Bend The Rules In Pro Jank Footy On Nintendo Switch 2

Umbrella Gaming, Powerbomb Games and Tinker Town have confirmed a release date for Pro Jank Footy, which is coming to both Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch.

This “over-the-top arcade comedy-sports game” has been created as “a love letter to high-energy sports games of yesteryear and Aussie Rules Footy and culture.”

“Australian Rules Football, colloquially known as ‘Footy,’ is a fast-paced, contact sport played between two 18-player teams on a traditional cricket oval, where players kick a grid-iron shaped football and score goals between two giant posts at the end of the field,” the publisher explains in a press release.

“From the outside looking in, Aussie Rules Footy sounds like a completely made-up sport, and this key insight is what drives Pro Jank Footy: it is a game that reimagines the rules of Aussie Rules Footy.”

Whenever you score a goal in Pro Jank Footy, your opposition gets to choose a game-changing power-up. These powers can improve your team – whether making them faster or instantly recruiting a high-powered superstar player – or make your opponent’s team worse by causing their players to slip when they run or by turning their entire team into tiny players. There are also powers that change the game’s rules, adding goalposts all around the boundary line, introducing a third team to the game or transforming every player into a football or seagull.

The more goals that are scored, the more powers affect the gameplay. These stack as the match progresses, meaning that a traditional sports game quickly descends into “beautiful janky chaos,” with more than 150 powers to choose from.

Choosing from 10 fictional Australian-centric teams (such as the South Coast ‘Prawns’ and the New Team Coming ‘Sooners’) and playing in four different stadiums (which include the typical suburban oval and the shopping centre carpark), the game has a single-player Season Mode alongside support for local and online multiplayer.

“When we exhibited Pro Jank Footy in Japan, a lot of players didn’t even realise our game was based on a real sport, let alone a billion-dollar industry,” explains Powerbomb Games creative director David Ashby.

“We hope that this sentiment continues as more people play our game. It’s a really tasty thought to think that Pro Jank Footy has the potential to distort the world’s view of Australian Rules Football. It would be a real good thing, considering we take footy incredibly seriously down under.”

The publisher has outlined the game’s key features, which include:

• Arcade-style footy gameplay, reimagined with power-ups, brawls, and pure jank.
• Roguelite Gameplay: Every goal scored lets your opponent choose from over 200+ ridiculous power-ups that completely alter the match. Or, play classic mode for simple, arcade footy with no power-ups.
• Chaos-first design – expect things to break, bounce, and burst.
• In-game commentary by Broden Kelly, yelling at you the whole time.
• Single-player, couch co-op, and online multiplayer.
• Season mode with deck-building mechanics — upgrade your squad, choose your best strategies.
• Aussie Rules meets Aussie humour. It’s chaotic, unpredictable, and proudly embraces Australian culture.

Pro Jank Footy will be released digitally on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch worldwide on 12 August 2026.