Games featuring team management

Some games - especially strategy games involving tactical movement and sports management games - task the player with the management of a team or squad composed by different characters. As the manager, you can usually hire new team members, equip each character with various items, choose which of them will be on the field. Squad management is heavily featured in Syndicate, the X-COM series, the Jagged Alliance series. Team management is a fundamental part of every team sports management game.

Most popular team management games

Jagged Alliance 2

strategyWindows XP/98/95, Linux, Mac

X-COM: Ufo Defense

strategyDOS

Bundesliga Manager Professional

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Baseball Mogul

Windows XP/98/9519973.5/5 Infinite Monkey Systems
Bundesliga Manager Professional

DOS19914.2/5 Kron Simulation Software
Cannon Fodder

DOS1994protected4.3/5 Sensible Software
Championship Manager

DOS19924/5 Domark Software

Championship Manager is the first chapter in one of the most successful football manager games series. The first Championship Manager was a text-based British football/soccer simulation and included teams from four English divisions, European cups and domestic cups as well. Championship Manager was designed by Paul and Oliver Collyer and ...
Championship Manager 93

DOS19934/5 Domark Software
Championship Manager Italia

DOS19934.2/5 Sports Interactive Limited
Championship Manager: Season 97/98

DOS19974/5 Sports Interactive Limited
Club Football: The Manager

DOS19944.1/5 Teque
Football Manager 3

DOS19934.3/5 Bedrock Software
Jagged Alliance

DOS1994protected4.2/5 Sir-tech Software
Jagged Alliance 2

Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac1999protected4.3/5 Sir-tech Software

I'm a fan of the original X-COM. I think it's one of the best turn-based tactics games ever released for DOS. Unfortunately, games like X-COM are not many. Jagged Alliance 2 has a similar tactical component: you give turn-based orders to a team of mercenaries, mission after mission. There's no management component (at least not as extensive as in t...
Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games

DOS1996protected4.2/5 Sir-tech Software
Laser Squad

DOS19924/5 Target Games Limited

Laser Squad is an abandoned turn-based strategy/tactical game designed by Julian Gollop (the mind behind the X-COM series). Laser Squad was developed by Target Games Limited and released by MicroLeague Multimedia in 1992 for DOS and other 8-bit systems. Laser Squad is considered as a precursor of X-COM: Ufo Defense.
M.U.D.S. - Mean Ugly Dirty Sport

DOS19904/5 Golden Goblins
Power Dolls

DOS19943.8/5 Kogado Software Products
Premier Manager

DOS19924.2/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
Premier Manager 2

DOS19934/5 Realms of Fantasy
Premier Manager 3

DOS19943.6/5 Realms of Fantasy
Sabre Team

DOS1994protected3.6/5 Krisalis
Space Crusade

DOS19924.2/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
Space Hulk

DOS19934.3/5 Electronic Arts

Space Hulk is an abandoned real-time tactical strategy game set in the Warhammer 40000 universe, developed and released by Electronic Arts in 1993 for DOS and Amiga systems. In Space Hulk, the player is tasked with wiping out hordes of aliens by the means of a squad of Space Marines armored and armed to the teeth. Space Hulk is the adaptation...
Syndicate

DOS1993protected4.1/5 Bullfrog
Syndicate Wars

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac1996protected4/5 Bullfrog

Syndicate Wars is the sequel to the much acclaimed Syndicate developed by Bullfrog in its golden years. Like its predecessor, Syndicate Wars is a real-time tactics strategy game set in a cyberpunk dystopian world involving excessive violence, mega-corporations, bleak urban environment. Syndicate Wars also supports a multi-player co-op mode via LAN.
The Manager

DOS19914.2/5 Kron Simulation Software

The Manager is a soccer simulation game that puts you in charge of a football team and allows you to manage every aspect. You can train your players, choose tactics for every match, expand your stadium and sign contracts with new players.
Twilight 2000

DOS19914/5 Paragon Software
UFO 2000

WindowsLinux2004freeware4.4/5
X-COM: Alliance

Windows XP/98/952002canceled3.8/5 MicroProse Software
X-COM: Apocalypse

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 Mythos Software

X-COM: Apocalypse is the third installment of the very popular X-COM franchise. After X-COM: Ufo Defence and Terror From the Deep, fans expected another smash hit. Apocalypse is quite different under many aspects, from gameplay to aesthetics. X-COM Apocalypse was designed by Julian Gollop (the same designer that brought the original X-COM to l...
X-COM: Terror from the Deep

DOS1995protected4.2/5 MicroProse Software

X-COM: Terror from the Deep is a DOS science fiction tactical strategy game, the sequel of one of the most popular DOS games in history X-COM Ufo Defense. Terror from the Deep was designed by Stephen Gross (the X-COM original being designed by Julian Gollop) and was published by MicroProse Software back in 1995. Terror from the deep doesn't change ...
X-COM: Ufo Defense

DOS1994protected4.3/5 MicroProse Software

UFO: Enemy Unknown (or X-COM: Ufo Defense) is a sci-fi tactical strategy game created by Julian Gollop set in a not-to-distant future where aliens are invading the Earth. The gameplay switches between tactical combat, where you fight aliens in a turn-based fashion, and strategic micromanagement, where you manage your X-COM base and personnel.