Franchise Hockey Manager 6 similar games & best alternatives

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Franchise Hockey Manager 6

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2019

Should you play it?

Franchise Hockey Manager returns for the 2019-20 season with plenty of additions to the deepest, most authentic hockey strategy gaming experience you can find. Choose one of 32 leagues around the globe and select a team to guide to glory, including a chance at the ultimate prize, the Stanley Cup®.

What works

  • Deep and realistic hockey management simulation
  • Extensive customization and historical modes
  • Active and responsive developer support
  • Large number of leagues and players included
  • Immersive gm leadership experience

Things to keep in mind

  • Clunky and unintuitive user interface
  • Slow simulation speeds
  • Bugs and stability issues reported
  • Lack of 2d/3d game representation and coaching control
  • Limited multiplayer and social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • CFS (Chinese Football Simulator)

  • Soccer Manager 2022

  • Franchise Hockey Manager 7

  • Soccer Manager 2026

  • Football Manager 2024

  • Pro Cycling Manager 2024

More violent

Games that feels like Franchise Hockey Manager 6 but with more combat and destruction

  • Lootun

  • Hearts of Iron III

  • Hearts of Iron 2 Complete

  • Approaching Infinity

  • Distant Worlds: Universe

  • Shortest Trip to Earth

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Franchise Hockey Manager 6: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Survival, Story.

Last update: 03/08/2026