Last updated on December 15th, 2025 at 05:54 am
College Basketball Dynasty Sim – Sports Game Review
College Basketball Dynasty Sim is a Sports/Sports/Simulation game from John Jaco, first launched in 16th February 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 126+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes College Basketball Dynasty Sim Stand Out
College Basketball: Dynasty Sim puts you at the helm of a college basketball team. Do you have what it takes to build your team from the ground up, from a cupcake to a perennial powerhouse? Choose a College Basketball team, customize and upgrade your coach, customize your non-conference games, adjust your gameplan, scout and recruit new players, and bid on transfers to see if you have what it takes to win Conference Championships and the Big Tournament.
Includes over 120 teams to choose from
This Sports game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, College Basketball Dynasty Sim is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th June 2023
Recent improvements include:
Added link to new College Football 2 Sim
Download & Availability
College Basketball Dynasty Sim is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get College Basketball Dynasty Sim 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:
One of the best games ever, just wish it was easier to recruit. Also manage the games more, EX. You load into the game and you get a situation, and you have to make a decision based on the situation. Good game though.
Really great game. We were hoping for a new version to come out soon. Just some minor things that need to be fixed like balancing scoring from all positions/overalls. Like if we have a high rated center. He should do more scoring than our lower rated point guard.
Im going to keep this short. We think this game just needs a revamp just like the college football game got. The game is good and all but we think there can be more added and a better navigation system.
One thing that all the games use is auto recruiting. It makes the game way easier and you can worry about the regular season than getting recruits in the middle of the season. It well auto recruit for you so you dont have to worry about it.
We wish you create/edit the players overalls like CFB 2 Sim.
Having a strong PG is still super important to team success. Also, facing a team with a strong PG sometimes caused our team with a better PG and overall team to lose. It still seems to be the only position that matters in this game we really enjoyed the aesthetics and recruiting process.
The number of ads has dramatically increased with the most recent update to where you can barely play the game without hitting another advertisement. Dont plan to pay the extra fee to get rid of ads so Im just deleting.
Why ia all the player getting drafted point guard and the game so point guard dependent.
Is a very good game is fun and could play for hours but there are some bugs other wise good (Please make a baseball version).
We like the fact that you guys implement feedback from your reviews, we hope you get more downloads, the game is fun. Id just say improve the recruitment feature a little more so its unique. Make it so you dont lose progress if your phone dies or shuts off. Add some more details to the games, maybe like a live sim or the ability to call timeouts and call plays. Add player stats Have the ability to create defensive or offensive plays. A create a team feature, where you could start from scratch. We believe that with these features added, the game could be great, ill stay updated.
Really great game, our only problem is the stats. No matter what overall or who else is on the court, the PGs always dominate the game. Would love to see some of our other guys get good stats and perform based off their overall. Other than that, love this game.
Is there a way we can import real life teams and conferences.
Would be cool for a baseball version. Both Basketball and Football are some of the most played games on our phone.
Its great only thing is we wish there were less teams, maybe the teams in the football sim, and when we export the save instead of the names of the players/coaches its all numbers and letters.other than that its pretty good.
We were in our second year and won the conference championships but got fired. We also had the number 5 recruiting class please fix.
This game is not a bad game if your interested in the challenge of recruiting and building your college team to be champions. Ive just finished our first season with our team and the recruiting was not bad. The off season threw us off quite a bit, especially the player transfers part. Teams bidding on the players is kind of unrealistic. Having the player randomly generate new teams including the current team would be better. Adding a recruiting section during the off-season linking the time used for player transfers and recruiting to the same week would add somewhat of a challenge as well. Especially if you dont get all committed spots filled until the off-season like we did playing with a weaker team. The season overall was really good, but making the layout similar to the football version would make it better.
Pls get a college baseball game. The basketball and football are great! Our only problem is we need college baseball.
You should make a college baseball version.
We do enjoy playing this game and can play it for hours with the amount of recruiting needed to build and keep a year to year contender. One of our biggest problems with the game is that its very PG dependent for team success. No other position on the court seems to hold as much value in this game. In our first season, our PG was All Conference Player of the Year and All Conference First Team, with should lead one to believe he was one of the best PGs in the country. However, he went #11 in the draft, only for us to find out the the 10 picks in front of him were ALL PGs. SGs are 90 overall and average 7 ppg, as well as every other position and PGs run the game with everyone one averaging 24 ppg. Just feels pointless in recruiting other positions when we know if our PG leaves, no one else will fill the scoring gap even with the rest of the lineup are 90+s.
We need a baseball version of this please.
Please fix the transfer portal, its impossible to get a player. It. Always goes to 625 on the bids and seems to be on a timer per second a bid.
We bought the URL pass and cant find and URLs. Can you please give us a refund or a URL so we get our moneys worth.
Theres a lot of little things that need to be fixed for the game to improve. For example, our team had 19 steals and the other team had 11 turnovers which ended up being less than our teams. Just little problems like that.
Im tired of losing our saves because we forget this is the only iPhone game we need to manually save or we lose our progress. Otherwise, one of the better simulators out there.
The only people who can really score are PGs. When the draft comes they are the only people who get picked, other than that we love this game.
Im having a bug after the recent update with saving. It will just keep loading your save and the only way to close out of it is by fully closing the app.
Great Game but literally all 60 Draft Picks are Point Guards every single year. The Player of the Year in every Conference is a Point Guard. It makes the game bad. And the game randomly chooses to just stop tracking our coaching stats so our record doesnt reflect the games and championships we have won.
This game is enjoyable most of the time. But when you try to take a bottom the rankings team and build a dynasty, you cant. It doesnt matter how good you do in the second year you get fired. The first year we took over(the year we couldnt recruit) we did terrible, but we were starting to build a team. But we couldnt because we were fired after 2 years. We think if the game was a little more forgiving than maybe it would be better.
We love this game but Ive noticed there is a major issue with the point guards. Every game our leading scorer the point guard followed by the backup point guard. At the end of the year the only people that get drafted are point guards. All 60 picks were point guards, guess the rockets small ball style really took off.
To be honest, we really only downloaded this game because we loved the other two Jaco games, and let us say, this one turned out to be the runt of the litter. This game is waaaay too confusing. There are way too many divisions in full mode and not enough in simple mode. And the teams, dont even get us started on the teams, the thing is, we cant find any of our favorite teams in career mode. Im just like, Oh well where is Duke or Gonzaga or Baylor or any of those teams? And we cant find any of them because 1. All the teams are heavily disguised so Jaco doesnt get sued, and 2. SO ARE THE DIVISIONS! So not only can we not find the teams we want, but we cant find any of the divisions theyre in, either. You shouldve just stuck with Box Office Sim or College Football, Jaco.
We were really enjoying this game. We started off as a coach at a middling power 5 school and then recruited well and took the team to the final four. In that same year we brought in the number 1 recruiting class in the country, and then we got fired??? That doesnt make any sense. Will not be playing again.
Get in to the game then try and type our coach name but keeps saying error.
Cant find a roster url anywhere.
Very hard to know what to do its not very organized. But the way the football one is set up makes it easy to know what to do and how to play the game. If u can tell us how what to do pls do.
Ita incredibly frustrating to be the #1 team for a recruit and then they dont commit to you… Like thats just broken. Starting out as a bad team is also very hard and Im pretty sure it is impossible. Recruiting needs an overhaul as well as progression. In football we were able to take a bad team to become good but cant in this game. It would also be nice to be able to see conferences for national tournament results the week after advancing. To continue, the coach progression also needs a complete overhaul, 250 points just to bump one star one point??? Also an edit coach stat and played stat feature would go a long way and actually make the game playable.
We wish would do a college baseball game of this.
We cant stop play this game is amazing and it has so much More potential the main thing we wish they would add is in game coaching so you can really lead your team to victory.
We love this format. The only thing that we would change is the coach upgrading system. Its slow and tedious. We would suggest just upgrading a category and all the skills in that category go up by 1.
Its a good start but it does have bugs. The repeat call button doesnt work, and we had a season where we had 1- 5 recruit and 4 – 4 recruits but it would only let us keep 4 of the recruits so it ended up taking away the 5* kid.
Player progression is very slow in off season even for 5 star players. Anther issue is no matter how good the players on a team the player with the most points-per-game is always the point guard which is not realistic. Other than that its a good game.
This is a fun game but has some bugs. The recruiting could be improved by having repeat all calls for the week instead of separate calls. You should be able to see the letter grades for the overall offense and defense after scouting once. There should be a section on player and team stats where you can see player stats for your team and the nation. Same with team stats. There should also be a separate roster page where you can see your whole team together. Players should develop more than 0-1 every year. Potential should also be random for every overall not around the same as the starting overall.
Barely played it but we love the layout of it. You need to add more of what is in the basketball into the football simulation game. Game definitely needs some improvement in the scouting its a little difficult but it we like the idea of it.
We have really enjoyed the football and now basketball versions of the game. However there is an issue with recruiting for the basketball game. You cant use repeat last call for whatever reason it shows the prospect has been called but doesnt give a breakdown of how many points gained so manually doing the call each round takes away but not enough to lower the rating. NOW IM WAITING FOR COLLEGE BASEBALL.
We just wanted to say we are very glad you came out with another game. The game was really fun but we got fired even though our team exceeded expectations and we also had the 19th ranked recruiting class.
Great game love everything about it. However, Im in season nine and trying to advance past week 1 and it wont continue. It is just the ring continuing to turn. Other than that amazing game.
It is a good game but we have a list of suggestions. 1. Transfer issues, in the transfer market you are originally given a budget of 350 points and every player goes for around 600 points so you are priced out of everybody 2. Slow player development, even if you start with the player development trait your players will only improve by 0-2 points which is really slow. 3. Recruiting, it would be nice if on the screen with the list of players if you could see each players offense defense and overall if scouted, 4. It would be nice if after the initial scout for offense/defense to see the overall offense/defense letter grade approximate 5. The repeat last weeks call button doesnt work, there should also to be a button to repeat all of last weeks calls with one button 6. At the end of the season awards, it shows the general awards but you should also be able to look at the awards screen for each conference Thank you Its a great game but these improvements would be nice to see.
Theres a glitch where we lose games out of nowhere even when we simulate one week and we win. So it makes us lose the next game when we simulate only one week and its always an issue.
Game has so much potential. CFB is our favorite game. This game just has a weird layout and its hard to do stuff. Make the layout like CFB and it would be amazing. Also like a team hall of fame and star records.
Players barely progress in off season. You cant try and rebuild a bad program due to the flaws in the recruiting and player progression. This is the least comprehensive of the CBB dynasty apps out there. Has some interesting ideas but not executed or developed in meaningful ways. If the game had just came out we would be optimistic that updates would solve some obvious bugs and enhance features which are lacking but thats not the case. Disappointing.
Still Freezing on season 10 even after the update.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.1
- Size: 106.83 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: John Jaco
Last updated: 25th June 2023 | Genre: Sports, Sports | Developer: John Jaco