Split Fiction is the next co-op game from Hazelight Studios

Josef Fares is backmost and truthful is his penchant for cursing. The manager of Hazelight Studios has returned to The Game Awards to debut his adjacent game: Split Fiction.

Split Fiction is simply a crippled that feels precise overmuch successful Hazelight’s wheelhouse. Like It Takes Two and A Way Out earlier it, Split Fiction is simply a two-person split-screen co-op game. In it, 2 crippled developers person been trapped successful a satellite they created and indispensable play unneurotic to escape.

It’s been a quiescent but massively palmy fistful of years for Hazelight Studios. In 2021, it took location Game of the Year for It Takes Two in which 2 players indispensable enactment unneurotic to flooded the myriad dangers of their location (and their failing marriage) Honey, I Shrunk The Kids-style.

Earlier this year, the workplace announced that It Takes Two sold 20 cardinal copies. Polygon did a heavy dive into the game’s income numbers, determining that it sold astatine an astonishingly accordant and enviable clip of fractional a cardinal copies per period since its merchandise successful March 2021. A genuinely singular feat fixed the crippled had precise small selling extracurricular its archetypal merchandise model and at a clip erstwhile astir consumers’ multiplayer tastes were wrapped up successful “forever games” similar Call of Duty: Warzone and Fortnite. With bona fides similar that, it’s harmless to accidental folks volition beryllium looking astatine Split Fiction, launching March 6th connected PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, with large interest.