Blood Bowl 3

It has bugs, but it's okay and playable.

Gameplay has vastly improved since launch. Arena mode is a great addition.

After roughly 85 hours in this game, I feel I can give it a solid Review. Ultimately, this game is incredibly RNG based and whilst it's a great game to just hop into, have a meme and not care too much in relation to winning or losing, then it's okay, it's a great little time sink on weekends or if you have nothing else better to play. If you want to play this game "seriously" or "competitively", quite frankly, DON'T BOTHER, the base mechanics of blood bowl are dog poo for competitive play. It's a dice rolling game where the ultimate "skill" is minimising RNG, using movement of your player pieces and utilising effectively the skills that they have. Even then, if you do this perfectly, you can still get some awful dice roles that ultimately win or lose you the game. It's silly. To give a bit of context, I was playing a game online against another player who was clearly much better than me. They were much better at decision making and taking the best oppertunities with their dice rolls and minimising risk. They scored early because I was making mistakes and it was looking like an easy win for them. Despite this, every time I went for a "armour break" which was rare due to their superior positioning, I either injured or knocked out their player whilst mine were just knocked prone despite the fact they got way more hits on my dudes. They lost 4 of their players despite their best efforts not too after the first couple got knocked out and I just rolled better dice, this ended up in me scoring 2 points to their 1. From a "game" standpoint this was a huge meme, but from a competitive standpoint, it was quite frankly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I did not deserve to win that game, but I did because of RNG. Just don't take the game too seriously and you will enjoy yourself more. If you're getting the game to play single player, again, don't bother. Blood Bowl 2 whilst on an older ruleset, is a much better game for single player due to the bigger variety of factions and the complete league tables which creates much better immersion. This game has eternal league which is just a worse version of it's predecessor. The Ai is crap in both versions but due to the better leagues and more factions, blood bowl 2 is just a better game for single player. And whilst it may feel like it sometimes, no the AI does not cheat lol, the game is just pure luck sometimes. I completely disagree with the monetisation of this game. It initially released with few teams and every couple of months they bring out a new team and charge you extra for it. Quite frankly, it's greedy and the game is not good enough to justify the extra charges for the new teams, especially as they are not cheap, it does not add enough content to the game to justify the prices they are charging. There is also a battle pass which again, is lame. In summary, whilst my 85 hours have been up and down and blood bowl is a solid silly game, I can't recommend this due to the reasons stated above. They have tried to make the game competitive with an online ranking system which ultimately is a load of crap because blood bowl at it's core, is not suitable to be competitive, especially at the highest levels, there's far too much RNG involved. The monetisation is poor and greedy and the single player is rubbish and stale after a quick 4 hour playthrough of the lack-luster campaign and then the repetitive and terrible "eternal league". If you want to play blood bowl, just go play the real game or play the free online versions on websites such as FUMBBL or, dare I say, buy blood bowl 2 and play that instead.