BattleBit Remastered

BattleBit Remastered is a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter where players, divided into two opposing teams representing the United States Armed Forces and the Russian Armed Forces, battle each other to complete objectives on a large map. Players can choose to join 64-player (32 vs. 32), 128-player (64 vs. 64), and 254-player (127 vs. 127) servers, depending on the matchmaking option chosen in the main menu.

Players are divided into various squads in their team and can choose from one of six classes that have unique loadouts to fulfill certain roles: Squad Leader, tasked with commanding their squad, with the ability to place rally points for their squad to spawn at and are planned to be able to use their binoculars to order airstrikes; Assault, a basic and all-rounded fighter; Medic, tasked with healing and quickly reviving injured teammates; Support, centered around suppressive fire, with the ability to deploy ammunition boxes for teammates to resupply from; Engineer, centered around military engineering and sapping, with access to explosive weapons to destroy enemy structures and vehicles; and Recon, centered around overwatch, reconnaissance, and hit-and-run attacks.

BattleBit Remastered was first announced on Steam Greenlight as BattleBit in December 2016 as the first project for SgtOkiDoki, Vilaskis, and TheLiquidHorse. The three indie developers are the game's only creators and their previous experiences were in creating mods. They cited games such as Battlefield, Squad, Insurgency: Sandstorm, Ace of Spades, and Hell Let Loose as inspiration.

The original intent of BattleBit was to provide a milsim experience that would be accessible to players with less-powerful hardware, with their own experiences playing on laptops and older desktop computers shaping their concerns. However, as development continued and beta testing took place, the decision was made to shift towards a more casual but realism-themed experience. Despite the addition of "Remastered" in the game's name, BattleBit Remastered is not actually a remaster or remake of any existing game; rather, its name is an in-joke referencing how frequently development had to restart.

According to gaming website PC Gamer, BattleBit Remastered remains one of the most popular games on Steam in mid-2023, with 1.8 million copies sold within two weeks of its initial release.

The game's overall simplicity was widely singled out for praise, and it was frequently compared to earlier Battlefield entries and as an alternative to Battlefield 2042. Morgan Park of PC Gamer positively described BattleBit Remastered as "An indie FPS that moves like Battlefield, behaves like hardcore milsim Squad, and looks like Roblox", and recommended it to "[m]ultiplayer FPS fans with the same service-game malaise". Patrick Gill of Polygon made similar comparisons and described it as a revival of the "nerdy mechanical depth and absolutely unhinged slapstick sandbox action" seen in shooters from the early 2010s such as Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3. Eric Van Allen of Destructoid agreed, comparing it to Battlefield 2 as "a piece of the FPS landscape I'd thought lost".