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Split Fiction

Split Fiction is a 2025 cooperative action-adventure game developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts under its EA Originals label. Players control two aspiring writers, Mio Hudson and Zoe, who are sucked into a machine that traps them inside their own unfinished stories, forcing them to escape by playing through each other's worlds together. The game alternates between Zoe's high-fantasy realm and Mio's cyberpunk science-fiction setting, and is fully playable as two-player online or local split-screen co-op. It won the Game of the Year award at The Game Awards 2025 and was praised for its inventive genre-swapping design, its ever-changing co-op mechanics, and the strength of its two-character partnership.

• Genre-Swapping Duo: Mio and Zoe play through two radically different worlds - Zoe's high-fantasy realm of dragons, goblins, and magic and Mio's corporate cyberpunk science-fiction city - swapping between them as the story demands.
• Mandatory Two-Character Co-op: The game is built exclusively as a two-player experience, controllable as online co-op or local split-screen, with every level, puzzle, and boss demanding coordination between the two protagonists.
• Context-Specific Abilities: Each chapter grants the characters unique tools and skills tied to that world's fiction - from grappling ropes, magic projectiles, and flying mounts to gravity gauntlets, hacking drones, and sci-fi vehicles - so the moveset changes from level to level.
• Ever-Evolving Level Design: Storybook chapters drop players into wildly different set pieces and genres, cycling through chase sequences, arena battles, traversal puzzles, and cinematic boss fights defined by each world's rules.
• Stories about Storytelling: The narrative is framed as Mio and Zoe - two unpublished writers with opposite tastes - being trapped inside a fiction machine and forced to collaborate, an explicit celebration of creative collaboration and narrative craft.
• Friend's Pass and Cross-Platform Play: Hazelight's signature 'Play With a Friend' model lets a full game be shared between two players for free, supporting cross-platform co-op play across PC, PS5, and Xbox.