Pro Jank Footy Officially Out on Steam

Pro Jank Footy launched on Steam on 12 August 2026, developed by Powerbomb Games and Tinker Town and published by Powerbomb Games alongside Umbrella Gaming. It is an arcade comedy sports game built on Australian Rules Football, and it goes out of its way to reassure you that not knowing the sport is fine.

A power-up system that rewards the player who is losing

The central mechanic is a deliberate inversion. Score a goal, and the store page is explicit about what happens next: your opponent picks a game-changing power-up. Success hands your rival the tools to respond.

Those power-ups fall into three buckets — abilities that hinder the opposition, abilities that improve your own team, and abilities that change the rules of the match outright. It is a rubber-band system built directly into the scoring loop rather than bolted on as difficulty scaling, which keeps matches from running away from whoever gets the first goal.

The rule changes are the joke

The third category is where the game earns its name. Listed examples include doubling the number of players on your team, removing the umpires entirely, playing as a seagull, placing goalposts all the way around the oval, and transforming every player on the field into a football.

That last one is the clearest signal of intent. This is not a sports sim with novelty modifiers layered on top — the modifiers are the game, and the football framework exists mainly to give the chaos something to push against. Powerbomb’s own description promises a season where no two matches play the same, and a rule set this volatile makes that a reasonable claim rather than marketing filler.

Comedy credentials, listed by name

The humour is not incidental. Match commentary comes from Broden Kelly of the Australian comedy group Aunty Donna, and the store page credits David Ashby and Dario Russo — the creative team behind the cult series Danger 5 and Italian Spiderman — with driving the game’s humour.

Naming specific comedy talent on a store page is a commitment most arcade sports games avoid. Whether the writing lands is subjective, but the pedigree is stated openly and is checkable, which is more than most comedy games offer up front.

How you can actually play it

Pro Jank Footy covers more multiplayer configurations than most releases this size. The Steam listing includes Single-player, Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP and Shared/Split Screen. In practice that means couch play, online matches, and a solo season mode for players without a group.

Worth noting what is absent: the listing does not include Steam Achievements or Steam Cloud. The build is Windows only. Interface and subtitle support covers eight languages including French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, with English carrying full audio — which matters here, given how much of the game is delivered through spoken commentary.

Steam genre tags are Action, Casual, Indie and Sports.

Cost, and whether you need friends

Pro Jank Footy is on Steam at $14.99 verified against the store page on 13 August 2026.

This is a party game first and a sports game a distant second. If you have people to play with locally or online, the rule-warping power-ups are exactly the kind of thing that generates a good evening. If you are buying it to play the season mode alone, you are buying it for the commentary and the writing — which the credits suggest is a defensible reason, but go in knowing that is the trade.

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