusting the frequency of certain recruits(ex I’ll have 2 4 star Tight ends + 3 more underclassmen and it’ll give me 3 4 star prospects for the next recruiting cycle. Also, I love the overall difficulty of the game, but moving conferences is extremely difficult and honestly as someone who has spammed this game as much as I have, I don’t think it’s feasible to think someone could even move conferences within a realtime dedication for 2-4 months and extreme luck, + buying the season pass to give u extra recruiting points. I do love this game and its potential, and I’m betting on it.
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Garbage game do not download!!!

I decided to pay for the game in hopes that I could possibly win a game, recruit decent players, earn more coaching upgrade credits. I did not. In fact the game started to make me lose games against teams that I had more talent. These developers have absolutely no clue how to make an American football game. Absolute trash. Do not play this game! And definitely do not pay for this game. Absolute garbage. This is ridiculous. None of the changes for difficulty level I previously asked for were delivered. Also just note that if you watch the ads you may not get the bonus. I watched a minute of ads and still didn’t get the bonus and there’s no way to try again. Stupid idiot devs that totally ruined what could be a great game. The devs definitely don’t listen to your advice. On another note, never spend money. It only lasts a season, which is about an hour of gameplay. Think about a game on a ps5, would you pay 3 or 7 bucks per hour of gameplay? Absolutely not. So don’t do it here. Devs pull your head out of your underwear and give us the game we deserve and maybe we will pay 20 bucks to have it. Also new addition, you can be 3 points better than your rival on both sides of the ball, call plays designed to beat them, and still lose by 30 because the computer wants you to lose recruits. Seriously!!!! Just get a buyable permanent difficulty meter and this game would be sick. So disappointing. Ugh!!! I wish with all my heart this game was playable but it’s not. The devs will make you lose. Enjoy the anger.
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Challengingly addictive

The upside is that the challenge keeps you coming back. You can really build and develop a good team
Earlier issues have been fixed.

Garbage game do not download!!!

I decided to pay for the game in hopes that I could possibly win a game, recruit decent players, earn more coaching upgrade credits. I did not. In fact the game started to make me lose games against teams that I had more talent. These developers have absolutely no clue how to make an American football game. Absolute trash. Do not play this game! And definitely do not pay for this game. Absolute garbage. This is ridiculous. None of the changes for difficulty level I previously asked for were delivered. Also just note that if you watch the ads you may not get the bonus. I watched a minute of ads and still didn’t get the bonus and there’s no way to try again. Stupid idiot devs that totally ruined what could be a great game. The devs definitely don’t listen to your advice. On another note, never spend money. It only lasts a season, which is about an hour of gameplay. Think about a game on a ps5, would you pay 3 or 7 bucks per hour of gameplay? Absolutely not. So don’t do it here. Devs pull your head out of your underwear and give us the game we deserve and maybe we will pay 20 bucks to have it.
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Active fun game

Real active game,I have spent hours on this game.I like how the game makes you think strategically but I also I think we should be able to get recruiting points for winning games and also have the player who scores or make a play. Have a small card of the player pop up on the area of the field or touchdown ,the play happens on to show users who’s making a impact.
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Pricing

It’s a really good game but the season pass should be 50 cents for each season of it’s gonna be 4 dollars it should atleast last 4 seasons that’s crazy pricing

GREAT GAME!

Great game, should have the same game for college basketball and same concept

Pretty chill game

Good game basically no ads and great time killer it’s just a slow game because you obviously start off trash then have to play seasons until you are a contender

Super sick concept

Love the game. Super smooth, well made. Couple tweaks could be made just like making the actually football sim a little more realistic. Had a couple times where teams have made 70+ yard field goals which is nuts but smaller things like going for it on 4th and short situations or being able to decide who your kick returner is. A little more variability in plays would be cool to see too. Overall great game though I’m hooked
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Mediocre at best

I have been playing this game for a long time time now. The progression through the game is extremely slow and the inconsistencies will frustrate you to death. The recruiting is super annoying and you will have a recruit at 96% and they will say no and it will screw you. The game is inconsistent, has tons of flaws and even when you have the best team by far you will still lose. There is no championship game, there is not conference championship trophy, and the overall flow of the game is pretty bad. I’m frustrated often with this game and after 20+ seasons in, I’m only on the third prestige conference and I’ve had the best recruiting class for 12 seasons. It makes zero sense.
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👍🏻

Good

Lazy Coding

The play calling in this game is absolutely abysmal. I had a game where I put in a Ilb2 blitz, and it wasn’t utilized once against a team that doesn’t even pass! Furthermore, I used this play against a team that has a mix of passing and running. That play was the only defensive play called the entire game! How is it possible that the game could simulate only calling 1 play on defense for an entire game?! This is lazy coding and game development! Every defensive play should be utilized at least once in a game. Why else would I choose them?
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Good but should be more interactive in game

During the in game simulation we should be able to pick the play before the play starts. That would make the game more interactive and fun, not just sitting there and watching the team pick the same play over and over.

The Program (Basketball Hopeful)

Absolutely love this game but i’m dying to play a basketball version🙏