Pro Strategy Football 2025
Kerry Batts · 2024 · Simulation, Sports, Board Game, eSports, Turn-Based Strategy
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About Pro Strategy Football 2025
THIS IS NOT THE LATEST VERSION - GO CHECK OUT PSF 2026!This is last year's version, was a huge jump forward (hint, 2026 is even bigger!)
PSF's realistic engine for on-field results, excellent AI that never cheats, and fun visuals are just the start! New to this year's release are
TWO career modes!
Historic Careers (also called Encyclopedia mode) let you load HISTORIC rosters in each season of your career!
GM Careers now include League Expansion! Add or relocate teams or even redefine your whole league structure!
Convince retiring players to stay on!
Vastly overhauled animation, with custom zooming, custom scoreboards, and more!
Fog and overcast skies!
More options when creating custom pick-up games (set the month, name the stadium, more)!
Set the starting month for your tournaments!
Improved Draft Pools! The size and ratings directly relate to your league!
Historic careers are new in this version, an amazing addition for history buffs! Using the fantastic mods provided by the community, you can load historic rosters each year of your career! Start any year you like and play consecutive single seasons all the way from the 1940s to the present day, with extensive year by year stats for every team and individual players, along with career stats! Track season and career leaders and franchise history, even as teams move!
As you begin each new season PSF allows you to see which players were added to each team via the draft or free agency, or trades, as well as which players retired. PSF provides you with an extensive encyclopedia of cumulative stats on each team including head to head records of all teams over all of the seasons you play.
Animation is still the retro graphic you love, but vastly improved, and you can now select custom scoreboards on the coaching and animation screens! You can also select any custom color for the network box and sports ticker! The engine and AI are improved even over before!
For people new to PSF, it is based on a realistic game engine that was developed for a Master's project and then fine-tuned over many years with great feedback from users. But it's not just a text game! You can watch any game played live, can coach against the AI or another player, can simulate entire weeks or even seasons, and the game results aren't affected!
Because the foundation was in the coaching, the game results ARE greatly affected by plays called - formations, shifts, motion, coverage, everything that a coach can set in a play, including substituting players! Of course, weather, refs, and injuries can impact you as well!
BUT PSF doesn't box you in! You can change rules, tweak injuries and penalties and other realism settings, and choose how YOU want to play the game. The game is highly customizable, and you can run the whole league as a commissioner, play behind the scenes as a GM for one or more teams, coach from the sidelines, or even watch games in the stands as an observer – and you can play any or all of these roles at any time.
As coach, you can design your own plays and juggle your lineup. As GM, you can draft the next unstoppable quarterback, sign former stars off the waiver wire, convince a retiring player to stay on another year, and more. As the Commissioner, you can even modify league rules to reflect changes in football history.
As a fan, you can watch the highly-developed computer game coach both teams, and a running sports ticker tracks other games. In the upcoming version, you can now zoom in on the field and customize your scoreboards, including a new broadcast box version.
You can also create simple pick-up games, which I also call quick games or exhibition games, where you can pair any two teams from any leagues, you can set the game’s weather, change the rules, and even create situations, such as being down by 4 with 2:00 left in the game.
Whether you coach, watch a game played live, or run quick simulations, the engine treats every game the same, so you get the same results whether you watch it or sim it.
BUT WAIT, there's more! The community has created dozens of historical and fantasy leagues, including art sets, schedules, and everything you need to play for thousands of hours! With the historic careers, you can load real rosters for every season!
UPDATE: I have implemented the 2024 kickoff rules!
PSF's realistic engine for on-field results, excellent AI that never cheats, and fun visuals are just the start! New to this year's release are
TWO career modes!
Historic Careers (also called Encyclopedia mode) let you load HISTORIC rosters in each season of your career!
GM Careers now include League Expansion! Add or relocate teams or even redefine your whole league structure!
Convince retiring players to stay on!
Vastly overhauled animation, with custom zooming, custom scoreboards, and more!
Fog and overcast skies!
More options when creating custom pick-up games (set the month, name the stadium, more)!
Set the starting month for your tournaments!
Improved Draft Pools! The size and ratings directly relate to your league!
Historic careers are new in this version, an amazing addition for history buffs! Using the fantastic mods provided by the community, you can load historic rosters each year of your career! Start any year you like and play consecutive single seasons all the way from the 1940s to the present day, with extensive year by year stats for every team and individual players, along with career stats! Track season and career leaders and franchise history, even as teams move!
As you begin each new season PSF allows you to see which players were added to each team via the draft or free agency, or trades, as well as which players retired. PSF provides you with an extensive encyclopedia of cumulative stats on each team including head to head records of all teams over all of the seasons you play.
Animation is still the retro graphic you love, but vastly improved, and you can now select custom scoreboards on the coaching and animation screens! You can also select any custom color for the network box and sports ticker! The engine and AI are improved even over before!
For people new to PSF, it is based on a realistic game engine that was developed for a Master's project and then fine-tuned over many years with great feedback from users. But it's not just a text game! You can watch any game played live, can coach against the AI or another player, can simulate entire weeks or even seasons, and the game results aren't affected!
Because the foundation was in the coaching, the game results ARE greatly affected by plays called - formations, shifts, motion, coverage, everything that a coach can set in a play, including substituting players! Of course, weather, refs, and injuries can impact you as well!
BUT PSF doesn't box you in! You can change rules, tweak injuries and penalties and other realism settings, and choose how YOU want to play the game. The game is highly customizable, and you can run the whole league as a commissioner, play behind the scenes as a GM for one or more teams, coach from the sidelines, or even watch games in the stands as an observer – and you can play any or all of these roles at any time.
As coach, you can design your own plays and juggle your lineup. As GM, you can draft the next unstoppable quarterback, sign former stars off the waiver wire, convince a retiring player to stay on another year, and more. As the Commissioner, you can even modify league rules to reflect changes in football history.
As a fan, you can watch the highly-developed computer game coach both teams, and a running sports ticker tracks other games. In the upcoming version, you can now zoom in on the field and customize your scoreboards, including a new broadcast box version.
You can also create simple pick-up games, which I also call quick games or exhibition games, where you can pair any two teams from any leagues, you can set the game’s weather, change the rules, and even create situations, such as being down by 4 with 2:00 left in the game.
Whether you coach, watch a game played live, or run quick simulations, the engine treats every game the same, so you get the same results whether you watch it or sim it.
BUT WAIT, there's more! The community has created dozens of historical and fantasy leagues, including art sets, schedules, and everything you need to play for thousands of hours! With the historic careers, you can load real rosters for every season!
UPDATE: I have implemented the 2024 kickoff rules!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This isn't worth 25$ and has no business being a yearly release (If massive corporations can't provide meaningful advancements between annual iterations, why would ONE developer even try?). The on-the-field gameplay is decent but clunky and has a hit-or-miss AI. The career mode is deeply underwhelming and barren. Despite what it says on this store page, there are no trades or free agency (I don't count "drafting" FAs after the main draft and in the same order as it's lacking both freedom and agency as in "the ability to choose"). There are also no salaries, contracts, finances, pre-season, meaningful player development, reason to play beyond a season, etc. After launching, one of the first messages you get is a strong recommendation to download mods. While mods are fantastic, they shouldn't affect the price or replace missing content (like the lack of historic careers). For all their problems, PSF pales in comparison to NFL Head Coach 06 or 09, and I recommend playing them instead. I also understand that supporting indie developers is important, but selling annual overpriced releases without significant improvements is anti-consumer, and I don't support such practices. Refunded.12 found this helpful
For many years this was a great game----2025 has simply quit working for me----i have partial or no graphics-----the developer is a nice guy but has no clue what's wrong----he keeps harping on the same solutions even though I have tried them all numerous times----a game I can no longer play and the developer can't fix simply cannot be recommended !!!!2 found this helpful
Great coaching sim1 found this helpful
If you are a football historian or just nostalgic, this game is a lot of fun. Being able to pit NFL players from long ago against each other or even against modern players can be a blast. It's not everywhere that you can find teams from the old AAFC. The playing options include using modern formations or only those from the time period. While the chintzy graphics don't bother me, it would be nice if the players wore their own uniforms (instead of all with #23) and not all be right-handed (or right-footed). It's also a bit weird seeing long passes to RBs and too many blocked punts. The strategy options are decent and I especially like the weather and different stages of defense endurance (rested, tiring, tired or exhausted), so your offense can help your defense. Overall, I am a fan.
I've actually liked football for a very long time. There were times when I watched a lot, and then times when I didn't watch at all for a long time. It was the same with computer games. Quite simply, I had no idea what was really going on. Yes, I had an idea. I knew the rules and the basics. But the plays were always a mystery to me. This game is not only fun. It teaches you the game. Just now, I was able to coach my first game completely on my own without an assistant. It was a big win and it felt like a success. A really great game. Thank you very much for that!
I love this game, he mods are tremendous too
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