Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate Review – Is This Turtle Power Worth Shelling Out For?

by Jim Smale · Published May 19, 2025 · Updated May 16, 2025

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate review explores whether this roguelike adventure truly delivers on the fast-paced action and deep strategy fans expect. As Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo fight to rescue Splinter, players navigate dynamic combat, fluid movement, and an upgrade system that keeps every battle fresh. Does Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate capture the spirit of the franchise while offering an engaging experience for newcomers? From its striking art direction to adrenaline-fueled gameplay, this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate review breaks down what works, what falls short, and whether it’s worth your time. Read on to discover if this latest TMNT adventure lives up to the hype.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate Review Pros:

Decent cel-shaded graphics.
1.75GB download size.
Platinum trophy.
Includes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Splintered Fate Casey Jones DLC.
Mono sound option.
You can remap the controls.
Three ways to play – coach co-op, single-player, and online play.
Two difficulties – Easy and normal. All that changes is how the enemy fights.
Four-player Co-op support.
The optional opening tutorial explains the controls and mechanics of the game, along with story elements.
Excellent voice work.
You can see enemy health bars and damage numbers.
Character interactions auto-play.
Roguelike action gameplay.
Dragon coins can be found and earned; these stay with you even after death, and you spend them on permanent upgrades.
Play as any turtle, and each has a unique tool, abilities, or buffs.
Improved loading screens, making new runs and transitioning areas a million times faster.
As you do a run, you earn exp, and when you level up, you pick one of three upgrade choices.
A game over, you lose everything except dragon coins.
The game is played in a 3D isometric view.
Your home in the sewers is the hub where you spend coins and choose a turtle, use practice dummies, etc.
A reward is doled out after encounters.
Handy slow mob last kill in an encounter, so you know when it’s over.
Breakable objects everywhere.
Very fast-paced combat.
The game has mini-boss encounters.
In Single Player, you can pause the game.
A lot of elements are in play, like dark, light, etc, and as you level up, you get the ability to build them up, and enemies can be weak to them.
Your character has a circle around them with an arrow to help you navigate the world.
Run details in the menu show what you are currently running with your character.
Casey Jones is a really good character once you get used to how he plays and you get some upgrades, his Puck move, for example, can bounce off and deal damage to multiple people, and is a real game changer.
Find scrap in breakables and enemy drops.
Casey Jones has two inspirations – applies guard break for 3s to enemies hit, and after a special, your next attack is a final strike with a 30 percent crit chance.
The devs have clearly listed as yes that the bosses at certain intervals are the same every time, they have made enemies, room layouts, and mini bosses are all randomised, which makes new runs a lot better.
Casey Jones has one tool – for 6s deal 30 plus damage and quickly recover special charges.
A shop can appear on a run, and you spend scrap on items and health.
The dragon coin upgrades are split into training, technique, and specialty.
Artifacts can be found and equipped before a new run.
The new enemies in the DLC look rad with mouse mohawks and brilliant boss characters.
Takes a lot of mechanics and ideas from Hades.
The game is very fluid.
A full running stats screen.
You unlock new items and mechanics as you play the game.
Massive end-of-area big boss encounters.
The DLC has mini-boss encounters, and the DLC also adds new enemies, the Punk Frogs, and bosses made from junk!
Everyone can play the Junkyard in Online and Local Play when the host has access to it.
A wide variety of enemy types and features well-known characters.
For online play, you can select to start a new run or carry on with your single-player run.
Offline local multiplayer has full 4-player support.
It feels like you are always unlocking something new.
Online has created a run and joined a run.
You get story elements from Casey Jones, and he explains what is going on top and how he came to be down in the sewers
New loading screen pictures mention it as it’s a DLC addition.
Dreamer Upgrades is another set of upgrades and buffs using the Dreamer coins, This one focuses more on getting more scrap, better loot, and re-rolls.
What I do appreciate is that future runs do have you feeling like you are doing better. Boss fights may be repetitive, but they do mix up attacks, and you can see different forms and patterns.
5 new Artifacts were added to the game with the DLC.
Another way of getting currency is picking certain rewards, as you get a bonus amount of currency added.
All new seperate story for the DLC.
It’s really satisfying and looks so cool when you have elements attached to your weapon, as you see them as you attack.
The game moves at a much faster pace than the Nintendo Switch version and the Steam versions.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate Review Cons:

Probably a personal thing, but I don’t like how often they say father all the time in relation to Splinter.
No way to just bring up the controls.
Doesn’t have the cinema mode option from the Nintendo Switch version that sets the FPS.
The difficulties are in a menu called mode select for some reason.
Sucks you have to unlock the Junkyard by clearing chapter 3 each time to get the option to go there.
You have to agree to share information in order to play multiplayer.
The game isn’t super clear on whether you can use your offline run online and offline indefinitely, or if you wipe over progress.
You cannot make private rooms.
No customisation options for the characters.
Casey Jones is not selectable straight away, and you have to do a run before he unlocks.
You cannot just go up to Casey and select him, you still have to go to the Turtles selection part of the sewer.
A lot of the scenery cannot be broken like barrels and some boxes.