Booker: The Territories

Booker: The Territories is a deep territory-era wrestling booker simulation from Bottomline Studios. You are not a wrestler — you decide who works, where, against whom, and why the crowd should care.

$19.99 · Windows 10/11. A free demo is on itch: full play from January 1982 through 1983 (locks at 1984). Download the demo.

Set in January 1982, pick one of ten North American region offices and run house circuits, TV tapings, and tentpole supercards while rival bookers expand, invade, and book under the same rules you play.

How to start: pick Quick Start — Handsome Jack’s territory tour plus post-tour coaching (spine, EA/Simulate, June debut class, tentpole hosting, year-end Advance Day, gimmicks). Skip is there for veterans. Jack’s welcome intro is in the build.

What you do

• Fill buildings and keep the TV deal healthy
• Grow stars without burning them out
• Hire an office that can carry the week-to-week grind
• Cook storylines and Face/Heel turns toward blowoffs that feel earned
• Expand your map — by heat, cash, diplomacy, or force

Headline systems

• Office inbox — staff desk notes, show reports, contracts, and industry rags in one place
• Needs Attention — clear blockers yourself or hand the desk Full auto
• Automation — EA pause rules and desk Semi/Full Auto
• Booking lanes — TV, House, and Tentpoles with calendars, city markets, and tentpole host crises
• Creative & Title Office — storylines, Face/Heel turns, writer pitches, gimmicks, belts, and lineage
• Map & Expansion — diplomacy and intel on the map; growth, beachheads, and prestige on Expansion
• Talent steering — Intent / Available flags, FA Chase/Ignore, Roster Health
• Marks & House Discovery — meta-currency for developmental talent stakes and prestige spends
• Finances under pressure — Borrow / Distress with rival cash loans and fire sales
• Campaign — seven victory streams, badge scrapbook, Hall of Fame

Micromanage every card or build an office that runs the territory while you steer the big picture. Handsome Jack stays in your corner until you turn the advisor down.

Official gameplay trailer: YouTube · Jack’s post: @HandsomeJack27

Story film (fantasy, not the UI trailer): watch on YouTube

Think long-form sports management — Baseball Mogul / East Coast Hockey Manager energy — for kayfabe, gates, and regional empire. (Independent game; not affiliated with those titles or any wrestling promotion. Shipped names are original characters inspired by the era, not licensed wrestlers.)

Platform

• Windows 10/11 — installer, no separate .NET install required

Windows SmartScreen note

The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows may show “Windows protected your PC” / Unknown publisher. That’s expected.

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