Battlefield 2042 is losing players to an indie game that looks like Roblox

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Battlefield 2042’s bug-riddled release has not gone down well with fans. As Dice’s multiplayer FPS continues to hemorrhage players and rollback content, many disappointed fans are looking for alternative games to fill their multiplayer FPS craving, and have struck upon one little-known, upcoming indie game to do just that.

Battlebit Remastered is as close to a Battlefield clone as you can get – if a little blockier. It transfers the series’ core, squad-based shooting loop into a world of blocky, low-poly visuals. It’s essentially Battlefield in the skin of Roblox – and players seem to love it.

The upcoming FPS hasn’t even launched yet but managed to attract 30,000 players to its latest public playtest (that’s according to the devs(opens in new tab), although SteamDB(opens in new tab) estimates a, still impressive, figure of 26,000). Originally scheduled to run for over 48 hours from April 8 to April 10, the playtest ended early after servers became unstable when the number of concurrent players skyrocketed.

Battlefield 2042, meanwhile, continues to attract a fraction of that player count. On PC, it drew a peak of only 2,000 active players(opens in new tab) during the same time period and hasn’t been able to reach 30,000 players since last December. It even dropped below 1,000 players on April 11. That’s not a great look for a blockbuster, triple-A game.

It’s easy to see why Battlebit would be such a draw for players who are disappointed with Battlefield 2042. Even in its current beta state, it includes all the hallmarks of the series: massive multiplayer matches that pit up to 250 players against each other; land, air, and sea vehicles to control; and fully destructible environments that let you topple huge buildings. 

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