New Star™ Manager
Fair · Strategy · 2018
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 16.8h
- Value
- $1.19/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 526 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $16.02 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 126 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
This is soccer management like you’ve never experienced it - Be more than just a player, be the head, the heart, and backbone of New Star FC. Be the Manager.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 276 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 22 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 18 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Esports Godfather ($19.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Football Life Simulator ($19.99, scores 11).
More about New Star™ Manager
2 of the 319 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
85% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 22:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
One of the few mobile games I like to play, simple easy on the point and no microtransactions ported from mobile version. EZ
1 more review, not recommended
Game crashes repeatedly about 45 minutes / 8 matches in. Common issue across the game forums that has yet to be patched by the devs. Functionally unplayable due to a lack of save game feature.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
New Star™ Manager scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/883130/new-star-managerReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.