I think that the more HIVE blockchain becomes popular, the more Splinterlands will become as well.

And vice versa - there are a lot of people/ accounts playing and like Blanchy wrote - a couple weeks back it crossed the billion games played mark. quite incredible.

If you want to see a visualization of the content on each block, this is a great site:
https://hiveuprss.github.io/hiveisbeautiful/

SL is Splinterlands.

I think the manager games are coming :)