NFL Rivals - Football Game
reviews and complaints

Started playing this game on launch day and it has been really fun so far, however you can only enjoy the draft promo if you spend money because the leauges where you can get draft day players require you to already have one and the only way to get them is to buy packs that require real money. The game is awesome and I definitely recommend but if free to play players can only access base players for the rest of the season than I’ll stop playing it.

Would love to see other clan promotions beyond member. Maybe 4 rankings, rookie, member, captain, general, leader (etc)

Would also love owner to be able to manage the squad not just leader.

Passing game is harder than the beta and currently heavily relies on running and short passes (for high level event games)

More prizes for clan members, paid out like peasants

Easy way to log in and log off. I usually have the delete the game and reinstall lol

It's a breath of fresh air to FINALLY see another NFL game on the market! Now if only other companies could follow, we would be in business! I dig this game but it needs refs and the players definitely need a burst of speed. Day & Night games would set it apart and weather would be awesome also! With any new game> it takes time so I will be patient! I will support this and continue playing! This game has potential to be great. Keep up the good work!

I’ve been playing this game for about 1.5 months. Every team has the same players. Jalen hurts, tyreek hill, Travis kelce, Davante adams. The game itself is pretty fun for six days. We all want an nfl street or nfl blitz in 2023 but this gets old fast with its gecko bowl standard 8 plays and mastering which one player to throw to. It feels like a money grab and that they only have the license for 85 total players lol. Most of them in the 60 range on madden

The gameplay is very fun, a little janky at times but that's a given since it just came out. My main issue is that the whole game is based around buying packs, but there are more option to buy packs with real money than earned currency. Additionally, in order to participate in the "events" you need a certain type of rarity of player. Again, this is fine, but the only way to unlock these types of players is through these packs that you can buy with real currency.

I started playing leveling up and playing events, then my game stopped working I closed the app and restarted and won’t load just stays on title screen for a few seconds then turns white. I deleted and reinstalled the app. I was able to start over but when I tried to restore my original mythical account to “not lose my saved progress “ and nothing happens just shows white screen. I am currently unable to retrieve my original account and I do not want to start over

This game has potential as a fast paced madden but it feels like the developers spent more time animating the touchdown celebrations instead of working on the movement mechanics. It feels like I’m running through glue, super clunky and the jukes are pretty terrible and slow. I can’t throw over 20 yards because it becomes so inaccurate. It’s also way too easy and I was only scored on a few times in my first season. Needs a lot of work but it has some good potential.

games super fun, but you can’t run the ball because no matter how good the lineman and RB are, you can’t gain yards, so Wide recievers are crucial, i grinded for 2 really good players at random, both happen to be o line, a position that doesn’t matter whether it’s 150 overall or 50 overall, so they are both eye candy while i get clamped by defense, so i was mad and bought a pack to get 3 more good players, and get duplicate d ends and a runningback, so still all this time no recievers so i just can’t pass which is the entire game, therefore might drop it entirely, there shouldn’t be a way to get that robbed….

It’s awesome because at the start it lets you just be getting ready to play the game so it’s making you do easy games and then in the middle of the season I haven’t played that yet but I’m guessing that it’s gonna be something like you’re gonna have a little bit of a challenge then maybe after that it’s going to get more and more of a challenge, so yes, I love this game and I’m writing a five star review because I’m telling people that they should get this game. It’s awesome. Another thing is because you can actually pass the one thing I don’t like about it is that you can’t play defense but still it’s a fun game.

The potential this game has in insane, i love it, but unfortunately ruined if you aren’t spending money. Free to play players can only access the base players in the game that cap at 99 ovr the only way to get none base cards is to spend money. I get that they are NFTs but that just ruins the game for most people. Their needs to be a way you can get non base players without spending money, if they don’t add that this game will die off very quickly from a video game standpoint and be strictly catered to NFTs. Also should add stats/awards in campaign, more modes would be nice as well. Maybe live matches, adding the ability to play defense would make this game way better from a competitive stand point.

This game is ok aside from the fact if you want to improve your team the prices for packs and picks cost so much you have to play forever. There is the short cut that you can buy players for 40.00 or some lesser packs which is way over priced for the unrealistic players on here. You’ll start dominating teams then your team will just be trash. Regardless of upgrades and stats to improve your players. Seems like the more you improve and upgrade the worse the player becomes. Game would be fun but seems more like a money grab for the developers. Better then madden but could be alot more fun if you didn’t have to spend so much money for unrealistic stats and players and if you could actually use more then the three plays it gives you for options.

The running back and quarterback don’t run fast enough to get past the line of scrimmage and the passing game is terrible. None of the receivers can get open and the defense will jump across the field to block your pass. I was really enjoying the game at first but the next day trying to play was horrible. The beginning of the game is super easy but I kept playing and I’ve been shutout 5 games in a row losing 0-21. Please fix this game it’s absolutely pay to win only giving 60-69 overall players for every pack. Fix the circle concept because that is the worst part of the game especially starting everyone off with a top quarterback that can’t pass accurately five yards in front of him. I’m hoping to reinstall this game within a month with the game being better and winnable without being pay to win.

I love that there’s is a competitive game to Madden Mobile finally! Overall the game is fun, but there are some issues I’d like to see fixed by the official launch this fall…

1) while I enjoy the concept of how to pass; it’s horrible & hardly ever accurate. The dot on the field should be where the ball is going to be thrown to & often times it’s nowhere near that. There’s also plenty of times where the ball hits the receivers hands but he doesn’t catch it. Overall the throwing/catching mechanics need some improvements.

2) all we get for play options is 1 short pass, 1 long pass & 1 run. Give us a full playbook. But please keep the ability to audible/change the play before snapping the ball. That is something EA does not give us.

3) I love being able to sprint. But let us truck as well instead of just dive.

This might as well be an EA game because all it is, is pay to win. You want good players? Pay $15 for this exclusive pack that gives you god tier players.

Why is it the deeper the pass the more inaccurate? I have Jalen Hurts as a qb, who if you couldn’t tell has a GREAT arm and is deadly accurate usually. So why can’t you make deep shots? Oh it’s because you try and you end up throwing it out of bounds

Why do the players slow down? I could be seeing all green in the field and I start skipping and all of a sudden I’m being tackled because my guy decided to start skipping and slowing down. Why do the DBs have unlimited stamina?

The ball will fall right through their hands despite being right in their lap, or I’ll place an absolute dime on them and they won’t even stick their arms out

I’m not looking for an easy match, but it’s so unfair because of all these things.

The gameplay is ok. Could use more play choices each time, especially since some of them have a high failure rate, even against easy opponents. Also would be nice to be able to play defense, as the automated defense isn’t all that great unless you play someone terrible.

The for-purchase packs are a complete ripoff, and sadly, it’s not possible to play all the events without making ridiculously-overpriced purchases. The packs you buy with earned currency are absolutely terrible - forget trying to get an awesome team from them. The drop rates for good players are miniscule.

The events are also pretty lame. You get higher points for beating higher-ranked teams, but there’s typically a HUGE power gap between the top 2 choices. And, if you lose, you get nothing, so just wasted one of your limited chances.

Some content doesn’t even work. For instance, how does someone become a squad owner? I’m captain of my squad but I don’t own it. Does that even make sense?

All in all, it’s ok, but not worth spending any money on, and gets boring pretty quickly.

Terrible game, it’s all about money in this game. You’re not rewarded for being good at the game. In order to improve your team you need buy packs with real money. The currency you earn can only buy 3 packs and everything that comes out those packs are the worst overall in the game. Do not download this game it’s awful. Don’t waste your time and money on this game. To the developers and the NFL that made this game, give us more ways to improve our team without spending real money. All the other games are gated by players you need to buy out of the packs. We can literally only play the computer and 1 leaderboard. All the other leaderboard games you need to buy certain packs to get a player that unlocks that. The in game currency you earn is very time consuming to earn as well, and even the games you play against the CPU is capped at 10 and you have to wait 1-hr to get more games. The leaderboard you play vs other people is capped at 5 and you have to wait 3-hrs to get new ones. If you’re lucky enough to unlock the other leader board games those are capped at 5 for 24-hrs and the opponents you play have stacked teams because they paid for their teams. Everything about this mobile game is all about money and hide behind a paywall. The days of just grinding and being good at a game is no longer rewarded.

This is a pretty fun alternative to madden mobile, which I have quit because I hate how pay to win it is, but this one needs added features in order to stand the test of time.

First, there needs to be card trade-ins. Things like “trade in five 70+ overall cards for an 80+ card”. This makes those lackluster cards you get but never want a lot more useful.

Second, we need squad battles (word it however you choose). We need head to head competitions along squads, otherwise they are borderline useless other than to garner rewards for the pay to win players and make the rich keep getting richer.

Third, please modify the tournament rewards. The lowest reward bracket is for a points tier that nobody in the world has even reached yet. You have to be top 300 to even get any player out of it. It’s not rewarding in the slightest for those who are unable to spend both money and countless hours grinding for a decent player or two.

Fourth, the campaign difficulties are way too spread out. At my current level, I’m blowing out every team effortlessly. At the next level, I would be more than 500 power below the suggested amount. Please balance it.

Fifth, and finally, we need more ways to earn players and other rewards. I don’t want to grind out an entire season of boringly easy campaign games just to get one 80 overall player and raise my overall power by ten points.

Fix all of these issues and you will make the game way more viable and I’ll raise my rating. Thanks.

Listen I love this game alot but I'm getting sick and tired of only getting 3 plays and not only that I get the same plays that are useless back to back to back and it cost me games. So how about I give you guys and idea! GIVES US OUR OWN PLAYBOOK SO WE CAN CHOOSE A PLAY THAT WE CAN USE INSTEAD OF 3 USELESS TILES THAT CAN COST GAMES HUH HAVE YALL EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT CHANGE? IM A PAYING CUSTOMER THAT PLAYS THIS GAME EVERY SINGLE DAY!

I bought a Shakers Blue Print Pack on Wednesday July 26th at around 12:30pm.

The app through me out before the Purchase notification pop-up came up. After the app closed I then recieved the Purchase Notification. I proceeded to Press purchase thinking it wouldn't be a problem. I opened up the NFL Rivals Game back up but I didn't recieve my Shakers Blue Print Pack and still got charged. Please fix this.

Wow. Just wow. This is a MUT knockoff that doesn’t hide the fact that it’s nickel and diming you. 15 dollars for a single player. 10k credits for a 65-99 OVR player. Worse odds than a madden pack. Extremely painful and slow earning rate. Defense has unlimited stamina while you have a pathetically small amount. Fix this trash

500 diamonds for a 80 overall player pack and only 1 player is over 80 out of the 3 and the other two are just straight fodder like dude I can’t stress this enough this game ain’t worth it , it’s fun to play at times but you’re gonna be doing a lot of grinding and this game just isn’t worth grinding for the gameplay it gives

No one gonna play this game long term if the pay to win stuff doesn’t go away. Was fun for a day then got stale cuz of the card packs. NFL makes enough money already, why price gouge us on a mobile game? Deleted, won’t be playing till they fix the pay to win formula. But it’s the nfl, so they probably won’t.. save your time and money.

It’s okay. The players will have the football in their hands and just drop them. When the game doesn’t want you to win, they just have the opposing team lock you down fully and since your guys just cannot create separation, it’s works every time. I’ll give it two stars because I love football but retro bowl is better than this by miles man.

It’s really just like most games. Way too easy at first, build up a roster after a while, then instead of a fun, challenging game, it becomes impossible…unless you pay for player packs and whatnot. If it was a fun challenge from day one and you didn’t have to build up a roster by paying, it would be so much more fun. Retro Bowl beats this by miles.

Besides a few minor positives like the music soundtrack and SFX, this is unfortunately an overall dull experience that leaves much to be desired. The football gameplay is very clunky, and the graphics, UI and player design are ugly and uninspired. I would not recommend this game unless you are a diehard NFL fan that needs something to play and don’t have time for anything else.

I’ve been sitting here impatiently trying to play this game. The ads this game has makes it look so cool, but it just doesn’t load. I waited about 3-4 maybe 5 minutes without it loading. I refreshed the game and waited another 3-4 minutes and it still isn’t loading. I’ve been getting extremely impatient, because usually mobile games don’t take remotely this long of time to load.

It’s a ok game but if yall would make running better more moves controller base bring defense and ad custom uniforms make gameplay better I would play it everyday and bring color rush uniforms like I’m telling u this game would be way better it’s 2023 we’re electronics are advanced we need advanced gameplay not old generation gameplay but it’s a ok game we need to get it to 5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is the same problem with retro bowl, when your wide open and there is nothing but green in front of you and there no one anywhere near the back of you, the db’s just catch up with you, the stamina is such a big problem, and plus the db range is insane, I threw a perfect pass that was in front of the receiver over the shoulder but it still got blocked by the db who was like a yard behind the reciever

Players will constantly run into each other, if their running speed wasn’t hard enough to work with. Terrible routes and not variety, as most are just Hail Mary plays. The target circle is very hard to work with as I can barely tell where I throw. My players have no stamina either EVEN though they are “nfl players”. Pass that could easily be caught for with a simple jump instead my players need to dive and barely even make the plays.

Steer clear of this hot garbage, who drops a patch mid event … I was poised to get top 500 rewards for event WR then I got my last 5 games in after patch playing hardest difficulty what was working for me all the sudden just clamped up hard so those that got games in before patch could beat the hardest teams easier was undefeated then I lose 2 after the patch, just a huge miss take you can’t make balance changes mid event like that come on man!

Players don’t continue running there routes and just randomly stop

Would give 5 stars but how do you not have controller support this day and age?

I closed the app because I was done playing and when I go back to play couple hours later it’s not on a brown screen even after I deleted

Deleted the app to take time off and all of my progress was wiped completely! What the heck dude?! Y’all just makin a game to get clout; unbelievable. I’m gonna need my account back.

I SWEAR I WAS PLAYING AND I FINALLY GOT 1,500 COINS FOR THE THIRD PACK AND IT SENDS ME OUT OF THE GAME AND DELETED MY MONEY AND SKIPPED THE 3RD PACK. i got this game today and it is gone by 10:00

im 2 full 17 games seasons deep and the game has only given me enough coins for 1 pack outside of the tutorial “team builder” packs that gave me 70 ovr players! EVERYTHING COST ACTUAL MONEY DO NOT DOWNLOAD

When you first start it’s fun. After getting to level 5 it becomes clear that you are going to have to pay out either in-game or on Mythical web site in order to be competitive. The events are hard to qualify for as you have to meet impossible criteria to join.