Retro Football Boss overview

Overview

Retro Football Boss comes from 1888 Games and is published by Plug In Digital. It arrived on Steam on Sep 12, 2016, and it sits naturally among Single-player and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Retro Football Boss's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 9 October 2026 - 09:29:34 UTC, with a tracked peak near 3. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 55% positive across 40 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Retro Football Boss is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Retro Football Boss has sold up to 1,881 units and has recommendation data pending. The estimated VGI revenue is $17,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Retro Football Boss overview details

Retro Football Boss combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Retro Football Boss is a historical football management simulation featuring the English professional leagues from 1888 to 1998 (with German leagues coming soon). This is your chance to take a trip down memory lane or right the wrongs of the past. All The Players, Clubs and Competitions The game is based around a painstakingly compiled database of over 40,000 players, including every player to have played a League match and over a thousand who didn’t, including all the top foreign superstars. Choose from over 130 teams across 110 years including short-lived clubs such as New Brighton Tower, Loughborough and Nelson, or save Barrow, Northwich Victoria and Gateshead from non-league oblivion. In total there is over 8,000 options as to when and with whom to start your career. All the senior competitions, from the bread-and-butter of the Third Division North, to the glamour of the old European Cup, to short-lived affairs such as the Watney or Anglo-Scottish cups, are modelled as closely to real-life as possible. In addition, reserve leagues operate alongside to keep your young or fringe players match-fit. To double the sense of nostalgia we have strived to capture the look and feel of great management games of the past. Retro Football Boss has been designed to be simple enough to play in short bursts or on the move, but with enough underlying depth and attention to detail to keep you entertained for hours if you so wish. Evolution Financials including gate receipts, wages, transfer fees and running costs have been modelled to be as close to real life as possible. The parameters…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Retro Football Boss is listed as a game with $11.99. It supports Windows and macOS, belongs to Single-player and Family Sharing, and is associated with Indie, Simulation, Sports, Strategy, and Early Access. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 9 October 2026 - 09:29:34 UTC, a tracked peak of 3, and 55% positive reviews.

Overview tags

SimulationFootball (Soccer)StrategyEarly AccessSportsIndieManagementRetro

Support and legal notes

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