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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.
EXCLUSIVE TO APPLE ARCADE
OUT NOW!
OUT NOW!
EXCLUSIVE TO APPLE ARCADE
04 September 2025: Join us for our breakout 2nd season! NFL Retro Bowl '26 is available right now exclusively to Apple Arcade, with the teams & stars of the NFL & NFLPA, plus play weekly games to help your team to the top of the NFL Retro Bowl Championship leaderboard. Download the game here:
CHAMPIONSHIP COMPLETE
CHAMPIONSHIP COMPLETE
19 January 2026: With the NFL Retro Bowl '26 Championship concluding at the end of the regular season, we're just gonna leave this image up here for a bit for the Colts fans to enjoy. Congratulations to you Colts fans!
CHALLENGES
CHALLENGES
Challenges are now live for NFL Retro Bowl '26. Challenges allow you to pick any of the current NFL Divisional Playoff games and challenge a friend or friends to play that game and post the best score to a leaderboard. To make use of the new feature you'll need NFL Retro Bowl '26 and iOS26 installed. Simply open the Games App, navigate to the "Friends" tab and press the "Challenge Your Friends" button and you should see NFL Retro Bowl '26 on your list of games that contain challenges. We hope you enjoy the new feature, and best of luck to your team if they made the playoffs!
COMPETITION!
It's Super BowI LX this week, and to join in the fun, we're running a little competition. To join in, you just need to play a PATRIOTS vs SEAHAWKS exhibition game in either Retro Bowl or NFL Retro Bowl '26 and send us the screenshot via our official X page or via email (pr@newstargames.com) with the result like the image below. It should go without saying, but games must be completed before the real-life Super Bowl game kicks off! The aim is to get as close to the real-life Super Bowl score as possible. If multiple correct scores are received, the scores for each quarter will be used to judge a winner. Just one entry per person please.The winner will get their likeness added to the game, just like last year's winner did.
Our top tips would be to set the game to 2 minute quarters to keep the score more realistic; and try to play as the teams would in real life, for example punting for territory when you're not likely to make a first down or not always going for 2 points after a touchdown.
We will accept entries right up to kickoff on Sunday. Good luck to everyone who takes part!
LATEST NEWS
23 January 2026: What a huge compliment! Many thanks to Hideaki Itsuno, hugely respected game director of such great titles as Dragon's Dogma, Devil May Cry, and Power Stone, who listed our own New Star GP as one of his top 5 games of 2025. Thank you so much!
08 January 2026: Updates incoming for NFL Retro Bowl '26, Retro Bowl, and Retro Bowl College!
11 December 2025: You'll never guess what the most downloaded game on Apple Arcade was over the last year. You're absolutely right! It was NFL Retro Bowl '26! A huge thanks to everyone who's downloaded the game this year. You can find the full story at Gamespot here.
27 November 2025: More surprise news! Yes, fan favourite, BAFTA-winning New Star Soccer has been updated for the 2025-2026 season! If you're one of those players who've played before, why not come back and start a new career? Or if you've not played the game before, how about finding out why tens of millions of players love it. Just click above to start your footballing journey to the big leagues!
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