Split Fiction
Rating: 4.5/5
Developer: Hazelight Studios
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PC, XBS, PS5
Price: Rs 2,499

Hazelight is known for their co-op games with titles like It Takes Two and A Way Out. You know they mean business. So, I was excited to get my hands on Split Fiction. Yes, I know it’s a crappy name, don’t worry the developers also know this, but are too invested to change the name now. The game is available on several platforms for a very nominal price, which, in my books, is always a good thing.

You and your friend play Mio and Zoe, the two protagonists of this story. The story is Mio and Zoe are hired by the Rader group so they can publish their stories. However, the evil company plans to extract the stories from their brain. While the other writers, including Zoe, are excited to be published, Mio feels that something is off and tries to leave, only to be pushed along with Zoe, causing the machine—let’s call it the creativity extractor—to malfunction. This fractures Zoe’s fantasy world stories with Mio’s science fiction world, and the two must navigate their stories and help each other to escape this predicament. The premise is excellent, but the overall storytelling and character dialogues are cringeworthy at times or just plain boring. It also took me a while to take a liking to Zoe’s character, but like Mio, I had to accept my fate if I wanted to finish this game.