The state of the modern sports game is pretty dire straits at the moment. If your sports game of choice isn’t muddied with predatory modes trying to microtransaction you into bankrupcy, its struggling to finding ways to justify buying this years edition over last year’s. It’s why it’s so refreshing to see Slocap, the award-winning team behind the 2022 martial arts roguelike Sifu, jump into territory few others not associated with Electronic Arts or 2K Games have.
Those efforts may have resulted in one of the year’s biggest sleeper hits. Sloclap’s next game Rematch is the reimagining that the beautiful game deserves and the exact kind of shake up the sports game genre has needed for over a decade. And luckily for players curious about this promising competitive game, its available for free via Xbox Game Pass starting today.
