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College Bowl
College Bowl is a beautifully pixelated on-field simulation of American Football! Challenge college rivals on your way to winning a National title! Take on various game modes, including a deep Dynasty mode with in-depth recruiting, scouting, stat tracking, ranking, bowl games, yearly goals and more!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“Plays like NCAA looks like Techmo bowl all nostalgic goodness buy this game instend of the New NCAA football game if you like me are kinda fed up with EA.”
— a player, Steam review · 189 hrs played“Unironically better than CFB27. It has fidelity, difficulty, enough franchise details to keep the game deep but fun. If this was released on mobile, it would be a cultural phenomena.”
— a player, Steam review · 18 hrs played“A fantastic follow up to the beloved indie *Legend Bowl*. Bringing in more plays, formations, customization options, and the beloved option plays. Also no microtransactions!”
— a player, Steam review · 82 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-25.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Patch Notes v1.014
College Bowlers! Here's a minor patch to fix some minor issues and miscellaneous items. Fixes Updated Dynasty mode base year to 2025. Increased Dynasty mode funds to better serve your team's needs. Fi
Patch Notes v1.013
College Bowlers! This is a very minor update to fix an issue when first picking up the game and playing the tutorial from the Exhibition menu. Fixes Fixed soft crash bug that occurs when playing tutor
Patch Notes v1.012
College Bowlers! We stumbled upon a Dynasty crash that was introduced in our last update that needed fixing. That's all for this update. Fixes Fixed crash bug that would occur when canceling off-seaso
Football Kickoff SALE!
Legend Bowl and College Bowl ? They will both be on sale this week for only $9.99 ! That's 60% off from their retail price of $24.99 . These football games have more depth and simulation than meets th
Patch Notes v1.011
College Bowlers! Finally getting around to releasing some fixes reported by the community. These are basically minor fixes, but a major crash when playing Dynasty mode was addressed for those experien
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Simulation, Sports, Strategy |
| Player tags | Sports · Football (American) · Real Time Tactics · Immersive Sim · PvP · Arcade · eSports · Character Customization · 2.5D · Cute · 2D · Top-Down (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements |
| Languages | English * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 48 |
| Official site | https://collegebowlgame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista (SP2), Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 Processor: 2.0 GHz Dual Core Processor Memory: 4 MB RAM Graphics: GeForce 8800 or equivalent DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 300 MB available space Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible