37,042 reviews. 96% positive. Thirty percent off. If you needed a signal to grab a co-op partner and dive in, this is it.

Hazelight Studios’ Split Fiction just hit its first real discount, dropping from $49.99 to $34.99 on Steam. The game sits at #9 on the platform’s top sellers chart, and the numbers speak for themselves: 35,607 positive reviews against 1,435 negative. That’s not a good game — that’s a studio at the peak of its craft.

This is the team that already won Game of the Year with It Takes Two. Split Fiction doesn’t just match its predecessor; by Steam user scores, it narrowly beats it (95% vs 96%). Eurogamer’s Katharine Castle gave it five stars, calling it “one of the most inventive and joyful co-op games to date.” On Metacritic, it leads all of 2025 with a 91 average. On OpenCritic, it ties Monster Hunter Wilds and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 at 90.

The premise is pure Hazelight: two writers, Mio and Zoe, get pulled into a machine that brings their sci-fi and fantasy worlds to life. One moment you’re leaping across a cyberpunk floating train, the next you’re riding a dragon. The tone is whimsical, warm, and deeply silly — as one Steam reviewer put it, “WDYM SELECT ALL SQUARES WITH GIRAFFES.”

Here’s the clincher: every copy includes a Friend’s Pass, so your co-op partner plays free. That $34.99 covers both of you. Split Fiction is strictly co-op — no solo mode — so that’s not a bonus, it’s the design. But it makes the discount an even easier sell.

Film adaptation with Sydney Sweeney? In development. Hazelight’s next game? Confirmed. The studio just crossed 50 million lifetime sales. But right now, this weekend, the move is simple: $35, one friend, zero regrets.

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