Blood Bowl 2
I see a lot of negative reviews from people who have played the original blood bowl games which I can’t comment on due to BB2 being my first experience of the game, all I can say is that I love it, if I’ve got free time it’s my first, second and third choice, and if I’m not playing I’m watching a stream :)
Pros:
1. Incredibly deep gameplay/strategy, after 600 hours I still feel like a noob, every team can be developed differently according to how you like to play, and more than half the teams haven’t been released yet so still plenty of variety to come.
– Real player with 2055.4 hrs in game
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Yes I do recommend this game. Yes I probably should take a rage management treatment due to the random nature of the game… STILL, like Poker… this dice game REALLY reward skill, but sometimes the game “deals” you a crappy hand… and then close to anybody can beat you.
Some really love Blood bowl and give it 10/10… some don’t… It’s abit sad that many of the reviews here are made of unexperienced gamers. And if you find the game too expensive - just buy it on sale!?
Unpatient or timid gamers should not play this game. You will experience that the PvP is very hard for new coaches. The skill level of the more experienced coaches are really high and they will punish every mistake. You move 11 players on the pitch in a conversion of a table top game. Turn based, 16 turns each. All the time you need to make risk calculations and use your logic and tactical skills. Read the player/race guides out there, it will help you alot developing your skills! The game should be of course played vs real human opponents… not the AI.
– Real player with 1776.7 hrs in game
Blood Bowl - Legendary Edition
For sale on steam: Membership to a cult.
Specifically, the cult of Nuffle - Chaos god of random shit happening in an amusing way.
Welcome to Bloodbowl, a turn based tabletop sports game/religious ceremony of Nuffle based off the Warhammer fantasy boardgame of the same name.
For those unaware of Bloodbowl and what it is. It is essentially what happens when you take (American) football and set it in the Warhammer universe. For those who don’t know American football, players take a ball and try to run it into the opponent’s endzone, at the other side of the field.
– Real player with 107.9 hrs in game
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Oh boy, this f#cking game. I must be honest, all I knew about this game is that it was violent, and that I had played a demo around 8 or so years ago. And well, seeing it with a big sale like that, I couldn’t really hold it and decided to buy it. Is it bad? Is it good? As usual I’m gonna start talking about what it does worse, then move up from there.
First and foremost, the worst part of the game has to be it’s difficulty for new players. It’s a board game of sorts directly ported to a video-game… But as it usually happens, good board games are complex as all hell, and that translates poorly for new players. It also doesn’t help that the difficulty spike is directly at the start: you create your own team and then suddenly you’re thrusted with little knowledge of how to play against teams that actually DO HAVE QUITE THE LEVEL ALREADY. Your team will be on a sick losing spree from the beggining because, even though the game says there’s around 140 or so teams on the game, you’ll be playing against the same mid-level ones over and over. If I start on a 0 prestige league, WHY THE HELL PUT MID-GAME TEAMS ON IT, EVEN ON THE LOWEST DIFFICULTY!? IT’S STUPID. However that’s switched around later, when your team actually gets levels and becomes decent, the enemies are actually rather easy to predict.
– Real player with 77.6 hrs in game
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition
This game falls in one of two categories: You will love it immensely, or you will hate it and wish you never played it.
For starters, it has a tremendously high learning curve. I’ve put my share of time in with both this and the legendary edition and I’m still learning new tactics. Couple that with every single team having their own specific playing style that you need to learn to a certain degree, and you have a death sentence for a new player that isn’t patient enough to actually learn the ins and outs of the game.
– Real player with 224.7 hrs in game
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You will discover new swear words you never knew you needed.
This game is frustrating. Let me say this right off the bat. It. Is. Frustrating. Between the rather convoluted rules and the insane randomness. This game is a pain to get into., especially if you’re unfamiliar with the table-top or previous incarnations. The tutorial helps a little buut the ingame documentation is done in absurdly fine print and is a pairn to read. this is one of those games where you will do most of your learning via play and by play I mean getting your ass handed to you a few times. Once you do learn…the game becomes deliciously satisfying. Still frustrating as hell but the furstration makes the successes all the more satisfying.. Oh there is nothing so great as tackling a guy on the opposing team and sending him to morgue.
– Real player with 161.5 hrs in game
Ganbare! Super Strikers
Basic rundown
Ganbare! Super Strikers is a fun little game that focuses on the strategic layers of football, rather than fast action and quick decisions. It features XCOM-like turnbased gameplay, where you have a limited amount of actions per character, that you can use to move, tackle, pass, shoot and do other things that are common in football.
Clearly inspired by the old Captain Tsubasa nintendo games and sports animes/mangas, you have individual characters and teams with certain signature moves and/or behaviors/themes, that the player has to overcome. Those themes are mostly based around certain status effects like freeze, sleep, poison or simply increased stats and therefore higher chances for shooting, dribbling and so on.
– Real player with 14.9 hrs in game
Simple yet quite fun to play. However, there’s a an annoying bug, which freezes the game whenever you apply multiple debuffs to your opponent. Only get this game when it is on sales.
❤ Audience ❤
☑ Beginner
☑ Casual Gamer
☑ Normal Gamer
☐ Expert
☼ Graphics ☼
☐ Bad
☑ Alright
☐ Good
☐ Beautiful
☐ Fantastic
♬ Music ♬
☑ Bad
☐ Alright
☐ Good
☐ Beautiful
☐ Fantastic
☠ Difficulty ☠
☐ Easy
☑ Average
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Hard
☐ Unfair
§ Bugs §
☐ Bugs destroy the game
☐ Lots of bugs
☑ Few Bugs
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game
Frozen Cortex
I like this game. Don’t let the sports facade fool you; if you like turn based strategy, this game has a lot more depth than first glance suggests.
Full disclosure: I was on the closed beta, so I’ve had more direct contact with the devs than your average player. My perspective may be biased.
As a fan of Frozen Synapse, I was expecting more of the same this time around. The first couple weeks of testing showed promise, but the sports theme turned me off, and the absolutely brutal AI made it difficult to enjoy. They’ve since tuned the AI and match settings to be more accessible at the beginning, and even more ridiculously difficult at the highest levels.
– Real player with 82.0 hrs in game
Frozen Endzone (possibly soon to be Frozen Cortex) is a brilliant new type of game from Mode7Games. It mixes sports with the turn-based action of their previous entry into the market, Frozen Synapse. Players plan their players moves, can plan opponent’s moves to see what will happen, and then submit their turn. Meanwhile, their opponent does the same planning process, and then after both players have submitted their turn, the game calculates and displays a result. Best part is that you never have to be online at the same time as your opponent!
– Real player with 78.7 hrs in game
PGA TOUR 2K21
Coming from The Golf Club 2019. While the game was extremely rough on the edges, especially on the presentation being awful, I still loved the game for one reason : The gameplay. It felt amazing and I fell in love with it despite all the other shortcoming.
When I saw PGA Tour 2k21 out, I expected to be completely let down, the usual EA tactic of releasing the same game with barely if any change at all. Luckily I was wrong on this regard. A ton of gripes I had with TGC2019 was corrected, such as partial swings being impractical, the green grid partially covering the green, no spin control on the ball and no customizable clubs/stats. Yes the game is basically TGC2019 V.2 but, to be honest for a moment here, you can’t really add anything too substantial to a sport game that relies on being realistic beside polish. I do agree on the fact that full price for this game is a tad expensive : You do need to enjoy realistic golf to make the price tag feel right.
– Real player with 620.8 hrs in game
Full disclosure, I bought the Deluxe Edition when it was on sale for about 30 bucks and I had a $25 Steam gift card, so this game was as close to free as I could get without someone gifting it to me.
Would I recommend this at full price to anyone for the Deluxe Edition? No.
Would I recommend this to someone getting it at a steep discount? Absolutely.
Now, on to the review.
You’ll read a lot of negative comments about the commentary, and all of it is true. It’s repetitive, rarely describes what’s actually happening, recaps will seem like they’re from an entirely different match, etc. This is spot on critique. There is a lot of jank in the way the commentary will put together random phrases to try and simulate actual play by play and color commentary. But sometimes, that jank is golden.
– Real player with 407.3 hrs in game
Tactical Soccer The New Season
I do not mean to offend the developer with this review. I highly respect his previous works and believe he is more talented than this game suggests.
But to be perfectly honest, I only bought this because I felt guilty about not having a way to pay Edward Grabowski for Grand Prix World/Manager 2. I wouldn’t call this a terrible game, and in fact I love the concept of it, but it’s lacking. Specific problems include unprofessional menus/UI, overly fiddly camera options, and sub-par AI.
If the price drops to 99 cents again, try it if you must, but don’t expect anything too great. You might want to give Football Tactics & Glory a look instead.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Not something I would recommend.
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
Little Comet
–-{Graphics}—
☐ - Great - ☐ Good -☑ Simple - ☐ Bad
—{Gameplay}—
☐ Great - ☑Good - ☐ Meh - ☐ Unplayable
—{Audio}—
☑ Great - ☐ Good - ☐ Nothing Special - ☐ Bad
—{Audience}—
☑ Kids ☑ Teens - ☑ Adults
—{Difficulty}—
☐ Easy - ☑ Just Right - ☐ Hard - ☐ TOO HARD
—{Story}—
☐ Great - ☐ Good - ☐ There’s Barely a Story - ☑No Story
—{Game Time}—
☐ Till Death - ☐ 100+ - ☐ 61-99 - ☐ 39-60 - ☐ 11-30 -☑ 0-10
Fun casual Slingshot game.
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
Blessed game.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Seasonal Soccer
Great game with a Amiga feel .
In my eyes this game has a lot going for it , game play is smooth and nice , has the old Amiga look wat is a winner :) . if more was added to game this could be a big hit on the retro world of gaming , its in early Early Access so lets see wat is added to this game :)
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
Seasonal Soccer is an abandoned early access 2D top down retro pixel soccer sports game trying to rip off the Commodore Amiga look and feel (even using an Amiga branded monitor image, possibly without permission).
The game is unfinished and was abandoned soon after launch. There’s no indication the developer had any intention of finishing the game. Yet, somehow, they were able to launch other games afterwards. What does that tell us? They abandoned this deliberately and wilfully, despite making a commitment to gamers to finish the product. That’s abusing early access, for sure.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
TableTop Soccer
Cool, fast-action game for single or multi-player. I eventually got around to naming my team and choosing gender/uniforms, but what I like most is that I have to anticipate what my opponent might do and act accordingly. I can move all 5 players in one turn, and when the timer is up, I just hope I went the right way. The AI is easier to play against, but the real fun is playing others online as they are way more unpredictable.
Boosts allow you to run faster, pass the ball, attach your player’s movements to another player on the opposing team, and make combo shots (pass to another and then shoot to score).
– Real player with 70.9 hrs in game
This is an updated review. My initial review is below.
YOU MUST BUY THIS GAME.
This is a great fun game. If you like turn based games, or you like Football, you really need to buy TableTop Soccer. Score goals, win games, earn points, upgrade your player stats, then go out and battle. This game is good when playing the computer, but it gets taken to another level when you challenge another human. Trying to predict what another player is going to do is such a challenge. It’s the sort of game that you want to play with friends, so you can gloat over your great plays.
– Real player with 52.4 hrs in game