Ultimate Pro Football Coach

The arcade version of sport management games. Let me explain further on the title. This game is not for those looking for a deep sports management sim. That is part of its charm though. It is an easy game to get into and stay addicted to. I find the UI easy to work around and going through the weeks managing trades, draft, training easy. Again though it takes an arcade approach with being simple and not very deep in the dynasty management of your team. You are not able to manage plays on defense, might be turn off to some, but for me it helps that games move at a faster pace. I would like to see more sort functions, and better ways to organize some of the data you are looking at. I recommend this game for those that enjoy a relaxing management experience and are not to hung up on hard core features.

Purchased the game and played it for a few hours, then the screen crashed to black. I inquired about a refund after my friend who is a computer scientists said it was an issue with the game. My refund request was denied because they said I played the game too long. I agree it looks like I played the game, but it logged many hours with a blank and black screen with no activity as I tried everything and everyone I know to fix it. Too many blank screen hours to refund, and too many bugs to fix I guess. Dookie developer and Dookie game as well. Sad thing is, the reviews say this is a regular issue. The game maker denies that there is an issue, but clearly the game has bugs, just like the developer when he says it is running fine. I strongly advise against this game (SCAM) until the developer decides to listen to the issues and fixes the bugs. Couldn't be more disappointed with the effort to provide me with anytype of solution other than (OH WELL), !!!!! DO NOT PURCHASE

Love this game. I am 30 years as HC inside this league. Won 11 titles and this game still isnt finished. Great work!

A very nice improvement of the mobile game.

Nope. It's not random. I just played a game where I took the lead with 1:35 left in the game, they had no time outs. They got 10 plays off and scored. Do not buy this game. all you will do is get angry. I don't mind being beat, it's cheating that I can not stomach. Your QB will NOT throw the ball to the open receiver 60% of the time, no matter what play you design they just will not do it. Player Int. appears to make no difference at all.

I really like this game. More depth to it than you might expect. The actual games are somewhat simplistic but they are still very fun. Just a colorful game that takes a little different approach to football and that is a compliment. Good job, Developer.

Didn't expect much, but it's actually really solid. Lot of depth with scouting and managing team, and play calling is fun too. Few small things can improve but already pretty addicting. If you like football sims, this one worth a shot.

DO NOT BUY AT FULL PRICE. $20 is way too much. My feelings about r2k sports sims continues to be "Juuuuuuust good enough." It certainly scratches [i]some[/i] kind of itch, though I think it's that they're all a frustrating puzzle for me to work out. The main thing you should know is that r2k's first and only priority seems to be making sure you can't cheese their game. That's understandable, but it's neither realistic nor fun that I take a steep firesale discount if I trade away one of my young players if I mess up the draft or sign a 3* only to find someone better within a few seasons or whatever. Technically, the ability is there to opt out of every other class and go deep into scouting next year, or to only sign guys to two or three year contracts if they're not obvious permanent fixtures, but that's just not a good way to play the game. Mostly, I just want the trade values to be consistent. If I get penalized for drafting someone just to trade, fine. I can accept that kind of anti-cheese. But why does it cost the equivalent of a mid-first pick to trade for a 3* FB? They're just not that important. No matter who gets drafted, my picks will be worth (at most) the value of the pick I used, but the CPU will get like 4X the value of my players with similar stats, age, and potential (and I'm playing on "casual" difficulty!) It leads to a method of playing the game where the only way to get useful players without hollowing out your roster or pushing the cap to the max is to go fully into a draft and develop strategy, which is honestly the most boring way to play. Presumably, you'll end up with too many draft picks and all your energy going into drafting replacements for your expensive players, but I haven't gotten that far yet, since half my playtime is overanalyzing every move. Having autosave on is crippling, because it doesn't allow any experimentation or mistakes. Since I can't leave a neutral review, I originally had this as positive, so long as it's on a deep discount, but actually, I don't think most people will get even $8 worth of fun out of this. The mobile microtransaction system is deeply flawed and greedy, but all they had to do was be more generous with TP and cash from normal gameplay. Instead, they rolled this back to the super early versions of UFBGM that didn't feel good, especially with training and building up your facilities. There's less here than the app, and yet it costs more (even at 60% off!) than UFBGM Premium. Make it make sense. P.S. I would highly recommend just playing the ZenGM sports games over this. They're free, and since the entire save file is just a .json, they're EXTREMELY customizable. As much as I like having upgradeable facilities and staff and a more in-depth game sim, it's just a better quality of life being able to customize essentially everything. It's a world of difference from this game, where there's not much granularity to the difficulty settings, let alone so much access to editing the league file.

TL/DR: Marvelous game. Over 25 years of loving Pro Football front office simulators. As noted in other reviews, it's less complex as compared to similar games, and this really works well for it. The game has a great addictive flow. The less complexity means an opportunity to further the game as there are elements of roster construction that are too simplified. The contract system, while successful in making sure this game never feels too tedious, doesn't reflect the interesting drama of pro contracts. In this game, you can re-sign your QB MVP to only 1 year contracts for his entire career following his draft contract because the AI only wants a certain per year number. Trade offs I guess. A solution would be an option for an in-depth contract negotiation mode. The roster requirements don't match pro football, for example you must have 2 kickers and 2 punters on the roster at all times. I guess I have no choice but to role play as a very eccentric Pro GM lol. Nitpicks aside, this game is fun and recommend you try.

This game does not boot at all. Every other game does. Not this one. Avoid it, because I can't get a refund now. My playtime is me trying over and over again to run the game, and getting a blank black page that says "ufgm_flutter_desktop" at the top. I guess I've tried so much that it equals 8 hours of playtime. Absurd.