False Start vs Elevenward
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
False Start
Experience a full sprint career from school races to the world stage. Train, manage your physical and mental well-being, and make crucial decisions that shape your athletic destiny. Your origin story and weekly choices determine if you become a legend or burn out.
- Full sprint career simulation
- Weekly training and decision management
- Origin story impacts career path
- Race qualification and progression
- Body and mind management
- Attribute development over seasons
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False Start You want to become an athlete. You run fast. That is all you have: - From your first school race to the world stage, every season of your sprint career is in your hands. Train, compete, manage your body and mind, and make the decisions that will define whether you become a legend or burn out before your prime. A career built week by week: - Each week you choose how to spend your time. Hit the gym to build strength. See the physio before your body breaks down. Study for finals so school does not cost you a season. Have a pre-season training camp. Grab a coffee, rest, or push through one more hard session. Every choice has a consequence. Your backstory shapes your path: - Where you come from is not where you are going, but it is where you start. Growing up with nothing gives you hunger that facilities cannot buy. A comfortable upbringing gives you resources but less fire. Your origin sets your starting conditions, but your decisions write the rest. Race when it matters: - Qualify through the tiers, earn your place at bigger meets, and chase times that only a handful of humans have ever run. Miss a qualifying mark and the season slips away. Hit form at the right moment and everything opens up. Manage more than your times: - Fatigue builds. Stress accumulates. Ignore your body and it will shut you down. Manage sponsors, maintain your ranking, navigate the balance between pushing hard and staying healthy. A false start does not just lose you a race. Sometimes it ends a career. Watch your numbers grow: - Attributes develop across seasons. Early gains come fast, then progress slows as you approach your ceiling. The athlete you become depends on how well you managed the years behind you. From 15 to 35: - Twenty seasons. Finite time. One career.
Elevenward
Manage a soccer player's career from age 17, making crucial decisions about training, matches, and life beyond the pitch. Explore a vast world of fictional clubs and leagues, build relationships, and leave a lasting legacy.
- Choice-driven career progression
- Player attribute development
- Global club and league exploration
- Relationship and financial management
- Offline career play
- Hall of Fame legacy preservation
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Your football career begins at 17. Build the player, make the decisions and see where your story leads. Elevenward is a choice-driven football career and life RPG. Set your weekly training, read the match preview and choose a safe, balanced or bold approach when your spotlight arrives. Follow the result through clear recaps that explain your performance, development and income. FIND YOUR ROLE Play as a goalkeeper, defender, midfielder or forward. Choose from twelve archetypes, develop your attributes and pursue a personal career ambition. Training previews help you balance progress and fitness as your player grows older. FIND YOUR PLACE Explore an original world of 520 fictional clubs across 52 leagues. Follow tables, fixtures and cups through promotion and relegation. Review club styles and tactical fit, request your next destination and weigh contracts or one-season loans between seasons. Work toward national-team call-ups and international competition. LIVE BEYOND MATCHDAY Football affects more than your form. Navigate relationships, finances and recurring mentor stories. Your match and decision journals record the choices you made and their consequences. LEAVE A LEGACY Track role-specific contributions, honours and career milestones. When your playing days end, preserve a retired career in your Hall of Fame, separate from your playable save slots. Share a career card to tell your story. PLAY AT YOUR PACE Play a complete career offline. No account is needed to start, and your local career saves let you return to your story. Choose English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese or French, with dark, light and system appearance options. Optional permanent in-app purchases include development and income boosts, extra career slots and cosmetics. Online account features and purchases require an internet connection.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Elevenward at 100% against False Start's 50%. Elevenward also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. False Start sells 14 one-off in-app purchases and Elevenward sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Elevenward holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of False Start's written reviews are positive against 100% of Elevenward's.
False Start ships an update every 8 days, Elevenward every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | False Start | Elevenward |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 222 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Orkun Sefik | Liam Howeth |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
False Start
- Race Rerun$0.49
- Pre-Season Training Camp$0.99
- 8,000 Gold$0.99
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- Reputation Boost +200$0.99
- Elite Coach$1.99
- Reputation Boost +500$1.99
- Reputation Boost +1000$2.99
- Injury Free Life$3.99
- Stat Decay Block$3.99
- 75,000 Gold$3.99
- Attribute Boost +4$3.99
- 250,000 Gold$5.99
- Attribute Boost +10$5.99
- Attribute Boost +15$9.99
Elevenward
- 2× Money$3.99
- 2× Development$3.99
- VIP Starter Pack$4.99
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- All-Access Pass$9.99








