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Campus Dynasty – Simulation Game Review
Campus Dynasty is a Simulation/Sports game from Scott Johnson, first launched in 20th May 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,586+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Campus Dynasty Stand Out
Start your coaching career at a small school and build your reputation. Challenged with school expectations, dynamic play styles, and recruiting battles, your goal is to win as many conference championships and national titles as possible. With 256 teams in 16 conferences all competing for the national championship, the task will not be easy.
Create a mobile version of yourself and choose your offensive and defensive schemes. Manage your lineups and player usage rates to form a competitive team. Analyze statistics to adjust your strategy and give your team the greatest chance to win each game. Compete in conference tournaments to secure a bid to the national tournament, and continue that momentum to cut down the nets.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Campus Dynasty is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th September 2019
Recent improvements include:
- Added more effective penalty for recruiting multiple players at same position
- Added opponent overall rating to custom schedule
- Added interest gauge to carousel
- Modified recruiting class rankings for a more even distribution
- Modified recruiting algorithm to eliminate penalty for spending too much on one recruit
- Lowered scholarship count to 13, but removed walk-ons from taking up a scholarship slot
- Other minor interface changes and bug fixes
Download & Availability
Campus Dynasty is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Campus Dynasty 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:
We love everything about this pretty much. Ive always loved sports, so its great to see a sports game like this. That being said Ive been searching for a CBB game that includes the portal. We know that development of a game is a long process, but maybe in the future could we see the transfer portal in this game.
Best simulation game on the market. Been playing for years on years. Hope our GOAT Scott Johnson comes back to make more games.
This game is really good. We have been playing for 3 years now and we still enjoy it.
We wish the creator of this game would check the reviews and do an update. We downloaded this game a few years ago and have been looking for a comparable game since and cant find one. We would absolutely pay money for updates to this game.
Great sim game just unfortunate game got left behind was super fun to grind.
Title says it all. This is a no frills, time pit of a game. They dont make em like this anymore, boys.
This game is incredible! Really reminds us of the coach mode in NCAA Hoops 2K8 back in the day. The only thing we wish they would add is the ability to filter by interest in recruiting. Would save a lot of time if you could quickly see who your best options are in the offseason.
One of the best mobile games outsimple but detailed and makes logical sense.
Please make a new one we love this game.
Please never stop making games like this. The simulation style is one Im very fond of. Ive been playing this game since we were a senior in Highschool man, and we graduated 5 years ago. Ive been playing basically since the beginning and we can barely say in words how great it is to have this game on our phone, especially if Im bored or without WiFi or Cell Service. If we have one negative aspect about it all is that the overall layout of the game is starting to get old, not in a bad sense per say, but Ive been seeing the same letter fonts and same colors and etc for a while, we think there should be an update regarding game quality and appearance. Great game style tho nonetheless. Also please read and listen to the other reviews, there are hundreds if not thousands of dedicated fans who still play this, and majority are asking for a College Football Versions of this, to which we would like to see as well tbh.
We love playing this game, currently am rebuilding Arkansas.
Dont write many reviews because they never feel necessary. Had to take time to give 5 stars and appreciate this game. Has helped us kill so many hours of downtime and is always fun. Hope to see more games of a similar style.
This game has always been so good! Unfortunately they stopped updating a long time ago and the game has more bugs earlier in careers. After a certain amount of time in a career the game will crash. This happens a lot sooner now. Still a great game.
We absolutely love this game! Ive killed a lot of hours building up teams and our coach. After 13 seasons of coaching, we finally won our first championship.
Ive been playing this game for YEARS! Its easily been our favorite. We can get lost on this game for hours. Would love to see it updated with how the current CBB scene looks (transfer portal, injuries, etc.) A CFB game would be absolutely amazing as well.
Ive been playing this game for over 3 years now. Its hands down one of the best games Ive ever played. We would pay an insane amount of money for a college football version of this game. We check back every so often to see if the dev has made any new games, but Im always sad to see this is still the only one. Let us repeat haha, we a CFB version would do numbers. We guarantee it.
This is actually our favorite sim we come back to all the time and spend hours upon hours diving deep into new loads. Please make a college football version. PLEASE!!!!! Us, along with idk how many others would pay for it. If you needed support to make it happen it would come. Push a notification to the game you have currently and we would all support you.
Greatest sim game ever but it should be updated to start at 2025 instead of 2019 and also add transfer portal cause thats realistic to nowadays.
Fun just fun makes you really feel like youre a head coach of a college basketball team.
One of our favorite games to play been playing for a while, never gets old would really love the developer to branch into different sports.
Its a great sim only this is once you build your coach up it like all your players start getting drafted after 1 or 2 years one of our players are projects to go 1 in the draft hes a freshman and hasnt played 1 game yet and wasnt tge number one recruit in the country.
Easily our favorite and most played mobile game ive ever tried. Not requesting anything since we know youve got a busy big-time life nowthough we certainly wouldnt turn down a future updatejust hope you might check your reviews one day so we can say thank you.
Still no update or pro version in 2024 smh but this is one of the GOATS.
Game needs an obvious update, crashes after 3rd season.
Please add transfer portal. Would be so fun. Thx.
This game has been very fun, with that being said we wish there was a transfer portal in the game. We think it would help a lot. We also believe that there should be a way to convince people to say rather than going to the draft. We also think that the upgrading of the players is a little wired and could probably use an update. It would also be nice if there was a red shirt choice. Overall a very fun game.
We think it would be cool if you added transfers in and out of the school, ways to convince younger players to stay more years at the school. And a leaderboard for stats for players like you have for teams.
The fact that this game is 4 years outdated, its a true shame work on it stopped. If only small things like the transfer portal was added or a little bit more in depth stuff. For the most part the game is almost 100% perfect, but if production returned and small things were added this would definitely be perfect.
Been playing this game for yrs great game love it all we ask for is a transfer portal please.
Very good game but should add redshirts and the ability to convince players to stay and not declare for the draft.
We dont think we have ever spent more time on a game in our life, as Ive been playing this for a couple of years now, still being just as addicted as when we started lol. This game has almost everything you could ask for in a basketball sim game, especially for college. We really wish the developer would continue to add updates, potentially things like the transfer portal and such, but either way, this game is really fun.
We wish there was a way to convince players to not leave for the draft. Other than that great game.
Easily our favorite mobile game, been playing for years. Unfortunately the guy who made it dropped it and wont be updating it. Go to the campus dynasty subreddit if yall have questions, its still active.
This is the best basketball coach simulator on the App Store, only thing we would say is if you could make it a little bit harder to win tournament games or recruit or something, or maybe even switch teams, its just a little too easy to build a dynasty and win 3-5 championships in a row which never happens in real life. Still 5 stars though.
Ive been playing this game for years and feel compelled to write a review. This game is amazing. Ive played thousands of games on this app, its by far the best coaching game Ive played. Its smooth, the recruiting is sleek and easy, coaching is perfect, the customization and stat tracking are amazing, its just a great game in every way.
Best game Ive ever played we may be one of the only people still playing but if we saw the developer irl we would kiss him.
Cheap, simple, straightforward type of game. Good for passing time. Cant complain.
Scott Johnson you made one of the most underrated games of all time and you just abandoned it? You couldve made a lot of money off of it and thats probably not your goal but like come on dont abandon an amazing game wow.
Hello everyone who plays campus dynasty a game yall should check out is called issues for nationstates where you create your own nation, control your own government like for example we picked to rule a federal republic, you can also choose a poulumentery government, monarchy, communist state, territorial government, and a tribal government, and you can choose from all forms of human government, and become diplomatic with other nations thanks.
Scott johnson, whoever you are, wherever you are, dead or alive, please, update this game. You absolutely cooked up the greatest masterpiece to hit the app store in 15 years.
We had a lot of fun with campus dynasty. However after a few seasons it wont let us sim anymore and says error. It usually happens when Im changing players positions. Besides that we love the game but we just have lost a lot of progress and keep having to restart.
Could use a few extra features like redshirt and simulated conference changes for teams maybe even in season recruiting . But other than that very very very good game.
Great game but we think you should be able to keep recruits and have an affect on their declaring for the draft. Maybe use recruiting points for it as well but it would be more realistic.
Great game! More people need to know about it.
Amazing game but they should have another one of the pro leagues and let you sync your account that way you con work your way up from the bottom of college to the top of the pros.
It is a very good thing but it is missing a couple of key things that happen in the actual offseason process such as a transfer window and it also seems to be very easy to get recruits once your at bigger schools.
Ive won the championship as a 75 overall 14 seed and lost first round as a 85 overall 1 seed. Five stars.
Would be nice if this game got an update. Still better then anything out there.
We love the game you guys should make a college football version one.
Hello this game is awesome, great time and critical skill thinking game. But id like to see a good update Scott!! 1. Conference Changes – able to move the teams on the off season. – create new conferences to be able to make smaller conferences. "No more 16, no less than 8" Would also have yo fix the conference tournaments at the end. 2. Conference Schedule/Divisions – be able to change the schedule/make the schedule. – create division within the conference, especially with the 16 teams Also little changes that others ask for. Please make some changes. This game is still awesome.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 0.8.33
- Size: 51.80 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Scott Johnson]()
Last updated: 8th September 2019 | Genre: Simulation, Sports | Developer: Scott Johnson