Split Fiction is an obligate co-op game. For this review, my husband Travis and I hopped between Mio’s futuristic cities and Zoe’s fantastical kingdoms like walking through the cars of a passenger train. In each section, we got a new set of powers designed to work only in that particular world.

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

Split Fiction from developer Hazelight Studios and EA boldly stands nearly alone in its effort to bring quality local multiplayer to the forefront of an engaging game.  Granted, this unique effort stems from the folks behind cooperative multiplayer heavyweights such as It Takes Two,

Playing through Split Fiction's mix of fantasy and sci-fi worlds is a refreshing experience in the often-lonely world of gaming.

What is it? A world-hopping co-op adventure with a pair of aspiring authors.

Between the threat of AI, studio closures, and game cancellations, the death of creativity is a sad theme of recent years. It's something that's at the core of Split Fiction – the latest game from co-op specialist Hazelight (It Takes Two,