# Rugby Nations 19 — user reviews > 40 indexed App Store user reviews of Rugby Nations 19 by Distinctive Developments Ltd, rated 4.70/5 from 1,953 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rugby-nations-19/id1475985250/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rugby-nations-19/id1475985250.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,660 · 4★ 177 · 3★ 57 · 2★ 26 · 1★ 33 ## What do users think of Rugby Nations 19? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🏉 Great gameplay - 🎮 Realistic rugby simulation - 🏆 Enjoyable tournament mode **Cons** - 💰 Expensive to play - 🐛 Buggy and glitchy - 🤖 Unbalanced AI difficulty - ⚠️ Frustrating controls and mechanics **Commonly reported bugs** - Ruck issues with ball not clearing - Inconsistent wind direction and penalties - Tackling and player movement problems - Stuck players and random turnovers **Most requested features** - Add controller support - Improve defensive strategy options - Implement career mode and online multiplayer - Update rosters and add new game modes (7s rugby) ## Newest reviews (13 of 40) ### 2/5 — So bad *2022-08-23, version 1.3.6* This game is unbelievably trash at times, but what I want to really focus on is the annoying OVR number system. In the World Cup, each team has an overall rating from one to one hundred, which seems good at first…until the teams that you really want to play get thrashed by New Zealand, England and the like. This might be just me, but if I was a Cook Island Maori, then I would want to play as a Kuki Airani - but wait they have a low ovr which makes them unplayable. ### 4/5 — Needs Improvement on Defense *2022-01-10, version 1.3.5* The game is great! It’s a good way to learn how to pass the ball and find open space on the attack. However, this game could use better defensive strategy. Too many times I see my defense get out numbered on either side of the ruck, and I can’t do anything about it. I’d like to be able to shift defenders to either side when necessary. Although I do like being able to add as many defenders to the ruck as I want. However, that only gives more room for my opponent to score. I’d rather have the option to move defenders accordingly. ### 4/5 — is pay in raiders *2021-06-26, version 1.3.5* call me in the morning (mourning) ### 3/5 — Too hard to level up players *2021-02-02, version 1.3.3* Make it easier to get money to level up players, and less tokens to develop stadiums, especially when I have all of them. ### 3/5 — Players get slow when you reach higher levels? *2020-08-17, version 1.3.2* It was ok (not much better than any other rugby game over the past 5+ years) but I’ve reached the Major league level with my club and have won each international tournament a few times. Now it seems that the difficulty level has increased by making my players immediately fatigue and almost stop once they have the ball and stay like this for the first half. Sometimes it improves late in the second half. It happens every time now in any league or tournament play. That will end my play of this game. ### 3/5 — Graphics *2020-08-12, version 1.3.2* Needs wayyyyyyyyyyyy better graphics ### 3/5 — Bug Needs To Be Fixed *2020-06-11, version 1.3.1* There is a bug sometimes when scrumming. The ball never gets out of the ruck and the players just keep pushing forward. I have to leave the app and once I get back in, it’s taken one bar of energy which is very disappointing. ### 4/5 — Energy *2020-05-30, version 1.3.1* In Rugby nations the developers give you about no energy and it makes me mad but, overall has great gameplay and I would recommend this to anyone. ### 4/5 — Very fun and competitive, few bugs *2020-04-23, version 1.3.1* Need to fix bugs on foul ,players tackling, and World Cup point system. Love the franchise mode, could add international friendly ### 2/5 — Completely bogus rankings, gameplay *2020-04-12, version 1.3.1* USA 69 in rankings?? Are you kidding? Same as Russia?!? Absolutely ridiculous! I don’t know what broke company made this game but the rankings and gameplay are terrible and haven’t been updated in years. Just shows the low budget and little time put in to this games development. Don’t play it. Wait for a real developer who knows what they’re doing (EA, 2K) to make a decent rugby game, cause this ain’t it. ### 3/5 — Potentially very good *2020-04-12, version 1.3.1* A number if bugs, like the absence of any offside line (which makes it more accurate if you’re a NZ fan I guess). Also, why is the entire SA starting team white except for Snyman, who is white. Kolbe, Dyantyi, Kolisi etc. are all white in this game. Irish fly half, Jonathan Sexton is black though. Very strange. ### 3/5 — Wish it made fairer calls *2020-04-09, version 1.3.1* Computer never misses kicks and never gets called for offside or forward passes which I’d does quite frequently. ### 4/5 — difficulty *2020-04-08, version 1.3.0* The AI needs to be a bit more difficult to score on but i’m thankful someone is creating a rugby game! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — It’s so hard *2023-01-06, version 1.3.6* You have to buy it for a 100$ to play ### 1/5 — Pathetic! *2022-07-24, version 1.3.6* What is wrong with developers? Do you seriously expect us to pay on and on and on to get energy, or players or fitness points or gold ( because you can only buy good things with gold)?? I want to buy a game and play it…………… not have to worry about if I have enough energy to play( have I mentioned you can buy it)? I am so irritated with developers who think they can control where when and how I can play. From the little I saw, it had decent game play, but it’s deleted now. Developers make a game and sell it for whatever the market will bear! Don’t try to nickel and dime us to death, because I for one, am not playing that game! ### 1/5 — Trash *2022-06-07, version 1.3.6* Trash game. Don’t waste your time ### 1/5 — The controls are horrible *2021-10-30, version 1.3.5* The controls are so bad that make the game unplayable. Especially the add player and kick button are the same, which makes me kicking away the ball I worked so hard for from the ruck. And I can’t offload on time even though I swiped as much as I could while the bot team offloads like a champ. The controls unfortunately make this game so frustrating to play. ### 1/5 — Buggy, irritating and just ridiculous *2021-09-20, version 1.3.5* Automatic player changing is terrible even more so when you’re playing a difficult team. Passing is ok but sometimes it’ll just do whatever. Turnovers make no sense, and usually happen near goal line. Save yourself time and frustration and don’t download this game. ### 1/5 — Just no *2021-03-30, version 1.3.4* Extremely buggy, players get stuck in virtually any position (offsides, stuck to one another a mile away from the ruck, or just running in place in the middle of the pitch), very minimal and low effort gameplay, no way to tell how a turnover could occur especially, you could have 7 guys dedicated to an unprotected ruck or vice versa within milliseconds and you wouldn’t know the outcome. Better off playing the league version to get the useless mechanics out of the way. ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2021-01-21, version 1.3.2* This games so predictably rigged it’s not worth the download. Don’t waste your time ### 1/5 — Average *2020-04-10, version 1.3.1* How is this worse than rugby nations 16?? Surely it should be better. Maybe the graphics are better but besides that, for a genuine rugby player/supporter— this is far less fun, realistic, challenging ### 1/5 — So much needs fixed *2020-03-24, version 1.3.0* First, The opposition never kicks. Second, opposition kickers never miss conversions. Third, players can’t pick up the ball first time Fourth, you can’t make a tackle on your own 5m line. ### 1/5 — The problems *2020-03-03, version 1.3.0* They are a lot of problems in this game that needs to be fixed. The defensive line is always shattered. They have the full back make most of the tackles. It doesn’t always award the scrum when a forward pass is thrown. On the attack random balls thrown, it makes u take drop goals and the wind is never consistent. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Rugby fan *2022-07-31, version 1.3.6* This s rocks n ### 5/5 — This game is great! *2021-09-18, version 1.3.5* I just got into Rugby about 3 months ago. I came from the U.S and am visiting South Africa now, where they love their rugby. It’s not so adored in the States. I enjoy playing with all the different teams here, and that the game keeps it to real rugby as much as possible! I do wonder where Rugby Nations 20 is though, since it’s already 2021. I would like to see a Career mode be implemented again. As well as Multiplayer and Online mode to play friends and people around the World. And let us get creative. Give us different rugby balls to play with. Also bring on the 7’s! That would be fun! Ok, hope the creators or team reads over this! It’s a great game, I just wanted updated rosters and possibly a few ideas above added. ### 5/5 — 2020 version ? *2021-02-28, version 1.3.4* 2021 version please? ### 5/5 — Let me know *2020-07-18, version 1.3.2* If you can find a better rugby game out there let me know. Because this is the best one I have found so far. ### 5/5 — Great....but *2020-05-14, version 1.3.1* I have to give 5, but there is a problem. In tournament play after the group stage the winner plays the runner up in 1st. Round. I won my group but ended up playing another group winners backtoback ### 5/5 — Battle of the islands would be great *2020-02-15, version 1.3.0* The game is great but there’s some little things that can be fixed and added like when talking it glitches and maybe give better ratings to the Polynesian teams I would be great if the were a tournament just for Samoa,Tonga,Fiji,new zealand ### 5/5 — Great game!😃 *2019-11-30, version 1.2.3* This game is amazing😉! I have no issues with this game. ### 5/5 — The game is the best *2019-11-28, version 1.2.3* You people in the word should play this game to day USA USA football ### 5/5 — BEST RUGBY GAME EVER *2019-10-31, version 1.2.3* No doughy this is the best rugby game ever I play rugby in real life and I wanted to have a game that was realistic and this is the only good one I man I love it ### 4/5 — Controller support *2022-01-19, version 1.3.5* Please add controller support, thanks --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*