{"id":26093,"date":"2025-10-08T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=26093"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:08:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:08:43","slug":"40-sports-games-in-1-switch-ps5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/08\/40-sports-games-in-1-switch-ps5\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Sports Games in 1 (Switch, PS5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Don\u2019t be fooled by the title of this game.\u00a0 There aren\u2019t really 40 full sports games on here.\u00a0 Just multiplayer mini-games based on things you do in sports.\u00a0 It feels like a title from a bygone era from the Wii days.\u00a0 40 Sports Games in 1 is available on Switch and PS5, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

The first thing you\u2019ll do is make an avatar using things like various clothes, accessories, hair, skin tone, and more.\u00a0 Then you can choose modes like Quick Play, where you just jump right into one of the games.\u00a0 There\u2019s also Tournaments, where you play three or four games in a row and earn points depending on how well you place, and whoever has the most points at the end, wins.\u00a0 The points you earn will also let you unlock new outfits and things for your avatar as well.<\/p>\n

Up to four can play the mini-games and each one uses ideas from real sports, and most aren\u2019t actually the full game.\u00a0 Sometimes they are, like Squash (racquetball), but most aren\u2019t.\u00a0 For instance, Golf is just mini-golf but you only get one turn and whoever gets closest to the hole on each round wins.\u00a0 Volleyball is just four people hitting the ball to each other and trying not to miss.\u00a0 Reminds me of that one mini-game in Kirby where you whack a bomb back and forth with frying pans.\u00a0 Football is just you running towards a field goal trying not to get tackled.\u00a0 Boxing and fencing are just the same game where four people are in an arena at the same time and you get points for hitting others.\u00a0 You can play games with button controls or motion controls as well.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to say this is like Wii shovelware, because this game isn\u2019t ALL bad.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a basic pick up and play multiplayer title.\u00a0 Graphics are certainly simple enough to have belonged on the Wii.\u00a0 It is a bit annoying that you have to watch the CPU opponents play while you wait for your turn again.\u00a0 I wish they let you practice the games before playing for real, too.\u00a0 It might be fun if you have a lot of people over to play, but I can certainly think of better games than this for that reason.<\/p>\n

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40 Sports Games in 1 is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can hit cartoony people around in some of the games, and they\u2019ll lie there on the ground with dizzy stars around their head, and that\u2019s it.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the instructions, but not necessary just to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t be fooled by the title of this game.\u00a0 There aren\u2019t really 40 full sports games on here.\u00a0 Just multiplayer mini-games based on things you do in sports.\u00a0 It feels like a title from a bygone era from the Wii days.\u00a0 40 Sports Games in 1 is available on Switch and PS5, but reviewed on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26095,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26093\/revisions\/26095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}