# Ultimate Pro Hockey GM — user reviews > 45 indexed App Store user reviews of Ultimate Pro Hockey GM by Games2rk, rated 4.30/5 from 173 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ultimate-pro-hockey-gm/id6475812647/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ultimate-pro-hockey-gm/id6475812647.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 122 · 4★ 19 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 17 ## What do users think of Ultimate Pro Hockey GM? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Enjoyable and addictive gameplay - 💡 High potential for fun - 👍 Accessible for blind gamers - 👍 Good management game complexity - 👍 Great game company - 👍 Fun to figure out team building **Cons** - 💰 Pay to win mechanics - 💸 Expensive to compete - 📈 Unbalanced AI teams - 📉 Financial struggles - 😠 Frustrating difficulty - 💸 Money grab accusations - 🚫 Unrealistic difficulty - ⚖️ Unfair game balance - 💰 Too much behind paywall - 📉 Negative attendance issues - 🚫 Broken financial system - 😠 Rigged against player - 💸 High cost for success - 🚫 Impossible without buying - 😠 Very frustrating - 💰 Pay to win - 🚫 Non-licensing - 😠 Absolute garbage **Commonly reported bugs** - Trading not working - Goalies performing poorly - Players not starters used in special teams - Glitch with player line adjustments - Negative attendance - Players used in power play/penalty kill with zero games played - Upgrade team store reduces income - Cannot resign draft picks - Cannot find coaches - Cannot trade for more than two picks - AI teams go over salary cap - AI teams have higher gear bonuses than player can achieve - AI teams have academy players at no cost - Players used in power play/penalty kill with zero games played **Most requested features** - Update needed - Better ways to make money - More balanced teams - More game graphics - Fix player contract bonuses - Fix trading issues - Fix AI team balance - Fix goalie performance - More parity between teams - Fix power play/penalty kill player usage - More customization for revenue - Players don't retire too early - Minor league system redo - Set power play/penalty kill units - Goalie win/loss records - Designate goalie catching hand - Add Goalie of the Year award - Bring back jersey numbers - Allow retiring jersey numbers - Minor teams have names again - Show which franchise is poaching staff - Edit player college - Edit player hand designation, height, weight - Franchise records page - Captain feature - Unhappy players demand trades - Draft class system with editing - Player for player trades - Remove salary cap or increase flexibility - Highlight user player names - Add minor leagues - More depth and quality - Flesh out the game ## Newest reviews (16 of 45) ### 2/5 — Unrealistic *2026-08-04* Games by this developer used to be lots of fun with possibilities of playoffs after a few seasons. Now, after a series of updates, these games are too difficult. Whether it’s running out of money or having no good players available. It is too difficult to have any kind of realistic success equivalent to the team you have created. **Developer response:** Hello! Thanks for your honest review. We still have an option to play the old version of the game. Contact us at support@2rk.games, and we will help you. ### 3/5 — Great Potential *2026-05-08* I have played hockey, college basketball, basketball, soccer, football and college football versions of these ultimate gm games that you guys produce. They are fun and I really do enjoy them. I have really struggled with this one, as I feel this one more than rest forces you to rely on spending real money so that you don’t waste 20 seasons building up your devastated franchise. By the time you resign your coaches, and players with the huge bonuses that you can’t change for the players your franchise has no money left over. Leaving you with no capability to upgrade facilities and even attempt to progress as a franchise. I love hockey and I love these games, but this one has almost become unplayable due to not being able to alter how much each player gets in bonuses for signing their contracts. **Developer response:** Hello! Thanks for your honest feedback. We appreciate your taking the time to share those details and will definitely look into it. ### 3/5 — Needs update *2026-05-06* This game has so much potential but needs an update. Needs better ways to make money and more balanced teams. Is there an update coming? **Developer response:** Hello! Thanks for the review. So happy you liked it! Our team is actively working, so more updates and improvements are coming ### 4/5 — Trading *2026-02-28* This game is a great game but there are a few problems. 1. Trading: I don’t know if this is just me but for some reason I traded like three times in the season and they didn’t give me anything but I still lost everything I gave away so please fix that. 2. The balance between player teams and AI teams: it is so hard in this game to even get past an 86 overall mostly because the chemistry but let’s say you even get to like a 90 overall you’ll still get beat by worst teams because of their gear. 3. Goalies: so I got a 90 overall goalie and free agency so I was really happy because I’m like I’m not gonna give up as many goals as I used to actually I’m apparently giving up more and I’m giving up 15 goals a game with a 90 overall goalie, so please fix the goalies. **Developer response:** Hello! Thanks for your constructive feedback. We’ll consider your suggestion as we plan future updates. ### 3/5 — Good, but not great *2025-12-18, version 1.2.0* CPU teams are insanely good like 1-3 losses for the whole season good. And they do not follow the salary cap. Had a 100mil cap and all the best teams were $150 mil or more. Fix that and it’s a good game. Different from the football one as the players have longer careers. Also the CPU has insane development points. Can only match if you spend money. A little too much of a money grab. Pretty much have to spend money to compete with an average, below, or terrible team to start. ### 4/5 — Almost 5 stars… *2025-11-29* There is a glitch in the game, when you are on power play or penalty kill, the players that are not starters on your team are used in these scenarios. They are the worst players on the team and it ruins the game. Please fix this… **Developer response:** Hello, we're sorry to hear you faced such an issue. Could you please reach out to us at support@2rk.games so we can check this? Thanks. ### 2/5 — I want to like it but… *2025-07-01* The financial aspect of the game is broken. You cannot succeed financially at all and I’ve tried numerous times. The costs of everything is so high it empties your bank account and you make barely anything on ticket sales. Seems like a cash grab to get you to purchase more. **Developer response:** Hi Justin, thanks for your feedback. You can build a great franchise without making any purchases, rest assured. To have your finances in order, make sure you always meet goals you set at the beginning of the seasons with the owner. Otherwise, you will definitely encounter financial issues. When you start - upgrade only facilities you absolute require to further improve your team. ### 3/5 — I enjoy this game a lot but *2025-03-26* My qualm with this game more than any other is balancing of the AI teams. I’ve played I don’t know how many seasons in this game, spend countless time crafting the perfect team of players under the cap with chemistry of 90+ overall of 95+ with no gear, coaching styles all matched, just to eventually be beat by worse teams with less chemistry and talent just because they are able to have gear that gives the 10 attribute points all across the spectrum for every player. Meanwhile best we can do is 3 attribute points for 5-6 attributes, without paying for the 5, which is still half of the AI gear. It’s a sly way to go about the game and move people into paying for gear which probably wouldn’t help a whole lot anyway. No reason a team that is less talented by a long shot should be able to immediately bump each player’s attributes across the board by 10. It’s sneaky, and quite ridiculous. The most the AI should have is the max of what we have of 5. **Developer response:** Hello, thank you for playing our game and for taking the time to share your feedback. The AI teams try to improve themselves any way they can to compete with the user - as they are defenceless against. This is a balancing system so that you can feel some sense of challenge. ### 4/5 — Great game, 1 fix. *2025-02-16* I really enjoy this game and I have almost all the other manager game made by this company. Definitely some of my favorite games I’ve ever played. However, I have 1 fix that I’d like to point out. Whenever you try to edit lines or move a player to a different line, it causes the players on the bench to start getting minutes in the game. Any adjustment from the auto lines means that you will have 6 different lines all playing. This can be somewhat annoying when trying to maximize points and build the best lines and team. **Developer response:** Hello Carl, thank you for your positive review and for your feedback. Could you please reach out to us at support@2rk.games so we can check this? Thank you. ### 4/5 — Good, could be improved *2025-01-20* Fun game. Worth the 5$. Best teams in the league are way overpowered. Also no RFAs so you can lose a drafted player when he gets 21. **Developer response:** Hi Irealys, thanks for your positive feedback, and for taking the time to review our game! ### 2/5 — Meh *2025-01-16* Has potential but too way hard to win, you either get fired or run out of money in the first two season, also way too much going on in terms of stats/mood and strategies with staff and such, needs to be cleaned up and simplified. The framework for a fantastic game is there, just needs work. **Developer response:** Hello RapGawed, thanks for reviewing our game! We focus on making our games with a little extra depth, but we are happy you found the experience overall positive. ### 4/5 — Good game *2024-12-30* It’s a very good complex management game with a good learning curve and considerable forethought required with one minor issue that it is annoying to play without paying for premium and quite a lot of convenience and gameplay features are stuck behind a paywall. **Developer response:** Hi H35nry, thanks for your positive review! Premium does upgrade the experience and unlocks all the cool tools inside the game, but there is no requirement to make any purchases in order to be successful, rest assured :) ### 3/5 — Best Hockey GM game…BUT *2024-12-14* This game is waaaay too hard. You can do everything right based on other hockey GM games and get fired in 2031 over and over and over again. You either run out of money or your team isn’t good enough. Unless you want to pay to succeed, stay away. Such amazing potential as it’s organized very well. But… **Developer response:** Hello CMatch22, thanks for the feedback. Take extra notice when settings a season goal with the owner - if you happen to miss them often, the owner will be disappointed and can fire you. ### 4/5 — Signing Players Counts Toward Finance Budget *2024-11-07* I’ve played the other Ultimate Pro games such as the basketball GM. One change to the hockey GM I’d like to see is the fact that in order to sign players you need to dip into your finance budget as well, not just the salary cap. This makes it very difficult to stay above the finance budget threshold. It isn’t like that in UBasketball, so it is much easier to stay positive in finances. Hopefully this changes, as I’m going into my 4th season and I’m bankrupt. I have not spent any money on facility upgrades, only staff and players. **Developer response:** Hi Keith, thanks for playing and reviewing our game! We will take your feedback into account when working on the future game version. ### 4/5 — Lots to like, room to improve *2024-10-08* Overall, this is a pretty solid game and easy to get into. For me, it was worth paying a bit to see the full extent of what the game had to offer so in that regard, the free version had some initial limitations. It was a fun way to manage a team and players over time. I’m impressed and pleased by the developers. When I had issues with my game, the team was was extremely responsive and super helpful. What I’d love to see improved: I wish there was more customization to help drive revenue for my team (ticket prices, concession, etc.). I also wish players didn’t typically retire at 35 (most did and few made it to 40). The biggest thing that bugged me is that three teams would have a +10 boost (and it was almost always the same teams for my entire 100-year run). The competitive balance was hard to go up against when teams with the boost would soar ahead and stay ahead. Hoping for more fixes and improvements over time. **Developer response:** Hello friend, thanks so much for sharing your feedback, and for your positive review! We do plan future updates for the game, we will take your input into consideration and see what can be implemented! ### 3/5 — Fun but devs wont fix legit issues *2024-08-27* The game is a lot of fun, but even on the lowest difficulty, you will struggle for the first several seasons just to keep up your finances, let alone win 30 games. That brings me to my next point…what NHL team cant win 30 games? It honestly feels like the devs have never even cared to research hockey at all. Incredibly rare for a team to be that bad several years in a row no matter what their management is like. The problem with not being able to win early on, is that is the only way you will make any money to actually improve your team/facilities, because for some reason the devs think that nobody goes to sporting events and spends money at them I guess?? Another huge issue is that later on, when your team actually is good, every CPU team in the league gets an automatic +5 boost to their team. I believe it costs $5 or $10 for the player to get the same deal. So here I am fighting for my life to stay under cap with a 94 overall team and the flippin arizona coyotes (of all teams) are 96 overall, 60 mil under cap. Sorry for such a long review. Would love to rate it 5 stars but I can’t. Would love to see what the devs have to say about this😂 **Developer response:** Hi there, managing finances can be tough at first. Start with upgrading as many players as your budget allows, and be sure to reach owner goals - to get more funds to work with the following year. About CPU teams, they try to improve themselves any way they can to compete with us, as they are defenseless against. And the gear helps them keep pace. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Customer service and money grab *2026-05-10* I purchased a product in game and never received the product. I have emailed them 3 times and no response. Just terrible. BUYER BEWARE. **Developer response:** Hello Avira, we're sorry you faced this issue. Our team is investigating your saved game data and we will get back to you with an update as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience. ### 1/5 — Ripoff *2025-09-10, version 1.1.1* I have waited months for the fix. I have spent money and maxed out arena and still get negative attendance that uses up all the cash. ### 1/5 — Make sure you have lots of money to give to the creators *2024-11-29* Have to spend LOTS of money in order to have a successful team. Spend a fortune on motivates just to have a higher overall and still not win after spending 4.99 each time is ridiculous. Wouldn’t be bad if I didn’t have to spend close to $100 and still not have a championship worthy team….. **Developer response:** Hello, we're sorry to hear about your gaming experience. The game takes some time to master - please check your Team chemistry, it's very important for your performance. Check your players intelligence and personality - they influence players decision making during games. And make sure to match your players styles with the ones of the coaches to boost your team. ### 1/5 — Meh *2024-11-29, version 0.7.0* You destroyed what use to be a perfect game, don’t download…. Now it’s a pay to win purposefully frustrating ### 1/5 — Don’t install *2024-11-01* This game is unrealistic unbalanced and unfair, you’ll NEVER make it past the second round of the playoff, I spent seasons making the perfect team in all 4 lines and defensive parings had a amazing goalie rotation, great chemistry,only to get beat in you guessed it THE SECOND ROUND to teams with 70+ wins which is freaking unrealistic again and missed my 3 season cup window with my team and had to start over cause I couldn’t keep everyone. I seen another similar review so I know it’s not just me having this problem and the devs say it’s their way of balancing the game by making super teams 😂😂😂😂😂… ok?!?! I seriously doubt the devs played the game or even know how hockey works cause no way they can proudly say this game is balanced . Don’t waste your phone space on this game **Developer response:** Hi Camd993, we’re sorry to hear that you have such a negative impression of the game. We don't make super teams, it's not the way how the game works. There are actually a lot of factors that influence your success - your lineup, if your players' styles are matched with the coaches styles, your players intelligence and personality, your facilities..and much more. ### 1/5 — Negative attendance *2024-09-13, version 0.7.0* It’s a money grab. There is negative attendance which depletes the bank making you purchase more money. Until they fix this I wouldn’t recommend. ### 1/5 — Rigged against you *2024-08-03* So I got this game because I heard it on a podcast I listen to. I enjoy games like this. I will say this is very hard unless you spend money. But beware if you do. So I have played about 20 seasons without any real success. I finally was getting somewhere when I decided to get the pass. You get extra bonuses with accomplishments. When I got to the +5 gear upgrade, the highest you can buy, I thought that would push me over to win the cup. Nope!! Once I made the purchase, the top three teams got a +10 gear bonus, which is not even available in the game. Needless to say. Those teams have won every year sense. So if I pay money it gets harder? I don’t understand. So save your money unless they change this. I just updated my rating to 1 star. I spent money on this game and time to build up a team only to have two teams in my division with +10 gear. So the only games I lost in the season was to those teams and then I got bounced in the 2nd round of the playoffs? Ok. Support will tell me to choose wisely my goals. My team was rated 4th overall. I can’t get any better with these super teams +7 better than me. I don’t get why they do this. If they don’t fix this soon, I’m done. I just got your response. You make super teams to make it fair? How is it fair that they can go past the salary cap? How is it fair to have a gear bonus of +10 when the highest I can ever get is paying for a +5 bonus. How is fair that they can make players in their academy seemly at no cost? I spent seasons trying to build up so I can accomplish the stupid tasks that are almost impossible to get. Like a perfect season? Ok!?!? I finally build up only to have the super team take over for 6 seasons. Yeah that’s fair. What a stupid game. That’s only by the way seasons of failing because I can’t compete with no money. I keep losing players and having to start over. Yeah real fair. I wonder if you guys played the game at all yourself. **Developer response:** Hello MDcharleston, thank you for playing and reviewing our game, we appreciate your support. CPU teams try to improve themselves any way they can to compete with the user - as they are defenseless against. This is a balancing system so that you can feel some sense of challenge, as such teams have really basic skills compared to us, human managers. ### 1/5 — Rigged against you *2024-07-20* So I got this game because I heard it on a podcast I listen to. I enjoy games like this. I will say this is very hard unless you spend money. But beware if you do. So I have played about 20 seasons without any real success. I finally was getting somewhere when I decided to get the pass. You get extra bonuses with accomplishments. When I got to the +5 gear upgrade, the highest you can buy, I thought that would push me over to win the cup. Nope!! Once I made the purchase, the top three teams got a +10 gear bonus, which is not even available in the game. Needless to say. Those teams have won every year sense. So if I pay money it gets harder? I don’t understand. So save your money unless they change this. I just updated my rating to 1 star. I spent money on this game and time to build up a team only to have two teams in my division with +10 gear. So the only games I lost in the season was to those teams and then I got bounced in the 2nd round of the playoffs? Ok. Support will tell me to choose wisely my goals. My team was rated 4th overall. I can’t get any better with these super teams +7 better than me. I don’t get why they do this. If they don’t fix this soon, I’m done. **Developer response:** Hello MDcharleston, thank you for playing and reviewing our game, we appreciate your support. CPU teams try to improve themselves any way they can to compete with the user - as they are defenseless against. This is a balancing system so that you can feel some sense of challenge, as such teams have really basic skills compared to us, human managers. ### 1/5 — Very frustrating *2024-06-06* Game is so unbelievably unbalanced and unfair doesn’t matter what you do unless you pay to win you’re never gonna make a team good enough to win any games there’s no reason why a 82 overall team with a 90 plus overall goalie can’t even win at least 30 games!!! If you gonna put a pay wall on the game don’t put literally everything you need to succeed behind it!!!!! **Developer response:** Hi, we’re sorry to hear that you have such a negative impression of the game. Overall number only tells part of story. There are many other important factors - Team chemistry; your coaches; if your players styles are matched with the ones of the coaches; players intelligence and personality, etc. Rest assured, you don't have to pay in order to win. ### 1/5 — What’s the point with non-licensing? *2024-05-07, version 0.7.0* So fictitious teams of fictitious players. So what? You don’t even have fictitious teams in real team cities, like St. Louis. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Maybe a little too much *2026-04-08* This game is way harder than the football version. Maybe consider that 30 win Mark maybe bringing it down to 25 or something like that. **Developer response:** Hi! Thanks a lot for the recommendation! Feedback like this helps us improve. ### 5/5 — Pay to win *2026-03-01* The game gets fun after you buy the editor **Developer response:** Hi! We appreciate your support and feedback. Thank you for playing. ### 5/5 — Great Game *2026-01-16* Wish there was more parity as top teams are way too good. Excellent game though. Any chance more game graphics are coming ? Overall it is enjoyable and addictive. Love the game ! **Developer response:** Hello Steve-O, thanks for playing and reviewing our game! We do plan more updates for the game, stay tuned! ### 5/5 — Great Game *2025-08-20, version 1.1.1* Wish there was more parity as top teams are way too good. Excellent game though. Any chance more game graphics are coming ? Overall it is enjoyable and addictive ### 5/5 — Great Game *2025-07-08, version 1.1.1* Wish there was more parity as top teams are way too good. Excellent game though. Any chance more game graphics are coming ? ### 5/5 — Lots of fun *2024-12-20* The fun lies in figuring out how to build your team, enjoy the surprises and rage when a player isn’t as goos as you thought… just like in real life ;) **Developer response:** Hello, thank you so much for the great review! We're glad to hear you enjoy the game! :) ### 5/5 — Most accessible hockey GM game for blind gamers *2024-11-01* For blind gamers using the screen reader voiceover, this is the most accessible hockey GM game. I have found so far. As a huge fan of hockey and the NHL i have some critiques to help make this game more realistic and truly ultimate. First the minor league system needs redone as in its current state it is currently unrealistic, I should be able to promote and demote players just like NHL teams call up and send down players to their farm teams no matter what age they are. Second in the line up tab we should be able to set our first and second power play units as well as penalty killers. I have noticed while watching the play by play of my teams games players who are not listed as starting will score on the power play and penalty kill. This has to be a bug as well because when you go into the stats page it will show those players with zero games played but with goals and assists recorded. Third is a list of features that would give the game more emersion. Goalies should have win and loss records in their stats just like a baseball pitcher. Goalies should have catching/glove hand designated in their player card Goalie of the year award should be added as it is part of every hockey league from juniors to the NHl. Bring back jersey numbers and allow them to be retired kinda like your legends page Minor teams should have names again and a championship like it once did in your Baseball GM game. When a coach or staff member is approached by another franchise to join their team it should tell us which franchise… this also used to be in your Baseball GM Game. Allow us to edit players college as it is not very realistic to have a hockey team full of players from Clemson and University of South Florida…If we could also edit hand designation, height and weight that would also be great. Their also should be a page that keeps track of franchise records like largest margin of victory, most goals in a game by a single player, most points in playoffs etc etc…Ultimate Baseball Gm also featured this. A captain feature should be added in which you could set one player as team captain and it could effect personality or happiness. Players who are unhappy should be able to demand a trade if their happiness remains low for an extended period of time. Also would love to see a draft class system where i could edit, save and then be able to import later similar to the way you can download users files of team names for the league. **Developer response:** Hello Havok, thank you so much for such a detailed feedback, we're glad to hear you like the game! And we appreciate your interest and willingness to improve it. We will consider your feedback and ideas for the future game versions, thank you. ### 5/5 — Minor league *2024-06-21* I have played most of the gym titles from you guys and they all are great. I love the baseball one with the minor league teams and building that type of way. I was wondering if it were to late or possible at all to put the minor leagues in hockey. **Developer response:** Hello friend, thank you so much for the great feedback! We will consider your suggestion and see if we can implement the minor leagues in the game. ### 5/5 — Im addicted to the game *2024-02-21* I love the game but can you take off the salary cap like the others or all the salary cap to increase somewhere cuz every season the players want more money but I can’t give to them and have a good team w they salary cap **Developer response:** Hello Thedontj, thanks for your review, we're glad to hear you like the game! You can increase the Salary cap in the settings. ### 5/5 — Great start! *2024-02-19* I have played every game this company puts out. I love GM games and they do them the best overall. I would love to see the user player names highlighted. I really enjoy seeing my players stats rise through the all time rankings but it’s extremely hard to pick out my players without them being highlighted like they are in the company’s other games. **Developer response:** Hi Philip, thank you for the awesome review! :) We will take you feedback into account when working on the future game version. --- *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 2026-09-07.*