Blackout Rugby - World Cup Edition
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.
Estimated lifetime revenue
Free-to-play
Revenue comes from in-game items and microtransactions, which our price-based model doesn't estimate. The player count below is how many people own it, not what they spent.
Est. players
5.2K
people who own it
Reviews
128
Review score
66%
6.6/10
Concurrent players
1
read Sep 17, 2026, 15:00 UTC
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About
About the game
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.
