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Evaluation
Pro Strategy Football 2021 launched on September 7, 2020 and received only two minor updates — a small feature patch on launch day and a bug fix on February 8, 2021. No DLC or additional content was ever announced or released. The store page itself explicitly directs players to the successor product, Pro Strategy Football 2022, with a prominent "NOT THE LATEST VERSION!!" notice. This indicates the developer has moved on to the next annual edition of the game rather than continuing to update this one. The game shipped as a complete, standalone product with no post-launch content cycle, and development has clearly concluded in favor of the newer title.
Evidence
Store page prominently warns '[NOT THE LATEST VERSION!! Please see Pro Strategy Football 2022]', indicating the developer has superseded this title with a newer release.
Short description also flags '[NOT THE LATEST VERSION!! See Pro Strategy Football 2022]', reinforcing that this edition is no longer the active product.
[NOT THE LATEST VERSION!! Please see Pro Strategy Football 2022]
If you've dreamed of a football game where every decision really counts, welcome to Pro Strategy Football 2021!
You don't have to decide between managing, coaching, enjoying watching live games, or simulating seasons (stats junkies, rejoice!), because PSF 2021 has it all!
Mix and match simmed and watched games! Sim the ones you are not interested in and still get the same result with great End of Season stats!
With Steam's "Remote Play Together" enjoy a whole new dimension of coaching against a friend ONLINE! And, play your PC or Mac version of the game directly on your iOS or Andriod tablet or smartphone, using the Steam Remote Play app! (from within your home internet network.)
Whether you're scouting free agents and rookies as a manager, or mounting a last minute drive as the head coach, the stress and fun of making real decisions is all there! And the excitement is REAL, watching a college game go into its fifth overtime!
The already-excellent simulation engine was carefully revamped this year to increase accuracy to uncanny realistic results! And new "Run Usage" and "Pass Usage" options give more realistic personalities to teams, whether it's a grinding team from the 50s, the unbeaten Miami team running their fullback, tight end oriented passing attacks, or run and shoot teams!
New animation options let you watch the game the way YOU like to watch it!
Customize every league's sounds, images, and rules. Quick Set from rules in the 1940s to today, or go with three downs for a Canadian feel! Play any song as your background music!
Game ships with a Pro 2021 league AND a 130-team College starter league, but that's not all! Over THIRTY schedules are included (as csv files), including a College schedule and a 21-week schedule for our Canadian fans! Modders are already creating many more leagues, image sets, sounds, and schedules! Play any actual season or create your own dream matchups!
Easily create the actual 1976 league and season schedule, for example, and play a season or even a career! And now, you can change the number of wildcard teams! Each season, you can load the actual schedules (or scramble teams) and choose the playoff formats!
In Single Season play, create custom brackets from 2 to 32 teams for post season or standalone bracket tournaments!
Career play is incredible, with optional Free Agents and support for most custom leagues (two conferences, each having 1, 2, 3 or 4 divisions, and currently limited to 32 teams). EACH season, you can load a custom schedule, choose to scramble the teams, and you can set the playoff format for the season! You can also choose whether you want to allow Free Agents (and how many), the order of the FA draft, and more!
Export season data in Career or Single seasons into text files, such as standings, stats, rosters, and more!
PSF 2021 is so full of features that you'll still be discovering them for months! Check out the Scenario Editor in Quick Play, where you can set a game's teams, rules, quarter, time, number of timeouts, EVERYTHING, and then either sit back and watch or take one of the teams as a coach!
