Halo-inspired sci-fi shooter Splitgate is ceasing development

First person shooters are one of the most popular genres in video games. That being said, it has historically been dominated by a few large franchises. One promising new multiplayer FPS game, Splitgate, is unfortunately ceasing development – though it is actually for an exciting reason.

Making the announcement on their blog, the Splitgate team released an “Important Announcement About Splitgate's Future” where they said:

“Splitgate achieved a level of success that we could not have anticipated and that few indie games are fortunate to reach. That initial success brought an opportunity to turn what started as a college dorm dream project into a AAA game that could stand toe-to-toe with shooters from the biggest publishers in the industry. But this also meant that as we’ve brought on top-tier talent from across the industry, we’ve spent a lot of our time trying to rework old content and systems that were originally built by a handful of people.”

Explaining further, they revealed that “After careful consideration and much deliberation the 1047 Games team has determined that in order to build the game fans deserve – and to build it in a way that isn’t trying to retrofit and live operate an existing product – we are ending feature development of Splitgate.”

Though somewhat disappointing, the silverlining comes in the fact that “We’re turning our attention away from iterative, smaller updates and going all-in to focus on a new game in the Splitgate universe which will present revolutionary, not evolutionary, changes to our game. It will be a shooter, it will have portals, and it will be built in Unreal Engine 5. Oh,  and it will be free.”

As mentioned, Splitgate has seen great success and so while it is curious to see the team ceasing development on a populous and well-liked game, their reasons for doing so makes a great deal of sense and should hopefully in the long-run lead to even better gaming experiences for fans of the first Splitgate. Hopefully we get to see this new game soon.

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