Michael Cripe
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Hazelight Games says its latest co-op adventure game Split Fiction is continuing its roaring start after selling 2 million copies in just one week.
The dual-protagonist story dropped March 6 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S and quickly managed to secure itself as yet another success story for the studio. Hazelight took to social media to celebrate the strong launch, saying that it’s “blown away” by the support from fans both new and old.
The team’s previous update on Split Fiction sales numbers revealed that a whopping 1 million players picked up Mio and Zoe’s sci-fi story only 48 hours after its initial launch. That means another million have each picked up a copy in the five days since.
Meanwhile, Split Fiction’s status as a co-op game means the actual number of players engaging with the experience is surely much higher than the number of copies sold. Bolstering its impact with gaming fans is its Friend’s Pass feature, which allows one player to purchase the game while granting a friend access at no additional cost. As Hazelight’s adventure continues to make waves on social media, that 2 million sold number will surely only increase.
Hazelight’s previous title, 2021 Game of the Year winner It Takes Two, saw similar success after selling around 1 million copies a few weeks after its launch in March 2021. That number ballooned to 10 million copies by February 2023 and 20 million by October 2024.
In IGN's Split Fiction review, we called it “an expertly crafted co-op adventure that pinballs from one genre extreme to another.”
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