Comparison

Touchdown Manager vs Sidelines

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Touchdown Manager

Manage your own football club, train players, and develop winning strategies. Compete against others in various leagues and tournaments to prove your coaching prowess. Experience realistic matches and build your dream team.

Highlights
  • Create and manage a football club
  • Advanced player training
  • Live player bidding system
  • Customizable team strategies
  • Real-time match simulations
  • Multiple competition types
Features
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Create your own football club, train your players, prepare the best strategy and win the championship! Play against your friends or other players in many competitions and show off your management skills! Touchdown Manager's features include: - Exciting competitions: championship, cup, tournaments etc. - Advanced individual training of your players - Recruiting new players in a fun live bidding system - Individual strategic instructions for optimal performance of your players - An innovating tool for creating realistic team strategies - Amazing real-time matches! Are you ready for the championship? Prepare your club, build up your stadium and start training now! Please note that Touchdown Manager is completely free to play but some in-game items will require payment.

About

Sidelines

Manage an American football team by making critical decisions through a card-swiping mechanic. Juggle budget, fan support, and team morale to keep your job and win trophies. Your choices determine your team's success and your tenure as coach.

Highlights
  • Card-swiping decision mechanic
  • Manage budget and fan support
  • Boost team morale
  • Compete in leagues
  • Goal: Stay employed and win trophies
  • American Football simulation
Features
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Put on your headset and start managing a Football Team from the sidelines. Juggle Budget, Fan Support, Team Morale and Team Success as you take on challenging decisions while you tackle your way through the League. Manage your team by swiping cards to left or right! Each decision will have an effect on the four statistics mentioned above and your Team Owners will evaluate your tenure with the team based on those stats. Your goal is to stay on the job for as long as you can and please your team's owner! Let's see how long you will last on the team. Every single decision you make will decide your success in the American Football League! Your decisions can win you trophies or they can get you fired! **How to Play and FAQs** • Put your finger on the card and swipe it right or left, don't let go of your finger before reading your possible options below your card in the highlighted area. Card's outlines change color when you are over a drop area. Left is indicated by green, right is indicated by red. Decide what choice you want to make, minding the four statistics. You will be fired if your success reach 0 and you will see the game-over window. • Does the game have an ending? Currently there is no end to the game, you can coach the team as long as you want. *We will implement a story function as an American Football Coach in the upcoming updates and you will have the option to continue after the story ends to see how far you can go.* **Feedback and Where to Send Them** We are constantly trying to evolve the game, we will enable the card collecting feature and playoffs/UberBowl features in a future update. You can find our roadmap for Sidelines in our Discord. If you love American Football you can suggest us card concepts in our card-suggestions channel in our Discord Server and have a chance at getting featured in Sidelines. We are open to any suggestion, let's evolve the game together with your feedback! You can join with the link below; https://discord.gg/zwuFqr3 Google Forms link for Card Concepts https://forms.gle/QefEAnGn2mzJqGv47 **Localization** We are currently working on Spanish, German, Turkish, French and Arabic translations of the game. If you want to help us, you can contact us via mail tolgacoskun@impressvr.com or you can find us on our Discord Server! **Support Us!** Our games are completely free. If you want to support us you can find out Patreon link below. Any kind of donation helps and will be put to Sidelines' development fund. Simply you playing the game and leaving us a rating is more than enough for us https://www.patreon.com/dumbbellgames

Screenshots

Touchdown Manager4 screens
Sidelines4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Touchdown Manager at 70% against Sidelines's 0%. Touchdown Manager also leads on rating (4.4 vs 2.5) and ratings volume (639 vs 4). Sidelines's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Touchdown Manager sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Sidelines asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Touchdown Manager holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Touchdown Manager has 639 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Touchdown Manager's written reviews are positive against 0% of Sidelines's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Touchdown Manager versus Sidelines: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTouchdown ManagerSidelines
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (639 ratings) — better2.5 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings639 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSweet Nitro SLDumbbell Games Yazilim Anonim Sirketi

Customer experience

Touchdown Manager

All ratings634 ratings
Positive86.1%
Neutral6.3%
Negative7.6%
Written reviews100 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative20.0%

Sidelines

All ratings4 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Touchdown Manager

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when selecting offensive plays
  • Incorrect player positioning on special teams
  • Issues with in-app purchases not being delivered

Requested features

4 requests
  • More control over defensive formations and strategies
  • Ability to customize plays and formations
  • Improved league and trading features
  • Addition of a basketball game mode

Sidelines

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Touchdown Manager

One-time5
  • 50 Gold Balls$4.99
  • 100 Gold Balls$9.99
  • 200 Gold Balls$19.99
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  • 500 Gold Balls$49.99
  • 1000 Gold Balls$99.99
None

Sidelines

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Touchdown Manager free?
Touchdown Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sidelines free?
Sidelines is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Touchdown Manager or Sidelines?
Touchdown Manager is rated higher. Touchdown Manager averages 4.4 out of 5 from 639 ratings, while Sidelines averages 2.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Touchdown Manager or Sidelines have ads?
Touchdown Manager shows ads; Sidelines does not.

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