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World Basketball Tycoon
Developer Icehole Games
WBM Tycoon is a fresh look in sports strategy games that combines the classic manager game with the financial management and development of a Tycoon type game. As the Club Owner you must generate (or loan) the necessary funds in order to expand the club's facilities, raise the financial level and improve the team's roster. From the Steam store page
74 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Dec 31, 2025 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
15
Rotten
11 positive · 63 negative
95% range 9–25%
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Steam's own rating
Very Negative
17 of 108 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 74 · most liked firstThe Game The game from the outside looks like team-management for basketball team, like FM for football team. The basic features are there : the team management, the facility management, contract management, etc. There is also training management, finance management, and basic management stuff that should be in any sport management game. The problem in this game is not on features, but on its execution, that is what I have to say. As in FM game, the management aspect in this game revolves on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is honestly terrible. I'm a huge fan of Tycoon and Strategy games, and this game is just a poorly planned, terribly executed, game... can I even call it a game? It's just not good. The screenshots make it look engaging and deep, but there is no easing into this game. No tutorial, and the stats aren't very useful. Pass on this game basketball and tycoon fans.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a higly underatted game mainly cause of the bad interface graphics. If you like basketball and Football Manager series, this is what you need. Deep simulation of basketball and a huge, but huge database. You must see the Tutorial video and read the manual in order to fully understand how to play. Unfortunately the interface is not very good but after you learn how to play it is impossible to stop! I strongly reccomend this game for sport manager fans. En Español, ya que soy de…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i'm addict basketball fan, so i buy this game and regret it very badly Knowing some awsome game of simulation of sports (Football Manager), this game rise you hope up. About 30 mins played you know all functions of the game, you dont have THAT control of the team, you can only setting up you trainings and selects you players to start, and that it, no more interactions!!! I will not comment about the graphics and things like that because i dont care much about this. If this game have some…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a game for serious sports fans. If you really like basketball and/or other games in the genre such as Football Manager, then you will like this game. It doesn't offer a lot graphically, but it is very detailed as far as managing a team and using analytics to create the best team possible. It can be very difficult, but you can turn the difficulty settings down before launching the game. Buy this if you want a deeply detailed basketball management experience and don't mind that it runs…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great old school sport manager. This game will make only a small percentage of gamers happy. But it will make them really happy! Don’t play this game if you don’t like old school manager games. But if you do, you will be really satisfied with the simulation of the basketball world and most of all with the Artificial intelligence of the opponent CPU managers. The game lucks in visuals but it makes up with a huge database that includes all serious basketball action on the planet. Don’t worry…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game had potential but it feels unfinished. Simulating takes an insane amount of time even if you reduce the number of tournaments. You'll spend more time waiting time to flow than acutally managing your team which makes it quite a pain. Also, there are some bugs and unfinished features like the one where you can remove tournaments but the game will still load them from the menu and give an error message if you chose them. And since there is no sign of an update, I'm glad it was on sale…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very nice for all manager and tycoon game fans. It has a huge database that includes all the basketball action in the world and is not focused only on NBA, which is a huge plus for me. So you can make a career in Spain, Argentina or even Korea. At first I was a little put off by the fake names in the database, but after I found the real names patch from http://www.wbmfan.webs.com/ the problem was solved. I have been a Football Manager fan for many years and I believe that other sport manager…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First off, Don't let the haters tell you this is a bad game. This is an awful game. Everytime you attempt to play a match, the game crashes. My hopes and dreams of becoming the top basketball manager in the world were crushed by this game, and now I never want to touch a basketball ever again. Sincerely, a man who's hopes and dreams were crushed by this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have loved sports management games for years. Basketball ones are not common, so I was excited to try this one, and even more excited when I saw how huge and detailed its database and game world was. Unfortunately, the game is let down by some basic failings. The accuracy of the simulation is not that good, which is a problem when the game is built around numbers. My team often racks up more offensive rebounds than defensive rebounds, and hardly any assists (which may be due to the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simply terrible and glitchy to the point it isn't even playable. Not worth it at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →holy sheets buttman, this thing is broken like a pre alpha, 7 attempts of starting a game, and each one of them has resulted in getting stuck in gamebreaking bugs. never expect to be able to go back in the menu system, as you will be unab´le to continue the game if you try.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's a lot to enjoy in this game if you're a fan of sports management sims. It does a decent job of giving you options in developing both your franchise and your players and an AI that's always competent without making you feel like the deck is stacked against you. I live in Korea and was very impressed to see a good data base for the Korean professional basketball league and assume the same attention to detail extends to other non-NBA national leagues. Don't be put off by the fictional team…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is broken and an absolute waste of money. DO NOT BUY IT, THE GAME IS UNPLAYABLE. I was stupid and bit that bullet for you. There is no tutorial so you are just blindly "playing" if you want to call it that. You know when you are working on an Excel sheet and you just cant seem to get the columns to line up? Well, this game has that problem with the player names and attribute. I could keep going but it just makes me mad. This game sucks and I wish I could get my money back.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's an ok game if you love basketball and old school sim games....I love both, and I enjoy this game, but would probably give it a 3/5. Still, a lot could be improved to make this a great game, in my opinion: The load times are incredibly long. The game gives you VERY little control unless you want to coach during the games, I, personally, would rather set up rotations, offensive/defensive settings, etc. and let a computer coach run the game. Instead, you can sim games, but you have no…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It isn't userfriendly enough in my opinion.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a great game for a cheap price, mind you the loading times in game seem to take a while, and it can be a bit disorganised at times. 6/10 Average sim game not bad but not good
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too many bugs to be enjoyable
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I spent about 5 minutes trying to figure out how to play, then 10 waiting for it to load. This may be the worst game ever created.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boring. Nothing like a good tycoon game should be. This is the kind of game you play on a flash site for free.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was exactly what I hope every game isn't. Way to stay original
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The developers did an awful job creating a basketball manager game that wouldnt be bearable even if it has been published 10 years ago. Most in game content is ripoff of their former titles. Icehole did deliver a very bad game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Eh. It's hard to recommend this game. The interface is clunky, the player attributes are weird (Andrei Kirilenko is a better 3-point shooter than Kevin Love?!), it takes FOREVER to simulate multiple days in a row. I guess if you are a hardcore world basketball fan and a sports simulation fan, you might enjoy it. I did not.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is terrible and not user friendly at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Highly confusing, unsure of what does what. The ingame tool tips are poor. Would be a fun game to run a tycoon of if it was better done.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tutorial.....................................................Please.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looks so-so, ridiculously slow simulation and my first friendly match ended with crash to windows.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely terrible, I knew it was gonna be bad but jesus.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I made a separate category for this game It's called "Craps" :D
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Horrible graphics, explanation is useless... If you have had a really good month at work, you've had a promotion, bought your wife/girlfriend a new purse, treated yourself to a new coat, pimped out your car with a new soundsystem and still have a few bucks to waste? Then go for it! But I think you might be investing better by just going to an ATM machine, getting the same ammount, and then putting it into a random garbage bin (preferably a blue one tho).
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is not a game you would want at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Extremely buggy and unplayable. Somebody let me know when it is updated and I'll check again. Until then it is the worst game I have ever downloaded for steam. Shame on Steam for allowing it on their list of games. I thought buying games at your own risk was over.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The worst game I have ever played. Please do not waste your time with this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's really hard to recommend this game because there is no guide to tell you what you are doing wrong. The tutorial video didn't help me at all. You can lose a game by 40 or 50 points and have no idea what you did wrong. There is no simple way to learn the mechanics of the game. If you have to do serious searching in order to find out how to play a game then that is a problem. I wanted to like this game a lot because I'm a big NBA fan but it's so difficult to even get started in this game. Its…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →mehhhh... waste of money
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't even know where to begin. This is a waste of $2.49. I cannot even call this a game. No direction, no clue what it is supposed to be doing. I have played other Tycoon games before but this is just terrible. Do not buy this ( I was a dummy and ignored the other reviewers, don't be like me). The game starts by asking you to create a game (which in itself is confusing), then it asks you to create a team or take control of an existing team -( instructions are not very clear). Once that is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While normally I love this sort of game - this feels hastily thrown together, and if you manage to get it working - it has some major elements missing, even once you get past the installation issues and bugs. 1) Time out functionality - that only works when there's a stoppage of play. When you have possesion and want to stop the clock - you can't call a TO. Pointless - why do I want to stop it, when it's already stopped? 2) Inability to slide a player when making a substitution. If you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game feels like it was created by someone who knows very little about basketball. I am a huge fan of Baseball Mogul/Football Mogul, and many other simulation sports games with this being the worst one of all. The menu system and interface is as boring as the tutorial above. The game feels very alpha and I hope the developers will make this game more functional and entertaining.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is without a doubt the worst game I have ever played. Calling it a game is actually disrespectful to other games. It is sort of disrespectful to nouns in general. Please do not get this. A strategic basketball sim is actually a great idea, but I have board games about Feudal Japan that capture the sport better.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want my money back; it gives me an error while trying to "play" the match... what a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ waste of money this was!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →By far one of the worst games I've played. You'd think it was the year 2000
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why would you ever play this unfinished, buggy trash heap that pretends to be a game when the infinitely superior World Basketball Manager 2010 exists? Don't be a sucker.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Strange gameplay, strange game. I like sports simulation game, but I really dislike this one. It was my fault to purchase this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Liked the name, disliked the interface.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game i no where near fun to play
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"3/10" According to My Own Rating. Surprisingly low quality for a game this complex. And no, I'm not talking about the graphics. They're very low quality too, but this isn't the kind of game for people who care about it. Nice idea, low quality implementation. Not recommended unless you enjoy having your first experience to be: "Exception WBM ENCOUNTER AN ERROR AND HAS TO CLOSE. IF YOU CAN'T CONTINUE OR LOAD YOUR SAVE TRY TO RESTORE LAST AUTOSAVE FOR THIS GAME. OK"
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Could be good but won't let me actually play matches and trading is extremely difficult ruining the pure sim model. Literally doesnt work so have to give the negative on this. Best quality of game - inexpensive to purchase.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice concept but the game is broken, unfinished, does not work properly. Why steam is accepting money for a broken product is beyond me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's just a buggy mess, with a really hard to learn UI. What they tryed to do with the upgrade system was good, but its just done really poorly
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought I knew what I was getting into after many tycoon and sports manager games, seemed like it might be worth the $10 to fool around with. Not so. It should be called Wait for Basketball Tycoon. You sit around waiting for the game to simulate more than you do anything. Menu's are clumsy at best. Way too low a resolution to get stats on your page. All in all, a nice idea and that's about it. Not worth the money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worst purchase I ever made.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Perhaps a bit unfair since basketball is not my favourite sport and I do love games like football manager but this game was just too boring for me. Since the creator does not own the NBA license(s) you will only get fake player and club names , which is pretty annoying, in my opinion. The interface is quite simple and you will find that most things that should be in a management game are there but it looks like the game was made in the early 2000's. If this all doesn't bother you and you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is really terrible. The only explanation I could possibly have for buying this is that I was probably drunk, fairly broke and needed a basketball simulation fix that needed attending. This game would crash every 5 minutes, but that's a good thing. The game is self-aware in that it knows it is not worth playing so it shuts itself off.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is beyond bad. Stay away
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No way to learn this game - zero tutorial.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →when i am trying to open the it says "This setup does not support installing on this operating system". I am running windows xp service pack 3 which is in the system requipments!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not much has changed since World Basketball Manager 2010 http://store.steampowered.com/app/46740/ still no soul, boring menues, no depth, little better graphics but more bugs (ever tried to close the launcher? - still not possible - you have to start this awful game to close it). Hoped they have had learned their lesson. :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dificil de entender.. Nao gostei!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game just doesn't work. There are too many bugs, too many things unfinished.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game commits the ultimate sin of being boring. It's big and deep with all sorts of players and teams from everywhere, but trying to manage things is a nightmare of fishing through screens trying to find what you need, backtracking, going forward again, etc., until you finally just want to play a different game. The match simulation is horrible. I like playing games live, and many other sims make that a fun experience. First, there was a bug that prevented live match play. I found a…
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