Blood Bowl - Legendary Edition
Sports/Turn-based/Board Game
Steam Link

It's American football.

But dice-based.

And with Warhammer.

Basically if you ever wanted to play a game of handegg with orcs, dwarves, and elves, you should probably get this game. And even if you thought you didn't, you should probably get this game anyway, because it is freaking addictive.

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Also, terrible humor throughout.

So this plays differently to more action-oriented sports games; it's turn-based and dice-based. You're gonna roll for pretty much everything you do. Kind of like D&D.

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It sounds obnoxious or complicated, but it's really not, and even though the tutorial makes it all sound kind of difficult it's actually very intuitive to play once you get into a real game. It's much like actual football, except that you can punch people and kill people. Because Warhammer. (You can try to rez them, but it doesn't always work.)

An immense variety of races are available, including lizardmen, vampires, skeletons, and eldritch horrors, so the game essentially gives "fantasy football" a whole new meaning.

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TLDR I was kind of assuming I was only gonna mess around with this for a half hour or something but instead I played it for two hours and I'd still be playing it right now but I have to do boring stuff like eat dinner. This is really fun and addictive. Seriously. I love it.

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And yes, I did skip backwards in the alphabetical list because I bought this recently and I figured, why not, let's cover it for completion's sake.


THE VERDICT:

  • Great stuff for Warhammer, football, and/or tabletop fans
  • Heck, it's great stuff even if you're not
  • There's a lot of depth here (Campaign mode, story mode, etc.)
  • Seriously you can be pretty much anything like you can have treants on your team
  • Super addictive and fun, I'm not kidding
  • If it looks even vaguely like something you'd like you should get it