Hazelight Studios Announces New Project ‘Split Fiction’
by Sage Ashford
During The Game Awards 2024, Hazelight Studios founder Josef Fares announced the studio’s latest game, Split Fiction. Set in a futuristic world, it follows Mio and Zoe, two writers trying to get published by a tech company that can bring their stories to life through a simulation. However, an accident causes them to wind up in the same simulation, where they have to work together to escape.
Check out more from about the game from Electronic Arts:
Hazelight Studios, the co-op masterminds behind Game of the Year 2021, It Takes Two, are back pushing the creative limits with their next action-adventure co-op split screen game — Split Fiction! Players will jump between sci-fi and fantasy worlds to overcome varied and unexpected gameplay challenges together with a friend.
In Split Fiction, players will discover a variety of ever-changing sci-fi and fantasy mechanics and abilities. Escape a sun that’s going supernova, challenge a monkey to a dance battle, try out some cool hoverboard tricks, fight an evil kitty and ride everything from gravity bikes to a sandshark. With worlds that are entirely different from each other, surprising challenges await players at every turn.
Mio and Zoe are contrasting writers, one of sci-fi and the other of fantasy, who become trapped in their own stories after being hooked up to a machine designed to steal their creative ideas. Jumping back and forth between worlds, they’ll have to work together and master a variety of abilities in order to break free with their memories intact.
A Hazelight Studios staple feature, The Friend’s Pass* returns again allowing one player that owns the game to invite a friend to play for free! Hazelight is now also introducing crossplay, making playing with friends even easier across PlayStation, Xbox and PC (via Steam).
Split Fiction launches for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and Steam on March 6th.
