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It Takes Two dev's new co-op game Split Fiction launches as Metacritic's highest rated game of 2025, beating out Monster Hunter Wilds and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Hazelight has another hit on its hands

GamesRadar

Split Fiction reviews and Metacritic scores are in — is this genre-bending co-op game as wild as it looks?

Hazelight's latest co-op game is here at long last, but does Split Fiction live up to the hype? Here's what reviewers say.

Windows Central

Game Director Josef Fares Calls Live Service And Micro-Transactions "Sad"

The game director has choice words for games that keep trying to get money from the player with small transactions, despite working in an industry where those business models are common practice.

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Split Fiction review: Multiplayer couch co-op for sci-fi and fantasy fans

From the makers of 2021 Game of the Year winner It Takes Two - Hazelight Studios latest is a multiplayer hit

The Independent UK

Split Fiction review

A boring odd couple go on an incredible adventure.

PC Gamer

'Split Fiction' Is One Of The Best Co-op Games Ever Made

'Split Fiction,' is a flawless follow-up to 'It Takes Two,' one that elevates Hazelight Studios into the upper echelon of the medium's most inventive developers.

Inverse

Split Fiction review: "Cements Hazelight as the master of co-op games"

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I played Split Fiction with my brother, and I found that it's a must-play co-op game

Split Fiction is a fantastic co-op experience from beginning to end, retaining what made It Takes Two special while still exploring new ideas.

Windows Central

A Way Out is a gritty co-op game that challenged me to make the right choice in a world full of bad ones

A Way Out is a drama-filled co-op game from Hazelight Studios that asks players to orchestrate a prison break – and deal with the immediate ensuing consequences.

TechRadar

It Takes Two pushed me to the limit with clever platforming puzzles and moreish co-op challenges

Hazelight Studios’ puzzle platformer asks players to quarrel with emotional and immediate capers in co-op, with clear communication and accurate timing making the difference between success and failure.

TechRadar

Does Split Fiction have cross-play or cross-platform play?

Split Fiction could be one of the biggest co-op games of the year, but does it have cross-play? Here's what you need to know.

Windows Central

Is Split Fiction on Xbox Game Pass?

Split Fiction looks to be one of 2025's best co-op games, but is it coming to Game Pass?

Windows Central

Here are all the Xbox games launching this week, from March 3 through March 9

Several new games are headed to Xbox this week, including co-op adventure Split Fiction. Here are all the Xbox games launching from March 3 through March 9.

Windows Central

'Not every story is told in that way': Phil Spencer says that live service games aren't the answer to every problem, and that smaller games play an important role

"Allow us to also support games that have a beginning, middle, and end."

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Josef Fares doesn't care what EA thinks, he'll never make a live service game: 'It will not happen with a Hazelight game, ever'

The Hazelight chief knows companies have to make money, but wants to see more developers focusing on "what they believe in."

GamesRadar

Split Fiction ups the ante on It Takes Two's wacky co-op action, while showing why human creativity still matters

Game director Josef Fares explains why Split Fiction is about human stories, and wonders why other developers aren't making more co-op games

GamesRadar

Split Fiction director Josef Fares says Ubisoft is "struggling" and should make a co-op Splinter Cell game: "Don't chicken out to do single-player; just say this is split-screen only"

I'd play that

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Split Fiction is now my most anticipated game of 2025 and proves Hazelight continues to be the most inventive studio out there when it comes to co-op adventures

Opinion | Split Fiction promises to be a "f**king ride", and I'm more than ready to strap in

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Inverse

2025's Most Intriguing Game Splits the Difference Between Sci-Fi and Fantasy

The creator of 'It Takes Two' is back with another imaginative and wild couch co-op you won't want to put down in 'Split Fiction.'

GamesRadar

"It's impossible to not be cocky when you have a game like this": It Takes Two's Josef Fares is back and drumming up another Game Awards reveal

Hazelight's next game will finally be announced at this week's Game Awards

PC Gamer

It Takes Two has somehow sold an astonishing 20 million copies, Hazelight teases new game with EA

It takes two times ten million.

GamesRadar

15 Best games like It Takes Two for more co-operative fun

Here are the best games like It Takes Two to play right now before you check out Split Fiction

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