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Retro Bowl App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Stole my moneyWas playing it then after 4 seasons the game reset and deleted everything and is now telling me to upgrade to the full version again. Not paying again to get money stolen..Version: 1.4.93
✓ Games Feel ScriptedAlmost everything about this game is fantastic - simple, engaging gameplay and great fun. The only issue I have is that the game feels scripted at times in that, you could attempt to play a game 10 times and you will lose every single time, regardless of how good your team is or how bad the opposition is. Also, if you do nothing else, get a good kicker. The one you start with is absolute garbage and will single handedly lose you games..Version: 1.3.14
✓ Torn about this gameLet me start off by saying that I think the main gameplay loop of this game is fantastic. There’s a feel to placing your passes that sometimes feels better to me than Madden ever did. I love the team building aspect and how it’s simplified. I never liked building teams from the management end in other football games. It’s addictive and rewarding to play. Games don’t take that long and always leave you wanting to start a new one. The price point is great as well. Here are my gripes that are causing me to not rate this 4 or 5 stars. First off, and this may be minor but it always seems that on big plays the receiver or RB slow down so much after getting 30-40 yards. It’s like all of a sudden they are running in molasses. This is frustrating because it completely removes any excitement of a big play. But this leads into my second (and main) issue. This game is too easy. It’s almost as if the slow running was put there to balance the fact that you can pull off huge plays all the time. After a couple seasons it becomes so easy to build a 5 star team that just wrecks everyone and before you know it you’re having perfect seasons every time. There needs to be some balancing done here in a way that doesn’t take away from how good the gameplay feels..Version: 1.2.12
✓ $0.99 Unlimited Version Charged me $3.65Unbelievable game, very fun. Upgraded to the “unlimited version” for $0.99 and it charged my visa $3.65 for some reason. Not too pleased..Version: 1.6.0
✓ Why no defence??? Why no play customisation?This game is ALMOST there.... BUT.... Why aren’t we able to play both sides? We spend all this time and attention building out a defence (hiring defensive coach, drafting defensive players, etc...), but defence is a total n/a when it comes to gameplay. How come? It would seem we should at least be allowed to pick the defensive set-up (blitz, zone, man on man, etc..) and have some control over stopping the opponents offence. Also, a module to allow you to design your own plays would greatly enhance gameplay..Version: 1.4.52
✓ Ratings mean absolutely nothing.When your 5 star offense struggles vs a 2 star defense and your 5 star defense can’t stop a 2 star offense, you know this game is an utter waste of time. I have raised this question multiple times for the Devs, they delete the review. What a useless company. Don’t believe the bot 5 star reviews, your players are constantly injured, ratings don’t mean anything and it’s not even a fun waste of time..Version: 1.4.98
✓ Very badThis game is bad I shouldn’t be fumbling every time I get the ball. I would get the first catch of the game and then fumble.I get the ball back and I fumble again by the end of the game I have like 10 fumbles in a row terrible game Also I shouldn’t have a pass intercepted because the ball just starts slowing down all of a sudden and ogre into the cpu hands. And when I somehow get open and not fumble I would be like 30 yards ahead of the defensive backs but they just activate some super speed and catch me from soooo far away this game is stupid I hate it.Version: 1.4.93
✓ This game is only fun for a day or soAs soon as you collect enough points to ad good players to your roster, all the players I added where injured in less than 2 games leaving me with no wr, no qb, no rb, for 5 games how tf am I supposed to carry the ball 100 yds with players I can’t change or upgrade and also they can’t catch.Version: 1.4.93
✓ Good but could be a lot betterIt’s a fun time-waster, but there is a fine line between simple and easy. This game is just easy. After I was used to the mechanics, in the second full season, I went 19-0. Receivers are always open at the line which usually gets you 5+ yards a play just like that. It would be more fun if it was more difficult. You should make it so that receivers are guarded tighter so it isn’t so easy, make running give you a little more yards on average so the game isn’t so pass heavy, and allow us to kick a field goal from whatever the REAL maximum is. I made a 63 yarder with ease earlier. We all know those “seconds” aren’t really seconds. Two RB seconds are practically equal to one real second. Either change how long your seconds last or add more of them. The biggest thing probably is allowing us to play defense. This will make the game way more fun for everyone, and give another huge aspect to the game. If you do this, PLEASE do not make it easy. If you have to, add difficulty settings. I haven’t downloaded the full version, but I don’t think there are settings for that on there. This game has big potential. Make sure you update it often so the game is more enjoyable and doesn’t start to get boring. Do all these things and it’s 5 stars from me..Version: 1.2.12
✓ Good game with flawed designFor 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..Version: 1.4.76
✓ Fun at first but then becomes stupidIt’s fun when you start playing because there is some real challenge to building up your team from scratch. But once you’ve built it the ‘dynamic difficulty’ kicks in. This is just a fancy way of saying that your 5-star defence will give up points every drive, even against the worst offences in the league. Your offensive players will seemingly lose the ability to run and if you want to pass the ball then you better get it out for a screen because your offensive line will just stand and let defenders past. As a result this game is a lot of fun for a few hours but then just becomes stupid..Version: 1.3.42
✓ Great game but pay to winI’d very happily pay a decent sum to buy this game properly, as it’s a legitimately decent game. But ‘credits’ are needed to really enjoy it. Resign players? 30 credits for a 1 year extension. Improve medical? Multiple credits (5 for a boost from 5 to 6), and the standard drops when you don’t buy. Decent free agent? 30+ credits a pop. Basically, the roster I’ve built over two years would cost me north of 400 credits FOR A SINGLE ADDITIONAL YEAR, and that’s the equivalent of £8. Per season. Just on keeping my players. Just charge me a tenner for the game and let me play it fairly..Version: 1.5.88
✓ Love it but wish there could be more thingsI love the game but it just feels the same thing every single time you play. Ok so I rated this game based of of playing and I have played this game for like 2 or 3 years and there is nothing new like when can you add challenge flags or even flags in general plus why must the game never have any cool stuff like when will cometary be a thing we’ll never mind anyway why can’t there be a my career mode like why must this game be the same and I play on extreme and I’m still getting a perfect season like I have went up against New England 10 times so far in the nfl and please add an extra do you want to trade the player and I feel like the trade button doesn’t give you a trade and I feel like if there is a player you put in the hall of fame then you should be able to sine them but there contracts are more expensive plus I feel like if you have more than 20 rings I feel like your character gets like bonas cc like you could get 100 rings and nothing would happen plus I hate how character’s contracts go up every time there contracts are ending like I feel like they should ad a button that is 50/50 of lowering the price please add some of these changes plus I bout the expansion to you make my roster bigger and change the teams color and that stuff but It didn’t work so I just lost money so please just give me the expansion I paid for it😡😡😑😑.Version: 1.6.0
✓ Completely Hot GarbageUpdated again: The game no longer costs 99 cents because it is completely unplayable. Every update makes it worse than before. I don’t even know what is going on over there but I just want to cry because it was so fun, absolutely perfect, and I got to enjoy it for like 3 weeks, my iPad was broken for a week, when I got it fixed and the game was updated it was pretty bad, and I wrote this first review update, took it from 5 stars to 1 and struggled with a broken game, and then they updated it again, and now it is absolutely wrecked. I don’t have the heart to uninstall, I don’t pay for games often, and I wrote “best game... in 10 years” in my first review, but I’m only keeping it in memorial effigy of a game I almost got to have. At this point I am guessing the next update will have even bigger catch radii, completely unstoppable offensive weapons, and the opposing teams will get shut out completely by any defense just a 1/2 star better than their offense, all turnovers too if 3/2 stars better. First review: Just reviewing for credits, but best game I have played in 10 years. Update: bought the game because it was perfect, then the dev updated it. I WANT MY 99 CENTS BACK! If we can choose between 2 and 3 minute quarters, why can’t we choose which version we want to play? I really liked the old receiver tie up game mechanic that resulted in lots of drops and broken up passes, now every throw is a pick or a completion. Refund please..Version: v1.1.92
✓ Keeps Crashing When I Open The GameCan’t even enjoy a game i just downloaded without it crashing 2 seconds after opening it.Version: 1.6.0
✓ One problem with retro bowlThis is a really good game, I love pixelated games and this one is by far the best. A big problem about this game is at the start you may verse a tough team and have a really high chance of losing. I didn’t download this game to get intercepted every 2nd throw. Other than that, it is a pretty good game.Version: 1.4.49
✓ Bruh this game is stupidThis game is so annoying and bad everytime my team goes offence it’s a 3v6.Version: 1.6.0
✓ Fun but lackingWish there were the possibility of penalties (perhaps a combination of skill/XP and morale?) and i don’t like having no control over my defense beyond picking the players and the DC. Having control over the plays on offense would be nice. Like picking the plays and setting the playbook before the game. Maybe knowing what team has as a preference for on offense (like pass heavy, run often) and being able to tailor your defense in an effort to stop the opposing team. If I can’t direct my defense, being able to set it for blitzing the QB, covering the WR, or whatever would be a suitable compromise. Lastly, it’s annoying that when I call an audible, the CPU defense shifts. The point of calling an audible is adjusting the offensive play after seeing the defensive coverage. For example, if you were about to pass but see the defensive coverage is favoring pass blocking, you can audible for a run and pick up yardage. The defense would have to adjust but it wouldn’t be instant like in the game currently. Overall, it is fun but fun enough to wish it had more. If it did incorporate those suggestions; penalties; more interaction wile on defense; playbook selection; and audibles not shifting the CPU defense; I would 100% buy this game on multiple platforms. As it stands now, it’s great as a free game. Weather and replay isn’t interesting enough for me to shell out money..Version: 1.4.98
✓ Lost interestIt gets boring playing Dallas every year in the playoffs. Should have made the teams more even instead of having a few teams with high ratings every year. Stopped playing as it was monotonous..Version: 1.5.91
✓ FumblesPretty good game but this game gives me too many fumbles which costs me some games which is getting really annoying.Version: 1.5.91
✓ Nice idea but such lazy / poor AII 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.”.Version: 1.4.93
✓ Get some good players broI wanted to say make the team San Francisco good do we can win bro.Version: 1.5.77
✓ GoodBut im not paying 1.39 to continue playing.Version: 1.09
✓ Needs updates / improvementsThe game starts off fun but as you get better and increase your team I’ve realized there’s so much more they can do to improve the game. Easy, medium, hard, dynamic at this point are all insanely easy I’ll never lose a game, but on extreme it’s borderline impossible even with a 5 star all around team. If they made a difficulty that was actually hard but not as insane as extreme it would make the game more competitive and fun. I also wish we could have full rosters for offence and defensive that actually represents a full football team instead of only being able to have 12 max. If they ever made these changes the game would be so much better, even an option to watch your defence simulation play would be cool. I hope the creators see this and consider some of these changes to the game..Version: 1.5.91
✓ This is probably one of the best games, however..I really do enjoy this game, it’s a fun game to pass the time. The gameplay is clean and the decisions you make actually matter. I also feel that even though you can “pay to win” it feels worse and less rewarding than if you play the game as intended. My problem arises when the AI takes over defense. Note, I like to play the game on hard with three minute quarters. I constantly find myself running into the problem at being at the mercy of my defense to win games. I’m sure the devs are working on a way to play defense, but as of right now it makes the game feel incomplete. Even with a five star defense with four and five star players there isn’t anything I can do if I get a bad roll of the dice except cheat and restart the app hoping for a better one. And if I choose to play on a lower difficulty I just win because the enemy defensive AI is significantly easier on medium. Closing thoughts: even though I really do like this game, but it feels incomplete, and for that I can’t rate it any higher than three stars. I really hope the devs are working on defensive gameplay, and I hope just as much that it feels are rewarding as the offense. Thanks for the great game though, and keep up the good work!.Version: 1.4.98
✓ Fun to play - Kind of a rip-offYeah, it’s addictive. And fun for awhile. But after I paid for the unlimited version, and paid to increase the salary cap, all my best players started getting injured… regularly. It’s a given at this point that when I begin a new season, one, two, or even three of my players is going to miss at least a third of it. As I write this, my running back, wide receiver and one of my defensive backs is injured; and will be out for multiple games. My quarterback just returned from a 5 game stint on the IL. If the developers want to improve the game, there should be an option to turn off injuries. Because of this issue, I can only give the game 2 stars. Update April 21: So I’m reducing my rating to one star, because the developers recoded the game to essentially make your Running Back useless (My 5 Star RB is now a crappy third receiver). I was in the middle of a season when the last update was released, and my RB went from averaging 70-80 rushing yards per game to less than 20! On most attempted running plays, he’s not even getting to the line of scrimmage. The same is true of your Offensive Linemen (I have two highly rated OL’s, but my Quarterback is sacked multiple times per game - I played one game where he was sacked 6 times by a 2 star defense). They went from averaging 10-12 blocks per game to 2. Were other players clamoring for these drastic changes? Who knows? But it really did not improve the gameplay at all..Version: 1.5.17
✓ The game is funBut I went 10 and 0 and my qb got injured then I went 13 and 0 and my qb got injured again for 3 games then I went 16 and 0 the win a game with my real qb then we made playoffs and he got injured for 5 games so he can not make the retro bowl. I get that u did not want me to make playoffs but like u have to do it like that just take out getting injured.Version: 1.5.91
✓ Purchase InGameI have bought the unlimited version and deleted the app on accident while deleting some other stuff and now I have low the purchase. Is there a way to get a refund?.Version: 1.5.91
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