After announcing a year ago that Hazelight had "already started" development on its next game, it seems things are continuing to progress.
"We're back in the kitchen, cookin' up something really delicious!" Hazelight said in a social media post. Hazelight's Josef Fares also shared an image of himself in some kind of studio, with his arm outstretched strategically to block the faces of three performers. He captioned the image, "Next game in the making." Hazelight's post jokingly referenced the new game having "Strategic Arm Placement Tech."
Work began on Hazelight's next game in February 2025. At the time, Fares said the game was "quite early" in development. He said the team is feeling like they can do "way better" with the next game, whatever it turns out to be.
"It's not like we're feeling now, 'Oh, shit, how will we top [Split Fiction] or do better than this?' We just feel like... just wait until [you see] what we do next. I know it's cocky. But that's how confident we feel in what we're doing," he said.
All of Hazelight's games so far have been co-op titles (Brothers was a single-player game with a unique co-op element). Fares said co-op will always be part of Hazelight's DNA, but he didn't rule out the possibility of the studio changing things up. "You never know what happens in the future. It's not impossible we look into single-player as well. But it would be done in a Hazelight way, with a Hazelight twist. It's not going to be your typical single-player game."
Fares has directed four games so far, including Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out, It Takes Two, and Split Fiction. It Takes Two has been the biggest success of the bunch, selling 23 million copies. Split Fiction had almost double the budget and had sold 4 million copies as of May 2025.
GameSpot's Split Fiction review scored the game a 10/10. The game is published by EA through its EA Originals program; it's the first EA-published game to reach 90 or above on Metacritic since 2012's Mass Effect 2.
Beyond a new Hazelight game, a Split Fiction movie starring Sydney Sweeney is in the works. Hazelight's older game, It Takes Two, is also being adapted for a film.
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"We're back in the kitchen, cookin' up something really delicious!" Hazelight said in a social media post. Hazelight's Josef Fares also shared an image of himself in some kind of studio, with his arm outstretched strategically to block the faces of three performers. He captioned the image, "Next game in the making." Hazelight's post jokingly referenced the new game having "Strategic Arm Placement Tech."
Work began on Hazelight's next game in February 2025. At the time, Fares said the game was "quite early" in development. He said the team is feeling like they can do "way better" with the next game, whatever it turns out to be.
"It's not like we're feeling now, 'Oh, shit, how will we top [Split Fiction] or do better than this?' We just feel like... just wait until [you see] what we do next. I know it's cocky. But that's how confident we feel in what we're doing," he said.
All of Hazelight's games so far have been co-op titles (Brothers was a single-player game with a unique co-op element). Fares said co-op will always be part of Hazelight's DNA, but he didn't rule out the possibility of the studio changing things up. "You never know what happens in the future. It's not impossible we look into single-player as well. But it would be done in a Hazelight way, with a Hazelight twist. It's not going to be your typical single-player game."
Fares has directed four games so far, including Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out, It Takes Two, and Split Fiction. It Takes Two has been the biggest success of the bunch, selling 23 million copies. Split Fiction had almost double the budget and had sold 4 million copies as of May 2025.
GameSpot's Split Fiction review scored the game a 10/10. The game is published by EA through its EA Originals program; it's the first EA-published game to reach 90 or above on Metacritic since 2012's Mass Effect 2.
Beyond a new Hazelight game, a Split Fiction movie starring Sydney Sweeney is in the works. Hazelight's older game, It Takes Two, is also being adapted for a film.
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