Rocket League Is Free on Steam for Weekend, Gets Price Cut

The title will also get a basketball mode next week

Andrei Dumitrescu

The team at Psyonix is announcing that its massively successful Rocket League is now free-to-play on the Steam digital distribution system for the PC for the weekend, which means gamers have 72 hours to see what makes the football-driven experience unique and pick it up with a 40 percent price cut.

The title initially appeared on the PlayStation 4, and since then versions for the Xbox One and the PC were also launched, with more than 14 million unique players playing it since then, which is a huge number for a title that never benefited from a massive marketing push.

In February, actual sales of Rocket League stood at more than 4 million units, and the developers are continuing to offer support to improve the gameplay and add unique new content for those who have mastered the core mechanics.

According to Psyonix, the title cost about 2 million dollars (1.8 million Euro) to create and has generated more than 70 million dollars (62 million Euro) in revenue from the sale of the base game and the associated downloadable content.

Dave Hagewood, the chief executive officer of Psyonix, states, "We're definitely all in on Rocket League, but we have a pretty large team, actually, compared to what it took us to build Rocket League in the first place. It's more than what we actually need to be all in on Rocket League, to do almost everything we want to do to continue Rocket League."

Rocket League is preparing for a basketball mode and truck content

The most recent patch for the title lowers the ESRB rating, which should make the experience accessible for more players, and also tweaks the way the ball moves during matches.

Psyonix is also getting ready to launch a new basketball mode during next week, called Hoops, which will be interesting to gamers who are looking for a new type of challenges to deal with while using rocket-powered cars.

A new partnership also means that content associated with the Euro Truck Simulator franchise will soon be featured in Rocket League and that there are also plans for a crossover with Goat Simulator, with more DLC linked to other big franchises planned for the coming months.

Psyonix has not said how long it plans to continue to offer new content for the game or whether it wants to work on a sequel at any point in the future.