Gotham City Imposters is the hero we need to return

gamepur.com:

It’s been a decade since the official release of the wacky multiplayer FPS Gotham City Imposters. Despite shifting to a free-to-play format in late 2012, Gotham City Imposters never seemed to find its footing. It found a decent amount of players when it arrived on Steam, with 7,195 concurrent players in September 2012, but the player base dropped to 829 concurrent players in just the following year.

Since then, the gaming industry and market has only evolved and adapted, changing immensely every year. Free-to-play games are now some of the most popular video games, with titles such as Destiny 2, Fortnite, Dota 2, and even Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel gaining millions of players fairly quickly. With the Batman IP under their wing, Gotham City Imposters could find a space in players’ libraries too.

With many games now asking for a lot of your time, with the introduction of seasonal passes or “Battle Passes” as they’re commonly referred to, there are not many games outside of single-player experiences that don’t request your constant attention. With the FPS genre seeing an all-time low with the critical and financial failure of Battlefield 2042 and Call of Duty: Vanguard (compared to previous entries), it seems like the perfect time for the return of Gotham City Imposters. Under the right circumstances, of course.

Gotham City Imposters could respect your time, more than other games in the current climate, by offering a more traditional multiplayer FPS experience. Rather than offering a multitude of challenges and daily missions to complete, it could simply be that players could hop into a few matches, earn some currency to upgrade their loadout and then do whatever else they want to, rather than dedicating their time to a single