Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2024

There is a 1 week free trial for this game (and any Draft Day Sports game) available on their website. There is a mod on their website's forum that allows you to download real logos, team names, coaches, courts, etc. Give the demo a try and decide for yourself instead of relying on reviews. If you buy the game straight from their site, they will give you a Steam product key to redeem if you request it with their support team. If you've tried the demo and know you want to buy it, buy it from their site and not Steam so they get all the profit. -------------------------------------------------------------------- This game is the epitome of a love it or hate it game. You will either be sucked into it and play it for hours without noticing, or you'll be able to nitpick 25 things within your first 5 minutes of playing and instantly refund it. Personally I have absolutely loved these college basketball games for years now, and put hundreds of hours into each one. However, I can't for the life of me enjoy their college football version, specifically because I can nitpick problems I have with it as soon as I fire it up. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The revamped transfer portal seems basically the same, but you have slightly more tools at your disposal. However, it seems like all the good transfers will accept a scholarship offer after the first week, meaning you can't afford to scout them and decide later. The easiest way to target transfers is still to abuse the AI and just offer whoever the top programs in-game offer. If you see a transfer you have zero info on being targeted by Duke, Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina, etc, it's a solid bet that they're a legitimately good 3-5 star player. If they're being targeted by mid-P5 teams or worse, they're probably a 2 star at best. The new camps are nice, and the added feature of being able to talk players out of transferring or declaring for the draft is very welcome. The only problem is that if you fail at talking a player out of declaring and they take offence to it, team morale can absolutely spiral. My only true gripe with the game is that the fast forward option when watching/coaching a game. In previous games it seemed rather simple to use and responsive to clicks, but the new one seems to be very finicky and is combined fast-forward/skip button that seems to glitch itself out and think you want both, resulting in the game speed fluctuating between hyper speed and a slow crawl.

This is very good. I'm still getting used to the in-game coaching aspect, but the rest of it is excellent. The ever-present "Help" button is handy, and I don't find the UI confusing at all. Recruiting is easy to understand and works as expected. Don't go to some tiny college and try to recruit top 100 players unless you really raise your prestige. Really the whole game is pretty easy to pick up even though it has a lot of depth. My only complaint is how long it takes to simulate the season, but it is what it is. Hopefully the college football game will get the same QoL treatment next time. Having the game tell you what you need to do before advancing to the next period and having context sensitive Help is very, very nice. Now all I need is to be able to draw up my own plays. Oh, one more thing. The visual representation of the games is very rudimentary and will drive you mad if you take it literally. You'll have endless things like your center getting the ball all alone under the goal and instead of scoring he passes it back outside. My recommendation is just to mostly ignore this feature.

Really frustrating. The bones are there, but the recruiting system is beyond broken. Even when I restarted (twice) and went down to the easiest difficulty, there was nothing you could do to get guys to play for you. Its too bad, because this could be a great game but its just not there.

worse ui, portal and transfers are still trash, and cost more

honestly just disappointing. I will probably still get decent hours in on this game but honestly not much has changed in this game since I started playing the 2021 version. I know they have done a lot of update to the in game simulation but that was never my biggest issue and since I avoided this game for a long while they at least fixed the garbage transfer logic a little but it still leaves a lot to be desired. Recruiting and player development is still the same boring formula which is just not satisfying that they have had for years. I have no idea why this developer is trying to be a low budget EA pumping out games every year with minimal improvements. Oh and by the way I did play the demo it only lets you experience the regular season so literally only half the game, so you never really get to find out they have the same lame recruiting experience for the 4th year in a row.

This game is addictive, but gameplay such as Play, Stop, Skip during the game is soooooo unstable and a lot of control that not happen in time is mess me up fr Hope dev fix it in future update pls with love

This game is STILL buggy. Every save I have had so far is corrupted when I restart the game. I see no recruit lists, and the game starts simming all games instead of pausing and letting me play out my games. I loved CB2023 and I am stubborn so not quitting yet but between seasons 5 and 7 all my saves get borked. Not yet ready to recommend. I'll probably trash it and buy the next one on release.

Creative and brings in-depth data and teams to the forefront of an interesting experience for BBall lovers. Fun game all around. Graphics gradually improving each year

Pretty dissappointed with this game. I raraely write negative reviews for games I get on steam but there's an obvious lack of depth as regards strategy and what simulation fans would call "tactics." To be clear, you cannot even coach your team on how often they should help on defense or if/when they should switch on screens. You can't assign roles to different players like you can in many other sports sims, and the amount of nuance there is regarding offensive and defensive schemes is. . . negligible. This game is essentially a roster builder. Roster builders are fine if that's your thing but it's not worth this sort of price tag.

Juicy