Wrestling Manager: Dynasty

Wrestling Manager: Dynasty Review: A Tycoon Template in a Borrowed Roster

Recruit the Lookalikes, Train Them, Book the Match, Upgrade the Arena

The design is the mobile tycoon template applied to a wrestling promotion: an isometric arena complex whose office, gym and stands you upgrade for fan capacity and passive income, a recruitment screen with Basic and Elite pulls that yield wrestlers by star rating, training that raises strength, speed and skills, and matches that resolve automatically with counters and a clock while you watch health bars. Chapters of story matches gate progress; alliances and a Faction Boss give it a social layer. The roster is the draw and the risk: a red-masked bull, a Sting in face paint, a Hulk Hogan in yellow and red, an Undertaker, a Rey Mysterio, a Bret Hart — the likenesses are exact enough that three September 15 App Store reviews, two of them five-stars, worry the game will be shut down for copyright. A September 15 five-star from a wrestling fan and GM-sim fan calls it a blast so far; an August 10 Play three-star has been surprisingly entertained.

Not a Booking Sim, Starved of Experience, and Nothing to Do Between Timers

The two App Store two-stars from September 15 and 17 make the genre complaint: it is not a wrestling or booking simulator but another quest-fix-build-collect game, a carbon copy of every other tycoon, with no freedom and no booking angle. The Play reviews make the economy complaint: a September 8 three-star calls it pay-to-play unless you want to move extremely slowly, with too many random events and too many points where nothing is left to do because a match cannot be passed without upgrades still on timers; an August 13 two-star finds experience points too hard to earn, apparently on purpose; an August 10 three-star loses online matches to opponents with three more counters despite a better team, and finds the fourth challenge impossible without buying experience. A September 15 App Store one-star calls it extremely grindy after the first couple of wrestlers. Version 1.1.2 on September 14 added the Alliance Challenge and a Moves System.

Packs Named by Price, $0.99 to $99.99, Ads on Android, and a Data Card Apple Lists in Full

The App Store shop is nine packs named by their price — $0.99, $1.99, $2.99, $3.99, $4.99, $9.99, $19.99, $49.99 and $99.99 — with Google Play's range identical and advertising on the Play listing. Data collection is broad: Google lists personal info, financial info and two other types shared with third parties; Apple lists purchases, user content, identifiers, usage data, diagnostics and other data linked to you. The iOS build is 369 MB on iOS 12 or later — a low floor — with iPad and Apple Silicon Macs; Android needs 7.0; English only; rated Everyone on Play and 18+ by Apple. Play shows 100,000-plus installs and 1,130 reviews at 4.1; the App Store 92 ratings at 4.7 in its first week. Now to Play, a Spanish studio publishing under the Game Hollywood banner, has shipped the same template before with other themes. Prices are regional.