Indie Wrestler 4+

Great game with a lot of potential

When I first saw this game pop up on my recommended list, I was a bit cautious. Mobile wrestling games tend to either be button mashers that treat wrestling as a real sport or booking sims filled with fake wrestlers and promotions. When I saw that it was a true wrestling simulator with real wrestlers and promotions, I was very excited. As a wrestling fan, this is what I’ve been wanting for years.

For the most part, it met my expectations. The mini-games are challenging, I like the system of having to buy petrol to get to your bookings as it adds realism, and it was really cool to interact with some of the big names in British wrestling.

I do agree with one of the previous reviews that it feels a bit grindy at times and like it takes a long amount of game time to make any sort of progress. While I like the petrol system, the contracts system feels a bit unnecessary and can lead to the game grinding to a halt if you don’t have enough and the game shop won’t let you buy more. There also appears to be a bug when trying to negotiate for fewer dates where the promoter thinks you’re asking for more money and refuses.

The dirt sheet system is bizarrely random, but I get that that’s intended and so I didn’t hate it.

All in all, I do recommend this to any wrestling fan and look forward to seeing the game develop with the extra additions that are planned.

Great concept needs work

On paper this seems like the dream game for me, however after a couple of hours I realised I don’t think I actually enjoyed the game after the first 5 minutes. It’s incredibly repetitive (this is coming from someone who adores kairosoft games) with nothing really to engage the user apart from hey if you grind 20 more levels you’ll be an uppercarder for this promotion, which doesn’t really do anything but change the consumables you have to use. Fingers crossed it improves in time with new mini games, maybe a feud or storyline system of some sort, tag teams (given the grizzled young veterans introduce you and each promotion has at least one referenced in game tag team on their roster list I’m guessing this was originally intended or is coming soon) or even adding midcard belts or making the grind to champion at the first promotions quicker because off the bat I’m guessing a lot of people get bored long before they become champion. There’s potential for a good game in here somewhere, but it’s definitely a diamond in much need of polishing

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the review. All the ideas that you've mentioned are all coming soon. As a free game that was self funded, we could only do so much before the funds ran out. Now that the game is out, we're building on top of it. Some of the new features coming in the next few months include feuds, tag team options and also mid card titles (as well as a few others). So keep supporting us so that we can get to that stage and make the game as we originally intended it to be.

Level 30-31

I have been playing this game for around a month now and really enjoy it. Few tweaks like actually seeing your avatar with the belt on, but otherwise good. But I Hit level 30 and now there is a 7000+ points gap to get to level 31? If that’s not a way to get people to stop playing I don’t know what is.