It Takes Two and Split Fiction developer Hazelight Studios has already begun working on its next game, according to founder and director Josef Fares.
During an interview on Skill Up’s Friends Per Second Podcast, Hazelight Studios founder and director Josef Fares was asked how him and the rest of the development team feeling after the success of Split Fiction. In response Fares said that he’s extremely happy and excited. For him, every time a game of his has been released, he gets done with it and starts thinking about his next project.
The Hazelight Studios founder and director revealed that he’s already fully focused and excited about the studio’s next game. According to him, the development team has already started work on the unannounced project.
Fares mentioned that Split Fiction has been a bit extra special compared to Hazelight Studios’ prior titles because it has been the studio’s best received game so far, both critically and commercially. As a result, he said that everyone in the development team is extremely happy with how things turned out.
It was recently reported that Split Fiction reached a peak concurrent player count of 259,003 on Steam, making it the second-biggest EA-published launch on the platform. Hazelight Studios’ previous title, It Takes Two, launched in March, 2021, but reached its peak concurrent player count of 71,039 just 3 months ago in December, 2024, which is less than 3 times that of Split Fiction. The latter reached the highest number of peak concurrent players at launch for an EA-published title, and also the highest for a premium title from the publisher. The only EA title that has reached a higher peak concurrent player count is the free-to-play hero shooter, Apex Legends.
In addition to holding the record for the highest peak concurrent player count for an EA-published title at launch, Split Fiction has become the first 90+ scoring EA-published game in over a decade, with an aggregate score of 91 on Metacritic.
