New Shooter on Steam Looks Like Battlefield Ordered on Wish – Becomes a bestseller, gets 89% positive reviews

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With BattleBit Remastered, there is a new challenger to established shooter greats such as Call of Duty and Battlefield on Steam. And it goes down really well.

What kind of game is this? BattleBit is a first-person shooter that looks a bit like someone recreated Battlefield in Lego. The game lures with a destructible environment, proximity voice chat and lots of chaos – with up to 254 players on one server.

The BattleBit Remastered play tests already attracted tens of thousands of players. On June 15, the shooter celebrated its EA launch and passed its big brothers CoD and Battlefield.

BattleBit Remastered is available for €14.79 on Steam – or a bit more if you want to support the 3 dedicated devs.

You can see the trailer for the launch here:

Battlebit Remastered – Announcement Trailer

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BattleBit Remastered hits the launch

The game is already that successful: BattleBit Remastered hit the ground running and is already a bestseller. It is currently the 2nd best-selling game on Steam, behind Valve’s own Free2Play title CS:GO (as of June 17th 13:30).

In the meantime, it even pushed past the shooter giant, as the developers show in a tweet.

They react to the 2nd place with a poll: “CS:GO is F2P, does that mean we win?”. The fans answer that with a “yes”.

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How is BattleBit received? From what you can see right now, it’s really good. BattleBit Remastered hit its previous peak of 38,487 concurrent players today, with an average of 27,447 players over the last 30 days (via SteamCharts).

And the players who are already playing it seem to be enjoying it as well. Here is a small selection of the reviews on Steam, where it currently has 89% positive ratings. Above all, parallels to Battlefield are repeatedly drawn:

  • “3 guys made a better game than battlefield devs LMAO”
  • “The best non-Battlefield game ever. Everyone at Dice should be fired.”
  • “Great game. It works out of the box and feels complete in content. Very responsive and crisp.”

    • Steam user DutchCrunch highlights the fun movement, gun play and maps, as well as the servers and performance. 3 devs would have delivered a more finished product in early access than AAA studios for release.

    Is there anything to complain about? Not everyone is completely enthusiastic. Critics complain about the combination of fast movement and time-to-kill with the rather realistic gunplay, the confusing maps and the cumbersome editing of the loadouts.

    But that could still change a lot, because BattleBit Remastered is still in Early Access and will probably remain so for the next 2 years. During this time we want to continue working on the game and also take into account the feedback of the players.

    While BattleBit Remastered is based on Battlefield and pairs it with tactical elements, Ubisoft is working on an alternative to Call of Duty with XDefiant. You can find the arena shooter and 6 other promising online shooters in our list:

    7 exciting online shooters to be released in 2023

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