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Blood Bowl
Subseries of Warhammer
Blood Bowl	1995
Blood Bowl (2009)	2009
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition	2012
Blood Bowl 2	2015
Blood Bowl: Death Zone	2019
Blood Bowl 3	2023

Key points

Many outstanding bugs and rule miscalculations from previous titles have been fixed.

Lacking a significant number of league management features from previous titles.

Various players and rules have been changed from the standard tabletop rules.^[2]^[3]

General information

Official website

Official forums

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
GamersGate

Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

All versions require Steam DRM.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Team Pack	Contains up to 8 DLC (Lizardmen, Wood Elves, Norse, Undead, Necromantic, Nurgle, Chaos Dwarfs and Khemri). Price adjusts depending on the number of DLC already owned.^[4]
Lizardmen	Adds Lizardmen as playable race. Previously available as pre-order bonus.
Wood Elves	Adds Wood Elves as playable race. Previously available as pre-order bonus.
Norse	Adds Norse as playable race. Free, if base game owned prior to release.
Undead	Adds Undead as playable race. Free, if base game owned prior to release.
Necromantic	Adds Necromantic as playable race. Free, if base game owned prior to release.
Nurgle	Adds Nurgle as playable race. Free, if base game owned prior to release.
Chaos Dwarfs	Adds Chaos Dwarfs as playable race.
Khemri	Adds Khemri as playable race.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/236690/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/236690/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.

Video settings.

Graphical presets in-game do not explain feature differences between them.

Numerous standard options are missing in-game and are exclusive to the config files.

The UI does not properly scale for Nvidia DSR/AMD VSR resolutions beyond native.

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Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Instructions

Input settings

Controller settings.

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Audio settings

Sound settings.

Subtitles can be mistranslated from actual speech for certain languages.

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Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	2	Hot seat
LAN play
Online play	2	Versus

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking		Matchmaking done within the league your team is registered.
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Other information

API

A specific API cannot be forced via the config files.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11
OpenGL	3.3
Shader Model support	4

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Despite stated system requirements, game will not run without DirectX 11 or OpenGL 3.3 support.

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	Vista, 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU)	AMD Dual-Core 2.5 GHz Intel Dual-Core 2.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	3072 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	8 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon HD 5670 Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 768 MB of VRAM OpenGL 3.3 compatible DirectX 10 compatible Shader model 4.0 support
Sound (audio device)	DirectX compatible

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/236690/.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (236690) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

[Proton_path_note-5] 1.0 ^1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/236690/.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (236690) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[2] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[3] Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/236690/.

[4] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[5] The app ID (236690) may differ in some cases.

[6] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[7] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[1] Mac version is now available! - Steam Community :: Group Announcements :: Blood Bowl 2

[2] ttp://www.bloodbowl-game.com/files/RulebookBB2.pdf

[3] ttp://www.thenaf.net/blood-bowl/online/bb2/

[4] ttp://forum.bloodbowl-game.com/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=8472

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+{{DLC/row| Team Pack | Contains up to 8 DLC (Lizardmen, Wood Elves, Norse, Undead, Necromantic, Nurgle, Chaos Dwarfs and Khemri). Price adjusts depending on the number of DLC already owned.<ref>http://forum.bloodbowl-game.com/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=8472</ref>  | Windows, OS X }}
 {{DLC/row| Lizardmen | Adds Lizardmen as playable race. Previously available as pre-order bonus. | Windows, OS X }}
 {{DLC/row| Wood Elves | Adds Wood Elves as playable race. Previously available as pre-order bonus. | Windows, OS X }}
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 {{DLC/row| Necromantic | Adds Necromantic as playable race. Free, if base game owned prior to release. | Windows, OS X }}
 {{DLC/row| Nurgle | Adds Nurgle as playable race. Free, if base game owned prior to release. | Windows, OS X }}
+{{DLC/row| Chaos Dwarfs | Adds Chaos Dwarfs as playable race. | Windows, OS X }}
+{{DLC/row| Khemri | Adds Khemri as playable race. | Windows, OS X }}
 }}

Developers

	Cyanide
Publishers
	Focus Home Interactive
Engines
	Cyatech
Release dates
Windows	September 22, 2015
macOS (OS X)	May 17, 2016^[1]