Split Fiction, the new game from It Takes Two developer Hazelight Studios, doesn’t do anything particularly new. The game is a straightforward co-op adventure that strings together disparate sci-fi and fantasy games like links on a chain.

Hazelight Studios follows up It Takes Two with another stellar co-op experience, delivering genre-bending fun in Split Fiction.

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.

It's been nearly four years since Hazelight Studios released It Takes Two, a title that received critical acclaim and went on to win Game of the Year at The Game Awards. Despite that game's huge success, we continue to rarely see big-budget games taking advantage of a gap in the co-operative space.

Writers Zoe and Mio must learn to work together while surviving the unfathomably creative worlds born out of their own imagination.

What’s more, Split Fiction’s cooperative gameplay never felt phoned-in, with interactive levels that facilitated gameplay synergy (and tons of trial-and-error platforming and boss fight deaths), clutch timing,

When Hazelight Studios founder Josef Fares first announced “Split Fiction” at last year’s Game Awards, he wasn’t exactly humble: “We say, ‘We fuck shit up without fucking up.’ This time, it’s some next-level shit.

Split Fiction continues to evolve Hazelight's signature style of co-op adventure to be an absolute must-play co-op adventure. The post REVIEW: ‘Split Fiction’ Is Co-Op Bliss appeared first on But Why Tho?

The makers of It Takes Two return, with an enormously entertaining follow-up that cements their position as the masters of two-player co-op.