Splitgates 2 steam players are only about 38 percent of the original

Summary

Splitgate 2 could not meet expectations in the Player Count Post-Game Awards.
Peak Player Count ranked 25th among the games released in 2025
Splitgate 2 has only achieved about 38% of the original number of splitgate players.

It has been a disastrous for a few days for Splitgate 2 and 1047 studios. Last Friday, 1047 founder Ian Proulx bowled on stage at the Game Awards with a “Make Fps Great Again” hat and denied it was political. He promised that he was going to change the landscape in the first person's shooting genre, before revealing a Battle Royale mode, a trailer that would imagine Dragons Music and a $ 140 cosmetics. Of course, things didn't go so well.

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Proulx initially doubled on his hat's message and his derogatory statements against other FPS titles before returning with an apology yesterday, but it seems that the injury has already been done.

Although Splitgate 2 saw a fairly significant upswing for players after the Game Awards debent, it has still failed to affect by 2025. The “game-changing” shooter has almost cracked Steams 25 most played games of the year and has made it possible for the original Splitgate number by about 62 percent.

Splitgate 2's Game Awards drama failed to drive the game to high heights

A character in splitgate 2 that carries pink sci-fi armor and raises fist in the air

According to Steamdb, Splitgate 2 topped 25 785 players the day after the Game Awards. When taken in a vacuum, it's not bad. There are almost three times as many players as the game had the day before, so it is a healthy boost. In the wider game landscape, however, it is not so good.

Splitgate 2's 25,785 simultaneous players on Steam Rank on the 25th among all games released on the platform this year. It falls behind Roadcraft, Sultan's game and Fantasy Life in: The girl who steals time.

This number also fades in comparison with the original Splitgate, which was released in 2019 before the season that Zero was launched in August 2021. It was zero during the season that Splitgate topped, with 67,724 players who jumped in. This means that Splitgate 2 has only reached about 38 percent of the original game players.

Of course, it took a while for Splitgate to start, but you have to imagine that the Splitgate 2 team was hoping for more, and it is difficult to claim that the game's disastrous view did not affect these numbers in any way.

You can check out the 25 most played new games on Steam so far this year below:

	Game	Peak Player Count
1	Monster Hunter Wilds	1 384 608
2	Schedule I.	459,075
3	The fire call Nightreign	313,593
4	Repo	271,571
5	Fiction	259,003
6	Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2	256,206
7	Oblivion remastered	216,784
8	Clair Obscur: Expedition 33	145,063
9	Dune: Awakening	142,050
10	Fragip	113,946
11	Inzoi	87,377
12	Civilization VII	84,558
13	Dynasty Warriors: Origins	69,483
14	Fantasy Life in: The girl stealing time	65,389
15	Assassin's Creed Shadows	64,825
16	Runescape: Dragonwilds	52,641
17	Sultan's game	46,106
18	Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth	40,564
19	Road transport	33,761
20	The first berserker: Khazan	32,929
21	Doom: The Dark Ages	31,470
22	The last of us part 2 remastered	30.649
23	Lies of p: overture	30,095
24	Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Steam	28,189
25	Splitgate 2	25 785

An argument can of course be made that we make Splitgate 2 up against titles from a variety of other genres, but there is still much to think about. Splitgate 2 is free to play, which means that its obstacle to entry is much lower than many games on this list. Theoretically, this should have meant that more players at least jumped in to give the game a shot. It has also had much more media exposure than many of the other titles on the list.

Fragpunk, Splitgate 2's closest competitor, is a good example of what 1047 studios may have expected. Another free to play shooter with a twist, Fragpunk topped 113,946 players at launch, a much healthier number.

Splitgate 2 has a lot of goodwill to repair if it really is to make the impact Proulx want.