Hazelight Studios has long been considered one of the best developers in two-player cooperative games, but with the release of its new title Divided fictionit may have solidified itself as the best. After a storm with critics at the beginning of the week, there are now plenty of positive user reviews on Steam, solidifying its position as one of the best new releases of 2025.
Hazelight had already set a high bar in the first two cooperative games. The out was full of great gameplay moments, but its real-world setting meant that some of its more surreal ideas and story beats were a bit off. But you need two, but you can stick your middle finger into realism and fully embrace creativity and madness. As you need two two that boast a “overwhelmingly positive” 95% rating in steam, split fiction has to be something really special to beat it. At least on the release date, that’s exactly what it was gone.
At the time of writing, nearly 500 user reviews have already been posted for Stem’s split fiction, with 96% of them being positive. That player count is not at an astonishing Monster Hunter Wiles level, but it reached a simultaneous peak of 32,471 people today. Of course, this is just steam and because of the nature of its sofa co-op, it will help gamers’ consoles, so the big picture is probably much more varied for Hazelite and EA.
It is also worth considering that every copy of the split fiction you purchase comes with a friend’s pass.
With a 96% steam rating, it is now one of the top-rate new PC games on the platform in 2025, but critics’ review scores solidify this. Split fiction, which spans two biggest review aggregator sites, OpenCritic and Metacritic, is currently at the top of the 2025 pile so far. On OpenCritic, it is on the average review score of 90 where Monster Hunter Wild and Kingdom scored rescue.
So Hazelight did it again. Fantasy games and futuristic sci-fi adventures, their stunning visuals, and their vast cooperative puzzles and mini-game split fiction mix have an absolute storm. I’m already looking forward to this weekend, so I can dive into myself…would you like to take a look at our upcoming PC gaming guide while you’re here?
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