Draft Day Sports: Pro Basketball 2023

EDIT: I take back everything i said below, and sincerely apologize if my previous positive review convinced anyone to purchase this game. Because this game is completely broken. The finances are completely and utterly broken, as has been the case in some of this studio's other sports sims. By my 3rd season, not only was literally every single team in the NBA significantly over the cap, all but 3 were at least $80 million over the cap (with quite a few being well over $100 million above the cap). And this is before the draft and before Free Agency, with half-empty rosters. This includes myself, even though i had only signed two low-tier free agents over the course of 3 seasons, and the teams in the lottery. What this means, of course, is that the game is just broken at that point. Nobody can make trades because everyone is over the cap to an absurd degree, which blocks the trade, and nobody can sign free agents for the same reason. It seems that the salary cap never increases from season to season, while player salaries do (and significantly so). For a game where the entire purpose is to guide a franchise over an extended period of time, it's kind of a pretty big deal that you can o…

Basketball simulators across the board are not great. If you here looking for a sports sim, dont just avoid this game, avoid the genre. Look into the sport sim genre in general, where games are as high a caliber as any. If you are like me, and love basketball to the point of wanting to play inferior games instead of football manager, you might consider this game. as far as i can tell, they are all fairly flawed in multiple areas. I do not mean to just bash the studio, but i so desperately want a good basketball game. I will end up writing a proper detailed review at some point, but for now since there are so few reviews (4) I wanted to post some form of fair warning to others. its probably like a 5/10 so far. id say no human could play this game without being frustrated, so again not great, but i am playing and will continue to. hopefully ill find some angle of the game i enjoy without any qualms Also, if youre wondering what made me post this: the '23 Nuggets (who just won a championship) lost on a 40-2 run to the Hawks without Trae Young (their best player). Impossible aberrations are commonalities in this game.

Pretty fun game, A single game in my experience so far takes 2 hours to finish if you stick with normal speed and turn pause all stop off. Definitely recommend this game if you are into Basketball manager games.