Boundary-Pushing Co-op Adventure Split Fiction nears 4 million sales

Hazelight's fan-favorite co-op adventure, Split Fiction, has sold astir 4 cardinal copies.

Publisher EA confirmed the milestone successful its latest fiscal results, calling the crippled a "hugely palmy launch" and name-checking it arsenic 1 of the reasons the steadfast ended the 2025 fiscal twelvemonth with a "strong finish."

"4 MILLION SOLD!!!!" developer Hazelight exclaimed connected societal media successful effect to the news. "So galore of you person picked up Split Fiction already, it’s amazing…

"Seeing the amusive you person with our crippled and the emotion you amusement for Mio, Zoe and each different warms our hearts present astatine Hazelight. And truthful galore blistery dogs made… "

Split Fiction pulls you into the galore worlds of 2 fabrication writers successful a boundary-pushing co-op escapade that allows 2 radical to play adjacent if lone 1 owns the game. It lone launched successful March, but is yet different deed for Hazelight and decorator Josef Fares, selling implicit 2 cardinal copies successful conscionable a week. It's besides down arsenic a Nintendo Switch 2 motorboat rubric arsenic Hazelight gets going connected its adjacent game.

A movie based connected Hazelight’s crippled is besides successful the works, with Story Kitchen, the video crippled adaptation specializer down the Sonic films, said to beryllium assembling writers, a director, and the cast, which volition see Sydney Sweeney.

We said Split Fiction was "an expertly crafted and absorbing co-op escapade that pinballs from 1 genre utmost to another", penning successful the IGN Split Fiction reappraisal that it was "a rollercoaster of gameplay ideas and styles that are usually discarded arsenic rapidly arsenic they’re introduced. This keeps it fabulously caller for its full, 14-hour duration."

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