# ULT College Basketball Coach — user reviews > 57 indexed App Store user reviews of ULT College Basketball Coach by Games2rk, rated 4.30/5 from 267 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ult-college-basketball-coach/id6738276763/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ult-college-basketball-coach/id6738276763.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 178 · 4★ 37 · 3★ 19 · 2★ 12 · 1★ 21 ## What do users think of ULT College Basketball Coach? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Good game - 👍 Impressive visuals - 👍 Lots of fun details **Cons** - 🔒 Expensive upgrades - 🔒 Insanely high recruiting costs - 🔒 Pay-to-play mechanics - 🐛 No player minute control - 🐛 Slow player development **Commonly reported bugs** - Impossible to build a winning franchise - Payment issues **Most requested features** - Allow player minute control - Improve recruiting process - Increase recruiting points rewards - Add difficulty/gameplay sliders - Improve player training options ## Newest reviews (11 of 57) ### 3/5 — Eh *2026-03-20, version 1.0.0* Can’t win without spending money. ### 3/5 — A couple of changes *2026-03-20* In terms of structure, the game is so good, and has potential to be the best CBB game on IOS, its more of a financial engine than a sports strategy game, but in my opinion its still very fun. The changes that need to be made are: the game needs a full march madness, which makes it so you’re team could grow because of tournament success, and if there was the option to start as a more financially stable team, it would make it way more forgiving and would take less than 80 years to become a competitive team. I’d pay for an extra premium to be able to start with a team store level 5 team instead of level 1. **Developer response:** Hello! Thanks a lot for the recommendation! Feedback like this helps us improve. Noted. ### 2/5 — A bit challenging *2026-02-19, version 1.0.0* It seems impossible to win without being fired even with minimal expectation. Maybe more recruiting points or faster leveling to even the playing field? ### 2/5 — Fair to poor *2025-08-16, version 0.8.0* The biggest issue so far is that I’m not through my first season and I have had nine suspensions. I don’t know why, maybe I’m missing something. It was annoying at first but it’s making it unplayable ### 3/5 — Great Potential *2025-05-11, version 0.7.0* There’s a lot to like about the game but so much is stuck behind a paywall that would allow the game to run smoothly ### 4/5 — Lots of potential *2025-04-23* Love this installment as well as all the previous games. Although it is entirely too difficult. Rc demands for anyone with even a slight chance of getting drafted is 800+ and the amount you receive for a drafted player is like 50 so the roi is unreasonable. Even at a level 3 scouting you only receive about 100 rc a year. Please make the game playable and grindable. You can start a new team and be entertained for like an hour until you run out of money and rc options. **Developer response:** Hello, thanks for your positive review, and for taking the time to share your feedback! You can earn more recruiting points by upgrading your Scouting HQ facility, by winning games, also from your season projection and by completing head coach career challenges. ### 3/5 — Addicting but still seems unbalanced *2025-04-06* Love these types of games and I’ve played multiple from this publisher. All the other ones I’ve played are 5 star games. This one seems next to impossible. I’ve now played over 30 seasons. This game has a huge emphasis on team chemistry but I’ve never been able to get over 70 team chemistry because the players that fit your play style simply aren’t available. As in when you go to the recruiting page there are usually 0 players that fit your offensive and defensive play style. There’s 3000 players available to recruit but I can’t find one that fits my offensive and defensive play style. I also think the other teams spawn good players just to make to harder for you to win. For example, I checked the rosters of my entire conference after recruiting week just before the season starts. There were 2 total players in my conference that are 90+ OVR. I picked my team to win 20+ games as I managed to have 3 players that are 90+ OVR. As soon as I started playing games in my conference for some reason there are 7 teams that have 2 or more players that are 90+ OVR. My team literally won 15 games as the #16 team in the country with chemistry as high as I can get it and 5 star staff and players. Ultimately though, I’m not gonna buy premium because I feel the game is too restrictive without premium. Many basic features that I just am not gonna pay for when they should just be included in the game to deliver a quality game experience. I’m not interested in paying money to be able to have a quality game experience. I’m rather disappointed that this game seems to push towards paying real money. The seasonal rewards drop as in they start paying you only $100 million per season for winning 20 games. Probably gonna end up just deleting the game. Oh and last thing, the transfer portal is often broken as the player overalls are often broken. For example, I just recruited an 80 OVR SG and he joins my team and now he’s a 75. Now I just wasted 200 RC on a player who’s my 3rd string guy. ### 2/5 — I have one key suggestion *2025-03-28, version 0.7.0* Please add a march madness and conference tournaments, not just top 2 seeds and that’s the only way to the chip, would be such a good game with that realistic addition!! ### 3/5 — Why *2025-03-23, version 0.7.0* Why is it legit impossible to achieve any kind of success. ### 2/5 — Good game but there are many problems *2025-03-19, version 0.7.0* I am yet to max out facilities on a no money run at year 2185. That is insane either the upgrades need to be boosted or prices need to drop. ### 3/5 — March madness *2025-03-16, version 0.7.0* I love this series of games and I currently have the pro basketball and football one and enjoy them the one complaint I have about this game is the lack of the March madness style bracket. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Rigged gameplay *2026-06-18, version 1.0.0* This game is rigged i am constantly losing to teams that i am clearly overall better then the opposing team it needs an update to fix this massive problem otherwise i wont play it ### 1/5 — REMOVE DETERIORATION!! *2026-03-13, version 1.0.0* 2 huge things that would make this the BEST game on the market, expand it to more teams. make a march madness tournament!! also do a conference TOURNAMENT pls!! and get rid of my facilities downgrading i cant do it anymore. ### 1/5 — Idk what to do *2026-01-02* Every time I have to deal with an injured or suspended player and I can’t replace them with anybody or turn off injuries because it’s premium which is stupid to buy. This game is begging you for money. I can’t sim games because I can’t replace the injured players with anybody because switching positions cost money ( cause of premium) recruitment is to unfair because you don’t get that much points and your a 1 star so what is there to do. All the teams have a very high overall and you can barely upgrade your players to a higher overall. And you can’t do custom conferences. **Developer response:** Hello, thanks for your feedback. You can sign players any time on the Free Players market. Such players don't require any recruit credits. While premium unlocks some great options, you don't need to have it in order to play the game. ### 1/5 — Please make this game easier *2025-11-18, version 0.8.0* I just have been trying to win a national championship or even make it to the playoffs but every single time I have a good season the next season I get fired and then I lose every single game with a 89 overall team !!!!!!! ### 1/5 — I have one key suggestion *2025-11-12, version 0.8.0* 2 huge things that would make this the BEST game on the market, expand it to more teams. make a march madness tournament!! also do a conference TOURNAMENT pls!! and get rid of my facilities downgrading i cant do it anymore. ### 1/5 — Terrible game *2025-06-12, version 0.8.0* Dont even bother with this game. It used to be fun until the devs decided to be ultra money hungry. The “decline” on your facilities is so bogus. Not to mention it takes at least 30 seasons to even get started winning without buying bundles. Was a long time fan of these games, and i’m never playing again. ### 1/5 — Game is unplayable *2025-05-12, version 0.7.0* I’ve tried no money and spending money doesn’t matter game is way to difficult to succeed at when you start off and teams have 100 ovr players in year one already and i’m a 60 i understand building and all of that but yall make it impossible to build with these ridiculous RC points one good player is 1000 and im only getting like 300 to work with ### 1/5 — Impossible *2025-04-04, version 0.7.0* Unless you pay money, you will not ever get close to a championship. Huge waste of time. ### 1/5 — Needs a lot of work *2025-03-26, version 0.7.0* The game is impossible. They need to do more work on the game. It takes for ever to get even close to an 80 overall while other teams are already at an 80+ overall. Every game you get demolished. The only way to have success it to pay extra which doesn’t make the game fun at all. ### 1/5 — PAY TO HAVE ANY SORT OF FUN *2025-03-15, version 0.7.0* This game has the most impossible an unrealistic grind, you’ll have to be ready to fork out at least $30 on one load to even have a chance at have a good season once with 20-30 seasons ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good *2026-03-15* This Game is fun! Pretty good gaming experience, but I wish it was a lot more realistic as far as teams getting into the tournament. I wish it was more like March madness when 68 teams play in a tournament instead of the top team in your conference. **Developer response:** Hi! Great feedback. Thanks for pointing that out! We’re glad you shared it, and we’ll keep it on our roadmap. ### 5/5 — Highly recommended *2026-01-16, version 1.0.0* Very addictive an useful for spending time ### 5/5 — Game *2025-03-10, version 0.7.0* They need to add more customization and make a easy setting ### 5/5 — Great *2025-02-22, version 0.7.0* I mess with tha game tbh ### 4/5 — There must be an active AI. I’m on year 2101 and I have not passed to first round in the playoffs. *2026-01-21* After all of the seasons I’ve played. The game produces Recruits that don’t fit my system. The only ones that do, have red personality or their Dumb. My best teams always (ALWAYS) have a serious injury to my best players, while my Weak teams NEVER get injuries. If I choose 20 wins, even with the best conference team, I’ll finish 19-11. If I choose 10 wins, I’ll win 23 with No injuries. A random game would allow me to recruit 3-5 years straight with offense and defense system matches, because the players are randomly generated. If I change coaches, the recruits avoid my new coaches **Developer response:** Hello, thanks for taking the time to share your feedback. We're always reviewing the game mechanics to make it better, we will consider your feedback and try to improve this. ### 4/5 — Remove facilities downgrade logic *2026-01-20* This game is a 5 all day. it takes forever to build a team up and then when you. the facility downgrading is insane. I would rank it lower just for that. you fixed on other games. make better on this one. **Developer response:** Hello, thanks for playing and reviewing our game. We appreciate you sharing your feedback. ### 4/5 — Didn’t get what I paid for *2025-10-15, version 0.8.0* Great game but I paid for the premium version and I’m still not able to change my players positions or their play style all I can do is edit my players race and name. False advertisement ### 4/5 — 4 star *2025-10-13* This game got a lot of potential but I think y’all should lower the price a recruit cost just a lil and take away most of the different scheme it’s a lot harder to match both to the coaches bc there’s way to many different combos **Developer response:** Hello, thanks for playing our game and for your positive review! We will consider it and see how we can improve this. ### 4/5 — Almost a great game *2025-09-30* Overall it’s a good game with key issues: It’s really hard to upgrade facilities beyond level 3 without paying - unless you forgo other facility upgrades altogether. Game freezes (grey screen) when choosing to see previous game results. Coach tier goals don’t always update for future goals. Ex. The ring of honor - might be because it’s listed as ring of honorer there. Recruiting filter doesn’t always work properly or sort properly. Would love an option to improve staff personality. Especially if they were a previous player. And to see previous player personality and intelligence prior to appointing as a coach/staff. Also to be able to customize starter and bench player on the lineup. It often chooses the bench player by overall. **Developer response:** Hi, thanks for playing our game and for your feedback! Could you please reach out to us at support@2rk.games so we can check the issues you're experiencing? Thanks! ### 4/5 — Some broken mechanics *2025-09-10* So I like this whole series of games, but there’s clear differences between some of them. Some issues I have with this particular game: - it’s virtually impossible to develop your university past a certain point without paying. The regression model for facilities makes it nearly impossible to advance your facilities past level 7. - there’s some sort of home court advantage mechanism in this game and it’s completely broken. In the playoffs, which take place at a neutral site, the “home” team clearly gets a bump for home court and there’s no real logic behind who gets home court. - the filter system is completely broken, and that’s one of the reasons people pay the 3.99 for the upgraded version, so it really needs to be fixed. 90% of the time the filtering doesn’t work (such as by personality and star level). You also can’t sort by both a player’s offensive and defensive scheme, which is incredibly annoying. Anyway, decent game but the above issues desperately need to be fixed. **Developer response:** Hello Chris, thanks for taking the time to review our game! We appreciate your feedback. You mentioned there is an issue with filtering players..could you please contact us at support@2rk.games so we can check this? Thanks. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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