With Splitgate, the developer studio 1047 Games was able to land a surprise success on the shooter market in 2019. Now they have announced a successor.
After a countdown on the official website of the arena shooter Splitgate ran down in the past few days and hours, the developers now turned to the players with a big announcement:
Splitgate 2 is coming in 2025 for Steam, Epic, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
There is already a Steam shop page where you can see the first pictures and a trailer:
What is Splitgate? Spligate is an arena shooter that started as a hidden gem in 2019 and quickly became very popular with fans of the genre. It featured a number of different modes, such as team deathmatch and zone conquest.
The gameplay was very reminiscent of Halo, but the gameplay had a special twist: you could create portals through which you could travel, shoot or even just look. This gave the shooter a special tactical element.
How has Splitgate been doing lately? In September 2022, the developers announced that they would no longer be working on Splitgate 1, although the servers would continue to run (via splitgate.com).
On Steam, Splitgate lost a large portion of its players years ago (via Steamcharts). The shooter hasn’t cracked 1,000 concurrently active players on Steam since September 2022. Splitgate hasn’t had more than 10,000 players since September 2021.