Retro Bowl certainly gets close to scratching that itch for a retro-style football game. The game is addictive, and you can play many games in one sitting. Including scenarios between games requiring you to choose options that affect the players' morale is fun. There is a bit of smoke and mirrors when you start to look under the hood, though. You can...
Retro Bowl2020
Retro Bowl
2020 New Star Games81Great
Playtime
ModerateIt typically takes about 25 hours to finish the game.
Playable on
Available on
- $4.99
Game modes
Details
- Launch
- January 17, 2020
- Developer
- New Star Games
- Publisher
- New Star Games
- Themes
- -
Overview
Retro Bowl is an American football simulation game in the style of pixelated video games of old. Play as one of 32 teams, making personnel decisions and playing in the games to try and win the Retro Bowl at the end of the season.
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Reception
Press85
Great- Metacritic84from 7 reviews
- OpenCritic87from 4 reviews
Retro Bowl does a fantastic job with what it's trying to do. Being a mobile game ported onto the Switch, it was always going to be a challenge to figure out how to make it work, but New Star Games has come out with another lovely arcade treat.
Retro Bowl is pure gaming joy, wrapped with a nostalgic little bow. It's also the best American Football game in years.
Rarely does a football game come along that offers the ability to enjoy a franchise, a draft, ability to edit, and package it together in such a fun and approachable way. Retro Bowl does just that and now has made the experience even better on the Nintendo Switch.
Retro Bowl is a fun arcade football experience that features an interesting franchise mode and addicting gameplay.