Rugby 22

Rugby 22

Skip · Strategy · 2022

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 30, under the fair line, at $39.99.

Length
7h
Value
$5.71/hr
Reviews
77% of 505 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$5.71/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews77% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds6 of 350 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Crouch, bind, set! Discover the true rugby experience. Play with best clubs and top nations, enjoy dynamic gameplay that stays faithful to the sport, and experience the intensity of big matches.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 950, 2 GB or AMD Radeon RX 46, 2 GB, 26 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 21 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 48 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition ($29.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats NBA 2K25 ($69.99, scores 4).

More about Rugby 22

6 of the 350 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 405 have a larger share.

The drop-off

75% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
9 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 20:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

ass game because rucks are very unbalanced and my friends gatekeep about it.im gay
p2wNot recommendedafter 44hNov 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Rugby 22 scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1475850/rugby-22
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperEko Software
PublisherNacon
GenreStrategy
Released2022
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements27