Split Fiction

Split Fiction is currently 35% off on Xbox — down to $32.49 from $49.99.

35% off is a solid mid-range price. If you can wait, Split Fiction has historically gone lower during seasonal sales.

That works out to $17.50 off the Xbox list price of $49.99.

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Split Fiction is Hazelight’s follow-up to It Takes Two, and it keeps the studio’s signature idea intact: this is a game built entirely around two people playing together, with a story that gives their cooperation an actual reason to exist. Mio and Zoe, a sci-fi writer and a fantasy writer, get plugged into a machine that’s supposed to mine their imaginations for story ideas. It malfunctions, and they end up trapped inside their own fiction, bouncing between neon futures and dragon-filled kingdoms while trying to find a way out with their memories intact. It’s a strange premise, but Hazelight has built a career on turning strange premises into memorable co-op set pieces.

How it plays

The whole experience runs on split screen, built for two people sitting at the same setup or connecting online, and the appeal comes from how much the gameplay shifts underneath you. One stretch has you and your partner riding hoverboards or gravity bikes through a sci-fi city, the next drops you into a fantasy stage wrangling dragons or dodging trolls, and it keeps swapping mechanics rather than settling into one system for the whole runtime. Since Mio and Zoe are locked into their separate genres, you and your co-op partner will often be doing different things at the same moment on screen, which forces real communication instead of just moving in parallel. A Friend’s Pass lets a second player join without buying their own copy, so the barrier to actually playing together with someone is low.

Who it’s for

This is a game for people who already have a regular co-op partner, a partner, roommate, or friend they play with online, because none of it works solo in any meaningful sense. If you loved It Takes Two or A Way Out, or you just like games that treat couch co-op as a design philosophy rather than an afterthought, this is very much in that lane. If you don’t have anyone to play with, or you’re looking for a long single-player campaign to sink into on your own, this isn’t going to click, and there’s no version of the experience that changes that.

Is it worth it?

For the right pair of players, story-driven co-op games that keep reinventing themselves level to level are rare, and Hazelight has a track record of not padding these adventures out past their welcome. The value case is really about whether you have someone to experience it with. If you do, and especially if that person can ride in for free through the Friend’s Pass, the cost gets split in a way most games never offer. It’s the kind of release worth keeping an eye on for a sale rather than rushing to buy at full price, since patience costs you nothing here and the game isn’t going anywhere.

Quick facts

Genre: Action and adventure. Developer: Hazelight Studios AB. Publisher: Electronic Arts. Platform: PC (Xbox store). Release date: March 6, 2025.