Hazelight Studios' Split Fiction is a refreshingly simple game, and others should take notice. I'm not saying it's simple with regard to its difficulty, nor am I implying it's a conceptually simple game – I'm sure a lot of very clever work went into developing it. But as a product, Split Fiction is very straightforward. It has a clear vision and executes it without asking anything more of you, the player and consumer.

The spotlight landed on Hazelight when It Takes Two won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2021, but dedicated co-op experiences have been the studio's specialty even back to its debut title, A Way Out . Split Fiction is well within the same lineage. It's a co-op narrative experience without any extras – there are no other game modes, and not a single micr

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