Distinct retro branding and nostalgic football vibe that stands out in SPORTS_GAMES.
Simple, intuitive roster management and press duties.
Engaging franchise mode with long-term team progression.
Large, active user base (5M+ downloads) and strong rating.
Marketing could better foreground arcade, emulator, or classic branding terms, which some competitors emphasize.
Kept marketing language centered on retro/football rather than broader keyword sets used by peers (e.g., arcade, controller, season).
About Retro Bowl
Retro Bowl is a sports games app developed by New Star Games Ltd.
Download Statistics
Retro Bowl has been downloaded 9.9 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 55 thousand times. It is ranked in the top 100 sports games apps.
User Ratings
Retro Bowl is rated 4.59 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 470 thousand ratings.
App Information
Retro Bowl is FREE to download. The APK download size is 48.55 MB. The latest version available is 1.6.46. The last update was on May 15, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Retro Bowl requires Android 4.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play January 2020.
Description
Retro Bowl is the perfect game for the armchair quarterback to finally prove a point. Presented in a glorious retro style, the game has simple roster management, including press duties and the handling of fragile egos, while on the field you get to call the shots. Can you pass the grade and take your team all the way to the ultimate prize? Can you win the Retro Bowl?
Recent changes: • Winners list updated. • Fix for Kick Returner selections being lost if players were on the list of expired contracts.
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I am a die-hard Browns fan (yeah yeah I know) & loved football since I was 7. Just a year before Tecmo Bowl came out on the NES. So, as a huge football guy I gotta say other than a couple changes/additions here & there, this game is near perfect. Closer to Tecmo Bowl this game is, the better. Now seeing we obviously can't have the actual thing, I gotta say u guys did 1 hell of a job. Very, very reasonable price to purchase. Soooo close to 5 stars. Closest Tecmo Bowl experience ur going to get.
★★★★☆ᥲrtіst Nostalgia· Jun 23, 2026
Very fun. It would be nice if we can still controll our characters when the other team has the ball, because when you don't let it, or when you activate SIM, your team automatically just plays bad against the enemy CPUs.
★★★★★Joshua McLean· Jul 19, 2026
I've been playing the game for years and it's great. Would love to see an incentive to put credits into the stadium though. Maybe you get less credits if your stadium is sucky.
★☆☆☆☆Matthew Slater· Jul 16, 2026
Gameplay is solid, but this game is such a blatant attempt at a cash grab. You get 2-3 manager coins per game, and you need them to upgrade literally anything on the team. The rate at which you earn coins is not enough to make any roster improvements or staff changes unless you want to spend money for the coins to expedite the grind. Absolutely garbage design.
★☆☆☆☆Darren Clark· Jun 8, 2026
I've played this game for a few weeks. I don't think the developers have ever played their own game. If they did, they would see that there are obvious problems with the game. The difference between easy and hard is huge. Easy you blow them out. Hard they blow you out. But it's the amount of interceptions that you throw while its on hard that ruined it for me. Unrealistic and impossible to not do. Fix these problems and maybe let the player decide who they want to coach for and this would be a 5☆
★☆☆☆☆Jamarion Smith· Jun 11, 2026
It was good, and then it was booty and bad I love it at first but a glitch in the game reset all of my stuff, and I had 5 five-star team it put me in a team that I did not want to be in overall it's a good game but when that glitch come and all you afford just disappeared I was playing this game every single day for like 2 months I built a 5 star team I was winning every single game, and I was on hard mode, and I was still winning but 1 day I come back to a 1 star team I lost everything I had 1000ch
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