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.

“The Alto Knights,” a crime thriller starring dueling Robert De Niros, made moviegoers an offer they easily refused. The Warner Bros. film was D.O.A. over the weekend with $3.2 million at the domestic box office, one of the worst-ever starts for a major studio release. “The Alto Knights” also cratered overseas, earning $1.8 million for …

Split Fiction is far from the only project lined up for an adaptation at Hazelight, however. The studio’s previous co-op game It Takes Two has been picked up by Amazon Studios for a movie adaptation, with Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions producing, and Pat Casey and Josh Miller writing a script.