Hazelight Games says its newest co-op journey recreation Split Fiction is constant its roaring begin after promoting 2 million copies in only one week.
The dual-protagonist story dropped March 6 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S and shortly managed to safe itself as yet one more success story for the studio. Hazelight took to social media to have fun the robust launch, saying that it’s “blown away” by the assist from followers each new and outdated.
The group’s earlier replace on Split Fiction gross sales numbers revealed {that a} whopping 1 million gamers picked up Mio and Zoe’s sci-fi story solely 48 hours after its preliminary launch. That means one other million have every picked up a duplicate within the 5 days since.
Meanwhile, Split Fiction’s standing as a co-op recreation means the precise variety of gamers participating with the expertise is definitely a lot larger than the variety of copies offered. Bolstering its impression with gaming followers is its Friend’s Pass characteristic, which permits one participant to buy the sport whereas granting a good friend entry at no further value. As Hazelight’s journey continues to make waves on social media, that 2 million offered quantity will certainly solely improve.
Hazelight’s earlier title, 2021 Game of the Year winner It Takes Two, noticed related success after promoting round 1 million copies a number of weeks after its launch in March 2021. That quantity ballooned to 10 million copies by February 2023 and 20 million by October 2024.
In IGN’s Split Fiction evaluation, we referred to as it “an expertly crafted co-op journey that pinballs from one style excessive to a different.”
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