Blackout Rugby - World Cup Edition
Blackout Games · 2022 · Rugby, Sports, Management, Free to Play, Simulation
PC
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About Blackout Rugby - World Cup Edition
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!
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.
DLC & expansions
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise the strategic depth of this rugby management sim and appreciate its focus on team-building and tactical decision-making rather than direct action gameplay, with some noting the functional interface works well for the genre. However, common complaints include poor visual quality and graphics, technical issues with launching and connection problems, serious privacy concerns about mandatory third-party account creation outside of Steam, aggressive monetization practices, and slow progression that demands significant patience.
Rugby is more dangerous than American football. and this one proves it. I like the concept. but i think visually the game could be better, quality wise!21 found this helpful
[quote][b]Warning: Third Party Account[/b] This game requires you to create a third party "Blackout Games" account... there's no valid reason for this in a PC game when SteamWorks is available. This is often done to harvest private data and profile you, with potential sale and transmission of your private data to third parties. The developers will probably argue that you can trust them, but if they were trustworthy they wouldn't demand you create a third party account. This represents a considerable risk to gamers due to the privacy and security implications of developers that wish to bypass Steam and harvest user data. Remember, sometimes if the product is free, YOU are the product.[/quote] [quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtransaction]Warning: Microtransaction infested mobile app![/url][/b] This game is infested with a toxic mobile app style cash shop. You will be prompted to and expected to give money to the developers through this cash shop to buy in-game goods so you can play the game.[/quote] Blackout Rugby - World Cup Edition is one of thousands of nasty mobile apps infesting the "free" section of Steam, but it's not really free. Even before the cas…6 found this helpful
Blackout Rugby by Blackout Games is a management-focused sports simulation that takes the complex, strategic nature of rugby and translates it into a long-term, system-driven experience built around planning, development, and competition. Rather than putting players directly in control of on-field action, it places them firmly in the role of a club manager, responsible for shaping every aspect of a team’s growth. The game’s identity is rooted in preparation and decision-making, offering a slower, more deliberate take on sports gameplay that prioritizes strategy over immediacy. The core of the experience revolves around building a rugby club from the ground up. Players are tasked with managing a roster, developing individual athletes, and constructing tactical approaches that align with their team’s strengths. Each player is defined by a range of attributes that influence performance, requiring careful consideration when assembling a squad. Training systems allow for targeted development, giving players control over how their team evolves over time. This creates a sense of ownership, as progress is tied directly to the decisions you make rather than to random outcomes. Matches the…
Игра 'Blackout Rugby - World Cup Edition' - это захватывающий менеджер регбийной команды. Погружает в мир стратегий, тренировок и трансферов, позволяя почувствовать себя настоящим тренером. Кубок Мира добавляет остроты, заставляя бороться за престиж и доказывать миру силу своей команды. Графика проста, но функциональна, вся суть игры в управлении и тактике. Интерфейс удобен, все необходимые опции легкодоступны. Единственный минус, это несколько медленный прогресс, требующий терпения и упорства. В целом, 'Blackout Rugby' - отличный выбор для тех, кто любит вдумчивые спортивные симуляторы, а World Cup Edition делает игру еще привлекательнее для фанатов этого вида спорта, предлагая возможность привести свою команду к победе на главном турнире.
Very very dangerous. Tried to take £70 every day from my child. Not trustworthy!
wont launch just keep saying bad connection when i can open all my other games perfectly fine
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