Split Fiction boss responds to calls for a single-player game after his co-op success

Hazelight Studio boss Josef Fares has revealed that a single-player game isn’t an “impossibility” for the game devs despite their history of co-op titles.

Over the last few years, Hazelight Studio has dazzled gamers across the world with its co-op offerings. A Way Out – which followed the interesting story of two prisoners in a jailbreak – was a hit. 

That was followed up by It Takes Two – which followed a couple going through some relationship troubles and being sucked into a book – which was an even bigger success. It won multiple awards in different multiplayer categories and was named Game of the Year at the The Game Awards.

Well, they’ve now got a new game – Split Fiction. It is another co-op title, placing players in the story of two authors who are writing vastly different books. 

Josef Fares won’t rule out a new single-player game from Hazelight

There have been calls for Hazelight to break from their co-op formula and use their storytelling skills to make a single-player game. That is something that Josef Fares won’t rule out. 

“Hazelight’s first game is actually a single-player game,” Fares told Dexerto for Fall Damage.

“Even if Hazelight will always have a co-op DNA all the time, I keep saying you never know about the future. Single-player is not an impossibility for Hazelight, but it will be done in a Hazelight way.”

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That first game that the Swede refers to is Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons. It, again, has two main characters but one player controls both of them instead of it being a traditional co-op setup. 

Fares also dismissed a claim that he said single-player games are “dead” now. “When have I said single-player is dead? I’ve never said that. That is total bulls*it,” he added. 

Should Split Fiction prove to be a hit, we may get another co-op game from Hazelight. Though, don’t expect it to have microtransactions or lootboxes. Fares hates those.