Bush Hockey League (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Bush Hockey League

Aggressive hockey is back! Experience hockey the way it was meant to be played in this old school arcade style hockey game where blood on the ice is just another day at the rink. Big moustaches, no helmets…

67 27 March 2017

What Bush Hockey League is

Bush Hockey League is an arcade game developed by V7 Entertainment and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on MonoGame.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Aggressive hockey is back! Experience hockey the way it was meant to be played in this old school arcade style hockey game where blood on the ice is just another day at the rink. Big moustaches, no helmets, dirty hits, bench-clearing brawls, goalie fights, and stick fights – that’s Old Time Hockey.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical and party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Bush Hockey League holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 30% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Bush Hockey League launched on 27 March 2017, within three weeks of Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition and Zero Escape: The Nonary Games. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, Zero Escape: The Nonary Games.

Official trailer