Sloclap’s next game is Rematch, a five-a-side soccer game that’s more Rocket League than FIFA

We’ve had ten years of Sloclap games. In that decade, the French developer has perfected the art of kicking people in the head. In Absolver, players kicked each other in the head across a connected world. The game sold 500,000 units. Next came Sifu, a revenge story with a unique aging mechanic, where players kicked loads of people in the head in scenes ripped straight from the best kung fu movies. Four million people played that one.  Read more: The Alternative Game Awards 2024 You’d be forgiven for thinking the studio’s next game might, just maybe, feature some head-kicking, but you’d be wrong. Sloclap is making a game about kicking a ball.  Rematch is the next project from the Sifu developer. It is a five-a-side soccer game where a real person controls each player on the pitch. It features that same minimalist, crisp art of other Sloclap games and you can trace a line directly from the fancy head-kicking animations to scissor-kicking a screamer right into the back of the net.  It feels silly to say, but it