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Split Fiction
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Split Fiction

byHazelight Studios2025

Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.

Release Date

March 5, 2025

Developer

Hazelight Studios

Publisher

Electronic Arts

Split Fiction Reviews

Professional reviews from gaming critics

Split Fiction is a stunning and emotional buddy co-op adventure that kept us fully invested until the very end. Jumping between Zoe and Mio's different worlds was executed flawlessly, with unique gameplay, storylines, and details for every chapter. It's also the first of Hazelight's games to feature cross platform play, which performed superbly. This is how co-op games should be!

Mar 4, 2025 Read Review

Split Fiction, like Hazelight Studios' previous titles, is only playable in local or online co-op. To match this collaborative direction, the Push Square review is a back-and-forth between the pair who played through the game, as has become tradition. This time, assistant editor Stephen Tailby had a helping hand from video producer Aaron Bayne. Enjoy thoughts from both in this joint review!

Mar 4, 2025 Read Review

Split Fiction is more than a hilarious, compassionate, and delightful new benchmark for multiplayer experiences--it is a remarkable love letter to creativity, video games, and companionship.

Mar 4, 2025 Read Review

Split Fiction is pure gaming brilliance. It’s the type of experience only this medium can afford, and one only true masters of their craft can cultivate. At times utterly charming while in other moments deeply profound, the endlessly creative adventure will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Dive in with no preconceptions and be swept up by its genius.

Mar 4, 2025 Read Review

Split Fiction feels like the culmination of what Josef Fares and Hazelight Studios’ team have learned since making Brothers and A Way Out. Both were solid games, and It Takes Two’s success was our first glimpse at what the studio was truly capable of. Split Fiction is everything I could ever ask from a cooperative game and more, easily making it another solid game of the year contender. I wish I could go on about each level and its intricacies since I could easily ramble on numerous incredible moments for a while. This is one of those games that thrives on surprising you at every corner, and h...

Mar 4, 2025 Read Review

Hazelight Studio's Split Fiction elevates the co-op experience to new heights while telling a touching story about loss and friendship.

Mar 4, 2025 Read Review

Split Fiction has proven that Hazelight is simply the best modern studio in the co-op business. Constantly full of excitement, beauty, joy, and downright absurdity, this title earns its place alongside its spiritual predecessor as arguably the best two-player experience on current-gen hardware. Split Fiction is a technical marvel that pushes the boundaries of design without ever sacrificing the notion that video games are fun and should be experienced alongside our friends and loved ones. The narrative isn't always perfect and doesn't climb quite as high as I may have hoped, but the fact remai...

Mar 4, 2025 Read Review

I expected nothing less than a masterpiece with Split Fiction, and yet my expectations were still exceeded. Play this game immediately.

Mar 20, 2025 Read Review

An incredibly inventive, rapid-fire co-op adventure that never breaks its stride, despite its dull protagonists.

Mar 4, 2025 Read Review

Full of hilarious moments and incredible cinematics; Split Fiction is a couch co-op powerhouse, perfect for those looking for endless fun and the ultimate escape.

Mar 4, 2025 Read Review

Hazelight returns with yet another heartfelt couch co-op adventure.

Mar 4, 2025 Read Review

it's safe to say Split Fiction is a fun game for anyone who's got another player ready to try it out. Whimsical, lighthearted, action-packed and thoughtfully-made, it feels ready for any co-op team from strangers to best friends

Mar 4, 2025 Read Review