Spectre Divide, a PS5 live-service game that looks to emulate Valorant in a 3v3 setting, released on 25th February 2025. However, within the next 30 days, the title will be taken offline permanently and the developer, Mountaintop Studios, will close at the end of this week. Replicating the disaster that was Sony’s own live-service failure Concord, it is yet another reminder of just how tough the Games as a Service space is to break into in 2025.
In a statement issued to Twitter, the developer confirmed that Spectre Divide will go offline “in the next 30 days” and the studio “will be closing its doors at the end of this week”. Any purchases made by players will be refunded and current microtransactions will be disabled.
While the game launched for PC last September, it made its console debut just over two weeks ago alongside the first season of content. “Unfortunately, the Season 1 launch hasn’t achieved the level of success we needed to sustain the game and keep Mountaintop afloat,” the statement reads. The studio no longer has any funding to support the game and will close as a result.
The message continues: “We pursued every avenue to keep going, including finding a publisher, additional investment, and/or an acquisition. In the end, we weren’t able to make it work. The industry is in a tough spot right now.” Upon its PC launch, Spectre Divide managed to pull in around 10,000 players at any one time, but SteamDB tracking reveals those numbers quickly fell off a cliff. It has a 24-hour peak of 337 players on PC, and while PS5 player tracking isn’t available, it’s clear the console versions haven’t done enough to help sustain the game and its developer either.
Spectre Divide will be available to play on PS5 for longer than Concord was, but for all intents and purposes, it’s just as dead now as the moment Concord was pulled. The statement concludes: “Game development is full of twists, turns, and surprises, and the industry has changed dramatically since we started the project in 2020. Even though we missed the mark, we wouldn’t trade the journey for anything.”
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