Retromania Wrestling Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · April 27, 2021

RetroMania Wrestling may be a “pick up and play” arcade wrestling game with beautiful 2D sprites, incredible backgrounds, and fast-paced arcade-style gameplay.

Pros:

Beautiful pixel art graphics.
519.33MB Download size.
Steam achievements.
Controller support.
Graphics-fullscreen, scaling mode, scaling shader, and shadows.
Supports the keyboard and the controller.
Can rebind controls for both keyboard and the controller.
Gameplay settings- difficulty slider, second wi d slider, starting momentum slider, match length slider, and grapple assist.
Wrestling gameplay.
Four game modes-story, 10 pounds of Gold, retro Rumble, and versus.
Excellent pixel graphic animated cutscenes.
Story mode has multiple choice interactions.
Optional tutorial.
Controls don’t take long to learn.
Parodies wrestlers both current and past.
Arcade game presentation.
The action is button-mashy but in a good way as you can easily string moves together, counter, and kick out.
Chiptune soundtrack.
10 pounds of gold is a tournament-style game mode.
Retro Rumble-16 man mode with separate settings for the number of entrants (8-16), max wrestlers I. The ring at once (2-8), wrestlers at the start (2-8), the time between entrants (10-50 secs), humans enter first (Y/N) and allow Ai battles (Y/N).
16 wrestlers to choose from.
17 arenas.
Fast loading times.
Looks a lot like the old SNES games.
Commentary and you can set the frequency.
Out of ring action where you can grab objects and use them as a weapon.
Uses a health bar system, gets it low then pin or submit to win.
Excellent animations.
Does have some licensed wrestler from Legion of Doom to Tommy Dreamer.
So much fun to play.
Performs really well.
Rumble eliminations can be done by pin, submission, or over the top rope.
Versus modes-singles, 3 way, 4 way, tag team, 6 man tag, and 8 man tag. Rules-time limit (none to 15 mins), cage (no/big blue, chain link), falls count anywhere (Y/N), ring count (no, 10-30 seconds), and Ai battle (Y/N).