We don’t know much about what Split Fiction developer Hazelight’s next big game will be, but I can confirm two things. One, it is in development right now. And two, like the studio’s past projects, it will feature mocapped actors.
On February 10, Hazelight founder and Split Fiction director Josef Fares posted an image on Twitter that simply says, “Next game in the making.” In the image, we can see Fares in a cozy sweater, giving a big thumbs-up in front of some actors wearing dot-covered motion capture suits. Fares’ arm is perfectly angled in a way to obscure the faces of the actors, so it seems he doesn’t want folks to know who the studio has cast in its follow-up to 2025’s blockbuster co-op-only adventure Split Fiction.
Next game in the making 👍😎 pic.twitter.com/HouYcN903E
— Josef Fares (@josef_fares) February 10, 2026
“Split Fiction is the best-received game we have done, everybody is super happy, but I’m so fully focused and excited on the next thing, that we’ve already started,” Fares told the Friends Per Second podcast in March 2025. At that time, the director said the studio’s next game was very early in development and was mostly just ideas on pages. “[It’s] mostly in the story, what’s going to happen, but a little bit in gameplay as well. It’s kind of like, ‘this is where we start, this is where we’re going.’”
Nearly a year later, it seems Hazelight has made good progress on its Split Fiction follow-up. Will it be as successful as the studio’s massively popular co-op game about two authors working together to escape a VR simulation? I’m not sure, but if it’s another inventive and fun co-op-only puzzle-action game that I can play with my wife over a week or two, I’ll be there day one, no questions asked.
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