SLAMMED! vs Bugborne
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SLAMMED!
Experience a 250,000-word interactive novel where you navigate the treacherous world of professional wrestling. Build your character, choose your wrestling style, and make impactful decisions that shape your journey to stardom, from the ring to backstage politics.
- Interactive text-based novel
- Pro-wrestling career simulation
- Character development and style choice
- Story choices impact outcome
- Manage relationships and rivalries
- Play as male or female, various orientations
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Turn a scripted steel-cage wrestling match into a real fight in this 250,000-word interactive novel! You've always dreamed of becoming pro wrestling's biggest star...but a wrestler's world is fraught with hardship and betrayal, in and out of the ring. Become a powerhouse, a technician, a high-flier, or focus on your promo skills. There's more than one road to success. But none of those roads will be easy. This is a world where your biggest fans are your harshest critics; where the front office is more dangerous than the squared circle; where friends can become enemies with a single heel turn; where, sometimes, the only way to win is to lose, spectacularly. This is professional wrestling. And you're about to change it, forever. Slammed! is an epic interactive professional-wrestling novel by Paolo Chikiamco, where your choices determine how the story proceeds. The game is entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—but driven by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. There's never been a professional wrestling game like this, a game where the outcome of your final match, your choice of opponent, and your relationships affect the ending. When's the last time you played a pro-wrestling RPG with a "kayfabe" stat?--or where your trash-talking "promo" ability is as important as your core strength and wrestling technique? * Enjoy a 250,000-word personal tale of friendship, competition, and revenge. * Develop not only your physical abilities, but a favored wrestling style. * Become a heroic face, or a villainous heel—or even turn heel. * Turn a scripted match into a real fight—and vice versa. * Decide when to keep kayfabe, and when to break it. * Play as male or female, gay or straight.
Bugborne
Experience intense, challenging combat with precise timing and discipline. This soulslike mobile game offers visceral knife fights and strategic dashes for skilled players.
- Intense soulslike combat
- Precise timing and discipline
- Visceral knife fights
- Strategic dashes
- Challenging gameplay
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Bugborne is a soulslike mobile game made by Lemmy LLC which features intense combat that tests your patience, timing and discipline. Built for only the highest echelon of gamers, Bugborne delivers on everything it promises.. visceral knife fights, precise dashes and much much more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Bugborne at Free against SLAMMED!'s $6.99. Bugborne also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). SLAMMED!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (32 vs 2). On review sentiment, ads, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Bugborne is free to download; SLAMMED! costs $6.99 up front. Bugborne sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SLAMMED! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bugborne holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SLAMMED! has 32 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of SLAMMED!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Bugborne's.
SLAMMED! ships an update every 8 months, Bugborne every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SLAMMED! | Bugborne |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (32 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #193 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 311 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Choice of Games LLC | Lemmy |
Customer experience
SLAMMED!
Bugborne
Bugs and requests
SLAMMED!
Reported bugs
5 issues- Game freezes on iOS 9 and later versions
- Car crash flashback sequence causes game to freeze when fighting JJ
- Gender pronoun switches for love interests
- Hometown data display errors
- Choice response mismatches with selected options
Requested features
8 requests- Sequel or continuation of the story
- Save slots for mid-game checkpoints
- Chapter select functionality
- More wrestling-based story games
- Extended ending that continues after final match
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- More character customization options
- Additional match participation opportunities
- More romance options for certain playthroughs
Bugborne
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SLAMMED!
No in-app purchases
Bugborne
- Remove Ads$2.99









