Sunday Rivals
SUNDAY IS FOR RIVALS
Sunday Rivals channels the unique spirit and fun of early 90’s sports games and supercharges it into an easy to pickup, high impact, arcade football adrenaline shot!
PICKUP AND PLAY
On the field, gameplay is tuned to be snappy and fun, rewarding quick thinking and creative players with dazzling open field jukes and bone crushing hits. Simplified rules and streamlined playbooks make it easy for players of all skill levels to jump in and immediately enjoy playing football video games again!
FULL CUSTOMIZATION
You have complete control over your custom leagues! Pick stadium colors, grass types, and endzone text. Define coaching strategies and choose which playbooks teams will run. Perfect your rosters with individual player ratings and a slew of appearance options, down to what kind of socks a player wears!
DEEP SEASON MODE
Season Mode lets you take the reins of a single team and guide them through the rigors of a full year, featuring sortable player stats, league leaders, weekly awards, custom lineups, and the ability to play, sim, or coach any game on the schedule. With support for custom league and schedule options, you’ll have total control to create an unforgettable season!
DYNAMIC WEATHER & TIME OF DAY
Experience the beauty and fury of mother nature with fully dynamic weather and time of day! Pouring rain turns grass to mud, howling winds blow kicks into uprights, and thickening fog limits visibility as day turns into night. When the mercury plunges, green fields transform into winter wonderlands, leaving players to trudge their way through white-out snow conditions. Ice bowl, anyone?
HEADHUNTER
Lead your favorite team through a 4 game, single-elimination tournament while racking up points using a fantasy football-style scoring system. As you battle increasingly challenging opponents towards victory, your stats are tracked and saved, along with 8 additional scoring bonuses tuned for maximum performance! After the game, check to see if the fruits of your hard fought victory are good enough to be enshrined in the record books and celebrated for years to come.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
- Exhibition Mode – play a game against the AI or versus a friend with a second controller
- AI vs AI – call plays in from the sideline or kick back and enjoy the game
- Custom Skill Level – tune sliders to find the perfect balance for your play style
- Variable League Sizes – choose from 8, 16, 24, or 32 teams to build your dream league
- Streamlined Playbooks – pick from 9 offense & 5 defense playbooks to power your team
- Team Strategy – define the tendencies for each team that best utilize their roster
- Quick Games – no penalties and an accelerated game clock keeps the game moving
Game Discussion
Steam User 9
I actually got this game to try out on my Surface Pro 9. I have a gaming laptop that I play Madden 24 with! I wanted a fun arcade style football game with a nice balance of realism and I was impressed with Sunday Rivals! This game is very fun and the graphics are great for this style of game. This game is a great addition to my library! I can see that the developer put a lot of thought and care into making a fun arcade style football game that also has nice aesthetics! I'm an older gamer and played several of the old PC and early console football games! This kind of reminds me of a modern version of some of those games!
Steam User 4
Easily one of the best arcade football games out there and well worth the 20 dollars. Although we do need a Franchise mode. All of the modes play extremely good and the customization is better than any other football game I've played, but I think just having a single season mode instead of a Franchise mode seems a little off. Also player trading in season mode should exist.
Wayyyyy better than Madden 9.9/10
Steam User 3
Hands down the best made alternate football game on the market.
And it was made by a single developer.
Phenomenal stuff, you will get your moneys worth while also supporting someone that really does deserve it.
Steam User 4
This is great for pick-up-and-play. So if you're looking for that, you've found it.
It does lack depth though.
I was disappointed when I realized you couldn't change the players' names even though it touts how customizable it is. There is no way to audible, so if you're going up against a bad formation for your playcall and it's a run, you're SOL. You can turn passing plays into QB rushes though.
There aren't any trick plays, no fake kicks, no flea flickers, no play-action either (that I saw at least). The amount of animations is limited and you'll see the same ones multiple times per half.
But it's hard to beat as a pick-up-and-play which is why I'm giving it a positive review.
Steam User 3
Fast, high-energy pick up and play football game that's amazing to play on my Steam Deck! Will need to play around with the customization options after my first season!
Hopefully will be a better player by then.
Steam User 2
So after seeing this on YouTube one day and seeing how much fun the person I was watching was having with this. I decided to check it out. I refuse to support current madden titles because the lack of focus on what makes sports games fun, the game-play and man let me tell you this game both surprised me and made me feel so good. If you have fifteen dollars id highly recommend checking this one out. Its awesome, you can clearly tell the effort that this team did to make the Game play as excellent as they could. Definitely worth the money, ill be playing so much more not just with friends but on my own time. This is how you do an arcade football game. Make the game play simple yet fun to pull off. Anyway all the credit in the world should be given to this game and developers.
Steam User 2
kinda mid would recommend maximum football instead