{"id":647507,"date":"2026-06-19T17:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647507\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T17:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:19:10","slug":"sifu-devs-ps5-football-game-rematch-has-had-a-great-first-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647507\/","title":{"rendered":"Sifu Dev’s PS5 Football Game Rematch Has Had a Great First Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sifu<\/a><\/p>\n

Rematch<\/a> is a game I’ve not given much thought since its debut this time last year, but it seems the online football title has enjoyed a pretty healthy 12 months while I’ve not been paying attention.<\/p>\n

To recap, this is from developer Sloclap, perhaps best known for its martial arts beat-’em-up, Sifu<\/a>. Its next game would be Rematch, an online multiplayer football game that combines the real sport with the immediacy and simplicity of Rocket League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It turns one year old today, 19th June 2026, and by all accounts it seems to have had a great first year.<\/p>\n

Player stats shared by the team suggest it has a very active player base:<\/p>\n

\"Sifu<\/a><\/p>\n

Rematch has 7.5 million unique players, who have scored 530 million goals and played 105 million matches. This averages out to 1,000 goals and 200 matches every minute.<\/p>\n

In terms of actual sales, Sloclap has not shared an updated figure. Shortly after launch, it was announced it had sold over a million copies<\/a>, so it’s certainly doing well for itself.<\/p>\n

I had a look at SteamDB<\/a>, and while player number charts aren’t always a great metric, I was pretty impressed by how consistent Rematch is.<\/p>\n

It’s been attracting an average of about four or five thousand players for many months now, and while that’s not the biggest number, it’s clearly holding the attention of a pretty sizeable enthused audience.<\/p>\n

Over the last year, Rematch has been updated with gameplay improvements, crossplay<\/a>, and seasonal content, so the team has really been supporting it well too.<\/p>\n

All seems pretty good, then. Are you still playing Rematch on PS5? Tell us in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rematch is a game I’ve not given much thought since its debut this time last year, but it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,112,6663,9290,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-647507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-ps5","tag-rematch","tag-sloclap","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}