After being revealed during 2024's The Game Awards and given a release date in early 2025, player expectations may already be high for Hazelight Studios' next upcoming co-op game, Split Fiction. With Hazelight Studios' first game, It Takes Two, winning The Game Awards' prestigious Game of the Year in 2021, it was arguably a smart move for the developer to announce its next game, Split Fiction, during 2024's awards show to garner players' attention. But now expectations have been set for Split Fiction as the game builds on Hazelight Studios' co-op formula from A Way Out and It Takes Two.