The shooter Splitgate attracted so many players in August that the servers crashed under the excitement. The problems have since been resolved. Now a major financial injection is supposed to help further improve the game.
This is what’s going on with Splitgate: The developer studio just completed an extremely successful funding round, as Ian Proulx, CEO of the Splitgate developers 1047 Games, shared on Twitter.
100 million dollars (84,605,950 euros) were raised in this round for the Splitgate developers. According to Proulx, 1047 Games now wants to establish itself as an independent studio and not sell to larger developers.
Because the Splitgate developers are essentially a smaller studio – which should no longer be the case: “Now everything is possible, and the scope of what we can achieve has just increased tenfold” (via Twitter).
The CEO mentions in the statement that they want to focus on growth in the coming months. They want to become the “next big AAA studio” while still prioritizing the community.
Proulx specifically says that they could now hire a lot more developers. For Splitgate, this could mean further growth:
We can introduce better and more frequent updates for Splitgate.
Ian Proulx (via Twitter)
We can add more features that, as always, come from community feedback.
We can fix bugs faster.
We can support a much larger number of players.
We can get on more platforms.
This is the portal shooter Splitgate
This is how it has been for Splitgate so far: Splitgate made a name for itself as a surprise hit on Steam when in August suddenly many more players wanted to join the servers than the developers had expected.
At the beginning there were sometimes long queues, which during peak times even exceeded 90 minutes. Therefore, Splitgate postponed its official release date to improve server stability.
Furthermore, the free-to-play game can also be played on PlayStation and Xbox, and it also offers crossplay. The all-time peak on Steam for Splitgate is 67,724 concurrent players. In the past 30 days, Splitgate had an average of around 24,000 players (via SteamCharts).
What do you play in Splitgate? Splitgate is basically a free old-school arena shooter where you measure yourself against other players from a first-person perspective. You can rely on a variety of modes, weapons, and a jetpack that allows you to fly around.
The twist in Splitgate are the portals: you can open two of them simultaneously and connect different points on the map. Then you can jump through the portals at will or shoot through them.
The portals create fast-paced gameplay where you never feel completely safe – after all, opponents can appear unexpectedly.
In Splitgate, there is also a battle pass with cosmetics, like you know from other games. Currently, the “Season 0” is ongoing in the shooter, which was presented at Gamescom.
