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Blood Bowl 3

Cyanide Studio · Slitherine Ltd. · 2023-02-23

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SportsStrategy

Franchise: Warhammer, Blood Bowl · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Feb 23, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 23, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Feb 23, 2023 (Xbox One), Feb 23, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), TBD (Nintendo Switch), Feb 23, 2023 (PlayStation 4)

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.

Blood Bowl 3 is a 2023 Sports and Strategy game priced at $29.99, with a Mixed review sentiment (50% of 5641 reviews) and an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners.

64
playing now
50%
positive of 5.6k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
51/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

64 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Blood Bowl 3 is a turn-based fantasy sports video game developed by Cyanide Studios and published by Nacon. It is a sequel to the 2015 video game Blood Bowl 2, based on the Blood Bowl board game by Games Workshop and is the third Blood Bowl game created by Cyanide. The game was released on 23 February 2023 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, with a Nintendo Switch port planned to be released at a later date.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 64 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 287 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~36/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,161 reviews).
  • · Top 10% of 980 Sports games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 113k–254k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 5,641 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$11.99-60%
Microsoft Store$39.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $8.65 at GameBillet (2025-11-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 101 of 102 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
81181120232026Week of 2023-02-01: 350 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 811 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 274 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 284 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

223512026-08-07 00:00 — 72 players2026-08-07 10:00 — 100 players2026-08-07 18:00 — 182 players2026-08-08 02:00 — 70 players2026-08-08 10:00 — 110 players2026-08-08 18:00 — 185 players2026-08-09 02:00 — 88 players2026-08-09 10:00 — 140 players2026-08-09 18:00 — 209 players2026-08-10 02:00 — 68 players2026-08-10 10:00 — 109 players2026-08-10 19:00 — 223 players2026-08-11 03:00 — 72 players2026-08-11 11:00 — 117 players2026-08-12 07:00 — 65 players2026-08-13 14:00 — 124 players2026-08-14 22:00 — 149 players2026-08-16 06:00 — 69 players2026-08-17 13:00 — 141 players2026-08-18 21:00 — 157 players2026-08-20 04:00 — 58 players2026-08-21 12:00 — 107 players2026-08-22 19:00 — 170 players2026-08-24 03:00 — 83 players2026-08-25 11:00 — 98 players2026-08-26 19:00 — 218 players2026-08-28 03:00 — 63 players2026-08-29 11:00 — 111 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 64 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$8.122022-12-052026-08-262022-12-05 — best price $29.992023-03-06 — best price $24.882023-05-01 — best price $18.992023-06-01 — best price $21.992023-06-22 — best price $23.992023-07-21 — best price $20.232023-08-08 — best price $23.992023-09-10 — best price $23.292023-10-10 — best price $23.992023-11-18 — best price $16.182023-12-14 — best price $19.582024-01-05 — best price $22.042024-01-19 — best price $19.582024-02-28 — best price $9.992024-03-27 — best price $29.992024-04-22 — best price $11.992024-05-24 — best price $11.702024-06-18 — best price $11.382024-07-27 — best price $22.042024-08-23 — best price $22.042024-09-26 — best price $29.992024-10-19 — best price $23.392024-11-25 — best price $10.792025-01-02 — best price $29.992025-01-29 — best price $22.042025-03-20 — best price $29.992025-05-19 — best price $9.892025-07-17 — best price $11.702025-08-24 — best price $11.852025-09-29 — best price $11.692025-10-28 — best price $9.282025-11-21 — best price $8.652025-12-18 — best price $11.992026-02-05 — best price $11.992026-04-10 — best price $8.122026-06-01 — best price $9.892026-07-21 — best price $29.992026-08-26 — best price $39.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

129302026-05-13 — 41 pageviews2026-05-16 — 45 pageviews2026-05-19 — 54 pageviews2026-05-22 — 85 pageviews2026-05-25 — 63 pageviews2026-05-28 — 48 pageviews2026-05-31 — 60 pageviews2026-06-03 — 70 pageviews2026-06-06 — 48 pageviews2026-06-09 — 57 pageviews2026-06-12 — 49 pageviews2026-06-15 — 59 pageviews2026-06-18 — 61 pageviews2026-06-21 — 59 pageviews2026-06-24 — 49 pageviews2026-06-27 — 47 pageviews2026-06-30 — 60 pageviews2026-07-03 — 63 pageviews2026-07-06 — 46 pageviews2026-07-09 — 50 pageviews2026-07-12 — 52 pageviews2026-07-15 — 52 pageviews2026-07-18 — 53 pageviews2026-07-21 — 54 pageviews2026-07-24 — 66 pageviews2026-07-27 — 53 pageviews2026-07-30 — 61 pageviews2026-08-02 — 59 pageviews2026-08-05 — 38 pageviews2026-08-08 — 66 pageviews2026-08-11 — 46 pageviews2026-08-14 — 49 pageviews2026-08-17 — 65 pageviews2026-08-20 — 61 pageviews2026-08-23 — 48 pageviews2026-08-24 — 47 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

15202026-08-26 20:34 — 138 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 107 viewers2026-08-26 22:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-26 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 8 viewers2026-08-27 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 09:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 11:34 — 16 viewers2026-08-27 12:34 — 27 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 144 viewers2026-08-27 14:34 — 152 viewers2026-08-27 15:34 — 114 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

42
achievements tracked
60.5%
earned "First of many"
14.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsIn-App PurchasesCamera Comfort6 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,1551%42
PS5 (PlayStation)9286%43
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)3554%43
PS4 (PlayStation)2509%43

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

PvPRPGFunnyActionFantasyStrategyTacticalBoard GameTurn-BasedMultiplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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