Brutal Ball Manager 2

Brutalball Manager 2 is a franchise management simulation built around a fantasy version of American football. Matches are played 8 v 8, with players lining up on both offence and defence. The game includes 14 base races and 10 DLC races such as orcs, elves and dwarves, with over 70 variants between them. Simulated matches run on the same engine as matches watched at normal speed, and the player can hand any aspect of any team to the AI at any point. This also allows for hot seat and streaming multiplayer leagues, and the game works with Steam Remote Play.

Franchise features include a draft, a free agency system, in-season events, end-of-season awards, league records, career stat tracking and a Hall of Fame. Free agency runs across the full season through a weekly claim system based on team appeal, and coaches can be hired and fired at will, though firing a coach during the season costs appeal. Players have personality traits that affect weekly events, free agency and on-field performance; those with extreme personalities receive tags that indicate the benefits or problems they may bring. Each of the 13 main ratings from the first game now has dependent sub-traits, so a passing rating is broken down into short, medium and other components. Alongside injuries and deaths, players can now be knocked out of a match without permanent damage, which is intended to make bench depth more important. Substitutions have been simplified so that positions do not change mid-match and specific substitutes are assigned in the roster manager.

The game also includes in-match replays and a streamer mode that speeds matches up when they become one-sided and slows them down when they are close or important. League tools cover exporting players as draft classes to other leagues, swapping franchises between leagues to support promotion and relegation setups, a schedule editor, a custom awards creator and an in-league tournament creator. Modding support includes an in-game team and player editor, logo importing, editable game variables, and fully moddable history, coach and schedule files. The interface has been revised and adds a ticker bar with league news.