A full wrestling booking game for the Playdate

The whole wrestling business, in the palm of your hand.

Run the company. Book the shows. Build the stars. Sign the talent, write the stories, fight for television, and turn a small promotion into the biggest in the world, on a console that fits in your pocket and has a crank.

Get the game on itch.io Join the community

Make your own world Make a picture pack

New to Playdate? It is a little yellow handheld with a black-and-white screen and a crank. See it at play.date

The title screen: two wrestlers either side of the words Pocket Wrestling Federation, above the menu

What is in it

Book every showMatches and angles, a weekly show and a big event every month. Feuds, turns, tag teams, stables, title changes and the odd wedding.

A living worldRival promotions with owners of their own run real shows, raid your roster, rise and fall.

People, not numbersPersonalities, friendships, grudges, a locker room leader, contracts with promises in them.

Careers that lastDebuts, injuries, championships, farewell tours, legends, a Hall of Fame. History follows everyone.

TelevisionChannels, time slots, ratings, standards, and a deal to negotiate when it runs out.

Yours to changeA database editor and a sandbox in the game, and full mod support: community worlds, picture packs, and tools to make and share your own.

On the Playdate

Your Top Stars: three wrestler portraits with their styles and popularity — **Your stars.** Big portraits for the names that sell the tickets.

The office menu: book the show, roster, free agents, titles and more — **The office.** Everything you run, a turn of the crank away.

Every wrestler. Skills, contract, morale, grudges and a career history.

The roster list with popularity, alignment and style for each wrestler — **The roster.** Sort it, filter it, and see who is being wasted.

The Wrestling World: five promotions ranked by popularity — **A living world.** Four rivals in three territories, all chasing the same fans.

The Locker Room page of the company tour — **The locker room.** Teams, veterans, rookies, and the payroll that comes with them.

Mods: make it your game

The world that ships with the game is only the start. PWF is built to be changed, and everything players make can be shared.

Download whole worldsReal-world rosters and scenarios made by the community: famous eras, today's scene, or something nobody has thought of yet. Pick one and start a new game in it.

Picture packsSets of portraits and title belts on their own. Install one and give its pictures to any wrestler or owner you like, or make a pack from your own pictures: the editor turns any image into a Playdate portrait.

Create your ownBuild a roster from scratch in your browser: wrestlers, companies, titles, tag teams, legends, who arrives in later years, even new match types and gimmicks.

Share itSign in with Discord, publish to the mod library, and anyone can play your world or use your pictures. Update it whenever you like.

Install on the consoleBrowse the library from inside the game and install over Wi-Fi. No computer, no cables.

Mix and matchPlay a community world with faces from a picture pack, or open any world in the editor and adapt it into your own.

Browse the mod library Make a world Make a picture pack

Backing up your games

Your saved games are ordinary files. You can copy them to a computer to keep them safe, or to keep more than the three the game has slots for.

Getting at them: on the Playdate, go to Settings > System > Reboot to Data Disk and plug it into a computer. It appears as a drive. Open Data, then the folder whose name ends in com.pocketwrestlingfederation.pwf.
What is there: world1.json, world2.json and world3.json are your three save slots. database.json and portraits.json are your own database. Files beginning mod are databases you installed.
To back up: copy the whole folder to your computer. That is everything.
To restore: copy it back, replacing what is there.
More than three games: copy a world file to your computer and call it anything you like. To play it again, copy it back as world1.json, world2.json or world3.json, replacing a slot you can spare (back that one up first). The menu may show the old description until you load it once.
A game started with an installed database needs that database on the Playdate to show its portraits. Keep the mod files with it, or back up the whole folder.
Eject the Playdate before unplugging it.

The same notes are in the game: Help > Backing up to a computer. A saved game can also be opened in the editor.

Community

Share what you make, ask questions and see what is coming.

Discord
discord.gg/PneXBZY6ds

Bluesky
@pocketwrestling.bsky.social