It's a tough genre to crack these days.
Splitgate: Arena Reloaded and Empulse devs 1047 Games have announced both shooters will be shutting down active development.
Both titles will no longer get updates, but peer-to-peer servers will keep them playable for those who wish to do so. The devs said the games are no longer feasible as “neither game is generating enough revenue to support the ongoing cost of dedicated servers.”
“We have continued covering those costs because we wanted to give both games every opportunity to grow, but we have reached the point where that is no longer sustainable,” the devs said in a statement today. “We have loved working on these games, playing them, and building them with this community, and we wish we could continue supporting them.”
Empulse launched earlier this year as a Titanfall-like shooter, but most will know the studio for Splitgate and its co-founder Ian Proulx, who took to the Summer Game Fest stage in 2025 with a “Make FPS Great Again” hat. Neither game has caught on enough to sustain development.
Splitgate 2 shut down for a while after stumbling out of its own launch and then re-launched as Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, but struggled to garner much interest in spite of the studio saying that “Steam charts don’t measure fun” at the beginning of 2026 with less than 1,000 players on the game daily.
In light of both games ending, 1047 says it will continue, but with a different look in the future compared to the multiplayer, portal-shooting, mech-driving games they’ve released thus far.
“After ten years of focusing on live service shooters, our focus is changing,” the co-founders said. “What we build next may look very different from what people expect from 1047 Games, but what has not changed is why we are here: we love making games. We have learned a lot over the years, and we will carry those lessons into what we build next.”
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