When does crossplay come to REMATCH?

Oh, it is the most fabulous time of the year, it is the start of the new season for many European football teams, and we are “eating” well, I’ll tell you what. Ok, the American-ism with “I’ll tell you what” and using the young person “eating” thing aside, the 2025-26 season is here, or it is nearly upon us. Though some of us have been occasionally able to find a decent 3, 4, or 5-a-side game this summer, in Sloclap and Kepler Interactive’s multiplayer-only Rocket League with these weird human-shaped cars. Despite a solid idea, there is one thing many people say is missing from the first kick-off of REMATCH‘s first season.

Now, I’m not a fan of console players; the loud ones are like heavy-breathers down the phone, and the quiet ones are too good for their own good. A bit like PC players, if I’m honest. Nonetheless, one thing that was missing from REMATCH‘s launch has been crossplay, but we might just be getting that sooner than you think.

Announced on Thursday for today (supposedly), Patch #2 for REMATCH is set to resolve “major netcode[-]related issues, such as tackles not registering, GK dive rollbacks causing goals to be scored when they shouldn’t.” With the team noting, “We hope that everything will go smoothly, in which case we will deploy to the main app (Live version) on Monday[,] August 18th.“ However, it is Patch #3 that will be bringing crossplay to REMATCH, as well as resolving other issues the team are fixing up.

The post from Thursday notes: “Patch 3 should hopefully arrive by the end of August, and will fix some remaining known issues, and importantly introduce Crossplay to the game (at last!). Some gameplay tweaks might also be introduced in Patch 3, but that’s still to be confirmed. More news very soon!” With crossplay finally coming, it will result in much easier matchmaking as the usual dip of players happens, resulting in trigger-happy reactionaries shouting “the game is dead.”

I’m hoping that I can find the time to play more than a handful of matches at a time and wrap up my review of REMATCH soon. Without going into a full mini-review, it is Sloclap’s most ambitious and interesting idea to break into the sports-game market, especially the online-only sphere. A clear departure from the John Wick simulator that is Sifu, and the Dark Souls without faces that was Absolver. Yeah, try parsing a full opinion out of that, because even I don’t know how I feel.