Games like Blood Bowl 3
If Blood Bowl 3 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic), Blood Bowl - Legendary Edition and Mordheim: City of the Damned — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, competitive and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Blood Bowl 3 is a turn-based strategy and sports game set in a dark fantasy universe where teams compete in a violent football variant. Released in 2023, it features dice-roll-management, positional-play mechanics, and extensive team-customization alongside league-tools for competitive play. The game includes seasonal-rule-changes that keep competitive formats fresh according to players and reviewers. Players describe it as a challenging and competitive experience that balances whimsical team management with brutal tactical gameplay, noting that tactical positioning can turn unfavorable dice rolls into advantages and that the digital format feels less punishing than tabletop versions. Currently holding 48% positive from 2514 Steam reviews, the game is marked as playable on Steam Deck with a reported playtime of massive length.
About Blood Bowl 3: Brutal, crazy, tactical… this is BLOOD BOWL! The iconic death sport returns with the new video game of fantasy football faithfully using the latest board game rules and new content. Create your team, then crush, mulch and cheat your way to the top... leaving your opponents in the graveyard.
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Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Blood Bowl 3.
Top pick for Blood Bowl 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Blood Bowl 2 smashes Warhammer and American football together, in an explosive cocktail of turn-based strategy, humour and brutality, adapted from Games Workshop’s famous boardgame.
Blood Bowl - Legendary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blood Bowl 3.
Second-strongest match for Blood Bowl 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Inspired by the Warhammer Fantasy world, Blood Bowl is an ultra-violent combination of strategy and sports games. The Legendary Edition features 20 playable races, including 11 that are totally new, each offering its own game style! Make a competitive team, train it and buy the best equipment.
Mordheim: City of the Damned
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blood Bowl 3.
Third-strongest match for Blood Bowl 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.
Buddies to Death
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Ranked #4 for Blood Bowl 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Buddies to Death - A fast-paced, turn-based, 4X strategy set in a medieval fantasy world with asymmetric factions, amazing lore, and FISHHH!
Total War: WARHAMMER II
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Ranked #5 for Blood Bowl 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
The Conquest of Go
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blood Bowl 3.
Ranked #6 for Blood Bowl 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Learn and play Go, the classic board game that has been played for thousands of years, and compete in the race to conquer the most land in the in-game world, or compete online against opponents around the real world.
Total War: WARHAMMER III
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blood Bowl 3.
Ranked #7 for Blood Bowl 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blood Bowl 3.
Ranked #8 for Blood Bowl 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide is a brutal take on one of the greatest turn based strategy games of all time. Regicide fuses multiple phases of gameplay with dynamic action. Maneuver your army into place and unleash a devastating array of tactical abilities to crush your enemies.
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Space Hulk (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blood Bowl 3.
Reviewers of Blood Bowl 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
The legendary Space Hulk returns in this epic turn based strategy game. Set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, an intriguing story of legendary battles and heroic actions unfolds.
Battle for Wesnoth
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blood Bowl 3.
Reviewers of Blood Bowl 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. Explore the four corners of Irdya in seventeen solo campaigns and dozens of multiplayer maps, taking part in countless adventures as you go.
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blood Bowl 3.
Reviewers of Blood Bowl 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
Regicide
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Blood Bowl 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Forget checkmate. Every capture scores in this chess roguelike deckbuilder. Gather powerful floppy disks, rig your pieces (and theirs), and ignite cascading combos as you chase scores you have no right to reach.
Frozen Synapse
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Blood Bowl 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
Xenonauts
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Reviewers of Blood Bowl 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
Door Kickers
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Shares a challenging mood with Blood Bowl 3.
Reviewers of Blood Bowl 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.
Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blood Bowl 3.
Reviewers of Blood Bowl 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Gather your party and get ready for the kick-ass new version of GameSpot's PC Game of the Year 2014. With hours of new content, new game modes, full voiceovers, split-screen multiplayer, and thousands of improvements, there's never been a better time to explore the epic world of Rivellon!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Blood Bowl 3 at current Steam store prices.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Blood Bowl 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Blood Bowl 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blood Bowl 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~75% under Blood Bowl 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~79% under Blood Bowl 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under Blood Bowl 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Blood Bowl 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Blood Bowl 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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More from Cyanide Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Cyanide Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Call of Cthulhu®
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Blood Bowl 3.
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
Styx: Master of Shadows
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blood Bowl 3.
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Blood Bowl 3.
Styx: Master of Shadows is an infiltration game with RPG elements taking place in a dark fantasy universe, where you sneak, steal and assassinate your way through as Styx, a Goblin two-centuries of age.
Styx: Shards of Darkness
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Blood Bowl 3.
Styx returns in a new stealth adventure! Explore and master huge open environments, sneak past or assassinate new enemies and bosses, and experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in our goblin assassin's arsenal.
Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blood Bowl 3.
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Blood Bowl 3.
Create and manage your dream restaurant! Menus, purchasing, décor, staff, equipment, customers… and don't forget the actual cooking! Experience the daily life of a restaurateur and earn your awards from the Michelin Guide.
Of Orcs And Men
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Blood Bowl 3.
You have been appointed to fulfill an extremely dangerous mission, deep in enemy territory: to kill one man... the Emperor himself. Lead the revolution of the Orcs and Goblins!
Rogue Lords
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blood Bowl 3.
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Blood Bowl 3. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
A dark fantasy roguelike where you play as the Devil! Lead famous evil geniuses through events and turn-based fights to spread terror and corruption. Create synergies between your disciples, use your evil powers and take revenge on those miserable Demon Hunters.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Blood Bowl 3.
You are Cahal, a powerful Garou who chose to go into exile after losing control of his destructive rage. He can transform into a wolf and a Crinos, a huge ferocious beast. Master your three forms and their powers to punish those who defile Gaia.
Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic)
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Blood Bowl 3. Shares Strategy with Blood Bowl 3.
Space Hulk: Tactics is a faithful adaptation of the board game Space Hulk, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, bringing a unique twist to the cult classic formula. Engage in bloody battles as either a squad of Terminator Space Marines or the deadly alien Genestealers.
Frequently asked about Blood Bowl 3
- Does Blood Bowl 3 run on Steam Deck?
- Blood Bowl 3 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Blood Bowl 3 cost?
- Blood Bowl 3 is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Blood Bowl 3 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Blood Bowl 3 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Blood Bowl 3?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blood Bowl 3 are Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic), Blood Bowl - Legendary Edition, Mordheim: City of the Damned.
- Who developed Blood Bowl 3?
- Blood Bowl 3 was developed by Cyanide Studio and published by Nacon.
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