Josef Fares is passionate about cooperative video games. The Lebanese Swedish director has built a studio focused on making games that can only be played by two people.

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

Split Fiction” pushes the limits of genre and co-op gameplay in an imaginative adventure through two wildly different worlds.

What happens if neither of you own the game? No problem. The Friend's Pass offers a free trial for both players which includes the opening stages of Split Fiction. Both players will need to download the Friend's Pass version of the game, and once either of you purchase the full game, progresses can be continued.

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.

When director Josef Fares announced Hazelight Studios’ “next thing,” Split Fiction, at The Game Awards, he prefaced the adventure game as “some next-level shit.” Given Fares’ hat trick of narrative-driven co-op game successes in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons,

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?