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We’re New Star Games, a small but experienced development team with a track record of high-quality titles across many platforms over many years. We’ve had a string of successes on mobile and Switch with the New Star and Retro games, and the sensational Retro Bowl being the #1 app on the US App Store.
Our team boasts the super-talented Simon Read, the man behind the original New Star Soccer, and a collection of industry veterans who’ve worked at major studios on titles such as the Worms series (Team17), Lemmings (Team17), Call of Duty: Strike Team (Activision), Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar), and the Grand Theft Auto series (Rockstar).
We mostly develop retro sports-RPG games in which fun, simplicity, and surprising depth is the focus.
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NFL Retro Bowl ’27 kicks off a brand-new season of the hit NFL Retro Bowl series! Our hit pixel-art game is raising the stakes with a thrilling new Gauntlet Mode. Starting with limited resources, armchair GMs must survive a gruelling 15-game win streak with the highest score among other players. Along the way, they must choose between safe match-ups or high-risk opponents, and the rewards of real NFL stars or powerful perks. Player XP and abilities carry over after a loss, with every run fuelling a relentless climb toward an epic winner-takes-all showdown against a bitter division nemesis and weekly leader-board supremacy.
NFL Retro Bowl '27 is available exclusively on Apple Arcade, and with all the teams & stars of the NFL & NFLPA, plus the traditional Career Mode players know and love, and the weekly Retro Bowl Championship leader-board games to play, there's no better time to get on board and join the fun!
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WEEK EIGHT!
04 November 2026: In the real-world NFL, week 8 generated some pretty unusual stories. The first, and maybe strangest of these was the Buccaneers defeating the Falcons in a rain-soaked game without completing a single pass all game. That’s the first time that’s happened since 1974! The second is the Bears beating the Seahawks 34-17, with Jeffery Simmons making an immediate defensive impact on his debut for the Bears. And the third is the Commanders handing the Eagles a 27-10 defeat despite a slow start that gifted the Seahawks a 10-0 lead only to come back and score 27 unanswered points to secure the win. So did the performances on the NFL Retro Bowl '27 Championship leaderboard match the real-world? Let’s take a look!
Well, not for the first week, none of the leaderboard games went the way of real-life. In the first match-up, the Falcons fans changed the story by notching a convincing leaderboard win over the Buccaneers to hang on to their 9th place. Likewise in the Bears-Seahawks match-up, the Seahawks fans outperformed their real-life team by outscoring the Bears to stay in 12th. And in the third of those games, the Eagles fans posted a very strong score of 11,671,224 to defeat the Commanders and climb into 2nd place.
With the 49ers having their bye week, it was time for the Ravens to shine, and boy did they grab the opportunity! Posting this week’s highest score, the Ravens have finally made it to the top of the table and we’ll have to wait until week 13 when they have their own bye week before we find out whether they’ve done enough to outrun the 49ers. Of course, it’s still only week 8, there’s plenty of weeks still to go, and you the players can change everything as we enter Week 9! Show your support for your team & move them up the leaderboard by playing next week's game and setting the highest score you can.
Our weekly special mention for this week's highest individual score on the leaderboard goes to a Lions fan who has posted the highest weekly score more than once. With a score of 15,285, you take the title of week eight MVP! Congratulations to you, and well done for your continued excellence!
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Retro Bowl College+ is the official spin-off of the smash hit Retro Bowl, taking players back to the old-school. If you thought managing a Pro Team was a challenge, you ain't seen nothing yet!
You'll need to manage tight budgets and encourage hot-headed young players to keep their eye on the ball when they’re surrounded by the temptations and distractions of college life. Can you tell the difference between the next Pro Football superstar and the party animal who doesn’t know when to quit? Can you nurture their talents and help your players make the Draft? Can you turn your school into the greatest football college of all time?
Retro Bowl College+ starts the new semester with a brand new “League Style” option that allows you to change the league rules (seeding, conference alignments and available teams) back to how they were in previous years. For those who are happy to play in the present, Retro Bowl College+ also contains league data for 2026, making sure there is something for all College Football fans to be excited about!
Retro Bowl College+ can be downloaded now from the Apple Arcade service!
SUMMER SALE
SUMMER SALE
UP TO 70% OFF!
UP TO 70% OFF!
09th June 2026: We all like a bargain right? Well, our SUMMER SALE sees a selection of our titles on sale with reductions of up to 70% on Steam, PlayStation, and Switch. So if you've not picked up one of these great games yet, there's no better time than now!
NEW STAR
MANAGER
-70%
NEW STAR
GP
-70%
RETRO
GOAL
-70%
STEAM sale runs 8th - 15th June 2026
PLAYSTATION sale runs 10th June - 1st July 2026
SWITCH sale runs 8th June - 1st July 2026
LATEST NEWS
07 October 2026: Another couple of updates for Retro Bowl games! Some more players and a couple of minor fixes for NFL Retro Bowl '27, while Retro Bowl and Retro Bowl College get a fix for Bluetooth controllers and App switching. Enjoy!
30 September 2026: Another update incoming! The update for NFL Retro Bowl '27 should be live now. We still have quite a few players to add to the game, but we think we have every player who was active at the start of the season in the game now. Enjoy!
25 September 2026: Who doesn't like a little update for the weekend? We've got a couple for you right here:
Retro Bowl: Team strengths have been updated for the start of the 2026/2027 season, and trucking is also available from the week 2 game rather than the week 5 game in the first full career year. There's also a security update just for Android.
Retro Bowl College: We've fixed an issue with the editor where edits to one new team could not be saved correctly. There's also a security update just for Android.
Have a great weekend all!
10 September 2026: As the NFL ’26-‘27 season kicks off, it’s also the start of our NFL Retro Bowl ’27 Championship leader-board! In case you didn’t take part last season, it’s pretty simple... Each week you get the chance to play your favourite NFL team’s real-life weekly game. You can try as many times as you like to set the highest score you can. Your score goes on your team’s leader-board along with those of all the other players who support your team. At the end of each game week, those scores, and the scores of all the other team leader-boards are totalled and posted on our NFL Retro Bowl ‘27 Championship leader-board. The competition runs for the whole of the regular season, and whichever team’s fans have posted the highest score by the time the final week rolls around are declared the winners.
Last season it was a close-fought contest at the top of the table, but the Colts finally won out to finish just ahead of the Eagles. Who will win this season? It’s completely up to you! If you’d like to join in the fun, get yourself an Apple Arcade subscription if you haven’t already, and download the game using the button below!
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