Dungeonbowl - Knockout Edition: Hidden Balls, Exploding Chests and Turn-Based Football

Dice-Driven Football: Find the Ball, Score the Winning Touchdown

Dungeonbowl - Knockout Edition turns fantasy American football into a dice-driven, turn-based contest inside a dungeon. Two teams compete, and the victory condition is decisive: the first touchdown ends the match. Scoring is therefore the winning objective, not a step toward building a larger points total. The game adapts Blood Bowl’s football framework with altered rules, including that first-score finish and a hidden ball. Before a team can complete the winning play, it must find the object it needs to score.

The search centers on six treasure chests: one contains the ball, while the other five are rigged with explosive spells. Looking for possession consequently means dealing with a set of containers in which the dangerous chests outnumber the useful one five to one. The chest rule and the touchdown rule form a linked objective: locate the hidden ball, then score to end the contest. Finding it is not itself a victory; it supplies the ball needed for the match’s single decisive touchdown.

Mixed-Race Colleges Against AI or Online Opponents

Team selection is organized around ten colleges of magic, with each side combining three races in one roster. The Rainbow Wizards provide a concrete example: their team includes Wood Elves, Halflings and Humans together, rather than asking you to choose just one of those races. Choosing a college therefore also means choosing a mixed-race team composition. The two-team format remains, but the colleges supply different combinations of players within it; the Rainbow Wizards’ three-part roster is one example of how that structure works.

Those colleges also define the opposition available in single-player play. You can face each college with the computer AI managing the opposing team, putting the college-based roster system on both sides of a match. Online multiplayer offers the other documented way to compete: challenge another player rather than a computer-controlled college. The distinction is between human and AI opposition, while the teams themselves retain the game’s college structure and mixed-race composition.

Dungeon Movement: Teleporter Shortcuts, Mishaps and Lava

Teleporter pads let a player move magically between positions in the dungeon, providing a shortcut with a potentially severe cost. A teleportation mishap can send that player out of the match altogether. The same movement mechanism therefore offers both relocation and the risk of losing a team member from play. Using a pad is not simply a way to cover ground: its documented failure outcome can remove the very player you were trying to move.

The dungeon also contains lava and other traps, placing environmental hazards alongside its teleporters. These are part of the playing field for the football contest, rather than a separate setting outside the match. Movement takes place within that dangerous environment, with teleporter pads adding their own distinct hazard: magical transport can become removal from play. Lava and traps broaden the dungeon’s dangers beyond the specific risk attached to teleportation.

Build and Share Your Own Dungeon Playing Fields

Dungeonbowl - Knockout Edition includes an in-game dungeon editor for building the environment where matches take place. Instead of only choosing a playing field, you can construct your own dungeon using the edition’s selection of components. That selection includes content from all previous downloadable expansions, bringing those additional building components into the tools used to make a custom playing environment.

Custom dungeons can also be shared with the community, giving the editor a purpose beyond making fields for your own games. Building and sharing are linked features: create a playing environment, then make that dungeon available to other players. Alongside its map selection, Knockout Edition therefore supports player-made playing fields, with the editor supplying the construction tools and community sharing providing a way to circulate the results.

First published Nov 10, 2026.