Run It Straight! vs Pixel Rugby
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Run It Straight!
Experience the thrill of rugby by smashing through defenders. Tap rapidly to build momentum and score, testing your strength, speed, and stamina in quick, action-packed rounds. Compete against friends and share your high scores in this intense virtual rugby challenge.
- Smash through defenders
- Tap rapidly to build momentum
- Choose your player
- Quick rounds lasting seconds
- Infinite gameplay
- Share scores and tag friends
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Run it straight, play it safe! Smash the game, not your mates! Test your strength, speed, and stamina in Run It Straight! The ultimate rugby showdown. Inspired by the backyard challenge that's gone viral, Run It Straight drops you into the boots of a hard-charging forward. Your job? Tap like mad, build momentum, and SMASH through defenders. • Knock Out or Get Knocked Out! • Choose Your Player and Hit the Field. • Tap as Fast as You Can, Survive to Score. • Each Round Lasts Seconds – Perfect for Quick Plays. • Stadium Crowd, Bone-Rattling Hits, and Infinite Gameplay. • Share Your Score. Tag Your Mates. Who’s Got the Bragging Rights? How many can you knockout – 10? 20? 50 defenders deep? No rules. No fear. Just you, the ball, and whoever’s in your way. This isn’t for the faint-hearted. This is Run It Straight!
Pixel Rugby
Experience a fast-paced rugby game with simple one-thumb controls. Compete in various modes, manage a career, and climb world rankings with 100 nations.
- One-thumb gameplay
- 100 nations with flags and anthems
- World ranking system
- Career mode with club management
- Multiple tournament types
- Endless runner mode
- Dynamic weather effects
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Retro arcade rugby you play with one thumb. Your five players run up the pitch across five lanes. Pass to the lane above or below to get round defenders, then dive over the line to score. You attack, the computer defends, and the other side's possessions are simulated, so a full match takes about five minutes. Easy to learn, with plenty to dig into: 100 nations, world rankings your results really move, a 20-club career and eleven tournaments. IPHONE, IPAD, APPLE TV AND MAC One purchase covers all four, with your save synced between them. On Apple TV you play with the Siri Remote, and on Mac with the keyboard or trackpad. Apple Watch gets its own Endless Runner, free for everyone, passing with the Digital Crown. FOUR WAYS TO PLAY Endless Runner: One sprint, three hearts, and a tougher nation every 100 metres until only the world number one is left. Distance is your score, with a top-200 board kept on your device. Quick Match: Two nations, one short match. Play it as a ranked Test that moves the world rankings, or as a friendly that changes nothing. Hold the button instead of tapping it for a surprise fixture, always away from home. Tournaments: Eleven competitions: the Global Cup, the North and South Nations, and eight more cups. Who qualifies comes from your own world rankings, so a nation you build up can reach a cup it couldn't before. The Global Cup takes the best of each region plus five wildcards, so every continent is always there. Career: Twenty clubs in two divisions, with promotion and relegation. It saves after every match, so a season works fine in short sittings. Before a season starts you can choose standard bonus points or the French system, where the attacking bonus needs three more tries than the other side instead of four in total. MATCH DAY ON TV Big matches open with TV pundits previewing the game and end with a TV interview with your captain. Other career matches get a video podcast: a preview before kickoff or a recap after. After the final whistle your supporters' group chat reacts, and a newspaper covers the round. You can turn each of these off in Settings > Atmosphere. ALSO IN THE GAME • Pixel art, an optional CRT filter and a chiptune soundtrack. • Weather that changes how a match plays. • Anthems and war dances before kickoff. • Your own squad: name your players, choose their looks and earn them stars in Training. • Haptics on iPhone, so you feel the tackles and the scrums. • Two kits for every nation and three for every club. • Crowds that grow or shrink with who is playing and where. Fully playable in English, French and Spanish. FREE AND PRO Free: the Endless Runner, Quick Match friendlies, the first three rounds of a career, and two complete tournaments. One purchase unlocks the rest for good: ranked Tests, every tournament, the full career and save sync across your devices. No subscription. It covers iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac. NO ACCOUNTS, NO ADS, NO TRACKING Nothing to sign up for, no ads and no data collected. Your save stays on your device, and syncs through your own iCloud only if you turn it on.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Run It Straight! at 100% against Pixel Rugby's 60%. Run It Straight! also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Pixel Rugby's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (6 vs 3). On price and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Pixel Rugby sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Run It Straight! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Run It Straight! | Pixel Rugby |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Every 2 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 155 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BRINQ PTY LTD | Swipeglass |
Customer experience
Run It Straight!
Pixel Rugby
In-app purchases
Run It Straight!
No in-app purchases
Pixel Rugby
- Pixel Rugby Pro$8.99
Questions
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