Games Like Franchise Hockey Manager 4 (2026)

Shared: Challenge Mode

Ten years in Early Access and Scrap Mechanic finally stuck the landing. If building physics-powered vehicles with friends while rogue Farmbots trash your farm sounds like your idea of a good Saturday, this one is ready.

Shared: Annual Sports Sim

Rush mode finally gives your squad a reason to huddle around one screen again, but two years of annual copy-paste means FC 25 only earns its spot in your library at a serious discount.

Shared: tier:indie

The dating-sim wrapper is bait, and MiSide knows it. What starts as idle chores with an anime girl becomes a genre-hopping psychological horror that two developers built better than most studios manage with a full team.

Shared: Annual Sports Sim

If you and three mates argue about football every Saturday, this is your game. If you were hoping EA's rebrand would fix years of FUT frustration, lower your expectations before clicking buy.

Shared: tier:indie

Closer to Dwarf Fortress in a wuxia robe than anything you'd find on a typical RPG shelf - deep, opaque, and rewarding only if you commit to learning its dense systems.