Promotion Wars 2025 is the next major release of the Promotion Wars series by Adam Jennings. It will be a significant upgrade on Promotion Wars: 21st Anniversary Edition.
It will be 100% FREE to download, play and keep for everybody. No adverts, no transactions, no premium version.
It is being made for Windows and Release 1 is planned for December, subject to change.
Find out more on the News page and see development videos on the Official YouTube Channel.
The plan is to spread the game over 4 main releases, with the first release being the biggest and subsequent, smaller ones adding further features. The final release will be put onto Steam, for free.
For the first time ever, you'll be able to play in either the standard windowed style, or you can choose to have the game grow to (or shrink to) whatever screen size you're playing on.
Completely redesigned, the Tag Teams screen now shows the pictures of each wrestler in the team. You can assign a Tag Team Finisher and a manager and decide who does the talking! You'll see win-loss-draw stats for the team, what their last match was and when they were last used. In addition, a wrestler can be in multiple tag teams at the same time!
Also completely redesigned, this screen also shows you the picture of every member of the stable. You can assign a manager and decide who does the talking. The stable itself can now have a logo and you get new stats like the win streak of the stable and its momentum. A stable can also occur across multiple promotions. Don't like the term Stable? You can choose in the options to use Faction instead!
The way your roster is displayed has been completely redesigned. You now have more information displayed than ever before, many more ways to filter what you see and you can sort by simply clicking the column headings.
Not only can you now have as many feuds as you want (previous limit 10), you can mix up whatever genders you like in the feud. No more male feud or female feud! And feuds themselves work very differently to any previous version of Promotion Wars, allowing you more control than ever over what happens.
Wrestlers now have ages, which means they also have birthdays and they can also pass away. This can be from old age only, or you can choose realism and have the possibility of wrestler deaths at any time from poor health or accidents.
New wrestler stats include Brawling, High Flying, Entertainment, Experience, Overexposure, Stamina, Star Look, Date Of Birth, Birthplace, Height, Weight, Year of Debut, Year of Retirement.
Ring Styles have been completely refreshed, with a choice of 14 styles. Also new - a wrestler can be given up to 3 Ring Styles instead of just one!
PW2025 lets you accurately recreate every wrestler's unique personalities by assigning traits such as bad attitudes, egos, trouble-makers and many, many more.
When booking the venue for your shows, you can now see a picture of that venue. Other new additions to the Venue Screen include the option to choose a Home Venue and a one-click option to re-book your previous venue.
Up to now, Promotion Wars has only contained UK, USA and Japan. PW2025 adds NINE new areas! Africa, Australia, Canada, China & Hong Kong, Europe, India, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and South America.
The whole look of the game has been refreshed, removing the 'Windows' look and having brand new message boxes. Plus, the addition of Graphics Packs lets you easily add folders to your game containing any number of images, which the game can use as background graphics, banners etc.
Take on challenges and compete against other players for a chance to win rewards and recognition. Show off your skills and climb the leaderboards.
The completely redesigned calendar system allows you to give House Shows a name and a logo for the first time ever, as well as giving them promotion. In addition, you can now give your weekly TV shows a one-off special name and logo, and they will automatically revert back the following week.
The 'Big Shows' screen has had a complete re-design, and renamed Special Events. The logo of all active Special Events can now show on screen at once and can be set to automatically happen on certain points of the year. There is also no limit to how many Special Events you can set up!
As well as your Weekly TV Shows, you can now hold Quarterly Specials! This allows you to replicate shows such as Battle of the Belts and Saturday Night's Main Event. The dates of these can also be automated, just like the Special Events.
You can now make handshake deals with wrestlers, so they can always be available to work for you while they're a Free Agent. But be warned, they can be snapped up by another promotion at any time!
Mass Releases have become a regular fixture in wrestling in recent years, and now that can happen within the world of Promotion Wars. And just like real-life, they can come with 30, 60 or 90-day No Compete Clauses!
Alter-Egos are now much more than just a change of name. Each one can have their own picture, finisher, ring styles and description. And a wrestler can automatically change to an Alter Ego upon leaving or joining a promotion!
With all the new game areas added to PW2025, you can now get trainees whose name and birthplace reflect where your promotion is based.
A brand new way to organise your roster, Divisions are completely customisable. Once set, you can view just a certain division (both on your Roster screen and while booking) and even rank them by their wins, losses and draws.
PW2025 now has its own Title Menu music! Not only does it come with the official Promotion Wars theme song, you can simply drop your own songs into a folder and the game will use them!
The final piece of Release 1 will be a completely new booking system for shows. More will be revealed regarding this in the coming weeks!