BODY: Blue Lock's whole premise is that football's savior will be the most selfish striker alive. REMATCH — the no-fouls, no-offside, physical contact football game from Sloclap — may be the only multiplayer title built to test that thesis. On September 24, the two finally collided.
Sloclap launched Season 5 of REMATCH alongside a Blue Lock collaboration running through October 23. The headline addition is Aura Striker, a new 3v3 mode the studio bills as "超攻撃的" — ultra-aggressive. As a match progresses, players charge up a temporary buff called "aura," boosting movement speed and shot power. Goalkeepers are automated holograms, which removes the one role nobody queues for and leaves every human player free to attack. Momentum matters: read the swing early, and you snowball.
The crossover content splits into free and paid tiers. A free event pass hands out character-themed player cards, VR arena environments, and a Blue Lock–branded ball. Premium bundles cover four of the series' marquee names — Isagi Yoichi, Bachira Meguru, Nagi Seishiro, and Itoshi Rin — each packaging a full character-inspired skin, a unique goal celebration, and an exclusive card.
REMATCH is on PC (Steam and Microsoft Store), PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, with a Game Pass inclusion on Xbox and PC. The base game is currently discounted up to 60%, which is an obvious on-ramp for anime fans arriving cold.
The insider take
From Tokyo, this reads less like a licensing deal and more like a design argument. Japan's football game market is a duopoly of eFootball and EA FC — simulation, team shape, tactical menus. Blue Lock spent five years telling Japanese readers the opposite: that the national team's problem was a culture of deference, and what it needed was ego. REMATCH is mechanically that manga. Sloclap is a French studio best known for Sifu and Absolver, so the pairing isn't obvious on paper, but Aura Striker's hologram keepers are the tell — the mode strips out every position that requires self-sacrifice. Japanese players have already nicknamed the game a "Blue Lock simulator" since launch. Sloclap simply stopped fighting it.
Originally reported by AUTOMATON (Japanese).