Hardwood Basketball Manager is a basketball simulation where you build and manage a professional franchise. Set detailed tactics for every possession, scout prospects through the Foundry draft combine, negotiate trades and free agent signings, and watch it all unfold in a 2D tactical visualizer.
What happens between games shapes the games themselves. A living,
league-wide news feed tracks storylines across every competition.
Off-court events driven by player personalities stir up locker-room
drama. Award races build tension through the season. Every system -
morale, stats, relationships, tactics, finances - feeds into the next.
And the world keeps growing. Beneath the top flight sits a fully
playable development league: take a dev-club job of your own, or
co-manage it as your affiliate, calling players up, sending them down,
and signing two-way deals to bridge the two. Every July the whole
league runs the Hardwood Heat, a summer showcase for young talent.
Every player carries a full career history: where they were drafted,
what they've won, and every roster move they've made.
Fully moddable from day one, with Steam Workshop integration. Replace
rosters, add headshots, design team logos, and rewrite commentary -
then go deeper and reshape the leagues themselves: game rules, finances,
roster rules, development-team identities, and award names, all through
simple JSON.
Built by an indie developer who believes basketball deserves the same
simulation depth football has had for decades.
Key Features
- Full season play (12 to 82 games)
- A fully playable development league - run a dev club or co-manage it as an affiliate
- Two-way contracts with call-ups and send-downs
- The Hardwood Heat summer league
- The Foundry draft combine
- Free agency with an AI decision engine
- A league-wide waiver wire
- Mid-season trades and draft-pick trading
- Player progression and aging
- Development specialists and a team physician
- Injury and recovery system
- Owners and finances with a job-security gauge
- The coaching staff carousel (hire, fire, negotiate, poach)
- GM career and job market (reputation, offers, team switches)
- AI Coach system (tactics, subs, timeouts)
- Morale system with captain influence
- Off-court events driven by player personalities
- Player and team history (career logs, team records, and honors)
- Award races, plus current and historical statistics
- 2D match visualizer with tactical overlays
- Broadcast-style presentation throughout
- World and league browsing
- 4-team to 16-team playoff brackets
- Full mod support with Steam Workshop integration
حداقل
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit (version 1607 or later)
- Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 / AMD FX-4100 (Dual-core 2.0 GHz, x64)
- Memory: 2048 MB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 / AMD Radeon HD 7770 / NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 (Vulkan 1.0 or DirectX 12 capable, 1 GB VRAM)
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 2048 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Single-player only. Mouse + keyboard. The game has no audio. Save files are 80–100 MB each at full season length — players who keep many saves should budget extra disk space. Uses the Vulkan / DirectX 12 renderer (Forward+).
پیشنهادی
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 11 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200 (Quad-core 2.5+ GHz)
- Memory: 4096 MB RAM
- Graphics: Any integrated or discrete GPU from the last 5 years
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 4096 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Single-player only. Mouse + keyboard. The game has no audio. Save files are 80–100 MB each at full season length — players who keep many saves should budget extra disk space. Uses the Vulkan / DirectX 12 renderer (Forward+).