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.

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.

"The games industry shouldn’t be only about the money," says Josef Fares, drawing a line in the sand regarding how his studio approaches making games.

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.

By the broadest definition, Split Fiction is a platformer. To simply label it as such without further explanation, however, would be a grave disservice to the scope of what Hazelight's level designers have crammed into the 17-ish hours of gameplay that are present here.

Hazelight's latest co-op game is here at long last, but does Split Fiction live up to the hype? Here's what reviewers say.