RetroMania Wrestling

RetroMania Wrestling

Skip · Action · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$19.99Skip

On its price record

$10.01Fair

Length
2.2h
Value
$9.09/hr
Reviews
83% of 320 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.01 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 459 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$9.09/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews83% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 81% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 243 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

RetroMania Wrestling is a throwback arcade game inspired by classics of the past, with great 2D action and an eclectic roster of wrestlers past and present!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 17 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 66 weeks ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Circle of Sumo: Online Rumble! (free, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Creed: Rise to Glory™ ($29.99, scores 32).

More about RetroMania Wrestling

Critics scored it 66. Players sit 17 points higher at 83 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Of the 243 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2021 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 112 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 46 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

65% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

It was fun for the first 4 hours apparently, and I got most of the way through the story. A bit hard to control at times but it was still fun. Now, when I come back, the controls don't seem to work. Grappling seems completely random and I can't even get past the tutorial.
Cool Cat KaToffeeNot recommendedafter 4.5hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
WWF Wrestlefest is probably the most fun, pick up and play wrestling video game ever created. You put a quarter in, start pressing buttons, and you start doing things that make sense. RetroMania Wrestling obviously takes a lot of inspiration from that game, but the core game engine isn't the fun, intuitive, pick up and play system of Wrestlefest. It's based off the timing driven Fire Pro Wrestling engine. Which I...
gachnarNot recommendedafter 4.8hJun 2026Read on Steam
If you like Wrestling and old school vibes this game is for you! I LOVE the mix of LEGENDARY & Up and Coming stars! Some i would like to see is: The GodFather/Papa Shango, Eddie Guerrero, JCW (Violent J & Shaggy 2 Dope), Luchadores: (Mistico, Templario, Máscara Sagrada) A collab with Nacho Libre would be very cool (Nacho, Esqueleto, Ramses). Also would like to see Create a Wrestler/Arena mode and maybe more weapons...
ChiefTreeRecommendedafter 3.4hJan 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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RetroMania Wrestling scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1252300/retromania-wrestling
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+17
Critics66
Players83
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 320 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperRetrosoft Studios
PublisherRetrosoft Studios
GenreAction
Released2021
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements49