Summary

  • Mountaintop Studios is closing following Spectre Divide's underwhelming first-season performance.
  • Spectre Divide's support will end in the next 30 days, and Mountaintop Studios will close this week.
  • After its initial PC launch, the game was released for consoles in late February.

The developer of Spectre Divide, Mountaintop Studios, has announced its decision to close its doors and end support for the live-service game following the unsatisfactory performance of the title's first season. This news comes a mere six months after the US-based indie studio first released Spectre Divide, its debut title, in September 2024.

Back in 2020, a group of veterans with experience creating games at Naughty Dog, Respawn, Epic Games, and more came together to form Mountaintop Studios. After a few years, they kicked off their journey with Spectre Divide, a free-to-play shooter available on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. However, their debut game received a mixed reception at launch despite attracting promising levels of engagement and, a few weeks later, the fledgling studio also laid off 13 employees in favor of securing Spectre Divide's long-term future. As it turns out, that move wasn't enough to sustain either the game or the studio, both of which are now scheduled to go offline soon.

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Mountaintop Studios CEO Nate Mitchell recently shared that the developer is set to shut down "at the end of this week," which would be March 15, 2025. Additionally, he revealed that the support for Spectre Divide is also planned to end "within the next 30 days." Notably, the indie studio exec highlighted the underwhelming response to the online multiplayer game's first season, which became available on February 25, as a factor behind the move.​​​​​​ He further said that the team plans on turning off new in-game purchases and refunding players for all the transactions done since the launch of Season 1: Flashpoint.

Mountaintop Studios Announces Decision to Close Down and Pull the Plug on Spectre Divide

Explaining the decision to close up shop, Mitchell said that, despite an "optimistic" first week, Spectre Divide's Flashpoint season ultimately did not bring in the desired number of active players or a favorable amount of revenue to make up for the "day-to-day costs" of the game or the studio. Interestingly, this announcement follows just 16 days after the game's console launch, which took place alongside the roll-out of Season 1. With this, Mountaintop Studios has become the latest entrant on the list of studio closures in 2025, which also includes offices of AAA game developers like Ubisoft.

While fans of online shooter games are set to lose Spectre Divide in the coming weeks, another game in the genre titled FragPunk has been turning heads lately. Even though FragPunk's player engagement on Steam has been nothing short of impressive, many are eager to see how long it can keep players interested with forthcoming updates.

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Spectre Divide
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Released
September 3, 2024
Developer(s)
Mountaintop Studios
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Mountaintop Studios
Multiplayer
Online Multiplayer
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DIGITAL
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Genre(s)
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