Hazelight Studios’ action-adventure game, Split Fiction, has become the second-biggest EA-published launch on Steam, tripling the peak concurrent player count of It Takes Two.
Split Fiction has reached a peak concurrent player count of 254,756 on Steam (via), making it the second-biggest EA-published launch on the platform. Developer 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.
Split Fiction’s launch peak concurrent player count on Steam is more than 3 times that of It Takes Two. It is 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. The latter was released in November, 2020, on Valve’s digital distribution platform. Since then. It was years later in February, 2023, that the game hit its peak concurrent player count of 624,473.
As far as premium titles are concerned, before Split Fiction’s launch, the record for the highest peak concurrent player count for an EA-published title was was held by Battlefield V. The game reached its peak of 116,104 in November, 2023.
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. For those wondering, the last title from the publisher that received a Metascore 90 or above was 2012’s Mass Effect 3, with a score of 93. Coincidentally, both the latter and Split Fiction released on the same date, only more than a decade apart. Since 2012, games like DICE’s Battlefield 1in 2016, Hazelight Studios’ previous title, It Takes Two, in 2021, and Motive Studio’s Dead Space came pretty close to hitting the 90+ mark, but ultimately fell a bit short.
