Contact Retro Bowl Support

by ZedShift

I loved the original this is based on and really appreciate what the devs are ostensibly trying to do. They also have added a lot of features that are really well thought out that make the game more of a long-term experience. It’s nice that the difficulty adapts to you as you play, too.

But once the difficulty reaches a certain point, the game is unplayable and laughably broken. Imagine that literally every single other player on the opposing team is 2-4 times faster than literally every single player on your team. Imagine corners being able to intercept any ball thrown within 12 feet of them — regardless of if your throw arc looks perfectly above them to your open receiver. Imagine it taking the computer 25 seconds to score a TD from 95 yards out while it takes you nearly 4 minutes to eke out a TD if you are PERFECT. Imagine throwing a ball perfectly to an open tight end and it literally bounces off their face incomplete 10-15 times in a game. Imagine knowing with 100% certainty that when the opposition gets the ball, they will invariably score a TD from anywhere on the field. Imagine it being impossible to gain more than 22 yards on any play, ever.

I get that it’s a mobile game, it’s a buck, and it’s not a “football simulator”. But this is such lazily coded AI that amounts to nothing more than, “the defense is 100% flawless, 100% of the time, and at least 100% faster than 100% of your players.”

by Thehooksblw

For a free game and even a dollar it’s good but it has some major problems. While I enjoy the mechanics and aesthetic, clearly development of the dynamic difficulty system suffered. It seems to me that the developer didn’t know how to make AI defense more skilled which I suppose I wouldn’t either so higher difficulty simply makes your players drop the easiest catches known to man significantly more often the higher your difficulty level. In fact, it seems that your players drop easy catches frequently in general, but the insanely high frequency which this occurs at in high difficulty is simply ridiculous. This increased difficulty also makes your defense essentially non existent so it’s a game of keeping up on offense and winning off a last second field goal.
My other problem with this game would be the running. While it’s already quite bad that you can generally only throw up to like 20 yards or so, your players run out of stamina very quickly so you can generally expect them to run at most 20 yards after the catch which is in my opinion really dumb. This forces you into letting touchdowns by in score or go home moments when your receiver was wide open and far away from any defenders because he just starts walking towards the end zone after running 10 yards. It also makes the run game utterly unviable. If these 2 main issues aforementioned were fixed, it’s a 5 star for me.

by Allencoalton

I spent months grinding this game, I love the mechanics, I have no complaints about the gameplay itself... but when you play for months and win over 8 retro bowls with the same team and complete 90% of the hall of fame achievements that you’ve been working for just to log on and EVERYTHING is erased and gone it is extremely frustrating!
This game needs a better way to save your progress. There’s no way to transfer gameplay to any other IOS device, if I broke my phone I would be unable to play with my same team on another device. Also what’s the point of playing if you loose all achievements and progress randomly!! Everything I played was deleted and gone, I logged on and it prompted me to start a new game and gave me a tutorial as if I never logged on... extremely frustrating.
That being said I’m not trying to bag on the game itself, it has great game mechanics, it keeps things simple unlike most modern IOS games that try to over complicate and drain your battery. Amazing game but I will not be playing again until there is an update that allows you to save and track your progress across multiple accounts and doesn’t crash and make you loose everything you’ve worked for on the game - especially if there is an option to pay for the premium version (which I payed for). Please fix these retro bowl!!