Blackout Rugby is a modern, multiplayer, social, world-class Rugby Manager Game! Take control of a novice club and sidestep and fend your way to glory. Take on people all around the world as you strategise, conquer the league, battle your way up the ladder, and build up your club infrastructure. Players gave Blackout Rugby - World Cup Edition a 66% positive score. Released July 14, 2022. Top tags include Rugby, Sports, Management, Free to Play, Simulation, Strategy, Massively Multiplayer, Competitive, Early Access, and Team-Based.
Blackout Rugby is a modern, multiplayer, social, world-class Rugby Manager Game!
Blackout Rugby is a modern, multiplayer, social, world-class Rugby Manager Game! Take control of a novice club and sidestep and fend your way to glory. Take on people all around the world as you strategise, conquer the league, battle your way up the ladder, and build up your club infrastructure.
Developed by Blackout Games · Published by Blackout Games
Player Review Breakdown
Blackout Rugby - World Cup Edition has about 84 positive and 44 negative player reviews out of a total 128. We'll add a detailed breakdown here when there are more reviews.
66%
positive of 128 player reviews
Full Game Details
From the Devs
Blackout Rugby is the most in-depth rugby management simulation ever made. Create, control and shape the destiny of your own rugby club in a quest for silverware and glory. Compete against friends and strangers in a massive multi-player rugby world, where your every decision can mean the difference between victory and defeat.
Blackout Rugby is free to play, so download, create your club and take your first steps on the path to sporting immortality!
Features
Design and create your own player training regimes with 20+ different session types to fill them, along with proactive physical training where monitoring the progress of your players can pay big dividends.
A balanced finance system that allows you to concentrate on the things that actually bring your club success whilst leaving the boring mundane money counting to your club’s board.
An innovative card system that shapes what you can accomplish during a day, giving bonuses to those areas you want to prioritize, be it boosting a training session, improving a youth prospect, or strengthening a tactical aspect for an upcoming match.
Anatomically specific injuries that present you with difficult choices about whether to rest or play players.
Develop your club’s infrastructure, from training centers and medical facilities to building statues of past club heroes and broadcasting studios.
Multiple tech trees for you to invest in to steal an advantage and shape the destiny of your club.
Individual player avatars and multiple technical rugby skills and physical and mental attributes that make every player unique.
A straightforward interactive contract system that allows you to negotiate the contract you sign with your players without getting submerged in multiple clauses and sub-clauses.
Create and design your own match-day game-plans, taking advantage of your team’s strengths and targeting the weaknesses of the opposition, with a vast array of tactical options available, from attack patterns and ruck commitment, to kicking strategies and defensive systems and lineout targets.
Set and save your line-ups, bring on substitutes from your bench and create positional depth charts to help organize your squad.
A transfer market that encourages active auctions, but also allows you to make quick sales if you need cash quickly, or to pay well above the market value to ensure you capture the player you want.
A youth academy system that allows you to take a raw talent and turn them into a promising young superstar.
Unions, our take on clans/guilds.
And much, much more!
Coming Soon
Union competitions.
Cup competitions.
Opportunity to manage international sides and take them into World Cups.
Back of the Box
Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux
Age ratings
ClassInd (Brazil) 18
IGRS (Indonesia) 18 — Interaksi Daring
Steam (Germany) 16
Controller required
No
DLC / extras
3 listed on Steam
DRM / EULA
Requires 3rd-Party Account: Blackout Games
Content notices
In-game purchases, Chance based in-game purchases, In-game chat, Online interactivity