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Mobile game · 2020

Retro Bowl

Retro Bowl is an American football simulation game in the style of pixelated video games of old. Play as one of 32 teams, making personnel decisions and playing in the games to try and win the Retro Bowl at the end of the season.

Estimated daily players

~1,700,0000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 81K11M

Estimated total players

~33,000,0000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 8.1M73M

See what's trending

Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Jan 17, 2020AndroidiOSESRB 12PEGI E

What the estimate rests on

  • Google Play 58%
  • App Store 31%
  • Reddit 11%

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play Retro Bowl, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on Google Play, App Store, Reddit, Twitch. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~1,700,000

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 81K11M

No source reports a live count for this game, so this is a share of the total player base — a genre assumption rather than an observation, which is why the range is wide.

Estimated total players

~33,000,000

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 8.1M73M

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Estimated total players over time

2 readings · last 2 days

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for Retro Bowl per calendar month, newest first
MonthEstimated total playersChange
August 2026~26,000,000

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed Retro Bowl where it is sold.

Google Play ratings

474,103

Average rating
4.6
Installs
5M+

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Ratings left on the Android listing. It is the broadest signal in the catalogue — about half of all games here have a Play page.

App Store ratings

916,540

0.0% no change vs Aug 8, 2026
Average rating
4.8

Ratings left on the iOS listing, read from Apple’s public lookup endpoint.

Community signals

How many people gather around Retro Bowl outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.

Reddit members

115,926

0.0% no change vs Aug 8, 2026

Subscribers to the game’s subreddit.

Twitch viewers

0

Live channels
0

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

People watching this game on Twitch right now, summed across every live channel in its category.

Not tracked for Retro Bowl: Steam, Discord, YouTube. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play Retro Bowl?

We estimate that about 33,000,000 people have played Retro Bowl — plausibly between 8.1M and 73M. Around 1,700,000 of them play on a given day, in a range of 81K and 11M. Both figures are modelled from public counts on Google Play, App Store, Reddit and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is Retro Bowl still active?

Yes. Retro Bowl is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the Retro Bowl player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 2 readings taken since August 8, 2026.

How big is the Retro Bowl Reddit community?

Retro Bowl has 115,926 members on Reddit, as of August 9, 2026.

When was Retro Bowl released?

Retro Bowl was released on January 17, 2020 for Android and iOS.

What platforms is Retro Bowl available on?

Retro Bowl is available on Android and iOS. You can get it from Google Play, App Store (iPhone) and App Store (iPad).

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