The game is designed to be played by two players and features gameplay mechanics involving split-screen combat, platforming challenges, and varied levels of abilities for different characters. Split Fiction comes from Hazelight Studios who brought us the mega-hit 2021 game It Takes Two, which had its own rights snapped up in April 2022 by Amazon.

It looks like Split Fiction is headed to the big screen: Less than a month after the release of Hazelight Studios' latest hit co-op adventure, Variety says media company Story Kitchen is assembling writers, a cast, and a director in response to what the site calls a "bidding war" for the rights to turn the game into a movie.

A film adaptation of “Split Fiction,” the hot new co-op game from “It Takes Two” developer Hazelight Studios, is in the works, Variety has learned. Sources at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco have confirmed that media company Story Kitchen (led by the team that shepherded “It Takes Two” into a film project