Splitgate 2 developer 1047 Games has revealed plans to ‘unlaunch’ the sequel just two months after it launch in an effort to completely overhaul the game.
The studio also revealed that it will be taking the original Splitgate offline and laying off 45 employees (a figure reported by IGN). As for Splitgate 2, the Chapter 3 update is still planned to roll out alongside some bug fixes, but after that the game will be pulled until early 2026, at which point Splitgate 2 will come back with “big, sweeping changes.”
Speaking on the official Splitgate 2 X account, 1047 Games and the following to say:
We’ve heard your feedback, and we agree with you: we launched too early. We had ambitious goals with Splitgate 2, and in our excitement to share it with you, we bit off more than we could chew. We rushed certain features, made some boneheaded mistakes, and most importantly – we didn’t give you the polished, portal-filled mayhem you fell in love with.
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So we’re going back to beta. We’ll be heads down until early next year, rebuilding major parts of the game to capture the spirit of what made Splitgate special. That means reworking progression from the ground up, adding more portals to our maps, simplifying monetization, refocusing on classic game modes you’ve been asking for, and more, which we’ll share soon.
The servers for the original Splitgate will be shut down in a month, and while the studio said they would love to keep them open, it noted that it costs “hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past couple of years,” and that it has to “prioritise our team.”
[Source – IGN, Splitgate on X]