Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 11:24 am
Astonishing Basketball Manager – Sports Game Review
Astonishing Basketball Manager is a Sports/Simulation/Sports game from Studio Zero Incorporated, first launched in 18th October 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 4,373+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Astonishing Basketball Manager Stand Out
Astonishing Basketball is the ultimate basketball manager game. Become the manager of your own basketball team and lead your players to the ultimate reward: becoming the best coach and winning the Basketball Cup! You can play offline or online, with no ads!
Main features:
-In-depth basketball manager game with a lot of cool stats.
-Unlimited saves with many modes, playable offline without ads
-Create your own star player with the new "My Franchise Player" career mode and the new College Basketball Cup!
-Player story mode with "The Prodigy", from star of the campus to Hall of Famer
-Many competitive online modes with daily and weekly events
-Manage your basketball arena, assistant coach, scouts and staff
-Narrative gameplay with a deep lore
-Community-created rosters and draft classes
Astonishing Basketball is not your usual sports simulation game. It's not only about stats and ratings. It's not just drafting prospects, trading players, exploring strategies and signing free agents, or building a dynasty. In Astonishing Basketball, you're writing your own GM life story with one goal in mind: win the Cup. But the road to victory is not an easy one!
*Play offline, whenever you want, wherever you want, as much as you want! Play the game on the road, slam dunk during your lunch break, or sign contracts between commercials. It's the ultimate basketball GM simulation!
*A living world
Astonishing Basketball features a simulated but living world. Fans are posting about the game and your brand new rookie. Players send you messages about their concerns or their contract. Or you might have to improvise what's for dinner when the team cook gets sick! And thanks to the brand new "Rivalry", discover the terrifying Regina Dargor. Nothing will stop her from crushing you and your team!
*You're the general manager! Step into the game, call for a timeout, and replace your tired veterans with some young talented players to dunk on the other team, or ask them to defend the paint more tightly! Adapt your strategy and coaching systems to feed your shooting guard more or prevent the other center from rebounding too much. All your choices as general manager have consequences and will decide of the victory or loss.
*The new training system makes it even more important to scout players from a multitude of universities, and draft the best of them to create the ultimate team! Don't forget to build your arena and add shops to attract more fans to the game. Review your tactics and rotation strategies and show the others who's the best manager.
*Follow the scoreboard, the rankings, and the reactions from the fans, Astonishing Basketball reporters and players. You can also post your statistics online to compare your performances to other GMs in our daily and weekly leaderboards!
*A fierce online competition
While the entire solo mode can be played offline, you can also decide to play online at any time, and participate in one of our many multiplayer modes! Try to become the King of Basketball in the Astonishing Contest and join a franchise of champions. Or try to impress others in one of the daily events like Rookie Friday. And if that's not your style, the Path of Legends let you experience exciting games and rewards in solo!
*Live incredible stories
As a coach and manager, you do have a life too! In Astonishing Basketball, you can take your team to a burger restaurant, help local associations, meet your favorite author, become a rock star and even marry the love of your life!
Train your players, from all-stars to drafted rookies, it's your job as manager to find the ones who have the potential to become legendary basketball stars and build a basketball dynasty with the best strategy. Download this game, it's a slam dunk!
Enjoy the game!
Join our Discord server: https://discord.astonishing-sports.app
EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
This Sports game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Astonishing Basketball Manager is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 6th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Super badges are now a thing! Given at random, these will make your favorite players even better! Available only on saves with skills enabled!
- Improved FP UI and stadium notch support
- Bug fix for the draft creator (Thanks Rose!)
Download & Availability
Astonishing Basketball Manager is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Astonishing Basketball Manager on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Cant get enough of this game! Very addictive and fun to play.
We love this game because you can use your own imagination and you can have your very own team in this game, you can create your own team and you can create your own players Even though they dont own them, you can create them into your own player and we love this basketball game. Im 500%.
Love the game but all of a sudden our leadership is broken & lagging out entire app every time we try to go to it causes entire game to freeze & we can only continue if we close app & reopen.
Not bad at all if you give it a try and also store very cheap too so its not going to hurt the pocket.
Yall should add simulating meaning that u could fast forward your season.
We are still in year one with first team but we are very pleased with the experience with this app to date.
Such an awesome game you can choose if you play as a player or a manager. If you choose to play as a player you can upgrade your player and if youre a manager you can upgrade your team.
W game we like to play a lot when we're bored and yeah.
Today we were board without any game we like to play but hey we have to tell you this is THE BEST game for the people that like basketball and for those who not and for Those who are just board and interested in playing this is about your career you make points you dont make points its okay you will get points theyre no ads and you dont play like seeing your players and that but its interesting you can upgrade your player skills you have a date a girlfriend or boyfriend and have kids and the logos of the teams they dont look the same you can be boy or girl what matters is that we are going to sleep.
We had a whole team of all stars. Got bopped in the playoffs. Legend players dont exactly mean theyre gonna perform good. This game is good to play the RNG or simulation whatever it may be can really be irritating though. Especially during the time shift dude could be wide open in the paint nobody near him. He will miss. Like how.
This is a pretty good game we got to say. We love the player mode were you can be a player and just have a player life. This is a great game.
We play this game all the time. Only issue is contract negotiations. We can sign guys like wemby 10 mil below what he asks for but rookies will only take these 8-12 mil contracts even if theyre just ok.
We should be able to cut or release players please and retire which ever player numbers we wanna retire.
Ive had this app for well over 5 years and it continues to impress. Its constantly updating, and just getting better and better. We definitely recommend.
We love this game but our one confusion is with god mode because it is really hard to tell what we can do with it like can we edit players in a way or what else can we do because we have not been able to find out how to use it yet and the help tab has not helped us yet.
It was fun being able to control your player in game and you can actually score what you can.
We really miss the customize option when you can change the clothes and get tattoos to your players, its really important to meeeeee.
2K for the phone a must have if you love basketball.
Liking it so far going the player route, wish there was some commentary or even some music but great game so far maybe some bar story or a story line to follow would be nice as well.
This game is the greatest game. The career mode is the only game Ive played because we started yesterday and Im already almost on all of this game. Go dead this game.
This game is great, and it is probably the best basketball sim game on mobile but we are a super realism person and so it grinds our gears when the big men like the power forwards and center have awful shooting percentages because of terrible 3pt ratings so we wish there was a way of telling your players what shots they should take instead of just turning off 3s. We think that this would make this game more realistic and for us more things that are realistic makes the game better.
The career mode is great and all but it cant be that we won a championship with one team change teams and the ring still counts for the team but not us as the head coachand please fix the contract negotiations, it cant be that a rookie is asking for 18 million up like itd be more realistic for a rookie to get between 5-10 Million even if its an exceptional rookie another thing please allow ratings to change not just due to old age for instance and rookie with a C+ shooting and C+ 3P has a season of improvement just give them a B rating and can you guys add tiers to growth for instance rookie then rising star then elite then all star just to add dynamismanother issue is the revenue disbursement because how can someone whos stadium is maxed, all food shops bought, hired an expensive chef, has a lot of jersey sales, won the championship and made a lot of trades not have enough money to renew a decent amount of our playersbesides those the game is fantastic.
We love this game, it is especially perfect for road trips, consider you dont need wifi, and it is interesting enough to play everyday! The coach aspect and player aspect are both amazing, and we are glad we came across this game, how did we go so long without it?? Anyway, our only suggestion is to make minutes a visual stat for the player in a games box score. Other than that great game. Thank you.
Amazing game but please add an ability to assign your players minutes per game.
When you playing as a coach can we have a Feature where we can release players.
Im franchise how do you get on the national basketball team and how do you keep playing it How do you get prodigy in japan.
This app in our opinion is about the best we have experienced. However, the bad part is that it does not allow you to buy funds due to the multiplayer. It also stop giving us our daily training rewards for a whole week and support has not responded back to our email. Come on guys youve been doing a great job, dont slack down now.
This is a great game, probably the best basketball simulation game out there. However, there are questionable stuff that goes on including one that happened recently as we speak. This glitch reset our age in career mode and got us very frustrated as we would need to play the whole career all over again. (This happened just as we were about to retire) Please tell us if it is a glitch or something that is suppose to happen.
Why when we purchase to boost our player in college to 50 stats everywhere, he gets worse? The points, rebounds, etc went down and he isn't efficient. We highly recommend not to purchase in app because the more badges we put with skills, he gets worse.
Hi please buff defense rodrick averages 2 blocks n we have the same n probably better defensive rating.
Where the lakers but everything else is good.
Good game to play as a manager dont know how its like as a player yet but seems very promising as a manager tbh.
Amazing game but we would like injuries to be added because not everyone is healthy all 82 games all the time.
Pretty fun. Just bought the legacy update, but it keeps saying we need internet to access a date. Ive tried turning off our wifi and checking our settings, but its not working. Will need a refund if theres no update.
It. Wont let the player we made make a bucket.
We just paid for the new dlc The legacy and its not working it keep saying we need WiFi but Im connected to WiFi and have data on our phone but either then that this game is really great and fun to play and past time with wish you could start your career from highschool though and make the other games more like this because this is the best one so far.
We love the game but lack how to play out some of its features. With that said, it is not intuitive how the training or picking a shooter has any effect on the score (energy, motivation, etc). Why must all college players be 4 years too.
The new Legacy DLC isnt in the store for us to buy, is there away for us to get it.
This is a great game especially because you can play offline. We would like to see more draft classes,a player progression system because if you make the players good already they be too op and be messing up the league and making all stars so yeah and maybe the trade finder needs a better system like maybe 2ks trade finder system.
We Think you should add a feature where we could choose how many minutes they play that would make It so Much Better Its Already A Good Game Tho.
Make it so the ai isnt drafting things they dont need cus we just did all that work to be put on a team with only our position and get no playtime.
Game is somewhat addictive. HOWEVER much like anything else that has a store option it seems like a cash grab. The more you progress your player the worse he actually preforms. Personally am about to delete no sense in playing when get same result every time.
But we wish you can add more choices and also add more things that you can purchase (like a house and more cars and planes. Also we wish this game can have more realistic relationships like: mom and dad and Siblings and girlfriends or boyfriend cat dog.
Its a really good game but the only thing that would improve this game is you could play as your character and your character only.
We play player mode get out of college, gets drafted, then for two seasons straight about to go for a third player gets no playing time.
We have a question. Can you make it to where you can play the game as yourself? Cause that will be really fun but if you cant we understand.
We were playing college right. We get drafted, we get no playing time.
We love the game. However in the early season we would like a way to sim multiple games at once. It is just so time consuming doing it one by one. Great game though.
People have a first name and a last name so if you can add first and last names that would be amazing.
Great game. Our only complaint is that new rookie players from the draft will almost always have the same exact stats. For example centers passing stat will never go above F rating. Guards will always have a F in rebounds, and so on. A little more randomness in stats would be great.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 6.1.2
- Size: 190.14 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes
- Developer: Studio Zero Incorporated
Last updated: 6th December 2025 | Genre: Sports, Simulation | Developer: Studio Zero Incorporated