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World Basketball Manager 2010
Developer Icehole Games
World Basketball Manager (WBM) is a basketball strategy game. It uses the same game-play principles as most soccer management games do. Entering the game, the player creates his manager profile and he is hired as the general manager of a basketball club and his task is to improve the team’s performance by analyzing the facts and making... From the Steam store page
73 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest May 23, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
36
Rotten
26 positive · 47 negative
95% range 26–47%
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Negative
39 of 126 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 73 · most liked firstThere's no game in this. There's no way to sanely navigate the menu, and some of the buttons are broken. Spend your money on bubble gum instead of this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like drinking ebola
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a very nice game but I recommend it only to die hard "Old School" manager games fans. The rest better stay away from this. Also the steam version of the game is buggy. You must apply the following fix in order to play the matches: 1. Disable temporarily windows UAC. (Here is how: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/turn-user-account-control-on-or-off ) 2. Download www.wbmgame.com/files/registerdx8.zip Unzip inside "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\world basketball manager…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Steam gave me this game for Christmas in 2011, and despite being completely FREE, it's not worth playing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buggy and unsupported. There are far better Basketball Management games out there. Don't be fooled into thinking this one is the best one simply because it's on Steam. Even at $1 you've wasted your money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i really tried to like but... Horrible interface, Bugs, confusing at first Not worth the actual price Not worth playing :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Complete buggy garbage. Stay away.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Avoid this at any cost, even in sale. The game is as deep as a plate and as appealing as Excel lite in red, means you could have more fun with Excel. Overall this is just an ugly RNG with no indepth.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has to be the best game I have ever played! It has everything! It has guns, tanks, zombies, Russians, nukes and much more! If you played Skyrim and enjoyed it, then you should play this game too. I also recommend this game to anyone who is a fan of yuri, because this game is full of it!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After experiencing 0.2 hours of this masterpiece I am now able to close the game for a second and write this review. First of all the game does not work in full screen view, this is an amazing design feature as now people with low-end rigs will be able to play this game, maybe the devs copied Realm Of The Mad God a game that can only be played in windowed mode. Secondly the interface is also amazing the spinning basketball in the top left really creates next generation physics and graphics.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Epic. Extraordinary. Excellent. Superb. These adjectives completely fail to capture the glorious majesty that is World Basketball Manager 2010. A genre defying game that does not simply cross the boundaries usually in place for a game like this, it obliterates them. Nothing about it can be held to fault, every piece of it will leave you in orgasmic joy, screaming for more. Every time you start up this once in a lifetime experience you will find yourself shaking with anticipating as you grasp…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quite confusing menus and can't start a match because an error keeps popping up, lucky i got this very cheap
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been playing sport manager games since 1980s, but this one is really one of the worst - runs really slow and horrible (and I mean horrible) interface that looks like it was made by 10-year-old who never seen any interface in his life
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Because football is too mainstream
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Once upon a midnight dreary, while I played vidya weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of the steam store, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently jamming, slamming at my bedroom door. `'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `dribbling at my bedroom door - Only this, and nothing more.' And the faint echoes of earthen dribbling had come ascertain Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →fooking perfect m8, just an amazing experience, highly recommended
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After playing for about one hour i feel like im in a position to review this game. The bad points, the game allows you to play as any team from around the world including the Baston Ciltics and european teams such as the Niwcastle Eegles. And thats where it ends, it claws back respect and rating with; The game cant spell team names correctly, it gives you no guidance as to how to play, it crashes and just freezes whenever you go to a match (when youve worked that out). The graphics are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game saved my life! I was planning on ending it but my friend gifted me this game. I started playing and at first I thought it was dumb. Then it hit me this game lets me control players. So, I recemmend you play this game!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dont buy this game , BUGGY as hell unstable smells like cheese the list goes on if your bored eat your money instead, it will give you more entertaintment
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a truly great game. I love it when I can play as the Las Angelus Layker and take Koeby Byrant down the floor and dunk the ball over Shakeel Ohneel or something, just kidding, I haven't played it!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, THIS WAS THE MOST EXCITING MANAGER GAME I EVER SPENT 15 MINUTES TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO START THE GAME IN! Seriously. Windowed mode doesn't even display the "PROCEED" button at the bottom right of the interface. It took desperation full screen mode to figure that out. Top that off with a lack of any sort of instructions, much less a tutorial, and the slowest system I think I've yet seen amongst "manger" games, and... well, yeah. Progress bars online. Wait, that would be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →World Basketball Manager apparently outranks Task Manager, as it refused to let the latter shut it down for something close to 10 hours the second time I ran it. As I write this the game just... stopped, about two minutes ago, and I don't know why. I'm just gonna assume WBM is secretly WOPR from Wargames and it was running through every basketball scenario worldwide before determining that the only way to win was ♥♥♥♥ THE KNICKS
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game barely even works
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why is this completely broken game still on sale? I cannot believe Steam allows this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Otimo gioco,alla prima partita ha dato subito errore 10+
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played a lot of fantasy basketball, but this program takes micromanagement to daunting levels. Not only do you have to micromanage a local professional team, you also have to micromanage the national team. The overwhelming number of options are frustratingly tedious plus the poorly implemented user inferface makes it painful to even want to learn how to use it. Add a dreadfully slow player database on top of an eyesore background color and this is nothing short of a disaster. I did find…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Exclusive and unprecented grapics ever!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thrilling experience, highly reccomended.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not bother with this one. Please!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you like menus with garish, eye-searingly bad color schemes? Do you like sports games where, instead of just making up names for teams ("Los Angeles Breakers" or "Chicago Mastadons"), someone decided to just do a find-replace on vowels ("Les Angolis Lokars")? Most importantly, do you like management games that crash all the time and offer no real sense of achievement? Then ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ buy this game, by all means! (At least it's better than NFL Head Coach, I guess...)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I dont know why this game even exists in shop.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If anybody played football/soccer managers and the like then this is similar, although very primitive in form. I couldn't recommend it because its gameplay is bugged, I even created a "superman" team by editing the player's statistics and they had problems performing anyway. You also need to go to the producer's site to download other essential files, like the real names of the players and here's the worst part: if you bought it on Steam they want you to pay extra money for new updates. 1/10,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A treasured friend gifted me this game and it filled me with joy. Who doesn't enjoy free stuff! After many painful minutes of trying to get to the main powerpoint slide it instantly crashed when I tried actually playing the actual basketball game. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks, this game is forever in my library of games. If you truly hate someone, want to be a d*ck to a friend like mine or taint your steam profile with bad games you've found the game for you! Otherwise abandon hope…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Totally waste of time. I suggest everyone not to buy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No real names, ugly looking. Not fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got it free as a prize for some competition and I still feel ripped off... Nothing quite says 'quality' like finding the game hasn't licensed existing team names, and has decided to just misspell all the team names to get round it. If you find bad spelling drives you up the wall, this game is going to leave you rather homicidal inside a few minutes. Having every team name mangled means you're going to spend a lot of time wincing... :/
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was not terrible. At all given times in this game I knew what I was doing and I did not have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NBA 2K games in Franchise mode are better than this
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →UTTER PILE OF STINKY POO!!!!!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably one of the worst games in exsistence. Regret even getting this gifted to me.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is like the best game in the world everybody should by eight copys of this
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just like everyone else; I've played this for a bit and wish I hadn't.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pro: nothing Con: everything Worse game I've gotten on Steam.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game doesnt work. Do not bother getting it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I seriously cant understrand how you get startet .....
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Barely functional, and not amazingly gripping based on what little I could see of the game. I know this is an older title, but I think you'd have more luck trying to be an actual basketball manager than playing this game-ified version of it. Crashes, bugs, dysfunctional buttons and lacklustre gameplay. There's no reason to play this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As steam says I have played this game for 5 hours and all of those were trying to restart career and not crash on first game. waste of money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worst game ever, slow not playable and it looks like Microsoft Word.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tags: Tycoon&Simulator&Sim&City Additional Tag: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Archaic spreadsheet management game with no tutorials, endless loading animations and unengaging execution. This is an excel spreadsheet management game, made unusable by a buggy interface, with no tutorial anyways so you are lost right away. I tried loading mental attributes of canadian players and the game just kept loading forever... They re-released this as World Basketball Manager Tycoon,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Edit: This game still sucks, but No Mans Sky is absolutely awesome now, go buy it. I would have rather bought No Mans Sky...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I do not recommend this one. Bought because I thought I would enjoy a game with all the management aspects of basketball. It is not a good game, the UI is all over the place plus not it is very dated.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not very smart game, but fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is just plain ass broken. Random crashes to the desktop are the norm. Never actually go to play a game yet.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Controls don't seem to work, virtually un-playable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So frustrated, basically unplayable. I was hoping so badly for this just to be decent... that's all I wanted, a DECENT game here. I wasn't expecting the stars, just to be able to be lost in Training and Acquiring Players and seeing my decisions impact the outcome on the Courts. Problem is... I can't get to the Courts. Game stalls out every single time I try to play the first Game. Every single time. I've yet to see any of the 'Season', and I've tried for over 130 HOURS!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Im not going to write a review because its that bad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's no Football Manager, but it's decent for a basketball manager game. I played one of the newer versions and it seemed like the series got worse.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why on earth did I buy this?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hard to understand what is going on, gameplay very harsh and unforgiving.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cant figure out what to do... its that baaaaad!
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