Launch Edition Game On June 11

The game is free to anyone with a Netflix subscription. It uses smartphones to control players from all 48 teams participating in the 2026 World Cup. The “streamlined” take on a soccer sim can be played solo or with up to four people in multiplayer. Netflix said that the game “will evolve over time but gives the immediate rush of playing along during this historic World Cup event.”

If you favor the office over the pitch, there’s also licensed content for the tournament in Football Manager 26. That game rolled out its initial patch for the World Cup last month, and has another update slated for sometime in June before the real world matches begin.

EA might have ended its licensing arrangement with FIFA, but that doesn’t mean its soccer sims are going to ignore the sport’s biggest tournament. Instead, the company is launching “The World’s Game update.” Totally different. The definitely-not-a-World-Cup tournament mode is available as a free update today for EA Sports FC 26 and EA Sports FC Mobile. It includes 53 fully licensed teams, including 41 that are participating in the actual Cup this summer.