Friday, March 14th 2025
Split Fiction Proves Massively Popular During Launch Week, Sells Over 2 Million Copies On Steam
EA's latest RPG, Split Fiction, launched to much fanfare from critics and gamers alike, with its unorthodox gameplay style and a focus on co-op setting it apart from other recent game releases. It seems as though this early launch success has carried over to financial success for EA and the game's developer, beating out even the massively popular It Takes Two, which also came from Hazelight Studios. As of the time of writing, SteamDB reports that Split Fiction has garnered a peak concurrent player count of 259,003 players.
Hazelight Studios today also announced that it had sold over 2 million copies of Split Fiction in the game's first week. For comparison, this is twice as many sales as the recently cancelled Price of Persia: The Lost Crown managed in the year since it released. Hazelight's previous co-op hit, It Takes Two, peaked at just over 70,000 concurrent players nearly three years after its initial launch. Compared to other Steam games, Split Fiction currently sits in 51st place when it comes to peak concurrent player counts, just behind Rust but ahead of The Finals. It's worth mentioning that Split Fiction is also a full price game, coming in at $49.99 on Steam, while the majority of the other games in the top 50 ranking are free-to-play.
Sources:
SteamDB, Steam
Hazelight Studios today also announced that it had sold over 2 million copies of Split Fiction in the game's first week. For comparison, this is twice as many sales as the recently cancelled Price of Persia: The Lost Crown managed in the year since it released. Hazelight's previous co-op hit, It Takes Two, peaked at just over 70,000 concurrent players nearly three years after its initial launch. Compared to other Steam games, Split Fiction currently sits in 51st place when it comes to peak concurrent player counts, just behind Rust but ahead of The Finals. It's worth mentioning that Split Fiction is also a full price game, coming in at $49.99 on Steam, while the majority of the other games in the top 50 ranking are free-to-play.
25 Comments on Split Fiction Proves Massively Popular During Launch Week, Sells Over 2 Million Copies On Steam
Should have enabled AI option for second player or just make it a second playthrough with different character.
www.techpowerup.com/333537/ea-and-hazelight-introduce-split-fiction-friend-edition
I highly recommend this game to anyone that enjoys 3rd person based games and platformers and puzzle games....and it's always better to play this game with a second person because you get to play off each other's reactions on the fly, trying to navigate and resolve game puzzles as fast as possible when the action is moving so you can try to get through without dying.
We tolerated it until mid-game, and characters were still complaining like it was the first 10 minutes.
A nightmare.
I saw the trailer for this one and wanted to slap each character in a hope to make them shut the fuck up.
I will never buy this game. Nor my my friend clearly.
And it doesn't help couples, tested it back in the day with my ex and made it worse.
I knew perfectly the story, it's like the first 10 minutes of the game.
But the game is half cinematic where the character are complaining all the time. As I said if you read my comments, I tried it with my ex and it made it worse because she couldn't cope with the fact that she couldn't solve a single puzzle.
Every single minute when you advance, characters are pitchforking each other, whenever they can. Even when they manage to finish a part of the story, it's not "Hey, we managed", it's "Hey you fucked it up, but I managed".
So I had both tried with my ex who was bad at gaming and it worsen the situation, and with a very close friend (25y+) and we could bear the game past 17h of the game. A never-ending fighting. We were fed up.
Really trying to soak it all in as we go, you only get to play once for the first time.
And considering how dumb AI usually is in games (including companions), it would be really difficult to program it in a way that wouldn't be janky.
sure, there are some dumb parts, but, working together to achieve the goal is the fun part, and so far, it is pretty fun overall
*hacking golem voice* SHUT UP STUPID YOU DONTS HAVE ANY FRIENDS!