In another universe, Splitgate is the most played game on Twitch and has united all the nations of the world under a proxy system of warfare where all conflicts are resolved via Team Teabag Confirmed.

Gameplay is simple: It's competitive Halo with a portal gun. Immediately intuitive, but the skill ceiling is infinite.

There are only a handful of maps but each is fun and enables interesting and creative use of this game's big draw, the portal gun.

The weapons are your standard arena shooter archetypes, but each of them is meaningful to the pickup economy and gunplay feels great.

Modes are a grab bag of Halo throwbacks, including Team Swat and Oddball.

The game is free to play, with a pretty forgettable battle pass option and loot boxes. Nothing is predatory nor particularly interesting, you're just customizing the colors and armor sets of pretty generic looking space marines and their weapon skins but there is a lot there and it is a fun system to create an avatar with.

EDIT: With recent patches, the cosmetic skins have received a huge visual overhaul and are now quite nice.

I really can't recommend Splitgate enough. The only downside is the player population, but the devs are always experimenting with ways of getting people on at the same time with Happy Hours and community events. It's not revolutionary, in the sense that Halo and Portal have both been in the cultural consciousness for a long time, but so had peanut butter and jelly before someone created the greatest sandwich known to man.

In another universe, Splitgate is the most played game on Twitch and has united all the nations of the world under a proxy system of warfare where all conflicts are resolved via Team Teabag Confirmed. Gameplay is simple: It's competitive Halo with a portal gun. Immediately intuitive, but the skill ceiling is infinite. There are only a handful of maps but each is fun and enables interesting and creative use of this game's big draw, the portal gun. The weapons are your standard arena shooter archetypes, but each of them is meaningful to the pickup economy and gunplay feels great. Modes are a grab bag of Halo throwbacks, including Team Swat and Oddball. The game is free to play, with a pretty forgettable battle pass option and loot boxes. Nothing is predatory nor particularly interesting, you're just customizing the colors and armor sets of pretty generic looking space marines and their weapon skins but there is a lot there and it is a fun system to create an avatar with. EDIT: With recent patches, the cosmetic skins have received a huge visual overhaul and are now quite nice. I really can't recommend Splitgate enough. The only downside is the player population, but the devs are always experimenting with ways of getting people on at the same time with Happy Hours and community events. It's not revolutionary, in the sense that Halo and Portal have both been in the cultural consciousness for a long time, but so had peanut butter and jelly before someone created the greatest sandwich known to man.