Hazelight Studios’ sci-fi fantasy adrenaline rush “Split Fiction” is the most ambitious project yet for Josef Fares, director of inventive co-op games.

“SPLIT FICTION has sold 2 MILLION copies in 1 WEEK!! Holy crap, we’re blown away here! Simply amazing…” Hazelight said in a celebratory Instagram post featuring co-op protagonists Mio (Kaja Chan) and Zoe (Elise Bennett). “Thank you to all of our new and old fans – we love how excited you are for our game!”

Josef Fares is passionate about cooperative video games. The Lebanese Swedish director has built a studio focused on making games that can only be played by two people.

Split Fiction, the new co-op action game from Josef Fares and the team at Hazelight Studios, looks to be a hit: Hazelight revealed on Bluesky today that the game surpassed one million copies sold in just 48 hours.

The game reached a peak of 259,003 concurrent players on Steam on Sunday, March 9. That makes it the No. 2 game of all time published by EA in terms of Steam concurrents, surpassed only by the free-to-play battle royale game Apex Legends. These data points come from SteamDB and were first spotted by Twisted Voxel.

Split Fiction, the newest co-op game from It Takes Two developer Hazelight Studios, launched last week to a strong response from players and press. As gamers continue to experience the unique hybrid of sci-fi and fantasy,

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 launc

It’s clear that Hazelight Studios has another banger on their hands with Split Fiction, and sales are really reflecting their critical success. After Split Fiction broke the 1 million sales milestone within just 48 hours of release,