You control professional wrestlers in the ring, chaining together grapples, strikes, and signature moves while working the crowd toward a big finish. A creation mode lets you build your own wrestler from scratch, and a full career mode lets you climb from nobody to champion over many matches. It leans into the theatrical, over the top side of wrestling rather than a straight fighting game.
Gameplay video
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Screenshots & review notes
Overall
A solid comeback for the series after some rough years, even if it never quite matches the chaos and spectacle of the best entries. Wrestling fans will get their fix.
Moment to moment
Grapples and reversals have real weight, and creation suite depth is staggering, but the pacing between spectacle moments can drag during longer matches.
Art and atmosphere
Entrance videos and arena lighting look convincingly like broadcast TV, a nice trick on Switch even if character models occasionally look waxy up close.
Worth your time?
Career mode has surprising heart and the roster is huge, making this a strong pick for wrestling obsessives even if casual fans might bounce off the menus.
Frames captured from the gameplay video above; notes are our own take on the game.
What it's like to play
An early Switch port of the wrestling sim, with the full roster of its era and the complete suite of match types, from Hell in a Cell to Royal Rumble. The grappling system is methodical, built on counters and momentum, and big matches with entrances deliver the spectacle. Creation tools for wrestlers, arenas, and championships are deep for the hardware.
MyCareer mode takes your created wrestler through the ranks with backstage exploration, and Universe mode lets you book your own shows. The roster covers legends and current stars of 2017. Local multiplayer for up to six is a genuine strength for groups.
The honest caveat: this port was widely criticized for severe performance problems, long loading, and framerate drops in multi-wrestler matches, and later patches only partly fixed it. The series then skipped Switch entirely for years. Only for diehard wrestling fans who specifically need a portable option, and even then with low expectations.