Actual gameplay
Eight screens, no mock-ups.
What you do
Build a club. Run the sport.
Full-contact medieval combat is a real sport — steel armour, real hits, real leagues. It's called buhurt, and every team needs someone smart enough to run it. That's you.
Sign the roster
Scout free agents across five weight classes. Find the workhorses and the naturals — and read a fighter's potential ceiling before you spend gold on him.
Train & forge
Push strength, endurance, technique and conditioning. Kit each fighter in seven pieces of armour across four materials, with matched-set bonuses for the completionists.
Set the depth charts
Duels, profights and full-line melees — the real category formats. Decide who fights where, then watch it play out or skip straight to the result.
Climb the ladder
Group stages, brackets, medals, a champion's podium. Battle Pass seasons on the calendar month, daily quests, a weekly medal-point leaderboard — and fifteen banner sets to fly your club's heraldry.
The fight view
Watch the melee, not a spinner.
Every match resolves fighter by fighter on the arena floor. Formations hold and break, engagements form, fighters go down and get counted out — and the play-by-play names who did what to whom.
- Run it at 1×, 2×, 4× or 10× — or jump to key moments only.
- Prefer text? A settings toggle swaps the arena for classic play-by-play. Same fight, same result.
- Every fight has a code. Share it and someone else can watch the exact same bout.
- Results show their odds. You always find out why you won or lost.
The real thing
Buhurt is not a fantasy setting.
From the Old French béhourd, buhurt is fought today in real leagues across the world — armoured athletes in historically-based steel, throwing hands under real rules with real referees. Nations field teams. Clubs travel. Medals get won.
We made this game because we love the sport. If watching armoured athletes go at it makes you want to run the team behind them — welcome to the club.
The Almanac
Upcoming events.
What's on in the game, dated in advance so you can plan the week. Payday Weekend and Triple XP Weekend run Friday 6 PM to Sunday midnight, your local time. Everything else is a full window with its own sheet, milestones and trophy.
Payday Weekend
Double gold on every match and tournament.
Triple XP Weekend
Triple XP all weekend. Climb.
War in the North
The first dated event. Four stages, a fresh sheet for every club, and the 2026 shield — never awarded again. Runs the same week as the real tournament in St Paul, MN. Tickets and details →
All Hallows Melee
Halloween in the lists. The Triple XP Weekend runs inside it.
The Autumn Gauntlet
Second dated event of the season — same template, new sheet, new trophy.
Payday Weekend
Double gold on every match and tournament.
The Great Feast
Thanksgiving week. Triple XP through the weekend.
Season One Finale
Last days of the first season board. Season Two opens 1 December.
The Nationals
A three-day event. Short sheet, big podium.
Payday Weekend
Double gold on every match and tournament.
Yule Grand Melee
Christmas week and the long holiday. The Triple XP Weekend runs inside it.
Midnight Toll
Ring in the year in armour.
Payday Weekend
Double gold on every match and tournament.
Every month: Payday Weekend on the second weekend, Triple XP Weekend on the fourth — unless a holiday or event already owns that weekend, in which case it carries the bonus. The 2027 calendar — the Off-Season Muster, the Winter Conference, the Worlds and War in the North II — is announced as each date is set. Follow BonkWorks on Facebook for the posts.
Our promise
Fair by design.
Management sims live or die on trust. Here's how we keep yours.
Plays entirely in your language. Not a machine pass over the menus — the roster, the store, the quests and the round-by-round fight commentary are all translated.
The studio
BonkWorks Studios
BonkWorks is a small independent studio in North Texas, building games about sports that deserve better games. Armored Combat Team Manager is our first title — and the first buhurt game on any app store.
We're veteran-owned, one-person-sized, and we answer our own email. Bug reports, feature ideas, or a story about your club's last tournament: pete@bonkworks.com.
Veteran-owned · North Texas
Straight answers
Questions we actually get.
Is buhurt a real sport?
Yes. Buhurt — also called armoured combat or HMB — is full-contact fighting in historically-based steel armour with blunted weapons, under strict safety rules and real referees. It's organised into clubs, national teams and world championships. Search it on any video platform and clear your afternoon.
What does it cost?
The game is free. There are optional in-app purchases between $0.99 and $99.99, a monthly battle pass, and optional rewarded ads you choose to watch. One purchase removes ads permanently, and it survives a reinstall.
There are no loot boxes, no gacha and no random-odds anything. Every price is a fixed price for a known item, and everything in the game can be earned by playing.
Is there pay-to-win?
There's nothing to pay-to-win against — the game is single-player against CPU clubs, with no PvP matchmaking. Spending speeds you up. It doesn't take anything away from anybody else.
Does it work offline?
Yes — the whole game runs on a plane. Your save is stored on the device and backed up to the cloud whenever you're connected.
What languages does it support?
Eight: English, Polish, Ukrainian, German, French, Spanish, Czech and Italian. All of them are complete — including the round-by-round fight commentary, which is generated in your language rather than translated after the fact. The game follows your phone's language by default, and you can override it in Settings.
When can I play it?
1 September 2026, free on Google Play.
1 September 2026, free on Google Play. Pre-register now and Google installs it for you the day it launches — nothing to remember, and you can cancel from the Play Store any time.
Right now — it's live on Google Play. The button at the top of this page takes you straight there.
iOS comes after Android is stable. It is planned, not shipped, and we'd rather say so than put a fake date on it.
Is it affiliated with a buhurt league?
No. It's an independent game about the sport, made by fans, with input from community fighters during development. It isn't licensed, endorsed by or affiliated with Buhurt League, IMCF, HMB or any other federation.
How do I delete my data?
In the app: Settings → Cloud & account → Delete account & data. Or do it without installing anything from our account deletion page. Either way it's permanent and it's done inside 30 days at the outside — usually instantly.
Be first through the gate
Launching 1 September.
Pre-register and forget about it.
Take the field.
Armored Combat Team Manager arrives on Google Play on 1 September 2026 — free, offline, no loot boxes, and the first buhurt game on any store. The countdown is running on Facebook: art, fight footage and a post a day until the gates open.
Pre-register on Google Play and the game installs itself on 1 September. Google sends the notification, so there is nothing to remember and no email list to join.
Free on Google Play. No loot boxes, no pay-to-win, and the whole thing plays offline.
Pre-registering is free and you can cancel it from the Play Store at any time. We never see your address — Google handles the notification.