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Edit: Pretty blown away, but the AI somehow got worse. It just doesn't take its turn anymore. If you want to play, then you have no choice but to play online.
Edit: Mutations have no visual representations on players with no official explanation for why, so either incompetence or cash shop reasons. Again, this is in blood bowl 2 by default from the beginning.
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Saw reviews saying the game is better now and they basically fixed it. Buy bloodbowl 2. It's actually finished, and you can get very similar content for a far, far more reasonable price.
Another review said " Since the release (Feb 2023) a lot of upgrades were made. Now it's very enjoiable. PLAY THIS IF YOU LIKED BLOODBOWL 2"
That's almost 2 years as of the time of writing this. You should not get this if you liked bloodbowl 2. You should play bloodbowl 2. Anyone who says this is the best in the series is wilfully misleading you.
Plenty of issues, but a big one is the AI. It's not just stupid, which it is, but it seems to be programmed to wait until its turn time has run out, and like clockwork, the moment it hits 0 it starts to make moves. wouldn't be a completely terrible experience, except their turn doesn't end because they still have a pool of time to keep their turn going, which is 7 minutes 30. So much time is wasted just for the AI to make a move.
Surprisingly it was fine, until I cleared the tutorial and my first match, then spent time making a team. After that, AI issues kicked in. I crossed the period of being able to refund it by that point. It's like it was designed to look like it works initially.
Got bitten by the cash shop twice. Bought Goblins because that just what I like to play, using warpstone, the in game currency, because gone are the days where you could just buy DLC without strings, and of course it's designed so that you always have more premium currency than you need. Right afterwards, I was on the main store page and there's a deal hidden away to get both stunty teams for a reduced price, which would actually have been for an amount that didn't require me to buy more than I needed. It didn't make any effort to tell me about that deal, so Well done, you got cash out of me.
Secondly, I saw the norse team was out, and you could get it with the game pass. Fair amount of cool stuff to get on there, and it unlocked the norse team to play, seemed like a relatively good deal. What I didn't realise (and once again the game made no effort to tell me), is that the norse team was also just free as part of the basic free pass if you completed it. So well done, you got more money out of me.
Massive extra kick in the teeth that when I come to write this, the game is on sale. And I can't refund it for the better price. That's just bad luck, but it really just adds to the sting of how I've been fleeced so far.
The UI is clunky, reads very poorly, and it results in misclicks, which is echoed by other reviews. If you don't want that issue, you should play bloodbowl 2.
It all just really smells of laziness. Voice lines and sound effects are torn directly from bloodbowl 2, with some impact sounds actually made worse in this game from the previous installation. I'm not sure what they actually put any time into developing that anyone would want.
When you first start the game, there is zero customisation beyond simple colours, armour patterns, and team emblems. No pitches, coaches, cheerleaders. Minor gripe, as it seems these are unlocked over time with player level, and are free, but all players of the same type will be entirely identical to begin with.

Playing offline is just not there, made particularly bad by the AI. There's a short campaign, but if you just wanted an endless league to play in and have your team part of it, that's not there. You should get bloodbowl 2 if you want that. It has been mentioned that an endless league is on its way, but with the AI the way it is, that just sounds painful. I realise that this is really a multiplayer game, but there are far too many people defending the lack of single player because it's not "The way to play". Don't make excuses for them. They've had almost 2 years.
2 years of development post release is way too long to wait for it to still not be finished. This game doesn't deserve you paying for it. I'll keep playing it, becuase I've already sunk cost into it, and I have to make sure I get my moneys worth(?), but I am telling you, get bloodbowl 2, you'll have a good time, there's plenty more fun to be had there at this point time. If it gets better, I'll update the review. I'll also add anything else that I find here as well, more out of pettiness than anything else, but I'm just never buying another Cyanide product again. Considering the way they handle most things that are handed to them for development, their name is a bit on the nose.