Legend Bowl is a pixel-art American football game where you take a team onto the field in exhibition matches, bracket tournaments, or a franchise campaign. Exhibition games can be played against the computer or a friend. On the field, you call plays and control players as they pass, run, tackle, and kick. Movement uses momentum and weight, while passing and kicking rely on timing and precise input; player traits and team chemistry also shape the challenge. In Franchise mode, lead a team through a 17-week schedule and an offseason with retirements, free agency, player progression, and a seven-round draft. You can also create and customize players, coaches, teams, and rosters, or practice plays and skills in Training Camp.
Play pixel-art football, call plays on the field, and guide a customizable team through tournaments or multi-season franchise play.
Legend Bowl is a throwback to the classic 8-bit and 16-bit football games of the past. Take to the gridiron and fight your way to becoming a football legend! Enjoy sim-style gameplay, realistic weather, detailed stats, franchise mode, tournament mode, fully customizable rosters, and much much more!
Developed by Super Pixel Games · Published by Super Pixel Games
Player Review Breakdown
Players Praise Most
Challenging Football
Franchise Management
Retro Pixel Art
Custom Rosters
Common Player Critiques
Frustrating Passing
Weak Run Blocking
Difficult Kicking
Steep Learning Curve
87%
positive of 956 player reviews
Legend Bowl is a pixel-art American football game where you take a team onto the field in exhibition matches, bracket tournaments, or a franchise campaign. Exhibition games can be played against the computer or a friend.
On the field, you call plays and control players as they pass, run, tackle, and kick. Movement uses momentum and weight, while passing and kicking rely on timing and precise input; player traits and team chemistry also shape the challenge.
In Franchise mode, lead a team through a 17-week schedule and an offseason with retirements, free agency, player progression, and a seven-round draft. You can also create and customize players, coaches, teams, and rosters, or practice plays and skills in Training Camp.
Positive reviews often enjoy the blend of retro presentation and football strategy, describing drives and wins as rewarding once the controls and mechanics click. Players also praise the franchise and customization options for adding team-management depth. Others find the challenge frustrating, particularly around passing, blocking, or kicking.
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From the Devs
THIS GAME IS REALLY GOOD "BUY THIS! NOT MADDEN!" - AngryJoeShow
Legend Bowl brings you back to the glory days of pixel style football games of the past! Enjoy a hybrid of arcade-style football and simulation aspects on and off the field. Fully customize players and teams to create an endless amount of variety in your league. Sim-based controls with challenging gameplay mechanics bring the fight to your doorstep! Legend Bowl includes Exhibition Mode, Tournament Mode, Franchise Mode, Training Camp Mode, and a boat load of customization options.
EXHIBITION MODE
Play an exhibition match with any of the 32 teams in the league. Here you can pick up and play against the computer or a friend to see who can beat each other and get all the bragging rights!
FRANCHISE MODE
Select your favorite team and play through an infinite number of seasons to see if you can win the Legend Bowl! You'll start off by selecting your favorite team and creating your very own coach or choose from an existing coach from the league. From there you'll play a full 17 week schedule, complete with player wire events, player and team stats, weekly wrap up news, and more to keep you engaged along the way.
Player traits are a major factor in how they play each week and you'll have to manage the chemistry of your team to keep you in the winner's circle. There's also a complete off season where you'll take your team through retirements, free agency, player progression, and a full 7 round draft. The goal is to have a deep and immersive Franchise mode where you can have endless hours of fun and challenge!
TOURNAMENT MODE
Take your team through a bracket style tournament tree to see if you can become a legendary squad! There are 16 teams in total and you must beat your bracket each week to get to the final championship game. Do you have what it takes to win it all?
TRAINING CAMP MODE
Take on special drills to earn unlockable items and practice until your thumbs get sore! This mode is a sandbox where you can hone in on your skills and practice plays with your favorite teams.
CUSTOMIZATIONS
Are you the creative type? Well look no further! In Legend Bowl, you'll be able to fully customize players, coaches, and teams to recreate your very own league. Choose from a variety of hairstyles, faces, visors, earrings, hats, headbands, gloves, and more to build as unique of a roster as you can dream up. This is one of the main pillars of our game and we can't wait to see what the community brings to the table!
REALISTIC WEATHER
Weather is key to any football game, so why not in Legend Bowl? Play in clear, cloudy, rain, and snow types of weather. Be careful not to get struck by lightning! There's also a Day time cycle lighting system so you can feel the heat on the field.
PRESENTATION
On the field stat overlays, halftime stats, end of game stats, field art, live referees, chain gang, mascots, advertisements, fans and more get you immersed in the game and bring the action to your screen!
HYBRID ARCADE & SIM-STYLE FOOTBALL ACTION
Travel to the golden era of sports games when you had fun mixed with realistic gameplay. Customize your rosters and build a legendary team using speed, agility, acceleration, and more to battle your way through the gridiron!
ON THE FIELD
Player movement is a mix between simulation and arcade based mechanics. Momentum and weight help to make your players "feel" alive! A unique throwing mechanic allows you to control the ball and give your receivers the best chance to catch the ball!
RETRO PIXELATED GRAPHICS
Experience timeless pixelated graphics and fully customizable player faces, hair, helmets, hats, visors, facial hair, equipment, and more! The customization options are endless and make for a unique artstyle!
RETRO CHIPTUNE SOUNDTRACK
Listen to classic chiptune music that make you feel like you're back in the arcade with your friends.
For the best experience a gamepad is highly recommended (e.g. Steam Controller, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Playstation + many others will work with emulation) - The game can also be played with only a keyboard in single player mode. A controller is required in order to play local multiplayer.
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