REMATCH News

Should you play Rematch with a mouse or a controller? It's a harder decision than you might think

When you launch Rematch for the first time, a little pop-up will warn you that the game is "best experienced with a controller." After ignoring that to see how it felt with my beloved mouse and keyboard, I'm not sure I agree; while the mouse controls take some getting used to, they may be preferable depending on your comfort level with thumbstick aiming...
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Rematch surpasses 1 million players in its first day of full release

Sloclap's 5v5 soccer game Rematch came out strong yesterday, racking up nearly 93,000 concurrent players on Steam alone—impressive by any measure, and particularly so for a Thursday afternoon. Today the studio put an even bigger number on the scoreboard, saying Rematch pulled in a million players in its first day of full release...
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Soccer sim Rematch launches with over 90k players, races past EA Sports FC 25

Rematch, a multiplayer-focused soccer-sim from the developer of Sifu, is wiping the floor with the competition. This five-a-side footie game launched just a day ago and it's already hit a peak of 92,841 concurrent Steam players. That's 30,000 more than are playing EA Sports FC 25, the game's closest competitor. And between Steam, Game Pass and console, it's hit over one million unique players.

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Patch Notes

[p]Bugfixes[/p]

[p]Fixed an issue where the ball would hit the goalposts and become entirely out of sync for all players.[/p]
[p]Ball sync issues might still happen under other circumstances.[/p]

[p]Network / Performances[/p]

[p]Pushed a fix to reduce the frequency of crashes occurring after scoring a goal on all platforms.[/p]
[p]Various fixes for stability issues.[/p]
[p]Various netcode improvements.[/p]
[p]Updates to matchmaking to further improve queue times.[/p]

Rematch launched without crossplay because of 'unforeseen technical complexities' and Sloclap is sorry, but it's a hit on Steam anyway

With the 5v5 soccer game Rematch now in full release, developer Sloclap has issued an apology for waiting until the last minute to tell fans it would not have crossplay at launch—and promising that the feature is coming as soon as possible...
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