Mountaintop, a studio made up of veterans who have worked on games like Apex Legends, Call of Duty, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Halo, Overwatch, and VALORANT, has announced Spectre Divide, a competitive tactical first-person shooter built around a “Duality” mechanic that promises to “reshape” how players approach strategy. It will be available for PC via Steam. A release date was not announced. The first major stress test will run from August 3 to 4.
“Our team has been patiently waiting for this day to show how Spectre Divide will bring new life to the genre,” said Mountaintop game director Lee Horn in a press release. “Our community’s support means everything to us and it drives us to make a better game. A huge thank you to all of our incredible playtesters who’ve helped make the game what it is over the last few years.”
Here is an overview of the game, via Mountaintop:
About
Spectre Divide is the genre-evolving competitive three-versus-three tactical shooter driven by Duality. Use Duality to control two bodies in real-time, letting you defend two sites at once, cover your own cross, or even trade yourself. Duality is an entirely new vector for mastery, bringing a new dimension to tac shooter fundamentals.
Spectre Divide is set in the near future city of Breakwater, where the unsanctioned competition of “Santai” is the pinnacle of achievement and status.
In Spectre Divide, there are no predetermined characters—this is your climb to champion. Create your own pair of competitors and forge a legacy through combat, competition, and community.
Key Features
- Duality: One Mind, Two Bodies
- Use Duality to freely swap to your second body—called a Spectre—at any moment to overwhelm and surprise enemies from multiple positions.
- Death cannot stop you. Your Spectre is a second chance at victory, giving you twice the uptime every round.
- Duality has been threaded through every aspect of the game, including maps, equipment, weapons, economy, and more.
- Tense, Tactical Gunplay
- Aim-down-sights (ADS) gunplay lets you shoot on the move with true-to-crosshair accuracy.
- Deterministic spray patterns requires mastering your weapons of choice.
- An Arsenal of Future Tech
- Each match, select from a powerful equipment set provided by Sponsors to specialize your role and playstyle.
- Gather intel, set traps, and reinforce teammates on the fly—no ultimates.
- Every equipment set is integrated with Duality, creating new ways to outplay the enemy.
- Visceral, Anime-Inspired World
- Spectre Divide‘s style is rooted in sci-fi comic book art and the classic Japanese cel animation of the ’90s.
- The world has a hand-drawn look, capturing the same energy and momentum as the concept sketch.
- The style presents clean visual reads, perfect for executing next-level plays.
- Forge Your Legacy
- Compete solo or with your team in Ranked to prove your skill.
- Compete with your Crew of 60 friends in a weekly, engagement-based competition to score the most points and move up the leaderboard.
- Personalize the look of your own pair of competitors and crush the competition in style.
Watch a set of trailers below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.
