The modding community continues to release updated rosters for the 2025 Lions Tour to Australia and the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup. Repacks released in late 2024 or early 2025 will likely bundle these updates.
Team names, logos, and kits in the new version are generic, requiring players to manually edit them to reflect real-world counterparts. Legacy Ownership: Only players who purchased the original version before February 20, 2025 , still have access to the licensed rosters. Digitally Downloaded Community Solutions (The "Repack" Experience)
Community Repack and Mods: What They Do “Repack” in this context refers to community-created packages that restore or add official content—team names, logos, kits, player likenesses, and competition details—often by replacing in-game files or adding new assets. Repack solutions typically rely on:
Distributing a repack of a commercially available game is copyright infringement. The keyword is primarily used on torrent sites and forums outside of official stores. If you want to support the developers (Wicked Witch) and publishers, you should purchase the base game legally on Steam, GOG, or console stores, and then apply the mods separately. However, the repack exists because many mods are no longer hosted on mainstream sites.
The original version of Rugby Challenge 4 (released in 2020) has been largely replaced by a 2025 re-release titled Jonah Lomu Rugby Challenge 4