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Sloclap Reflects on Rematch’s Rocky First Year and the Reality of Live-Service Football

Sloclap CEO Pierre Tarno tells all.

Operation Sports · Dec 16, 2025

"Players are very precise and very demanding": Rematch "was a very strong learning curve" for the Sifu devs, but Sloclap is still working to find the back of the net

Year in Review 2025 | A game of two halves

GamesRadar · Dec 16, 2025

Rematch dev is "sorry" that players wanted more Sifu, "but for the moment it was better to let it rest"

Sloclap had "given everything we had on Sifu"

GamesRadar · Jul 20, 2025

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FIFA and Rocket League aren't major Rematch competitors, according to director who says that fans of the football game "don't have an alternative" to play instead

And Football Manager certainly doesn't count

GamesRadar · Jul 19, 2025

Rematch director doesn't want to make "$50-100 million" games, "because that's what the big studios do" and all it does is limit the studio's creative freedom

And that just makes it harder to survive in a tough industry

GamesRadar · Jul 18, 2025

Rematch developers didn't 'get' the game, Sloclap boss says, until they started playing internal tournaments: 'I don't give a s**t about football, but this really struck something in me'

It turns out that a lot of Rematch developers, and a big chunk of players, aren't soccer fans.

PC Gamer · Jul 11, 2025

"The essence of football is not in the rules": Rematch's creative director on nailing that five-a-side feeling and making a game "about kicking a ball rather than kicking heads in"

Interview | Creative director Pierre Tarno dives into the motion that ties Rematch, Sifu, and Absolver together

GamesRadar · Jul 1, 2025

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Rematch devs talk balls—specifically, how to balance the ball's feel with function: 'It's the basic brick of the game, it's like an atomic component'

Any tweaks need to be done in a "considerate and deliberate way".

PC Gamer · Jun 30, 2025

"Chasing safe bets is a death sentence": Rematch devs had no desire to simply chase FIFA or Rocket League, but they spent years planning out their hit football game

"It was not a question of 'oh, Sifu did very well – what are we doing next?"

GamesRadar · Jun 26, 2025

Rematch devs "never considered free-to-play," even if it risked being "dead on arrival," because "the best way to make a commercial success is to just make a very good game"

"I think that if it's original and solid, plus very reasonably priced, players will get it"

GamesRadar · Jun 24, 2025

Rematch dev says FIFA is "so disconnected from how it actually feels to play football," but his game "feels more dead-on"

If FIFA is a "football simulation," Rematch is a "football player simulation"

GamesRadar · Jun 23, 2025

Rematch passes 100K Steam concurrents in open beta as 'Rocket League but with feet' turns out to be a winning idea

The soccer game from Sifu developer Sloclap might be a winner.

PC Gamer · Apr 18, 2025

'Just make a very good game': Sloclap dismisses the idea that online games need to be free-to-play

The studio's new competitive sports game, Rematch, will cost $30 when it releases this summer.

PC Gamer · Apr 12, 2025

Rematch blew away my expectations—trailers don't do Sloclap's 5v5 football game justice

It's the closest I've come to feeling like I'm actually playing a game of football in a videogame.

PC Gamer · Apr 11, 2025

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The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2025

Rematch packs five-a-side football with sweaty thrills

Sidelining Fifa’s team-focused tactics to put you in the studded boots of a single player, Sloclap’s open beta scores

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