Gotcha

This was one of the best Soundfont players I could find, after Image-Line discontinued their native Fruity Soundfont player from their FL Studio DAW.

I found that Gotcha worked well with most of my existing soundfonts and so I was using this as a 64-bit replacement in many of my projects. However, now it appears as though it too has been discontinued, which seems a real shame to me.

Does anyone know why this has happened or if there are any well-supported alternative .sf2 players (which disqualifies Sforzano and other .sfz only software)?

Fun tool for trying out soundfonts. You can quickly choose them from a list and play around.
If you are not sure, if the soundfont fits your choice, you can add the most common effects to hear how it sounds with a reverb, a chorus or delay. The chord player and the octave stepper make Gotcha also interesting for live performing.
If the developer would add some more contrast to the GUI I would give 5 stars.
Whatever, another nice plugin from Beatassist. Thanks.