Split Fiction Reviews

Split Fiction is ranked in the 99th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
3DNews
Мила Пономарева
Top Critic
10 / 10.0
Mar 16, 2025

Hazelight Studios brought us another extremely spectacular, incredibly captivating, and amazingly heartfelt game that will leave you absolutely awed!

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10 / 10.0
Mar 16, 2025

Split Fiction is one of the top candidates for Game of the Year 2025, I have no doubt about that. It is a great blend of genres that surprises you with something new and innovative at every turn. Josef Fares, after the great It Takes Two, has done it again and delivered one of the best experiences of the year.

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100 / 100
Mar 14, 2025

Hazelight Studios have continued to expand their portfolio over the years and we have seen their co-op games become increasingly popular and with good reason, they are fun, easily accessible and incorporate visual storytelling in a co-op game, something that is rarely seen if at all and even when it is it usually isn't done well. Split Fiction is a game that had taken my expectations and exceeded them massively.

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9.6 / 10.0
Mar 14, 2025

Split Fiction is a masterpiece of game design and another example of how the development team, in the span of three games, has managed to completely rewrite the playbook on how to develop entertaining and incredibly creative and powerful stories. Hazelight Studios, has far exceeded the already mammoth expectations we had by coming up with a game that manages to be so many things at once; Split Fiction is ultimately, yes a clear demonstration of how a cooperative game should be developed and a wonderful ode to gaming as an art form but it will be remembered in the years to come - among other things - for something that we are now perhaps inclined to underestimate and should instead carry more weight in our lives, namely: how important the power of friendship is.

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IGN
Top Critic
9 / 10.0
Mar 4, 2025

An expertly crafted and absorbing co-op adventure that pinballs from one genre extreme to another, Split Fiction is a rollercoaster of gameplay ideas and styles that are usually discarded as quickly as they’re introduced.

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5 / 5
Mar 4, 2025

Fantastic from start to finish, Split Fiction is one of the most inventive and joyful co-op games to date, and a testament to the power of human imagination.

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87 / 100
Mar 4, 2025

An incredibly inventive, rapid-fire co-op adventure that never breaks its stride, despite its dull protagonists.

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10 / 10
Mar 4, 2025

Split Fiction is a must-play and yet another co-op gaming masterpiece from Josef Fares and his team at Hazelight Studios.

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TheGamer
Top Critic
Mar 4, 2025

Shortcomings aside, there is still nothing like Split Fiction in the modern gaming landscape, and so long as Hazelight sees fit to keep on making games like this, I’ll keep on showing up.

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Mar 4, 2025

Hazelight has created another brilliant adventure that's going straight into our best co-op games list. Split Fiction is quite the opposite of industry trends right now; amidst everything, it's a bastion of ingenuity and gives me hope that creativity isn't quite as in danger as I feared.

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GameSpot
Jessica Cogswell
Top Critic
10 / 10
Mar 4, 2025

Split Fiction is more than a hilarious, compassionate, and delightful new benchmark for multiplayer experiences--it is a remarkable love letter to creativity, video games, and companionship.

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Unscored
Mar 4, 2025

Hazelight's latest co-op adventure is an excellent victory lap

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VG247
Top Critic
Mar 4, 2025

Split Fiction, just like Hazelight's projects before it, will not only have you belly-laughing throughout the experience, reminiscing about games, movies and literature the game regularly reminds you of, but it’ll also tug at your heartstrings and have you wiping tears from your eyes.

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3.5 / 5.0
Mar 4, 2025

Split Fiction is, in many ways, a spiritual successor to 2021's It Takes Two, boasting an identical gameplay loop and story structure to its predecessor and continuing Hazelight's running emphasis on two-player co-op. It's shorter, more expensive, and while it may not have the originality or variety of It Takes Two, it still manages to create an entertaining and captivating experience for both players.

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Mar 5, 2025

Split Fiction is one of the most creative, inventive and downright delightful action-adventure games I've ever played. The team behind It Takes Two has once again crafted a genre-defying cooperative romp. However, the overly earnest and clunky story grates and acts as a barrier to all the madcap fun.

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Unscored
Mar 4, 2025

A cinematic co-op full of novelties that might keep you thoughtlessly entertained for a weekend - just don't count on the author heroes to write an interesting story.

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DualShockers
Ethan Krieger
Top Critic
9 / 10.0
Mar 4, 2025

Constantly full of excitement, beauty, joy, and downright absurdity, this title earns its place alongside its spiritual predecessor as arguably the best two-player experience on current-gen hardware. Split Fiction is a technical marvel that pushes the boundaries of design without ever sacrificing the notion that video games are fun and should be experienced alongside our friends and loved ones.

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8 / 10
Mar 9, 2025

Split Fiction is an excellent continuation of the split-screen co-op joys that Hazelight has made their own. It takes a little while to get going, both in terms of gameplay and narrative, but once it hits its stride, there's just so many moments that will fill you with joy and delight.

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9.5 / 10.0
Mar 4, 2025

Split Fiction is the resulting product of taking the core elements of what made It Takes Two such a great game and just brainstorming all kinds of entertaining and unexpected concepts. Hazelight has done it once again, and you should expect to see the new game by Josef Fares's team amongst the most highly regarded games in The Game Awards 2025.

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TJ Denzer
Top Critic
9 / 10
Mar 4, 2025

This is some of the best co-op platforming around and another must-have for those who want to take a fun journey with their bestie.

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