
NOT the latest version, please check out PSF 2026!
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THIS IS NOT THE LATEST VERSION - GO CHECK OUT PSF 2026!
From a flexible installation package to a customizable ticker to wide open career play to a greatly improved AI, you asked for it, and you got it! And remember, with Steam's Remote Play Together, you can play your friends around the world! Playing against another person raises the intensity to a whole new level!
As always, the PSF goal is to put more power in your hands, and this year, that starts with the game installation. You choose where to install the game and mods! But that’s not all …
Career Play now supports 1 to 16 conferences, and 2 to 140 teams!
You can now change the game’s coaches at any time, even during the game! Easily switch between taking over either team or watching the AI play both teams, or even just let the AI finish the current possession, the current quarter, or the rest of the game! If you’re watching a game, you can decide to step in and take over either team (or both!)
The new studio ticker expands on last year’s popular PSF Studio and now provides updates around the league! And you can customize it however you want – change the background and text colors, change the possession marker, decide which games to include, even decide how often you want it to update!
A big request has been most flexibility in tweaking the injuries and fatigue, and you can now do this! Raise or lower fatigue or injuries (or turn them off completely), and even turn off multi-game injuries if you want to limit injuries to only the current game!
No more losing veterans when they are cut! They’re now placed in a waiver pool and can be drafted in a later draft or even a future year! To enhance this, career play now has two separate roster adjustments and a new Waiver Draft!
Also, viewing the different drafts (Rookies, Free Agents, and Waivers) is streamlined this year! You can easily switch between each pools so you can see what players are available in all the pools!
Live Sims now let you pause on any screen, rather than just the animation!
New stats have been added, too – track rushes, passes, and catches of 20+ and 40+ yards, and you can now track how many fourth downs a team tried to convert in a season!
Single Season play now lets you export all active players, with positions and OVR (will be added to career soon!)
The editor has improved this year as well, with a new three-quarter length option, easier Team screen, and improved generated player uniforms (animation images)! Modders have created many image sets with all sleeves options!
Continuing with improving the user experience, you can now easily search and filter when trying to locate a league or a player, great for editing leagues or viewing player history!
Expanded rules now has more options and MANY more historic sets! And more overtime options!
And most importantly of all, the AI has been greatly improved this year, whether it's choosing draft picks, calling plays, or managing the clock! Of course, I have never, and never will, have a cheating AI! If the AI is tough to beat, that's a testament to all the users who sent me their detailed suggestions with play by play examples, and to hours of work and testing to get the AI better and better!
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Languages: English
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Still the best American Football sim that is fun to play. Can’t wait to roll a full season. Great work Kerry!
Fell in love with the last game, and already loving the changes in this one. Only football game I ever play anymore.
Edit: After some more hours into this game and diving into to the depth of it - This goes from a lean yes to an absolute yes.
The game sucks. I love sports manager games and this one absolutely sucks,, The ONLY way to edit anything is when starting a new game. Someone said this looks and plays like OOTP but that couldn't be FURTHER from the truth. The game is bare, the gameplay is ridiculously idiotic. 60 overall teams beating 88 overall teams and playing consistently well against them just proves how lackluster and trash the game engine and simulation is. I HATE trash sports manager games like this. No options, nothing fun about it. Save your money and don't waste your time on this TRASH video game.
This game is incredibly fun to play and you really get unlimited replay-ability on it. You can play as a league-level commissioner or you can manage one team. The best part is you can hop in & out of managing a team whenever you want. It is as sandbox as it comes. Customization is not only very in-depth, but it is very easy to do. Many mods already are out there for both fictional universes and real historical seasons! I personally recommend this game a whole lot. The next years version will have off-season league expansion which is going to be a next-level improvement. As much as PSF 2024 has lasted me for many hours of fun, PSF 2025 is going to be even better as Kerry does time & time again.
I recommend the game but with an Asterisk as I would give it a neutral 3 out of 5 stars. The ability to modify so many things coach, watch or sim is some of the best I have seen in awhile...but there are also huge holes. No trading, waiver wire pickups or salary caps. Although you can turn it off, some of your best players retire before 30.(I turned this feature off) Pros So very much to can tweak and modify. Nice to be able to Coach, sim or watch. Enjoy ability to Draft manually Cons No Salary Cap No Trades No Waiver pickups during season Injuries, fumbles, missed extra points/field goals not in line with percentages. I have enjoyed playing, but only when I have accepted the huge pieces missing. If it had Salary Cap, Trades and Waiver pickups during the season it would be an easy recommend. Lets hope they keep tweaking and improving.
Every year, I buy this game and every year, this game gets better. The improvements to the AI, presentation and graphics are quite apparent. The developer is constantly seeking feedback for improvements. This game is a first day must buy for me!
I was really excited for this game, however there were way too many issues that made me refund the game. First of all, the game wouldn't allow me to click to draft or for free agency, just scouts and that's all. Secondly, many times during gameplay it freezes or it just has players tackling in an endless loop where I have to quit game because the skip button didn't work. The ticker also never worked for the game either, so that kills immersion.
I had 480+ hours playing last years version.. I will have even more playing this year. I encourage everyone to do as much research as possible before buying a game to make sure it matches your expectations. Saying that.. I can't find another game that feels as real as this one does playing out games. There are far more in depth roster management games out there to be sure. It has some simplistic GM duties but if you enjoy the chess matches of playing out games, guessing what your opponent is up to, you can't beat this game.
Game is about as deep as a puddle.
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