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Esports Manager 2026

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.

Developer
Neurona Games
Publisher
indie.io
Franchise
Release date
Jul 6, 2026
Store page updated
Aug 26, 2026
Price
$19.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

54.4/ 100

Based on 443 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😐 Mixed 66% of 615
All time 🙂 Mostly Positive 72% of 4,363
“update made the game 100x better, fun management sim”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-1.96
Strategy -1.89 · Depth of builds, tactics, and meaningful choices
“tactics barely influence gameplay, AI ignores role and situation” (63)
Игра, где тактика существует только на бумаге Сложно описать эту игру без ощущения, что логика здесь просто решила выйти из матча. Главная фишка - режим симуляции с возможностью отдавать команды своей команде. Звучит интересно, пока не понимаешь, что твои тактики почти ни на что не влияют. Максимум - немного меняют позиции игроков, а сами действия часто выбираются случайно, а не исходя из роли игрока. Неважно, кто перед тобой: снайпер, рифлер или саппорт - поведение иногда выглядит так, будто они впервые запустили игру. Даёшь команде сплит B - отлично, они идут выполнять его до конца, даже есл

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
-0.72

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

World -0.31 · Lore, atmosphere, and how immersive the setting is

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
-2.09
Variety -2.85 · Fresh content and situations versus repetition

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
-0.62
Visuals -0.17 · Graphics, art style, and animation

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
-1.52

Not enough data — only 9% of reviews mention this.

Playing together -1.87 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals

🔒 2 more indicators

Pricing & Fairness
-3.25
Balance -3.55 · Whether classes, weapons, and builds are evenly matched
“AI makes illogical decisions, matches feel random instead of strategic” (93)

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Support
-0.61
Developer support +0.09 · Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players
“devs publishing regular updates, tons of issues fixed and improved” (33)

🔒 2 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by week · major update
60%65%70%75%80%
Jul 6, 2026Sep 14, 2026
Reviews
per day · 615 reviews, peak 63/day
050100
Aug 20Sep 18

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by week. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the week before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 430 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English34%
  • Russian20%
  • Chinese18%
  • Portuguese10%
  • Turkish5%
  • French3%
  • Other10%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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