Mutant Football League

Mutant Football League is a wild American football game from Digital Dreams Entertainment. Monsters, skeletons, robots and other fantasy figures take part in seven-a-side matches. You choose plays, control your players and try to score more points than the opposing team despite traps and fouls.

Alongside touchdowns, absurd special moves and deliberately black humor shape the sport. Knocking out opposing players can also decide a match.

Mutant Football League was released for Windows PC on Oct 31, 2017. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One followed in January 2018. The Dynasty Edition for Nintendo Switch was released in North America on Oct 30, 2018 and in Germany on Feb 20, 2019.

The Switch edition includes Dynasty mode as well as additional teams and arenas.

Mutant Football League was released for Windows PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. The Switch version supports handheld, tabletop and TV modes. On PlayStation 5, the PS4 version can be played via backward compatibility; a standalone PS5 version is not meant by this.

The dangerous arenas and arcade football are the focus on all platforms. The Switch version comes with the Dynasty Edition label.

Mutant Football League combines American football in a seven-a-side format with direct arcade controls. You choose plays and lead your team across the field to gain yards and score touchdowns. At the same time, opponents interfere with the game using unfair means.

A win is not only possible through the score. If the opposing team is weakened by injuries and absences to the point that it cannot keep playing, the match also ends.

For the PC version, Steam lists at least a Core 2 Quad processor at 2.67 GHz or an AMD Phenom II X4 965, 4 GB RAM and a GeForce GTX 460. The game requires DirectX 11 and 6 GB of free storage space.

Recommended: an Intel Core i5-4590, 8 GB RAM and a GeForce GTX 1070. The current Steam client requires Windows 10 or newer.

With so-called dirty tricks, you can deliberately override ordinary football rules. Teams may, for example, bribe the referee or make players suddenly huge. Other maneuvers bring bombs or dangerous weapons into play.

The special moves are part of tactical preparation. Anyone who knows their effect and the right moment can turn a seemingly lost situation around.

The fields in Mutant Football League are packed with traps and other hazards. Mines, fire pits and spinning saws can take players out, even if they escape a tackle.

So you need to read not only the defense but also keep an eye on the surroundings. The stadiums change which running routes are risky and where a play is worth it.

Mutant Football League lets you choose teams of skeletons, robots, aliens, orcs and mutated humans. Different player stats and team strengths affect how well running, passing and aggressive defense work.

The characters and team names play on familiar football clichés. Commentator Tim Kitzrow accompanies the matches with over-the-top calls.

Mutant Football League offers friendly matches, training, playoffs and a full season. In individual games, you can try out different teams and tactics. Across several games, you fight for a place in the Mayhem Bowl.

In the Dynasty Edition, you lead a team over several seasons. You develop young players, sign new talent and put together suitable plays.

Experience points, transfers and managing the team budget are part of long-term growth. The goal is to win the Mayhem Bowl repeatedly with your team.

Mutant Football League supports local matches for up to four players and online games for two. You can compete against others or team up to face another team.

The Nintendo Switch version offers the local multiplayer modes in TV mode too. Online play may require a platform subscription.

Mutant Football League offers English menus and English voice-over. The console versions support controllers, and on Nintendo Switch also handheld and tabletop mode.

The matches are commentated by Tim Kitzrow, who is also known from the sports arcade games NBA Jam and NFL Blitz.