Four years after taking home Game of the Year in 2021 with the beloved co-op adventure game It Takes Two, Hazelight Studios is back with Split Fiction — another two-player cooperative multiplayer experience with the developer's trademark always-on splitscreen perspective. This time around, the studio has brought Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, and PS5 fans a genre-bending journey of sci-fi and fantasy to embark on, and now that Split Fiction's review embargo has lifted, various critics and outlets are sharing their thoughts on the ambitious experience.
At the time of writing, Split Fiction is off to a tremendous start, with the game achieving an impressive "Universal Acclaim" 91/100 score on both the review aggregation sites Metacritic and Opencritic. Notably, not a single review shared so far has given the title a negative score, and the overwhelming majority of them have a score in the 90-100 range. Here's some quotes to show what people are saying:
