The studio’s new competitive sports game, Rematch, will cost $30 when it releases this summer.
Sifu developer Sloclap has pivoted from martial arts games to sports games with Rematch, a 5v5 competitive football (soccer) game coming this summer. It turns out the skills transfer: Rematch is more Rocket League than FIFA, and it’s « something special », writer Daniella Lucas said after visiting Sloclap for a hands-on preview.
It’ll also be $30, a decision some will probably balk at. Most of today’s biggest multiplayer games either started as free-to-play games or turned free-to-play at some point, and a common refrain when a competitive multiplayer game fails is that it should’ve been free-to-play—it was said about Concord.
Speaking to PC Gamer during that recent studio visit, Rematch creative director Pierre Tarno said that he doesn’t think online games have to be free-to-play, and that making a free-to-play game was never even on the table for Sloclap.
