Foundation Footy: Rugby League

Rugby League at its most fun

Foundation Footy: Rugby League is a top-down arcade Rugby League game set in the early 20th century. The focus is on fun, competitive and smooth game play. Historic teams with modern rules.

Seventy-two sides

• The NSWRFL's fifteen clubs, from the nine 1908 originals to Parramatta and Manly in 1947
  
• Fourteen Brisbane clubs from the QRL
  
• Fifteen founder-era English clubs from the Northern Union
  
• Ten representative sides and eighteen national teams

Play it your way

• One player against the computer, two on the same screen, or two online
  
• League: take your club through a season, up the ladder and into the finals
  
• Series: Tests, tours and tournaments between the nations and the states, each in the format it was last played

Proper footy

Sets of six and the play-the-ball. Punt, grubber, bomb and field goal. Cut-out passes. Big hits. 40/20 and 20/40s, two-point field goals, short drop-outs, bat-backs and blind-side plays. Every match goes on a stat sheet: post-contact metres, tackles in your own 20, penalties conceded and drop-outs forced.

Make your own

Design a club from the jersey cut down to each man's face and build, then drop it into a custom league alongside any clubs you like. Share it online.

Built for a pad

Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and Steam Deck controllers are recognised by name, with the right buttons drawn on screen.

The sound of the era

The timekeeper's bell, the referee's whistle and calls, and Alex Lithgow's march Invercargill under the menus.

Foundation Footy is not affiliated with, endorsed by or licensed by the NRL, the NSWRL, the QRL, the RFL, the NZRL or any club or representative body. Team names and colours appear only to identify the historic sides.