
Build and lead your own professional esports organization. Scout players, manage contracts, develop talent, hire staff, grow your brand, and compete for championship titles in a deep and realistic management simulation.
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Welcome to Esports Manager 2026, a strategy-simulation game where you take charge of a competitive esports organization from the inside out
Start from scratch or take over one of the existing teams. Navigate the complexities of player recruitment, team development, tournament schedules, and business operations. Whether you're optimizing training, making key transfer decisions, or managing the mental health and motivation of your roster, every move counts toward your legacy.
There’s no scripted campaign or forced ending—your journey continues as long as your manager stays active. Grow, adapt, and lead your team to the top.

Simulation Mode
Step into the match yourself with the Simulation module—an immersive, highly detailed experience where you control tactics and react to dynamic in-game events in real time.
Realism and Depth
Inspired by the real-world challenges of esports management—balancing financial, psychological, legal, and organizational responsibilities with no hand-holding.
Real Organizations, Real Players
Choose from a wide range of authentic teams and manage a roster filled with real professional players. Build your lineup your way.
Player Market and Transfers
Buy, sell, and loan players to create the best roster for your goals. Market dynamics, contract negotiations, and timing all matter.
Player Development and Morale
Design weekly training plans that target both skill growth and well-being. Use team-building, psychology sessions, and smart scheduling to shape high-performance athletes.
Leadership and Player Interaction
Get to know your players. Understand their needs and motivations, and guide them through ups and downs both on and off the stage. Use the in-depth Talk module to communicate with players and staff, understand their needs, and leverage the result of the conversation into something truly unique and useful.
Tournaments and Rankings
Enter your organization into a full calendar of events, from smaller competitions to major championships. Aim for the Grand Slam and leave your mark.
Build Your Support Team
Recruit and manage a full backroom staff: analysts, coaches, junior managers, media specialists, and more. Every role contributes to success.
Organization Growth and Branding
Expand your business, sign sponsorship deals, increase visibility, and grow your influence across the scene.
No story mode. No game over screen. Just you, your team, and the long road to becoming a legendary manager in the competitive esports world.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, German*, Spanish - Spain*, Polish, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Swedish*, Turkish, Ukrainian**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 284 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 283 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
топ 2 команда мира состоящая из топ 5ти игроков мира проигрывает команде из топ 30 с шансом победы 86 процентов, каждый финал тир 1 и тир 2 турнира проходит по ощущениям на 50/50 или ♥♥♥♥♥ я не ♥♥♥ какой долбабеб решил что WW тим вынес без шансов виталлити. идиоты сделайте нормальный процент на победу смысл мне собирать сильную команду если по итогу каждый раз в финале когда я нажимаю быстрый бой меня выносит каждая команда шароебов
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какая тупейшая система быстрой симуляции матчей у меня 84 процента, я проигрываю у меня 10 процентов, я выигрываю И это не случайно!!! из 10 игра с 80+ процентами я проиграю 5-6, и того получается что проценты там чисто ради галочки, доделайте эту систему, прошу оч часто устаешь играть квалы либо начальные стадии турниров по 3 карты, быстрая симуляция бы выручала если б не была сломана
Эта игра не имеет ничего общего с КС... то чем занимаются боты я даже в премьере не видел, а с про сценой эта поделка не имеет ничего общего.
This game needs serious tweaking before it becomes a full-on-product. I don't know why its even on Steam in the way that it is. EXTREMELY low star tourneys will have you facing up against teams that are a few hundred tiers above you, and expecting you to win. And when you feel like you CAN when, suddenly the game thinks "Oh well its a 1 v 2. The enemy planted the bomb. But because of the "save mechanic" bug, your 2 players are going to refuse to go in and kill the last enemy/AND defuse the bomb. Theres also angles that the enemies are killing my players where they ABSOLUTELY should not be killing them from. Its genuine ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I love literally everything about this game except for its game sim's
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AI bs. don't buy this ♥♥♥♥.
хорошая игра с большим потенциалом. экономическую часть нужно улучшать, потому как например спонсоры толком денег не приносят, а траты на хотя бы одного звездного игрока составляют космические 100 тысяч долларов в месяц. искусственный интеллект во время матча тоже срочно нужно улучшать. абсолютно нелогичные действия принимаются пешками во время раунда, что даже смешно. также неплохо было бы добавить более быструю перемотку самого матча, т.к. даже на 4x смотреть весь матч крайне долго. ну и побольше эндгейма было бы тоже неплохо, потому как после выигрыша мажора делать особо нечего. несмотря на все эти проблемы, игру можно рекомендовать. делаем скидку на то, что это первая игра этого жанра в сфере киберспорта
Lawsuits, Random and never ending nor unavoidable stream of Constant Money Loss. Playmaker system feels almost impossible to use and wildly Confusing. Players feel lacking of any real skills or anything that truly makes them Unique. Custom Team mode is practically impossible, literally 0 way to compete and make any money to upgrade your team and equipment. Default/Premade plays are just total lies when playing CT Side, so maximize your T side Rounds or prepare to be gaped. EVERY SINGLE TOURNAMENT, literally not one does not contain multiple 5 star Teams and no matter what you will play against a 5 star team in your qualifier everytime. This is why its impossible to make any progression in this game, smaller tournaments for smaller teams should be a thing yet somehow that isn't? I highly doubt the top teams competing for millions are regularly travelling to compete in 80k Prize pool tournies. Everything about this just feels like a knockoff Manager game made by some dude trying to carry out a get Rich quick scheme. Nothing works well, not a single deep mechanic and frankly nothing fun. It's not even a skill issue it's just a blatant get Rich Quick Scheme of a game...
This game has so much potential, and for someone who enjoys playing managerial games this can be really fun! however there are too many negatives for me to recommend this game to anybody else. You'll have times where you're playing as team spirit with a stacked roster and have an 80% chance of winning, just to lose not once, not tiwce, but 3 times in a row with 80% against phase 2 teams. That's just dumb and if you want to make that chance more lifelike! you can go into the game yourself, where you cant leave or go back out, you have to sit through the entire match, or you can just forfeit and remind yourself of the time you wasted. Once a players mental is ruined it's near impossible to fix it. Losing 3 games in a row in a phase 2 tourney as a prime team falcons with 80% + winrate each game on multiple occasions. Having a 1 star player constantly demanding game time from a prime NAVI??? It's nearly impossible to sim through ANY amount of time, because you will just get 100 emails of the same context and quality "We need to book plane tickets, book hotels" there should be an option to just auto answer it, because one email shouldnt prevent a sim from going on, and the individual map training would also be nice to automate, since u cant really ever sim if u HAVE to change something constantly, its not a requirement but it would certainly be sweet. pros - game is really enjoyable and pretty immersive, other than the fact that they couldnt get the rights to vitality this feels really nice, the maps are well designed, and i think it's pretty realistic for MOSt of the time. Untill they solve the underlying issues with the game i cant in good faith recommend it, as for me myself and i, it's been extremely infuriating and just pretty stupid. Also player growth should be boosted every so slightly, the development is cancerous, and for some reason in EVERY SINGLE SIM, donk is always bottom fragging, even when im not managing spirit, seems unrealistic. also when u do in game, its a bit stupid how my dudes just keep spinning in circles like some dumbass beyblade.
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Engagement
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