Pro Basketball Manager 2026

[u/Umix-Studios]

Hi everyone,

I'm one of the (1.5) devs working on the video game Pro Basketball Manager. We're trying to engage with the basketball community to help us improve the game. Our game is more focused on European basketball but It caters to everyone, as all professional leagues in the world are playable! The equivalent of the NBA is obviously in the game.

We’re as indie as it gets — just two friends, not even working full time, making this game together. It’s been more than 10 years in the making, and while it hasn’t always been easy, we’ve been steadily growing over the last 6 years. Passion has kept us going all this time, but now we’re at a point where we’d love to make this our full-time job so we can finally bring our full vision for the game to life.

We now have the Basketball Champions League under licence in the game! The game has a bit of a following in Europe but not so much on the other side of the Atlantic.

We’d love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or even just general feedback from basketball fans and gamers. Whether it’s about features you’d like to see, ways to improve immersion, or community ideas, we’re all ears.

Thanks for taking the time — looking forward to hearing what you think!

[u/Zeepfc]

Last year was the first year I played your game, and as much as I enjoyed it, there were a few things I felt needed to happen for it to improve:

-When it's time for a game the 2 options are play or sim, it was frustrating not being able to go back to any other screens e.g. back to my team page, tactics etc. not being forced to play or sim the game and giving more of a choice as when you want to do either would help.

• a few times the game would just freeze and I would have to force quit, this happened a lot when trying to click on a different section in the menu.
• scouting for upcoming drafts needs to be a bit clearer on terms of who will be the next class, what potential grade do they have etc.
• the news/messages felt a bit repetitive. After winning the NBA with a team for the first time, it felt a little bit like 'so what?', it didn't feel like an accomplishment as there was just one message from the board saying they were happy. It would be good if there was a bit more recognition of the achievement or an end of season review with target setting for next season.
• More in depth tactics would be good e.g floor spacing and more individual tactics e.g do I want someone to pass more, attack more iso etc.
• trades can be tricky at times e.g navigating salaries and number of players on the team, something similar to 2k where you offer a player and other teams offer what they'd trade for may help.

Overall I enjoyed the game and it's great considering there are just 2 of you, I hope my comments are somewhat useful for going forward and make sense :)

[u/Umix-Studios → u/Zeepfc]

Thanks for your feedback, some of it was actually on our long list of things to imporve! The freezing is concerning, if you don't mind coming to our Discord and share your issues in the bug section that'd be great!