It's been a disastrous few days for Splitgate 2 and 1047 Studios. Last Friday, 1047 founder Ian Proulx bowled on stage at The Game Awards wearing a "Make FPS Great Again" hat, denying it was political in nature. He vowed that he intended to change the landscape of the First-Person Shooter genre, before revealing a Battle Royale mode, a trailer set to Imagine Dragons music, and a $140 cosmetic. Of course, it didn't go down too well.
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Proulx initially doubled down on his hat's message and his derogatory statements towards other FPS titles before walking it back with an apology yesterday, but it seems the damage is already done.
Although Splitgate 2 saw a fairly significant boost in players following the Game Awards debacle, it has still failed to make an impact in 2025. The "game-changing" shooter has just about cracked Steam's 25 most played games of the year, and has fallen short of the original Splitgate's numbers by around 62 percent.
According to SteamDB, Splitgate 2 peaked at 25,785 players the day after The Game Awards. When taken in a...
